292 NOCXUID.T:, 



521. Euxoa obeliscoides. (Plate LXVI. fig. 7.) 



Agrotis obeliscoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 293 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct.N. Am. 



p. 105. 

 Agrotis semtilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 100 (1873). 



Head and thorax blackish brown ; palpi pale at tips, tegulae with 

 blackish medial line and the extremities greyish, the crests on vertex 

 of thorax pale rufous ; legs mixed with black ; abdomen yellowish 

 brown, the sides and extremity tinged with rufous, the ventral 

 surface pale. Fore wing purplish red-brown ; the costal area 

 broadly white and the inner area broadly fuscous to the postmedial 

 line : a black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal line double, 

 interrupted, from costa to vein 1 : a double, waved, antemedial line 

 angled outwards below costa ; the claviform large and strongly 

 defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform large, white with slight 

 rufous tinge in centre, defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; 

 the cell before and between the stigmata and the area between the 

 reniform and postmedial line blackish; the postmedial line prominent, 

 black, dentate, with traces of another line beyond it, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct pale 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and bidentate at middle, 

 the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; the veins and terminal area 

 brown ; cilia whitish, with brown line at base ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 spot. 



Hob. U.S.A., types S obeliscoides and sexatilis, Massachusetts, 

 N. York, Georgia, Colorado (CocJcerell), 1 c? , 1 $ , New Mexico, 

 Arizona (Prescott), 1 2 • Exp. 36-40 millim. 



522. Euxoa excellens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis cxcellens, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 115 (1875). 



Agrotis perexceliens, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 156 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 106. 

 Agrotis infelix, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 57 (1890). 



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

 palpi and sides of frons with some black hair ; tegulse yellowish 

 white in front, with black medial line and tipped with white ; patagia 

 edged with black; dorsal crests largely whitish; legs black and 

 brown, with whitish rings on the tibise and tarsi; abdomeii grey- 

 brown, the sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface tinged with purplish 

 red. Fore wing dark purplish brown, the costal area whitish to the 

 postmedial line, extending to median nervure near base, the inner area 

 pale rufous ; an ill-defined short blackish fascia below base of cell ; 

 the subbasal line represented by an oblique yellowish line below the 

 cell, joined by a slight streak from base ; the antemedial line double, 

 filled in with whitish, excurved in and below cell and obsolete on 

 costal and inner areas ; the claviform large, defined by black and 

 often filled in with blackish, a pale streak from above its extremity to 

 the postmedial line ; the orbicaiar and reniform whitish, centred with 



