142 



NOOTUIDiE. 



249. Porosagrotis orthogonia. 



Agrotis orthogonia, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. JS'. II. xviii. p. 239 (1876) 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 87. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown ; 

 antennas brown ; tarsi with dark bands ; abdomen white, slightly 

 tinged with brown on dorsum towards extremity. Fore wing 

 ochreous white irrorated with dark brown ; a whitish subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line whitish defined by 

 dark scales, angled outwards below costa and acutely above inner 



Fig. .53. — Porosagrotis orthogonia, J. ', . 



claviform distinct, with black outline, and rather small; 

 the orbicular and reniform with greyish fuscous centres, whitish 

 annuli, and black outline, the former round, the latter large ; the 

 postmedial line whitish, defined by a mintitely dentate black line 

 on its inner side, exeurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; 

 the subterminal line whitish, dentate, with longer teeth at veins 7, 

 4, 3, and with the area beyond it darker ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia pale, with dark lines through them. Hind wing 

 white, the veins brown ; the termen suffused with brown from apex 

 to vein 2. 



$ . Fore wing with the termen paler ; hind wing with the ter- 

 nunal area suii'used with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, Denver {Bruce), 1 6 , 

 1 5 , New Mexico, Arizona. Exj). 36 millim. 



250. Porosagrotis siccata. (Plate LIX. fig. 23.) 

 Carneades siccata. Smith, Ent. News Philad. iv. p. 99, pi. vi. f. I (1893). 



c? . Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with brown, and with 

 a few black scales ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen grey. Fore 

 wing grey, slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 the subbasal line represented by dark points on costa and below cell, 

 the antemedial line by a dark point on costa and indistinct line 

 from cell to inner margiii, angled outwards in submedian fold, then 

 oblique ; orbicular and reniform small, diffused, blackish, the former 

 elliptical ; the postmedial line indistinct, bent otitwards below costa, 

 oxcurved to vein 4, then oblique : the subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 

 termen very slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Poncha Spring, 1 c? . Exp. 30 millim. 



