E0XOA. 277 



•dusky discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish at base, with fuscous medial 

 line and whitish tips ; underside whitish with dark irroration, a 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman {Piper). Exp. 6 32, $ 34 

 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph 

 from type in U.S. i!iat. Mus. 



493. Euxoa infausta. (Plate LXV. fig. 13.) 



Hadena ivfausta, Wlk. xxxiii. 729(1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. 

 Agrotis riifula, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 461 (1887). 



2 . Head and thorax brown, slightly irrorated with black ; 

 palpi blackish at sides except towards extremity ; tegulee 'with 

 a black medial line ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral 

 surface dark brown irrorated with whitish. Eore wing pale 

 brown, tinged with rnfous and fuscous and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; the 

 antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform outlined by a 

 few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the 

 former elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre ; a medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the snbterrainal line sinuous, angled outwards at veins 6 

 and 4 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown ; the 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hal). Canada, Vancouver I. (HaivMns) 1 $ type, (J. J. Walker) 

 1 d , 2 2; U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley, New Mexico, 7000 

 feet. Exp. 38 millim. 



*494. Euxoa megastigma. (Plate LXV. fig. 14.) 

 Carncades viegastigma, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 425 (1900). 



5 . Dull luteous grey. Fore wing irrorated with black, the 

 markings indistinct; subbasal line double, represented hj a few 

 scales or obsolete ; antemedial line double, erect, the inner line 

 almost obsolete, excurved in interspaces ; claviform represented by 

 some fuscous scales ; orbicular very large, pale, defined at sides only 

 reniform large, broad, almost oblong, a dark triangular mark between 

 the stigmata ; in one specimen there is a faint indication of a medial 

 shade ; postmedial line double from costa to discal fold, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 snbterminal line pale, diflfused, slightly defined on inner side by 

 dark irroration ; an interrupted terminal line and a fine ochreous 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous, whitish at base ; the 

 underside whitish, with an obscure discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada, Calgary (DofZ). Exp. 33-38 millim. Tliis species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



