. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 142 NOOTTTID^, 249. Porosagrotis orthogonia. Agrotis orthogonia, Moi-r. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 239 (1876) Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 87. S. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown; antennae brown ; tarsi with dark bauds ; abdomen white, slightly tinged with brown on dorsum towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with dark brown ; a whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line whitish defined by dark scales, angled outwards below costa and acutely above in
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 142 NOOTTTID^, 249. Porosagrotis orthogonia. Agrotis orthogonia, Moi-r. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 239 (1876) Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 87. S. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown; antennae brown ; tarsi with dark bauds ; abdomen white, slightly tinged with brown on dorsum towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with dark brown ; a whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line whitish defined by dark scales, angled outwards below costa and acutely above inner. Fig. .53.âPorosagrotis orthogo7iia, (^. \, margin ; claviform distinct, with black outline, and rather small; the orbicular and reniform with greyish fuscous centres, whitish annuli, and black outline, the former round, the latter large; the postmedial line whitish, defined by a minutely dentate black line on its inner side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; the subterminal line whitish, dentate, with longer teeth at veins 7, 4, 3, and with the area beyond it darker; a terminal series of black points; cilia pale, with dark lines through them. Hind wing white, the veins brown ; the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 5 . Fore wing with the terraen paler; hind wing with the ter- minal area sufi'used with brown. Hah. , Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, Denver {Bruce), 1 S, 1 $ , ISTew Mexico, Arizona. Exj). 36 millim. 250. Porosagrotis siccata. (Plate LIX, fig. 23.) Carneades siccata. Smith, Ent. News Philad. iv. p. 99, pi. vi. f. 1 (1893). (S. Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with brown, and with a few black scales ; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey, slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by dark points on costa and below cell, the antemedial line by a dark point on costa and indistinct line from cell to inner margin, angled outwards in submedian fold, then obli(|ue ; orbicular and
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