. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 256 NOCl'UID^. irrorated with fuscous, a prominent discoidal lunule and strong postmedial line. Hah. , Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim. 450. Euxoa messoria. Agrotis messoria, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 96. Agrotis spissa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 261 (18-32). Mamcstra insulsa, Wlk. ix. 234 (1856). Mamestra imxtricata. Wlk. xxxii. 658 (1865). Mamestra indirecta, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). Mamestra displiciens, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (1865). Mamestra expulsa, Wlk.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 256 NOCl'UID^. irrorated with fuscous, a prominent discoidal lunule and strong postmedial line. Hah. , Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim. 450. Euxoa messoria. Agrotis messoria, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 96. Agrotis spissa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 261 (18-32). Mamcstra insulsa, Wlk. ix. 234 (1856). Mamestra imxtricata. Wlk. xxxii. 658 (1865). Mamestra indirecta, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). Mamestra displiciens, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (1865). Mamestra expulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 661 (1865). Agrotis ordiiiafa, Wlk. xxxii 691 (1865). Agrotis retu-ens, Wlk. xxxii. 692 (1865). Agrotis cochrani, Riley, Prairie Farmer, July 1868. Agrotis repentis, Grote & Kob. Trans. Am. Eat. Soc. i. p. 350, pi. 7. f. 58 (1868). Agrotis confrada, Morr. MS., Smith, Bull. Mus. 38. p. 169 (1890). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-brown ; abdomen rather paler brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated and suffused with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards l^elow costa and above inner margin : the claviform outlined with black and usually indistinct; the orbicular and reniform with dark outlines, the former rounded, oblique, elliptical, elongate, or sometimes trian- gular and open above, the latter large; a strongly dentate postmedial. Fig. 61.—Euxoa messoria, J'. line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an irregularly sinuous subterminal line, usually with some dark marks on its inner edge, especially on costa, and the area beyond it rather darker ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia brown, with fine grey lines through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins, costal, terminal and inner areas brown. Under- side with the terminal area of fore wing and the costal and terminal areas of hind wing irrorated with brown ; both wings with
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