308 NOCTtrlDJE, 



*54S. Euxoa servita. (Plate LXVI. tig. 29.) 

 Carneades serviiits. Smith, Eut. News, Philad. \i. p. 336, pi. xv. f. 8 (1895). 



Bluish grey ; tegulae with the base pale, a medial black line. 

 Fore wing with the grey ground-colour extending along costal area 

 and through the cell to end of reniform, obliterating the orbicular 

 and leaving a small triangular black spot between it and reniform ; 

 subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; a 

 black streak below base ot* cell crossed by a pale striga beyond 

 subbasal line ; antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure, 

 then oblique and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 large, defined by black ; medial area below the cell and beyond the 

 reniform suffused with black ; postmedial line single, even, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line defined on inner side by a dark shade at costa and two dentate 

 marks at middle, the area beyond it rather darker, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excarved at middle ; a dusky terminal line and pale 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, with a yellowish tinge in 

 male; the underside with slight dark discoidal lunule and incom- 

 plete postmedial line. 



Ilab. Canada, Calgary (Dod) ; U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Exp. 

 30 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photo- 

 graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



549. Euxoa pictifascia. "(Plate LXVI. fig. 30.) 

 HeliotMspictlfascia, Hmpsn. F. Z. S. 1806, p. 259, pi. 10. f. 8. 



$ . Head and thorax grey- white mixed with pale rufous and 

 blackish ; patagia with white streak defined by black above ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen brownish white, i\\e ventral surface 

 white irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with pale 

 brown ; a black-irrorated ochreous and pale rufous fascia in sub- 

 median fold and another in discal fold from orbicular to termen : 

 costa blackish with some pale points ; antemedial line and claviform 

 represented by ochreous marks on suhmedian fascia ; orbicular and 

 reniform with blackish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, 

 the former small, elongate ; the postmedial line indistinct, pale, 

 bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved and represented 

 by ochreous marks on discal and suhmedian fasciae ; the subterminal 

 line represented by a series of ochreous spots on dentate blackish 

 marks ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous intersected 

 with black. Hind wing pure white, the termen with fine dark line : 

 the underside with some fuscous irroration on costal area and black 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. EpaxHREA, Massowah (Barl-er), 1 2 ; Sojialiland, Zaila 

 (Nurse), 1 $ type, Dhobar (Gilleti), 1 ? . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



550. Euxoa axiliodes, n. sp. (Plate LXVI. fig. 31.) 

 Head pale brown mixed with black; tegulse pale brown, with 



