. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 256 NOCIUID^. irrorated with fuscous, â a promineut discoidal lunule and strong postmedial line. Hah. , Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 1 $ . Exjj. 3(j millim. 450. Euxoa messoria. Agrotis messo7"ia, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. K. Am. p. 96. Agrotis spissa, Giien. Noct. i. p. 261 (1852). Mamestra insulsa, Wlk. ix. 234 (185()). Mamestra inextricata, Wlk. sxxii. 658 (1865). Mamestra indirecta, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). Mamestra dispMciens, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (186
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 256 NOCIUID^. irrorated with fuscous, â a promineut discoidal lunule and strong postmedial line. Hah. , Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 1 $ . Exjj. 3(j millim. 450. Euxoa messoria. Agrotis messo7"ia, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. K. Am. p. 96. Agrotis spissa, Giien. Noct. i. p. 261 (1852). Mamestra insulsa, Wlk. ix. 234 (185()). Mamestra inextricata, Wlk. sxxii. 658 (1865). Mamestra indirecta, Wlk. xxxii. 659 (1865). Mamestra dispMciens, Wlk. xxxii. 660 (1865). Mamestra expulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 661 (1865). Agrotis ordinata, Wlk. xxxii. 691 (1865). Agrotis reticens, Wlk. xxxii. 692 (1865). Agrotis cochrani, Rilev, Prairie Fartiipr, July 1868. Agrotis repentis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Eat. See. 1. p. 350, pi. 7. f. 58 (1868). Agrotis confracta, 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 A'ein 1; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below 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.âEuxoa messoria, (^. i. 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 irrora
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