, . EUXOA. 287 



fuscous brown with the cilia white, tinged with brown at base and 

 apex. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., Northern States E. of Rocky Mts., Massa- 

 chusetts, jSTew York, Colorado, Glenwood Springs {Bruce), 1 6 , 

 California, 2 c5' , 2 § , type and type nigripennis. Exp., S 36, 

 $ 40 millim. 



512. Euxoa verticalis. (Plate LXV. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis verticalis, Grote, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 29 (1880). 

 Agrotis spectanda, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 54 (1890) ; id. 

 Oat. Noct, N. Am. p. 103. 



S . Head and thorax purple-red ; tibiae and tarsi blackish with 

 pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the 

 anal tuft ochreous tinged with red. Fore wing lilacine grey, the 

 costal area irrorated with bright rufous ; a double black subbasal 

 line from costal to submedian fold, filled in with whitish and angled 

 inwards in cell, a similar, waved, antemedial line extending to inner 

 margin ; claviform slightly defined by black scales ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, with slight pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the cell before and between them tinged with black ; a 

 medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line double towards costa, below which it is bent outwards, then 

 oblescent, dentate and produced to points on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on eosta on a fuscous patch 

 before the greyish subterminal line, which is defined by the area 

 beyond it being tinged with fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pure white, the termen slightly tinged with fuscous ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight diseoidal point 

 and postmedial series on the veins. 



2 - Head and tegulae irrorated with grey, the latter and pro- 

 thoracic tuft tipped with grey ; fore wing with the cell filled in 

 with rufous ; hind wing with the marginal areas tinged with 

 brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (iSnoiv), 1 c? , 1 $ type, California. Evj). 

 40 millim. 



513. Euxoa recussa. 



Noctua recussa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 630 (1827); Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 149. 

 Agrotis telifera, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 471, pi. 18. f. 1 (1837). 

 Agrotis florigera, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 189 (1844) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 148. 

 Agrotis transylvanica, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 547 (1845). 

 Agrotis decussa, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 367, pi. 4. f. 9 (1896). 



Head and thorax red-brown or black-brown mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous more or less tinged 

 with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface with red. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey irrorated and suffused with rufous or dark brown ; 

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



