146 NOCTtriD^. 



obsolete : the antemedial line indistinct or obsolete except at costa, 

 donble, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold, and more 

 strongly above inner margin ; claviform almost obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform slightly dehned by black, the former with blackish 

 centre, the latter with some blackish in lower part ; the postmedial 

 Hue strongly dentate with white points at end of teeth, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved in submedian interspace ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind Aving Avhite, the veins, 

 costal area, and termen slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Xova Scotia {Redman), 1 5 type ; U.S.A., 

 Massachusetts, X. York, 1 (5,2 § , Grote and Zeller Colls., 

 Georgia, Colorado {Bruce), 1 6 • Exp. 40-40 millim. 



250. Porosagrotis catemila. (Plate LIX. fig. 27.) 



Ai/rofis cutcnula, Grote, N. Am. Eot. i. p. 44 (1879): Smith, Cat. JS'oct. 

 N. Am. p. 85. 



Head and tliorax white, the scales tipped with pale yellow- 

 brown ; antenme blackish ; tibite banded with fuscous ; abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Eore wing white, with a 

 slight ochreous tinge and irrorated with dark brown ; the subbasal 

 line repz'esented by blackish striae on costa and belo\\- cell, or 

 obsolete ; the antemedial line represented bj' black points ou costa, 

 in submedian fold, and on inner margin, or the two latter obsolete ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented bj' a black point in cell, 

 the reniform by a fuscous discoidal lunule or spot at lower angle of 

 cell ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, and oblique below vein 4 ; 

 a terminal series of black points and a slight diffused fuscous mark 

 below apex. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.xi., Montana, Colorado (/S'noH'), 1 S type, (^rwoe), 1 S •, 

 California ( Walsingham), 3 d" » 7 ? , Xew Mexico. Eajj. 30- 

 44 millim. 



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257. Porosagrotis texana. (Plate LXI. fig. 2.) 



Agrofig texaiiug, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 27'"J, pi. vi. f. 2 (1863); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 86. 

 A(/rotL<: obemla, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x, p. 456 (1887); id. Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 85. 



cJ . K,ather dark yellowish grey, irrorated and striated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing Avith the lines distinct, interrupted, puuctiform ; 

 subbasal line double : antemedial line erect, excurved in interspaces, 

 double at costa ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform 

 ill-defined, fuscous, the former small, round ; postmedial line 

 double at costa, then crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line fuscous, puuctiform, even, 

 Avith a dark patch before it on costa ; terminal area more thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing white ; the underside with 



