. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rOPvOSAGROXlS. 145 *254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 20.) Feltia loni/idois, Smith, Bull. :S'at. Miis. 38, p. 217 (1890); id. Cat,. Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 2 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous; tegular with line dark luedial line ; patagia with black liue near up-|ier edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; the veins with dark streaks; the costa, submeditni fold, cell, discal area, and a streak above vein 2 dark brown ; a blackish streak in submedian fold with
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rOPvOSAGROXlS. 145 *254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 20.) Feltia loni/idois, Smith, Bull. :S'at. Miis. 38, p. 217 (1890); id. Cat,. Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 2 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous; tegular with line dark luedial line ; patagia with black liue near up-|ier edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; the veins with dark streaks; the costa, submeditni 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 of dark striic; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with ochreous. Hab. , Colorado, Turkey Creek in Coll. J. B. Smith, Xew Mexico, Las Yegas. Exp. 36 millim. Porosagrotis vetusta. ^lytldmua vetusta, Wlk. ix. 78 (1856); Smith, Cat. Noct. X. Am. p. 85. Agrotis niiircBmila, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. 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.âI'ui'i!â â¢<(/(/ivlis ntus/f, cJ. \. "brown; palpi black at sides except at tips; abdomen white, irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing lilacine grey, irrorated with dark brown ; the subbasal line VOL. IV. L. Please note that these images
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