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NOCTUID^. 



910. Lycophotia ononensis. 



Agrotis ononensis, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 9 (1864) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Agrotis scammangw, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xyii. p. 47,pl. 2. f. 44 (1882). 



Head, tegulas, and front of thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; 

 thorax pale red-brown or greyish ; legs dark brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous brownish, dark brown below. Pore wing grey with a 

 pinkish tinge, irrorated with brown, and the interspaces obscurely 

 streaked with brown, the veins with fine dark streaks outlined 

 with grey ; a black streak in submedian fold to near middle ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, grey defined by black, the former 

 oblique, the cell before and between them black, the reniform with 

 short blackish streaks beyond it; the subterminal line represented 

 by a series of dentate black marks angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker intersected by 

 the grey streaks defining veins 3, 4, 6, 7 ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous ; tlie cilia ochreous ; the underside 

 l)ale irrorated with brown. 



Hah. E. TuRKESTA?f, Hi, Korla ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 J , 

 1^ 2 , Urga ; _ Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, Kamschatka, Amurland. 

 Exp. 40 milHm. 



911. Lycophotia mendosica, n. sp. (riate LXXIV. fig. 6.) 



J . Head and thorax grey, mixed with pale brown and fuscous ; 

 tegulaj with black medial band; abdomen grey -brown. Fore wing 

 brownish grey, irrorated with black and reddish brown ; a short 

 oblique dark subbasal fascia from cell to vein 1, followed by a fine 

 streak in submedian fold diffused to vein 1 on medial area ; 

 orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former small, 

 ronnd, the cell before and between them black-brown; some brown 

 suffusion beyond and below end of cell ; the veins slightly streaked 

 with brown ; a brown mark on costa before apex and a terminal 

 series of small dentate blackish marks. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; ciha white ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot. 



Hub. Akgenxina, Andes, Aconcagua {Fitzgerald), 1 6 type. 

 Ex^. 30 millim. 



912. Lycophotia porphyrea. 



Noctua porphyrea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776); Hiibn. Samnil. Eur. 



Schniett., Noct. ff. 93, 473 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 440, pi. 100. f. 4 ; 



Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 19. 

 Noctua concinna, Esp. Schiuett. iv. pi. 152. f. 1 (1786). 

 Noctua stricjula, Tbunb. Mus. Kat. (Doin. iv.) p. 72 (1788) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 135. 



Nucfuapkta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 91 (1793). 



Noctua erica, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 224 (1809). 



Agrotis marmorea, Grasl. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1863, p. 312, pi. 8. f. 9. 



Agrotis siiffusa, Tutt. Brit. jVoct. ii. p. 90 (1891). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with white ; tegulse with 



