LYCOPnOTIA. 



517 



siibbasal line strong, black, from costa to subraediao fold and angled 

 outwards below costa ; antemedial line brown, oblique, slightly 

 sinuous and strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular 

 very large, V-sbaped or semi- elliptical, open above, defined by black 

 below ; reniform large, incompletely defined by black, the cell 

 before and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line with two prominent dentate black marks below costa, 

 then indistinct, formed of pale aud brown scales, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale, almost 

 entirely suffused and irrorated with brown ; cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule 

 aud sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type f in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. Exp, 

 40 millim. 



898. Lycophotia lutescens. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis lutescens, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 591, pi. 14. f. 3 a, h (1844) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 

 Agrutis dilucida, Ev. Faun. Volg. Tr. p. 205 (1844), 

 Agrotis Iconina, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 182, 



Ochreous ; thorax tinged with rufous; abdomen white at base. 

 Fore wing irrorated with rufous ; the subbasal and antemedial lines 

 represented by obscure dark spots below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform small dark spots ; postmedial line minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards at discal fold ; a more or less prominent terminal series of 

 dark i)oints. Hiud wing white, suffused with ochreous brown on 

 terminal half. 



Hab. IlussiA, .Urals, 1 d",! $, Sarepta. £'.rp. 44 millim. 



*S99. Lycophotia romanovi. 



Agrotis romanavi, Christ. Roiu. M6in. ii. p. 37, pi. 2. f. 7 (1885) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lejj. pal. p. 148. 



$. Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow; abdomen ochreous, 

 white at base. Fore wing bright sulphur-yellow ; a diffused rufous 

 antemedial line, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; orbicular represented by a squall reddish-brown spot, the 

 reniform by a small lunule; postmedial line rufous, oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and at vein 4 ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a diffused series of dentate reddish-brown marks, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of red-brown points ; cilia rufous at tips. Hind wing ochreous 

 yellow, the costal area whitish ; the cilia pale yellow; the underside 

 yellowish white, witli the terminal area tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line nearer the reniform, 

 more diffused and almost straight. 



Hah. Armknia, Jura, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 44 millim. 



