322 NOCTUID^. 



and bent inwards to costa ; orbicular and reniform small, very 

 faintly defined by darker brown lines ; the postmedial line double, 

 black, nearly erect from costa to vein 4, where it is ang;led outwards, 

 then oblique : the apical area suffused with purplish fuscous to 

 below vein 5 ; the interspaces of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks. Hind wing brown ; the veins rather darker ; cilia pale, 

 with a brown line at base ; the underside with the disk whitish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona {Prescott). Exp. 

 3i millim. 



*570. Euxoa cleiducha. (Plate LXVII. fig. 12.) 



Pleonectopoda cleiducha, Dognin, Le Nat. 1902, p. 121. 



cJ . Head and thorax dull greyish brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; abdomen pale brown, greyish at base and on ventral surface. 

 Fore wiug dull brown, the outer half of inner area and terminal 

 area greyish irrorated with brown ; the subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa and cell ; the antemedial line 

 double, dentate below costa and in cell and obsolete below vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform dull brown with grey annuli, the former 

 rounded, open above, the cell before and between them and below 

 the orbicular black ; the postmedial line double, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then obsolescent, somewhat dentate, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the sabterminal line greyish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark 

 patch at costa, then by small brown spots ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apex and termen 

 slightly tinged, with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Ecuador, Loja, type t (S in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 32 millim. 



*571. Euxoa marcida. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis marcida, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (1893) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 136. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and a few black 

 scales ; the tegulae and metathoracic crest more or less tinged with 

 rufous ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi black, with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey, 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous and tinged with reddish 

 brown, especially on postmedial area ; the subbasal line black, 

 angled outwards below costa ; the antemedial line double, distinctly 

 so at costa, angled outwards below costa, then slightly waved ; 

 claviform rather small, defined by black and with blackish streak 

 above and beyond it ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, 

 the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter narrow and 

 with fuscous centre, the cell before and between the stigmata filled 

 in with black -brown; an irregular medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, with double 

 black striae at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 



