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*515. Euxoa titiibatis. (Plate LXVI. tig. 1.) 



Carneades titubatls. Smith, Trans. Adi. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 51, pi. iv. f. 5 

 (1894). 



Very dark red-brown with a fuscous tinge, especially on fore 

 wings ; tegulse more ferruginous. Fore wing with the lines indis- 

 tinct ; the subbasal line double, filled in with pale colour ; ante- 

 medial line erect, excurved above inner mai-gin, indistinctly double, 

 with the outer line only well-marked ; claviform moderate, defined 

 by brown ; orbicular large, irregularly oblique, the centre dark 

 defined by black, with a few ochreous scales representing the annulus; 

 reniform large, dark, with incomplete yellowish annulus incompletely 

 defined by black ; the cell rather darker between the stigmata, 

 traces of a medial shade ; postmedial line minutely crenulate, double, 

 the inner line distinct, the outer only traceable towards costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line very faint, sinuous ; the terminal area darker ; a pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area 

 tinged with fuscous ; cilia grey, with a pale line at base ; the under- 

 side with dark irroration on costal area, a small discoidal lunule and 

 ill-defined terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado. Exp. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from Prof. Smith's plate, 



*516. Euxoa pallipennis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 2.) 



Agrotis pallipennis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. x. p. 461 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 104. 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish grey, the scales tipped with 

 reddish brown ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen white slightly irrorated with brown, the anal tuft 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale brownish grej' irrorated 

 with dark brown ; the subbasal line dark, interrupted at median 

 nervure and ending at submedian fold ; the antemedian line dark, 

 waved, interrupted ; the claviform represented by a few dark scales 

 at its extremity ; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, outlined 

 with black, the former round; the latter with a slight fuscous shade 

 in centre, the cell between them slightly tinged with black ; the 

 postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 dentate, the area beyond it sufi'ased with fuscous ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, a discal point, the 

 veins and termen brownish ; a terminal series of brown striae. 



Hah. Cai^ada, Br. Columbia, north-west; U.S.A., Colorado, in 

 Coll. Schaus & U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 38 milHm. 



517. Euxoa hispidula. (Plate LXVI. fig. 3.) 

 Agrotis hispidula. Gueti. Noct. i. p. 293 (1852). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and black ; abdomen 

 :grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown, the 



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