POROSAGEOTIS. 147 



dark irroration and postmedial line almost obsolete except on 

 costal area. 



Hah. U.S.A., Montana, Texas. Exp. 38 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from tj^pe ohesula 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



258. Porosagrotis satiens. (Plate LIX. fig. 28.) 



Agrotis satiens, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. svii. p. 45 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 85. 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown slightly tinged with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing pale brown, irrorated with black ; the subb^sal line re- 

 presented by double black striae from costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, oblique, waved and angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black and with their centres defined by 

 blackish, the former elliptical, rather pointed at extremities ; an 

 indistinct medial shade excurved from costa to median nervure, 

 then oblique ; the postmedial line somewhat dentate and produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight 

 fuscous suffusion before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing pure white ; the termen slightly tinged with brown at discal 

 fold ; a fine terminal brown line ; the underside with the costal 

 area tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 a discoidal point and curved postmedial series on the veins. 



Hab. Canada, Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., Colorado {Briice)^ 1 <5 . 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



*259. Porosagrotis scortea. (Plate LIX. fig. 29.) 



Peridroma scortea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 141 (1898). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 pale grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the veins slightly 

 irrorated with grey and black ; the subbasal line .rej)resented by a 

 black point on median nervure ; traces of a waved antemedial line 

 and of the pale-edged claviform stigma; orbicular and reniform 

 indistinct, irrorated white and fuscous, and with whitish annuli, the 

 former round ; a fine dentate postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined 

 by diffused brown on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a fine terminal line and whitish line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, tinged with brown especially 

 on terminal area, the veins brownish ; cilia white with a brown 

 line through them ; underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, type f 6 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



i2 



