312 KOCTUIDJE. 



555. Euxoa sorella. (Plate LXVII. fig. 3.) 

 Chcrizagrotis sorcUa, Scliaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. V\. p. 141 (189S). 



S . Head and thorax i^urplish brown ; tegulse reddish at base 

 and extremity and with black medial line ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the ventral surface white irrorated W'ith brown. Fore wing 

 purplish brown, slightly tinged -with reddish below basal half of 

 costa ; the subbasal line defined on each side by black, interrupted 

 below costa and interrupting the black streak below base of cell ; 

 the autemedial line double, strongly angled outwards in and below 

 cell and above inner margin, conjoined to the claviform which is 

 very elongate and defined by black; the orbicular and reniform 

 with black outlines, inside which are a few grey scales, the former 

 round, the latter large, and with a black streak in cell before and 

 between them ; the postmedial line indistinct, dark, dentate, 

 excurvcd from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a subterminal series 

 of small dentate black and grey marks, those above veins 4 and 5 

 more distinct. Hind wing semihyaline white tinged with brown ; 

 the veins and terminal line brown ; cilia white, with a brown line 

 at base, 



2 . Tegulce with the basal half yellowish ; thorax without red 

 tinge on costal area. 



Hah. Mexico, Las Yegas {Hoecje), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll., 

 Cobre de Perote, type t <S in Coll. Schaus. Eccj). 42 millim. 



556. Euxoa balinitis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 4.) 



A(]roth haUnitis, Gi-ote, Bull. Euff. Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. 97, pi. 3. f. 14 (187o) ; 

 " Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. 



$ . Head ochreous white : palpi at sides and vertex of head 

 sufixised with fuscous brown : thorax fuscous brown slightly 

 pencilled with grey, the teguloe whitish at base ; pectus and legs 

 brownish white, the latter marked with dark brown above ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated 

 Avith brown, and with sublateral black lines except towards base. 

 Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; the costal area and 

 base of inner area rather greyer ; an indistinct, waved, black sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a black antemedial line, 

 angled outwards below costa and in cell and inwards on vein 1, 

 excurved below cell and above inner margin ; the outer edge of 

 claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey-brown with 

 Avhitish annuli defined by black lines, the former rather diamond- 

 shaped, the latter with some fuscous in its lower portion ; the 

 postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, with 

 fuscous on its inner edge and rather dentate at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black poiuts. Hind wing white tinged with 

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



