PROlfOCTIJA.- — EUEfiETAGEOTIS. 



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grey-brown. Fore wing iuteons grey, irrorated and more or less 

 suffused with brown; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa 

 to vein 1 ; a double, waved, antemedial line : orbicular andreniform 

 very indistinctly defined by brown, the medial shade passing between 

 them and bent inwards to costa ; the postmedial line arising from a 

 black point on costa, dentate and produced to pale points at the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly angled inwards at vein 

 5 and outwards at vein 4, then oblique ; a pale dentate subterminal 

 line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in discal fold and with 

 the area beyond it browner ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside suffused with white except towards 

 termen, an indistinct curved sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. U.S.A., California, 2 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus EUEEETAGROTIS. 



Eiieretagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 47 (1890) 



Type. 



sigmoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

 joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd well-developed and nearly 

 naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna3 of male typically ciliated ; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 well-developed spreading tufts ; fore tibite broadly fringed with hair ; mid and 

 hind tibi^ spiiied ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore 

 wing usually broad, the apex rectangular ; veins Sand 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discal fold ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked or from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male with short fasciculate branches. 



1108. Eueretagrotis patricia. 



Agrotis pafricia, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 312 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. 



(5' , Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the head and 

 tegulae mostly black ; palpi blackish, ochreous at tips ; frons with 

 black bar ; pectus and legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface blackish. Pore wing- 



Fig. 116. — Euerefagrotis ixttrioia, (^ . \. 



ochreous brown, the medial area to median nervure blackish, the 

 inner medial area and terminal area purplish brown ; the subbasal Hue 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a double, slightly waved, 

 obliquely curved antemedial line with some purplish brown before 



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