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at base of cilia which are intersected with grey. Hind wing white 

 with the termen fuscous, narrowing to a point above tornus ; the 

 veins and a small discoidal lunula fuscous ; the underside irrorated 

 with fuscous. 



Bah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman {Piper). Exp. 37 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type 

 in U.S. N'at. Mus. 



491. Euxoa alticola. (Plate LXV. fig. 1 1.) 



Agrotis alticola, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 51 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 101. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; tegulse with slight dark medial 

 line ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform obsolete ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, the former round, the latter 

 moderate ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by 

 a slight dark shade on its inner side, the terminal area slightly 

 darker; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 sufi'nsed with brown, especially towards termen, the veins and a fine 

 terminal line brown. 



Some specimens have the markings distinct, others nearly obsolete. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon in Coll. Schaus, Colorado, California, Sierra 

 Nevada, 1 S • Exp. 40 millim. 



*492. Euxoa cariosa. (Plate LXV. fig. 12.) 



Carneades cariosus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus.xxii. p. 449 (1900). 



Dull smoky brown shading to grey ; palpi fuscous at sides ; lower 

 part of frons rather paler ; tegulae pale at base and with a more or 

 less prominent medial blackish line ; a yellow tuft at origin of fore 

 wing ; crests well marked. Pore wing with dark irroration, the 

 markings rather diffused; subbasal line double, the inner bent 

 inwards towards base in submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 the outer black, the inner indistinct, fuscous, interrupted below costa, 

 oblique and excurved in interspaces ; claviform moderate, incom- 

 pletely defined by black ; orbicular well-developed, oblique, irregu- 

 larly oblong, with a whitish annulus defined by black except on 

 subcostal uervure ; reniform large, extending to below cell, with a 

 whitish annulus defined by black at sides and tinged with yellowish 

 on outer side, the centre fuscous irrorated with some yellow scales ; 

 median shade fuscous, well-defined, angled on median nervure ; the 

 cell dark between the stigmata ; postmedial line double, the inner 

 black, lunulate, the outer fuscous, even, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, irregular, 

 defined by a fuscous shade on inner edge, sometimes broken up into 

 irregular blotches, the area beyond it rather darker except at apex ; 

 an interrupted narrow black terminal line ; base of cilia yellowish. 

 Hind wing pale yellowish tinged with fuscous, whitish at base; a 



