EUPvOIS. 



613 



*1062. Eurois youngi. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 22.) 

 Semiophora youngii, Smith, Can. Ent. sxxiv. p. 29 (1902). 



5 . Carneous grey to fuscous brown, irrorated with, black 

 or with dark suffusion, the male redder ; palpi blackish at 

 sides, their tips and the frons grey ; antennae of male with long 

 slender yellowish branches ; tegulae rufous or brown at base, with 

 dark or black medial line and greyish tips ; patagia irrorated with 

 grey ; crests grey. Fore wing with the markings well-defined ; 

 subbasal line dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, the area 

 before it irrorated with grey ; anteraedial line double, filled in with 

 grey, more or less interrupted, erect or slightly curved, somewhat 

 ■excurved in interspaces, some grey irroration on costal area before 

 it ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular rather large, somewhat oblique, 

 elliptical, with yellowish or grey annulus ; reniform irrorated with 

 grey, with yellowish atmulus or entirely yellowish ; postmedial line 

 double, the inner line black, lunulate, the outer fuscous, even, filled 

 in with grey, intersected by black at the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique or slightly incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line yellowish or grey, sometimes punctiform, irregular, 

 •defined on inner side by dark shading, the area beyond it usually 

 paler ; a terminal series of dark lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 with a reddish tinge in male, especially on the cilia ; the underside 

 rosy grey to reddish, with dentate irroration, the base paler. 



Rah. Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Mer Bleue (C. U. Young) in Coll. 

 Lyman. Ecej). 32-37 millim. 



1063. Eurois elimata. 



Noctua elimata, Guen. Noct. i. p. 333 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 61. 

 Ammoconia, baclicoUis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 136, pi. 4. f. 18 



(1873). 

 Agrotis dihwida, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phii. ssvii. p. 55 (1875). 

 Agrotisjanualis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 169 (1878). 



Head and tegulae rufous, thorax purple-brown irrorated with grey, 

 or head and thorax uniform, or vertex of head whitish, the tegulae 

 ■often with black band near extremity ; palpi black-brown, whitish 



Fig. 109. — Eurois elimata 



at tips ; pectus and legs purple-brown irrorated with grey ; abdomen 

 reddish brown, rufous towards extremity. Fore wing purplish grey 

 suffused with dark red-brown ; a brown subbasal line defined by 

 grey on outer side, acutely angled outwards below costa and ending 



