302 NOCTUIDiE. 



*537. Euxoa laminis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 18.) 

 Carneades laminis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 460 (1900). 



cT . Dull fuscous ; head brown ; tegulee with a rufous shade at 

 base, and broad black medial line ; thorax mostlj- clothed with 

 flattened hair, the crests prominent. Fore wing suffused with ashen 

 grey ; the costal area grey to postmedial line : a fine black streak 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line double, blackish, interrupted at 

 cell ; antemedial line double, fuscous, indistinct, oblique and 

 excurved in interspaces, almost obsolete below cell ; claviform barely 

 traceable ; orbicular small, irregular, oblique, with fuscous centre 

 and grey annulus partly defined by black ; reniform moderate, with 

 fuscous centre defined by black and grey annulus : the cell before 

 and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line double at costa, 

 then single, fine, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line grey, irregular, interrupted 

 below costa by a grey apical patch, defined on inner side by a dark 

 patch at costa and somewhat dentate marks at middle, the area 

 beyond it dark except at apex, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules and yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dirty 

 yellowish white, with fuscous terminal band ; the veins and a dis- 

 coidal lunule smoky ; cilia yellowish at base, with brown medial 

 line and white tips. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle California (Barnes). E.vp. 34 millim. 

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

 in U.S. l^at. Mus. 



538. Euxoa tesselloides. (Plate LXVI. fig. 19.) 



Agrotis tesselloides, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 566 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. 

 'Noct. N. Am. p. 107. 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegulse grey, with 

 black medial line ; legs banded with black ; abdomen pale brown, 

 the ventral surface grey slightly irrorated with brown, the sides 

 more strongly irrorated. Fore wing grey strongly irrorated 

 with brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal 

 line double, black, strongly dentate inwards on median nervure, 

 then oblique to vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, slightly dentate 

 outwards below costa and in cell, angled inwards on subcostal and 

 median uervures and excurved below the cell ; the claviform with 

 its outer edge defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform grey, 

 defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, varying much in size, 

 the latter large, its centre defined by fuscous, the cell before and 

 between the stigmata and the area between the reniform and post- 

 medial line more or less strongly tinged with brown, often very 

 faintly ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle, the area between it and the postmedial 

 line blue-grey, the area beyond it dark with a bluish-grey patch at 



