EUXOA. 321 



blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing reddish brown mixed with fuscous brown and sufiused 

 with fuscous black except the basal area, the costal area to post- 

 medial line, and the terminal area except towards apex ; the 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa ; the 

 antemedial line indistinct, represented by double black striae from 

 costa and double oblique black strise from submedian fold to vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, indistinct, with slight pale anuuli, the former produced to 

 a point on outer side almost confluent with the latter ; the post- 

 medial line black, defined by paler fuscous on outer side, minutely 

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

 inciirved ; the subterminal line represented by a series of short 

 whitish streaks in the interspaces, incurved at discal fold, where 

 there is a short black streak before the one above vein 5, and 

 a black streak extending to lower angle of cell above vein 4 ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia reddish brown intersected 

 with blackish. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the terminal half 

 deep fuscous; cilia white; underside whitish, the costal area and 

 terminal half suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 $; Mexico, Oaxaca, typef 5 in Coll. 

 Schaus, Durango {Becker), 1 J , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



568. Euxoa fumicolor. (Plate LXYII. fig. 10.) 

 Agrotis fmnicolor, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 7^ (1902). 



Head rufous ; palpi with some fuscous at sides ; thorax fuscous, 

 the tegulse with black and rufous medial band ; abdomen ochreous 

 strongly irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish brown, with traces of markings indicated by 

 black scales ; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines ; traces 

 of the orbicular and reniform stigmata, of a waved postmedial line 

 bent outwards below costa, and of a waved subterminal line ; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex and a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the veins brownish; a 

 slight discoidal point ; a postmedial series of points on the veins ; 

 the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marsliall), 2 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



569. Euxoa apicalis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis apicalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 153 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 80. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; palpi fringed with rufous ; 

 tegulae with black medial line ; thorax pale rufous ; legs marked 

 with blackish above; abdomen pale grej-brown irrorated with daik 

 brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown, the veins slightly streaked 

 with black ; subbasal and antemedial lines black, double, waved, 

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