POROSAGROTIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
8. Genus: J*orosa$»*rotis Sm. 
Proboscis developed; the erect palpi are short, in front hairy, the conical projection of the Irons has 
a ,,ring-wall“ like edge above. The male antennae are pinnate or serrate, with tufts of cilia; anterior tibiae 
with very short spines. 
P. daedalus Sm. (5h). Greyish-white, between the darker veins striped yellowish and reddish-brown, daedalus. 
with quite extinct transverse lines; the long conical macula encircled with black, ring-macula and reniform 
macula confluent, with whitish rings and dark pupils; an antemarginal row of dark sagittae, and 2 veins marked 
white. Hindwing whitish, dusted with brown, fringes white. Colorado. 
P. dolli Grt. (5 h) is whitish, dusted with brown and strewn with black, with very small, white- dolli. 
marked maculae, and in the marginal area with dark sagittae on whitish specks. No transverse lines at all. 
Hindwing white, dusted with brownish, and with darker veins. Described from Arizona. 
P. longidens Sm. (5h). Brownish-ochreous, with darker veins; costal margin, folds, cells, and a stripe longidens. 
above the lower median vein dark brown. Ring-macula oblong, oblique, with a black continuation towards 
the base; the veins in the marginal area marked with yellowish sagittae. Hindwing white. Colorado, New 
Mexico. 
P. patula Wkr. (= septentrionalis Mschlr.) (5h) is brownish-grey with a slight purple reflection, with patula. 
single, dentate, blackish transverse lines and maculae, and blackish diffuse marginal sagittae. Hindwing some¬ 
what lighter brown. From Labrador and the Rockies, occurring also in Liberia (vid. Vol. Ill, p. 26, t. 5 g). 
P. milleri Grt. (5 i) is rather different; forewing light grey, strewn with black and striped pinkish- miUeri. 
yellowish on the folds, with a black basal ray, the black, dentate transverse lines close together, particularly 
at the proximal margin, between them with grey strewn maculae surrounded with black, the distal one of 
which is bordering on the postmedian line; undulate line black, irregularly dentate; fringes speckled. Hindwing 
dark brown with white fringes. From California (Sierra Nevada). 
P. orthogonia Morr. (5 h, i) has yellowish-white forewings strewn with a dark brown, with a white- orthogonia. 
marked median and inner-marginal vein in the cliscal area, whitish dentate transverse lines and subterminal 
line, behind the latter darkened. The maculae are encircled with whitish, marked black and pupilled brownish- 
grey. Hindwing white, with brown veins. United States to New Mexico and Arizona. — f. delorata Sm. from delorata. 
Canada (Alberta) is darker with a slight greenish tint and darkened hindwings. 
P. vetusta Wkr. (= muraenula Grt. <£• R.) (5 i) is a very light lilac-grey species scantily strewn vetusta. 
with brown; the proximal transverse line is only indistinctly double, the posterior one single, sharply dentate, 
with white dots on the veins; maculae small, marked black. Hindwing white with brown veins, costal margin 
and distal margin. Canada to Colorado. — f. catenuloides Sm. has a more yellowish-white ground-colour, from catenuloi- 
the Rocky Mountains and the Western States. 
P. gypaetina Gn. (= pseudoplectra Snell.) (5 i). Forewing blackish-brown with a yellowish-white gypaetina. 
costal-marginal streak as far as the posterior transverse line, the veins therein striped dark; the anterior trans¬ 
verse line double, tho posterior single, distally bordered with a lighter shade; coniform macula long, encircled 
with black, the two other maculae encircled with light in the black cell; in the marginal area black and 
ochreous-yellowish sagittae. Hindwing yellowish-white, towards the margin brownish, in the $ much darker. 
Uruguay and Argentina. 
P. brachystria Hmps. (5 i) is very much like gypaetina but much darker brown, dusted somewhat brachystria 
grey, and without the ochreous costal-marginal streak; the two upper maculae surrounded with black in the 
black cell; behind the reniform macula two black stripes to the dentate postmedian line which is double like 
the anterior transverse line. Hindwing light brown, in the disc whitish. Argentina. 
P. scortea Schs. (6 a). Forewing greyish-brown with grey and black strewn veins. Maculae ringed seoriea. 
and strewn with whitish; anterior transverse line only traceable, the fine posterior one dentate. Hindwing 
semi-diaphanous whitish, towards the margin brownish, with brown veins. Mexico (Orizaba). 
P. peruviana Hmps. has brown forewings mixed with yellowish-white, dark striped veins and folds, peruviana. 
and a black basal ray; the black transverse lines inclusive of a median line plain, undulately dentate, the large 3 
maculae encircled with black, the ring-macula distally prolonged; in the marginal area whitish sagittae proxi- 
mally bordered with black. Hindwing white with brownish veins. — f. hampsoni (= ab. 1 Hmps.) has a hampsoni. 
black streak connecting the coniform macula with the posterior transverse line, and darker brown hindwings. 
Expanse of wings: 32 mm. South East Peru (Agualani). 
P. propriens Dyar is loamy yellow, dusted with grey; ring-macula large, oblong, reniform macula propriens. 
encircled with light, pupilled dark, the cell before and between it black, behind it with a black stripe; the 
