LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 725 



Female. Ocbraceous. Palpi cinereous, mostly black above, 

 obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third 

 joint linear, rounded at the tip, not more than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Wings ample; exterior border slightly 

 festooned; marginal line black. Fore wings rounded at the tips, 

 with an elongated excavated very large blackish patch, which is 

 partly connected with the exterior border, and emits several lines 

 to the costa and a few to the interior border, and contains the 

 ochraceous-bordered orbicular and reniform marks ; under side with 

 a whitish mark on the middle of the exterior border. Hind wings 

 more dentate than the fore wings, with a reddish brown marginal 

 band which is attenuated towards the interior angle. Length of 

 the body 10 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



In Mr. Norris's collection. 



Genus EUROIS, C. L. H. xi. 549. 



EUROIS PLUVIOSA. 



Fcem. Fusca ; palpi erecti, articulo So longi-conico ; alee anticcs 

 cinereo varice, lineis nonnullis dentatis nigris, fascia sub" 

 marginali pallide cinerea, orbiculari et reniformi albidis nigro 

 marginatis ; posticce cinerece. 



Female. Brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi erect, not rising 

 higher than the vertex ; second joint hirsute ; third elongate-conical, 

 about one-third of the length of the second. Abdomen and hind 

 wings cinereous. Fore wings varied with cinereous; a broad 

 irregular pale cinereous submarginal band ; some dentate irregular 

 lines and marginal points black; orbicular and reniform marks 

 large, whitish, black-bordered, of the usual form. Hind wings with 

 a black spot in the disk beneath. Length of the body 10 lines; oi 

 the wings 24 lines. 



Distinguished from E. imbrifera by the smaller reniform mark, 

 which has no black ringlet behind it. 



a. Vancouver's Island. Presented by Lieut.-Col. Hawkins. 



EUROIS ? INCLUSA. 



Fcem. Viridescente-fusca ; palpi graciles, articulo So lanceolato 

 alee anticce nigro conspersce, cinereo varice, apice subrotundatw 

 lineola basali nigra, lineis duabus nigris 9 la subrecta, 2a den 



