278 NOCTUID^. 



495. Eiixoa nigrita. (Plate LXV. fig. 15.) 



Aqrotis nigrita, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 217; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 ■p. 136. 



<S . Head and thorax black-bi^own mixed with grey ; patagia at 

 extremity and metathorax purplish red ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen blackish and grey, dorsally tinged with purplish red, the 

 anal tuft with ochreous. Pore wing purplish fuscous, the lines 

 double, filled in with reddish ; subbasal line waved from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with slight reddish 

 annuli defined by black, the former rounded, open above, the cell 

 black between then ; an indistinct oblique shade from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line lunulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 greyish, defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black 

 spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. Amxjeland, Radefka, 1 S • Exp. 38 millim. 



496. Euxoa colata. (Plate LXV. fig. 16.) 



Agrotis colata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 131 (1881); Smith. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 106. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi at 

 sides with some black scales ; pectus and abdomen grey-brown, the 

 latter ferruginous at extremity. Fore wing purplish red-brown 

 suffused with grey ; the subbasal line represented by a few olive 

 and black scales below the cell ; the antemedial line greyish, 

 sinuous, hardly traceable; claviform indistinct, partially outlined 

 with black ; orbicular and reniform concolorous, outlined Avith 

 black except above and below and with black in the cell before and 

 between them ; faint traces of the medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; traces of an irregularly 

 sinuous subterminal line ; a series of black points on termen. 

 Hind wing uniform dark brown ; both wings with fine pale line at 

 base of cilia ; the underside more irrorated with brown ; a discoidal 

 lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Mt. Hood, 2 $ type, California, Sierra 

 Nevada. Exp. 42 millim. 



497. Euxoa levisi. (Plate LXV. fig. 17.) 



Pleonecioiwda lewis?, Grote, Bull. BufF. Soc. Nat, Sci. 1. p. 137, pi. 4. f. 10 

 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 106. 



(^ . Head and thorax red-brown, the dorsal crests of thorax 

 chestnut : tibiae and tarsi blackish, with ochreous rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous brown. Fore wing purplish 

 brown ; the subbasal line obsolete ; the antemedial line indistinct, 



