EuxoA. 283 



orbicular and reniform deflned by black on inner and outer sides, 

 and with, some rufous in cell before and beyond them, the former 

 round, the latter moderate ; traces of a medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line pale, ill-defined by rufous on inner side and grey 

 or fuscous on outer, angled outAvards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; traces of a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind 

 wing brown ; cilia with brown line at base and grey at tips ; the 

 underside pale, irrorated with brown, especially towards termen ; a 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Montana, JSTevada, California, Havilah, 2 S type, 

 Grote Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 



506. Euxoa nostra. (Plate LXY. fig. 25.). 



Agrotis nostra, Smitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 55 (1890); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 104. 



$ . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black and 

 slightly with grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown, 

 slightly irrorated with black ; the costal area irrorated with grey ; 

 a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 double,, waved, antemedial line somewhat angled outwards in cell 

 and above inner margin ; claviform indicated by a few black scales 

 at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and their 

 centres by fuscous, the former elliptical, irrorated with grey, the 

 latter with fuscous patch in lower extremity, the cell before and 

 between them suffused with blackish ; the postmedial line double 

 and beut outwards below costa, then indistinct, somewhat dentate, 

 incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal 

 line defined by the area beyond it being suffused with black and 

 by slight dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; some pale points on costa towards 

 apex and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the cilia grey, with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line, a terminal series of black points. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 S • Exp. 36 millim. 



507. Euxoa reuda. (Plate LXV. fig. 26.) 

 Agrotis reuda, Street. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Siippl. i. p. 6 (1899). 



<^. Head and thorax reddish brown, mixed with fuscous and 

 some grey; tegulee with black medial line; abdomen pale red- 

 brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, irrorated slightly with black 

 and grey, mostly on the veins ; double, waved, black subbasal 

 and antemedial lines filled in with greyish, the former terminating 

 at submedian fold, the latter angled inwards on median nervure 

 and vein 1, and strongly outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 with its upperside and extremity defined by black ; orbicular and 



