THE MOTHS OF INDIA, 



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whitish, sometimes with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Kuijar, Barra Larcha. Exp. ?A — 42 mill. 



Genus Lycophotia. Type. 



Lycopliotia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 215 (1827) porphyria. 



Hapalia, Hixbn. Verz., p. 220(1827) pracox. 



Peridroma, Hiibn. Verz., p. 227 (1827) margaritosa. 



Scotophila, Steph. 111., Brit. Ent. Haust III, p. 18 (1829) ... porphyria. 



Actehia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, III, p. 20 (1829) pracox. 



Tlarus, Boisd. Ind. Moth., p. 76 (1829) porphyria. 



Neuria, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. X., p. 241 (1841) non descr. elegans. 



Phlebosis, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 164 petersi. 



Setaqrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 59 (1894) planifrom. 



Hynernaznia, Hmpsn. Moths. Ind. II, p. 194 (1894) denticulata. 



Praina, Schaus, J. N. Y., Ent. Soc. VI, p. 114 (1893) radiata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled and 

 with pointed tuft of hair at extremity, the 3rd joint somewhat porrect ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; thorax typically with divided ridge-like dorsal 

 crest ; tibia? spined ; abdomen cylindrical, dorsally clothed with rough hair at 

 base. Forewing usually narrow and elongate, the teimen obliquely curved ; 

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

 osing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3-4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



1629. Lycophotia sichima. 



Lycophotia sichima. $ \. 

 Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. (Peridroma?) Pro-and metathorax with divided crests. 

 1665. Lycophatia denticulata. 



B. (Hapalia. \ Pro-and metathorax with slight spreading crests. 



a. Hindwing white, the terminal area suffused with 



brown conformis. 



b. Hindwing wholly tinged with brown photophila. 



Lycophotia confokmis. 



Lycophotia photophila, Guen, Noct 1, p. 45 (1852). 



Agrotis sollers, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 179. Christ Hor. Ent. 



Soc. Koss xii., pi, 6, f. 19. 



1632. 

 1630. 



