ETJXOA. 



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•strongly irrorated ; the lines pale grey, even, not well defined ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform moderate, yellowish, the 

 former round; cell slightly darker between the stigmata. Hind 

 wing blackish ; the underside fuscous grey, with dark irroration 

 and fuscous lunule. 



Hah. Canada, Labrador. Exp. 33 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



502. Euxoa rena. (Plate LXV. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis rena, Smith, Ti-ans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 53 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noet. N. Am. p. 102. 



,S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; 

 palpi black at sides except at extremity ; teguljB with black medial 

 line ; tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore 

 wing purplish grey irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, from costa to submedian fold and angled outwards below 

 costa, antemedial line indistinct, double, obliquely waved ; claviform 

 represented by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform cou- 

 colorous, with pale anuuli and black outlines, the former round, 

 open above, the latter ill-defined on outer side and with some 

 fuscous in lower extremity ; the cell between the stigmata black; 

 an indistinct medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; 

 the postmedial line represented by a double series of points, bent 

 outwards below costa, then curved ; the sub terminal line pale, 

 slightly angled at veins 7 and 4, with prominent series of dentate 

 black marks before it and slight fuscous irroration beyond it ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 brown, especially on terminal area ; a dark discoidal lunule ; cilia 

 white ; underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the discoidal lunule and a postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins prominent. 



JTah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 c? , Placer Co. Exj^. 

 36 millim. 



508. Euxoa melanoneura. (Plate LXV. fig. 22.) 

 Agrotis melanoneura, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 146 (1899). 



(S . Head and base of tegulse black and reddish brown ; thorax 

 brownish ochreous, the scales tipped with grey ; pectus with reddish- 

 brown hair ; legs ochreous and black ; abdomen ochreous irrorated 

 with black, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, the veins 

 black, the interspaces streaked with reddish brown ; traces of a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, the 

 area between it and the double, waved, antemedial line suffused 

 with black, this line angled outwards below costa and more 

 strongly exeurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with 

 black centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former 

 small, produced to a slight point on outer side, a black streak 

 between them in cell ; a double punctiform postmedial line, bent 



