POEOSAGROXIS. 



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*254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 26.) 



Feltia longidens, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 217 (1890); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 



5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegula) with fine dark 

 roedial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi blackish 

 with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Pore 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 submedian 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 

 subterminal 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 

 the underside with the costa slightly tinged with 



of dark striae 

 Dchreous. 

 Hah. U.S.A 



Colorado, Turkey Creek in Coll. J. B. Smith, New 



Mexico, Las Vegas. Exp. 36 millim. 



255. Porosagrotis vetusta. 



Mythimna vetusta, Wlk. ix. 78 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. X. Am. p. 85. 

 Agrotis muramda, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 352, pi. vii. 

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



Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales pencilled with dark 



Fig. 55. — Porosagrotis vetusta, (^ . \. 



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

 irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous. Pore 

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



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