516 NcciriD^. 



blackish, defining the orbicular and reniform, which have rather 

 obscure grey annuli, the former produced on outer side ; the sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of greyish points with dentate 

 black marks on their inner side between vein 6 and submedian fold ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused and 

 irrorated with fuscous brown ; the cilia white ; the underside paler, 

 with terminal series of dark points. 



Hah. N. Zealand {Eni/s), 1 d . E.vp. 3G millim. 



896. Lycophotia molothina. 



Koctua woloiliina, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 85. f. 1 (1789); Stand. Cat. Lrp. 



pal. p. \'6b. 

 Jffro/in velum, Germ. Fmme Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 13(1812); llerr.-S'cliiiff. 



Sclnuett. Eur ii. pi. (i. f. 30. 

 Chertiufis erica, Boisd. Iiul. Metli. p. 104 (1840). 

 Ayrotis occidentalis, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1800, p. 665, pi. 12. ff. 6, 7. 



S. Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed Avith grey; 

 antennsB with the basal joint white in front ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous brown. Fore Aving 

 black-brown slightly irrorated with grey and sometimes tinged with 

 rufous ; a grey patch on basal costal area extending to just below 

 cell ; a black streak above base of vein 1 confluent with the elongate 

 black-defined claviform stigma ; the antemedial line grey, waved, 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined by black, 

 the former somewhat irregular, elliptical, the latter sometimes angled 

 inwards on median nervure, a black fascia before and between them 

 in lower part of cell : the postniedial line indistinct, minutely den- 

 tate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and oblique ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, grey, defined by a series of dentate blackish marks on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at 

 veins 4, 3, and 1 ; some pale points on costa towards apex, a ter- 

 minal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown, the last narrowing 

 to tornus ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with fuscous. 



5 . Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown. 



Ab. 1. occidenUdis. Darker, blackish. 



Hub. Fkance, Sand & Frey Colls. ; Eeigiitm, Zeller Coll. ; Gek- 

 MANY : AusTKiA ; HuKGARY ; EissiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll. Ex^). 

 40 millim. 



*897. Lycophotia perigrapha. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis ■pcrkjraplia, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 290, pi. 8. f. 10 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 135. 



Head and thorax grey, the scales tipped with dark brown, the 

 thoracic crests blacki.sh at tips ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with 

 dark brown. Fore wing lilacine grey thickly irrorated with brown ; 



