. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. POEOSAGROXIS. 145 *254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 26.) Feltia longidens, Smith, Bull. 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 f


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. POEOSAGROXIS. 145 *254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 26.) Feltia longidens, Smith, Bull. 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. 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 VOL. IV. L. Please note that these images are extracted from


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