EUXOA. 



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excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form obsolete ; orbicular and reniform concolorous, with greyish 

 annuli and defined by black ; the former oblique, the latter 

 moderate, the cell before and between them blackish ; the post- 

 medial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line pale, minutely 

 dentate, angled outwards slightly at veins 7 and 3. Hind wing 

 uniform pale brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside more irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Pt. Return, 1 S type. Exp. 36 milUm. 



*498. Euxoa noctuiformis. (Plate LXV. fig. 18.) 



Carncades noctuiformis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 445 (1900). 



c5' . Pale mouse-grey, irrorated with brown and black ; head 

 with brown transverse line; tegulae brown at base, with black 

 medial line and grey tips ; thorax clothed with scales and hair. 

 Fore wing with the subbasal line double, brown, defined on outer 

 side by a brown shade below cell ; autemedial line double, the two 

 parts nearly equally prominent, bent inwards from costa to median 

 nervure, excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; 

 elaviform moderate, defined by brown ; orbicular large, irregularly 

 elliptical, touching antemedial line, oblique, open above, with 

 rather pale annulus defined by black ; reniform large, broad, 

 extending well below cell, the centre brown with yellowish line, 

 annulus pale, defined by black ; the cell dark before and between 

 the stigmata ; medial shade angled outwards at median nervure ; 

 postmedial line rather ill-defined, waved, double at costa, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregular, defined on inner side by 

 a dark shade, the area beyond it rather darker except at apex ; 

 a fine terminal line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing fuscous with a yellowish tinge, darker on outer area ; a 

 discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish ; the underside grey, with dark 

 irroratioii. 



Hah. U.S.A., E. Washington (Pij^er), California, Siskiyou {H. Ed- 

 ivards). Exp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured 

 from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



499. Euxoa basiflava. (Plate LXV. fig. 19.) 



Agrotis basiflava, Smith, Tivins. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 52 (1890) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. 



(5 . Head and thorax rufous brown ; tegulae with a dark medial 

 line ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Pore 

 wing luteous brown, the medial and terminal areas suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the subbasal line double, sinuous from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, the inner line brown, 

 the outer black, angled outwards below costa, sinuous to vein 1, 

 then strongly excurved ; elaviform outlined with black, small ; 



