148 N0CTTJIDJ5. 



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



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



Cat. Noct. TSf. Am. p. 85. 

 Agrotis rufipennis. Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 83 (1875). 



c? . Head and tliorax bright chestnut-red, sometimes tinged with 

 ■crimson or purple ; palpi blackish at sides ; antennae brown ; tibiae 

 and tarsi blackish ringed with grey ; abdomen dorsally ochreous 

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

 Fore wing chestnut-red ; a slight waved black subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line indistinct, angled 

 inwards on median nervure 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 darlvcr. Hind wing white ; the veins and termen brownish ; 

 the underside with dark diseoidal point, the costal area irrorated 

 with red. 



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



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., jST. York 2 cJ , 1 5 type rii/i^jennis, 

 Montana 1 cS Grote Coll., California ( Walsinrjham), 1 5 . Exp. 

 40-44 millim. 



Genus MICilAGEOTIS, nov. 



Type, M. axylides. 



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

 with truncate conical corneous prominence with raised Avails and curved 

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

 clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibiaj 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 tibia; spined. Fore wing short, the apex rounded ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing 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 stalked. 



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

 6 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. 



h. Fore wing suffused witli bluish grey interstriata. 



c. Fore wing pale reddish brown. 



0.^. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell strigihasis. 



h^. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell . .. axylides. 



B. Fore wing without dark streaks in interspaces of 



terminal area. 

 a. Fore wing without black patch in cell between the 

 stigmata. 



rt^ Fore wing with rufous medial line lactcata. 



/>'. Fore wing without medial line puncticostata. 



h. Fore wing with black patch in cell between the 



stigmata ntfescens. 



