148 NOCTTJID^. 



260. Porosagrotis mimalloiiis. (Plate LIX. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis mimallonis, Grote, Bull. Biiif. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 98 (1873) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 8.'>. 

 Ag7-oiis rujipennis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 83 (1875). 



(S . Head and thorax bright chestnut-red, sometimes tinged with 

 •crimson or purple ; palpi blackish at sides ; antenniB brown ; tihiaj 

 and tarsi blackish ringed with grey ; abdomen dorsally ochreous 

 tinged with fuscous, the sides, ventral surface, and anal tuft reddish. 

 Fore ^^•ing chestnut-red ; a slight waved black subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line indistinct, angled 

 inwards on median nei'vure and outwards above inner margin : the 

 orbicular and reniform small, fuscous, with greyish anuuli ; an 

 oblique dentate medial line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 "below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, slightly dentate, and with the area beyond it 

 rather darker. Hind wing white ; the veins and termen brownish ; 

 the underside with dark discoidal point, the costal area irrorated 

 with red. 



2 . Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with brown. 

 Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., N. York 2 c? , 1 5 type rujipennis, 

 Montana 1 S Grote Coll., California ( Waist ih/hain), 1 § . E.rj). 

 40-44 millim. 



Genus MICRAGROTIS, nov. 



Type, J/, axylides. 



Proboscis rather small ; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair below ; frons 

 -with truncate conical corneous prominence with raised walls and curved 

 corneous plate below it ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibire short and broad, spined at sides, and 

 with two long curved claws on inner side at extremity, and short claw or claws 

 on outer ; mid and hind \\h\x spined. Fore wing short, the apex rounded ; 

 veins 3 and ."> from near angle of cell ; 6 I'rom upper angle ; !) from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 



.Sect. I. Fore tibia- with 2 claws and 2 spines on outer side, 2 claws and 

 (i spines on inner. 



A. Fore wing with fine dark streaks in interspaces of 



terminal area. 

 a. Fore wing suffused with black except on terminal area, exusta. 



li. Fore wing suffused with bluish grey interstriata. 



c. Fore wing pale reddisli brown. 



«^. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell strlgibasis. 



6\ Fore wing witliout black streak below base of cell .. axi/lides. 



B. Fore wing without iilark streaks in interspaces of 



terminal area. 



a. Fore wing without black patch in cell between the 



stigmata. 



a}. Fore wing with rufous medial line lacteata. 



b^. Fore wing without medial line jmnctkostata. 



b. Fore wing with black patch in cell between the 



stigmata rufescens. 



