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and with some black sufFusion below it ; orbicular oblique elliptical, 

 with (ibliijuc black striga from costa above it ; reniform narrow, 

 creamy white, with the centre defined by red-brown ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line with the area beyond it suffused with black; the 



Fig. 88. — Ni/ssocnc7His ohcsa, c5'. {. 



postracdial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, cxcurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved; the subterrainal line ochroou^, with 

 black suffusion ou its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurvcd at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the terminal area fuscous brown, broadly so at 

 costa, narrowing to a ])oint at fornus ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated and suffused with brown, a slight discoidal striga 

 and indistinct postmedial line. 



Jfab. S. llrssiA ; W. Sjbekia, Altai, 2 $ ; E. Sibeuia, 4^,3?, 

 Zeller Coll., Amurland, 2 d . Exp. 40-4G millim. 



Genus LYCOPHOTIA. 



Type. 



Lycophotia, Iliibn. Verz. p. 215 (1827)... jjorpliyria. 



Hapalia, llxiUn.Yevz. p. 22U (1827) jirrpcox. 



Pcridroma, Ihibn. Verz. p. 227 (18J7) margarifom.. 



&otophila, Steph. 111. 13rit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 18 (1829) porphyria. 



Actchia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 20 (1829) 2'f<ecox. 



liar us, Boisd. lud. Metli. p. 76 (1829) porphyria. 



Keuria, Giien. Aim. Soi-. Ent. Fr. x. p. 2-11 (1841), nou descr.... elrquns. 



Phlehoeis, Ciirist. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 1G4 jjefersi. 



iSetagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 59 (1894) planifrovs. 



Hypernania, Ilnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 194 (1894) dotticulata. 



I'raina, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 114 (1S98) rudiaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iicl joint broadly sealed and 

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

 smooth; eyes hirge, round; thorax clothed with hairs and scales and wilh 

 divided ridge-like or .spreading dorsal crest ; tibicC spined ; abdomen cylin- 

 drical, dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing nan-ow, elongate, 

 the ternien obliquely curved; ^eins^aud 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 iVom 

 upjier angle; 9 Irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. (Pra/w«). Antenna of male bipcctinate to aj;ex with moderate branches. 



*8y4. Lycophotia radiata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 25.) 



Traina radiata, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 114 (1898). 

 Lycophotia airistriata, Druce, A. M. N. Ii. (7) xi. p. 199 (1903). 



Head and thorax deep black ; base of shaft of antenna) and 



