146 NOCTTJID^. 



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

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

 strongly above inner margin ; claviform almost obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform slightly defined by black, the former with blackish 

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

 line 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 wing white, the veins, 

 costal area, and termen slightly tinged with brown. 



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

 Massachusetts, K. York, 1 d" , 2 5 , Grote and Zeller Colls., 

 Georgia, Colorado (Bruce), 1 d • Exp. 40-40 millim. 



256. Porosagrotis cateimla. (Plate LIX. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis catcmda, Grote, N. Aui. Eut. i. p. 44 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N.' Am. p. 85. 



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

 brown ; antennae blackish ; tibioe 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 represented by blackish strife on costa and below cell, or 

 obsolete ; the antemedial line represented by black points on costa, 

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

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented by 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.A., Montana, Colorado (/S'nou'), 1 S type, (i^rttce), 1 S -, 

 California (Walsingham), 3 J, 7 ?, New Mexico. Ex^). 36- 

 44 millim. 



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



Agrotis texanus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 273, pi. vi. f. 2 (1863);. 



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

 Agrotis ohesula, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 456 (1887); id. Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 85. 



c?. Eather dark yellowish grey, irrorated and striated with 

 fuscous. Eore wing with 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, punctiform, even, 

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

 irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing white ; the underside with 



