(516 NOCTUID^. 



points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; tbe subterminal line whitish, obscurely dentate with 

 some black suffusion on its inner side ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing whitish, irrorated and suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; traces of a diffused subterminal line ; a sinuous terminal 

 line ; underside pale, with dark discoidal Innule and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 $ type, Nevada. Exp. 38 

 millim. 



1067. Eurois quarta. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis quarta, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Siirv. vi. p. 258 (1883); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 57. 



5 . Head grey-brown ; palpi, antennte, and tegulse j)ale rufous, 

 the last dark brown at tips ; thorax purplish brown ; pectus and 

 legs pale purplish red, the latter irrorated with white and with the 

 tarsi brownish ; abdomen grey-brown, with the hair at sides and 

 anal tuft purplish red. Fore wing purplish grey-brown ; an indis- 

 tinct subbasal line from costa to subraedian fold ; a waved antemedial 

 line ; orbicular rounded, with cream-coloured annulus on lower half 

 and slight black outline ; reniform cream-coloured suffused with fiery 

 red, its centre and outer edge slightly defined by black, and with 

 slight fuscous suffusion in the cell between the stigmata ; the post- 

 medial line indistinct and produced to points at the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an 

 interrupted whitish subterminal line with black points on its inner 

 edge, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind Aving pale brown, suffused 

 Avith fuscous towards termen ; the cilia pale, with a brown line 

 through them ; underside whitish irrorated with pale brown, a 

 blackish discoidal lunule and sinuous brown postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 1 2 type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1068. Eurois apposita. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis apposita, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 170(1878); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 58. 



$ . Head and thorax grey-brown or dull reddish brown largely 

 mixed with black; abdomen grey-brown strongly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing dull reddish brown suffused with fuscous ; an 

 indistinct double, waved subbasal line from costa to submcdian fold ; 

 an oblique double, waved antemedial line ; the area from the inner 

 antemedial line to the outer postmedial liue pale rufous with a 

 diffused medial dark shade; orbicular and reniform indistinctly 

 defined with fuscous, with some red scales on them, the former 

 rounded, the latter with some black in its lower part ; a pale waved 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 some pale points before it on the blackish costal area ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the underside 



