526 NOCTUTDJE. 



tinged with fuscous ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown. 



5 . Browner ; hind wing fuscous, the cilia white with dark line 

 at base. 



Hah. Mexico, Teapa {H. H. Smith), 1 J type cdtes, Mexico 

 City (Roer/e), 2 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. £'.iy, 36 millini. 



914. Lycopliotia flavina. 



J,/ro/isflavma, Hei-r.-SchafF. Eur. Schmett., Noct. vi. p. 50, f. 593 (1856); 

 "stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 



(S . Head and thorax pale yellow, the vertex of head and tips of 

 tcgulaj and patagia with a few black scales ; abdomen white tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale yellow, irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; traces of an anteinedial line with a few black scales 

 on it, angled outwards in subraedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 faint traces of orbicular and reuiform stigmata ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, sliglitly bent outwards below costi, excurved to 

 vein 4, tlien incurved ; faint traces of a subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hub. E. lluMELi.-v; Armenia ; Asia Minor; Syria, Mardin, 1 J ; 

 Persia, Mesopotamia ; Kurdistan, Ea-j^ 'S6 millim. 



915. Lycophotia ocliriiia. (Plate LXXIV, fig. 7.) 



Aifrotis ockriiia, Staud. Iris, x. p. 274, pi. 9. f. 13 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 148. 



J . Head and thorax white and pale yellow ; palpi, pectus, and 

 legs white ; abdomen ochreous white. Pore wing uniform pale 

 yellow. Hind wing pale ochreous, the cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing pale ochreous with the costal area wliite ; hind wing 

 white. 



Another specimen is more ochreous in tone, the lines of fore wing 

 all traceable, the claviform, orbicular and reniform im2)erfectly 

 defined with brown. 



Hub. Syria, 2 J , Leech Coll. Ed'j). 38 millim. 



*916. Lycopliotia cermesiiia. 



Koctua hcrme&ina, Mab. Aim. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1869, p. 55, pi. 2. f. 10 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. 



(5 , Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi fuscous, white at tips ; 

 abdomen ochreous white tinged with fuscous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous ; the subbasal, antemcdial, and postmedial lines with small 

 prominent black spots on costa, the first otherwise obsolete, the 

 second very indistinct, oblique, waved ; the last reduced to a series 

 of slight points, bent outwards below costa, slightly^ incurved at 

 discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; a slight medial shade ; 



