ETJXOA. 297 



528. Euxoa furtiva. (Plate LXVI. fig. 12.) 



Agrotis furtivus. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xyii. p. 56 (1890) ; id. Oat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 105. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with grey or reddish brown ; 

 tegulse with a black medial line ; abdomen grey, strongly irrorated 

 with brown, the extremity tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey- 

 brown or red-brown ; the (postal area whitish to the postmedial line 

 in the rufous specimens slightly tinged with rufous, the pale colour 

 extending to median nervure at base ; an ill-defined black fascia 

 below base of cell ; the subbasal line obsolete, the antemedial 

 indistinct, angled outwards in cell and excurved below it : the 

 claviform clearly defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform 

 grey, tinged with brown in the rufous specimens, defined by black, 

 the former oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter well-developed, 

 entire ; medial line obsolete ; postmedial line indistinct, very 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, 

 with a dark shade before it and series of small dentate black 

 marks ; a terminal series of black points. Hind Aving pale brown ; 

 the cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal lunule 

 and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, (OockereU) I S , (Bruce) 2 ?, California. 

 Eivj). 40 millim. 



529. Euxoa vanidica. (Plate LXYI. fig. 13.) 



Carneades vanidkus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 453 (1900). 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with fuscous ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulse ochreous brown at base, irrorated 

 with black, the tips dark ; patagia blackish, with patch of white 

 scales near base ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-white. 

 Pore wing ochreous, irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous 

 in parts ; a black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines represented by double bla6k striae from costa, and the 

 latter by an indistinct excurved line between cell and vein 1 ; clavi- 

 form rather small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 small, oblique, the cell before and between them and the area from 

 reniform to postmedial line suffused with red-brown ; the post- 

 medial line represented by two dark strise from costa, then by 

 minute black streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a reddish-brown patch and 

 some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line 

 defined by slight dark dentate marks before it at middle, and the 

 area beyond it dark brown, bent outwards to apex, angled inwards 

 in diseal and submedian folds and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the inner margin and 

 termen tinged with brown ; a dark terminal line ; the underside 



