EuxoA. 293 



brownish and defined by black, the former oblique, the latter large ; 

 the cell before and between the stigmata and between the reniform 

 and postmedial line tinged with black : the postmedial line strongly 

 dentate,bent outwards below costa,excurved to vein 3, then incurved, 

 the area beyond it pale rufous ; some pale points on costa towards 

 apex and a grej' patch at apex ; the subterminal line white, 

 prominent, bidentateat middle, and with dentate black marks before 

 its medial point ; a terminal series of small black lunulas. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown ; the veins, discoidal lunule, and 

 terminal area brown ; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown. ; the 

 discoidal lunule prominent ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 



§ . Fore wing with the pale areas much whiter. 



Hab. Canada, Vancouver I., 2 c? , 1 § type ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 {Snoiv),l 5 5 G'lsnwood Springs, California. Exp., (S 44, 5 46 

 millim. 



Larva. Djar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). 



Head 3 millim., reddish brown, shining, faintly marked by j)ale 

 reticulations. Cervical shield shining brown, somewhat translucent. 

 Dorsal space broadly pale, nearly obscuring the pale dorsal line, this 

 pale area widening only slightly at the incisures, and reaching 

 almost to the faintlj' traceable narrow, pale, subdorsal line. 

 Stigmatal line faintly shadowed, whitish, concolorous with the xjale 

 subventral area; setae minute. Probably a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



523. Euxoa tritici. 



Noctua tritici, Liun. Faun. Suec. p. 320 (1761) ; Boiscl. Icones, pi. 77. 



ff. 2,3; Steph.Ill. Brit. Ent.. Haust. ii. p. 121 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schraett., 



Noct. IF. 527-8 & 529-30 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 

 Noctua aquilina, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776) ; Hiibu. Samral. Eur. 



Sehmett., Noct. ff. 535-6 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 533, 



540. 

 Noctua nigrofusca, Esp. Schmett. ir. pi. 127. f. 6 (1786). 

 Noctua pratincola, Bork. Eur. Schmett., Noct. iv. p. 553 (1792) ; Hiibn. 



Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 567. 

 Noctua, domestica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 23 (1793). 

 Noctua eruta, Hilbn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 623 (1827). 

 Noctua fiotilis, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 479 (1827). 

 Agrotis segnilis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 110 (18^9). 

 Agrotis seliginis, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 211, pi. 19. f. 6 (1836). 

 Agrotis sahidetorum, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840) ; Herr.-Schaff 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 19 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 

 Agrotis squalida, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 548 (1842); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 494 {nee Boisd.). 

 Agrotis detorta, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ii. p. 328 (1851). 

 Agrotis siUginis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 287 (1852). 

 Agrotis foida. Led. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 107, pi. i. f. 6; Ersch. 



Fedtsch. Reis. pi. 3. f. 38. 

 Agrotis nigrina, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 106. 

 Agrotis varia, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 138, pi. 7. f. 1 (1889). 

 Agrotis obscurior, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 420 (1892). 

 Agrotis clistincta, Stand. Iris, v. p. 358 (1892). 



Head and thorax ochreous to dark brown, largely suffused with 

 black and irrorated with white ; palpi black at sides except at 



