AGEOTIPHILA. OKOSA&ROTIS. 135 



line white, diiFused, interrupted below apex and preceded by a 

 series of dentate black marks ; a dark line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing fuscous or blackish, with the cilia white ; the underside 

 whitish, with fuscous margins and discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce). Eccp. 29-31 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



Genus OROSAGROTIS, nov. 



Type, 0. rigida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons with truncate conical 

 prominence ; eyes small, elliptical ; antennae of male minutely serrate and 

 fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; tibias spined. Fore 

 wing rather narrow, veins 'S and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular produced to a point con- 



fluent with reniform amphora. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular not produced to a point. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, oblong, open above, rigida. 

 h. Fore wing with the orbicular small, I'ouud, entire. 



a}. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata defined by grey, incognita. 



b^. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata not defined by 



grey cashmirensis. 



238. Orosagrotis amphora, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 17.) 



c? . Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; tegulse with 

 medial black line ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey, suf- 

 fused with pale brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the sub- 

 basal line represented by obscure black points below costa and cell ; 

 the autemedial line indistinct, blackish, slightly angled outwards in 

 cell and very strongly above inner margin ; claviform slightly de- 

 fined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by brown, the former produced to a point 

 confluent Avith the reniform, the cell below it suffused with dark 

 brown ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal line whitish, den- 

 tate, defined on inner side by a series of small obscure dentate dark 

 marks ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish Avith a dark 

 line through them. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous brown 

 and with a darker terminal line ; the underside whitish, with small 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Xashmie, Digha Pass, 15,000 ft. {Mc Arthur), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



239. Orosagrotis incognita. (Plate LIX. fig. 18.) 

 Agrotifhila incognita. Smith, Ent. News Philad. 1893, p. 101, pi. vi. f. 9. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with olive- 



