304 NOClUIDJi. 



541. Euxoa divergens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 22.) 



Agrotis divergens, Wlk. x. 327 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. 

 Agrotis vcrsipellis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 172, pi. i. f. 9 (1875). 



(5 . Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with grey and 

 Avhite ; palpi blackish at sides; tegular with medial black line ; tibiae 

 and tarsal joints at extremities with white rings; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing brown, suffused with purplish 

 grey except just below the cell ; the costal area sufi'used with grey 

 to the postmedial line ; a black fascia below base of cell, and pure 

 white streaks on median nervure and base of subcostal nervure ; 

 the subbasal line curved, whitish from costa to vein 1 ; the ante- 

 medial line grey, defined by black on each side, excurved in and below 

 cell and more strongly above inner margin ; the claviform strongly 

 defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform defined by black, with 

 grey annuli and grey-speckled brown centres, the former oblique, 

 the latter moderate, the cell before and between them and the area 

 between the reniform and postmedial line black ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line grey, 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; a fine pale 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown, whitish towards base ; the 

 cilia white, with a brown line through them ; the underside more 

 irrorated with brown ; a discoidal lunule and traces of curved post- 

 medial line. 



$ . The anal tuft not fulvous ; the hind wing more uniform brown. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia {Redman), 2 S type; U.S.A., 3 J, 

 1 2 type versiioellis, Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, California, 

 Sierra Nevada, 1 $ Grote Coll. Exi^. 40 millim. 



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



Head 2-9 millim., shining brown, the dark curved vertical shade 

 distinct above and near the median suture ; reticulations pale, 

 obscure, dividing the sides into rounded dark spots. Cervical shield 

 brown, darker before and behind, bisected by pale. Body sordid 

 greyish, translucent, scarcely marked. Dorsal area broadly pale 

 and nearly straight, subveutral region light ; spiracles black ; setse 

 minute. Probably a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



*542. Euxoa nordica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 23.) 

 Carneades nordica, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 455 (1900). 



S . Head and thorax very dark brown mixed with some grey ; 

 frons with black bars at middle and between antennas ; tegulse more 

 rufous, with strong black medial line; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 pale red-brown. Fore wing very dark brown, the costal and inner 

 areas tinged with grey ; a double, waved, black subbasal line filled 

 in with grey from cell to submcdian fold, and with a blackish streak 

 below cell and pale grey spot beyond it in cell before the double, 

 waved, oblique antemedial line, which is somewhat angled oiitwards 

 below costa ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular small, 



