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blackish above, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore 

 wing with indistinct, waved, double subbasal and antemedial lines, the 

 former from costa to vein 1, the latter more strongly excurved above 

 vein 1 ; claviform usually distinct, outlined with black and sometimes 

 filled in with black ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, 

 grey annuli and black outline, the former oblique, elliptical or 

 round, sometimes with grey centre, the latter large, the cell before 

 and between them more or less strongly suifused with black ; an 

 indistinct waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique, the veins just beyond it with slight 

 dark streaks ; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, often with slight dentate black marks on 

 its inner side, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing brown, somewhat whitish 

 towards base ; cilia whitish, with a brown line at base ; underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; a dark discoidal lunule. 



Hab^ Canada (Norman), 1 $ , N'ova Scotia {Redman), 1 2 ; U.S.A.., 

 Grote Coll., 1 c? type gularls, 1 5 type turris, N. & E. States, 

 Michigan, 1 § , Missouri, Colorado. Exj). 42-46 millim. 



*520. Euxoa compressipennis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 6.) 



Carneades com2:)rcssvpennis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 429 (1900). 



Dull dusky red-brown with darker irroration ; frons brown ; 

 tegulse with medial black line, brown at base ; thorax with some of 

 the hair tipped with grey. Fore wing with coarse dark irroration, 

 the markings interrupted, the cell filled in with dark brown, costa 

 irrorated with grey at base ; subbasal line double, black, interrupted 

 and filled in with grey ; antemedial line double, black, the inner 

 line less distinct and the space between the lines pale, angled 

 inwards on median nervure, then oblique and excurved in inter- 

 spaces, connected with subbasal line by a dark streak below cell ; 

 median nervure with pale irroration ; claviform moderate, defined 

 by black ; orbicular irregular, subquadrate, oblique, with pale- 

 irrorated centre and pale annulus ; reniform moderate, with pale- 

 irrorated centre and ochreous annulus; postmedial line double, filled 

 in with reddish, the inner line lunulate, the outer more even, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa : subterminal line yellowish, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner 

 side by a dark shade, diffused outwardly ; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules and a fine yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous, the cilia with a yellowish line at base ; the underside 

 grey with dark irroration, a faint discoidal spot and traces of a post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. lj.S.A.,California,Yosemite Valley (i)y«r). Exp. 33 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from 

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



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