POEOSAGROXIS. 



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*2o4. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 26.) 



Feltia lonyidcns, Smith, Bull. U.S. Xat. Miis. 38, p. 217 (1890); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 



5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; teguloB with fine dark 

 medial line ; patagia with black line near up^ier edge ; tarsi blackish 

 with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing brownish 

 ochreous ; the veins with dark streaks; the costa, submedian fold, 

 cell, discal area, and a streak above vein 2 dark brown ; a blackish 

 streak in subraedian fold with the elongate dark-defined claviform 

 on it ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique, oblong, open above 

 and with its inner edge produced as a black streak in cell towards 

 base ; the veins of terminal area defined by dentate ochreous marks 

 extending to termen, leaving wedge-shaped blackish marks between 

 them, with a series of ochreous points on them representing the 

 subtcrminal line, two short subterminal black streaks before apex ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing pure white, with slight terminal series 

 of dark striae ; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with 

 ochreous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Turkey Creek in Coll. J. B. Smith, Xew 

 Mexico, Las Vegas. Exp. 36 millim. 



25.5. Porosagrotis vetusta. 



Mytldmna vetmfa, Wlk. ix. 78 (1856j ; Smith, Cat. Xoct. X. Am. p. Hb. 

 Agrotis iiairwnula, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 052, pi. vii. 

 f. 48 (1868); Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 73, pi. o. f. 3. 



Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales pencilled with dark 



Fig. 0.3. — l\irii.<fi<irolis vctiistc, (^ , 



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brown; palpi black at sides except at tips; abdomen white, 

 irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing lilacine grey, irrorated with dark brown ; tlie subbasal line 



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