LrcopnoTiA, 527 



clavlforui aud orbicular obsolete ; renifonn represented by a fuscous 

 spot at lower angle of cell ; subterminal line indistinct, blackish, 

 somewhat punctiform, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight points. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and terminal area tinged with brownish ochreous ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with pale browii, traces of a 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line, a tine terminal line. 



Hab. .Si'Aix, Andalusia ; Corsica, type t J in *^'j11- Mabille. 

 Exj}. 36 millim. 



*917. Lycophotia petersi. 



Fhlchocis pctcrai, Clu-ist. Stett. eot. Zcit. 18S7, p. 164; id. Rom. Mem. t. 

 p. 28, pi. 2. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow, more or less strongly mixed 

 with dark brown scales ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. 

 Eore wing ochreous j'ellow, irrorated with dark brown scales ; the 

 veins streaked with white ; an obscure dark brown autemedial line 

 strongly angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; an obscure 

 discoidal lunule ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; a dentate subterminal line slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and 4 ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia whitish. Hind 

 wing white, very slightly tinged with ochreous on terminal area. 



Hah. W. TuKKEsxAx, Tekko, Askabad in Coll. Elwes. Exp., 

 S 36, 2 32 millim. 



918. Lycophotia ripse. 



Noctua rlpm, Hiibu Samml. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. fF. 702-3 (1827); Boisd. 



Icon. Ijep. Eur. pi. 7.5. f. 6 ; Snell. Tijds. v. Eut. viii. p. 70, pi. 2. f. 5 ; 



Si aud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 

 Noctua wisscnbornii, Frr. Beitr. v. p. 130, pi. 466. f. 3 (1828). 

 Agrotisnehulosa,%lQ\^\i.l\\. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 127, pi. 22. f. 1 (1829). 

 Agrotis dcsilll, Pierr. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. viii. p. 95, pi. 8. f. 2 (1839). 

 Agrofis desoioriim, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. Ill (1840). 

 Agrotis deserticolu, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 544, pi. 5. f. 2 (1842) ; Ilerr.- 



SchiifF. Schmett. Eur. ii. Noct. f. 492. 

 Agrotis instriicfa, AVlk. x. 3.52 (1856). 

 Agrotis ohotritica, Schmidt, Stelt. e. Zeit. 1858, p. 377. 

 Agrotis alexandreiisis, Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 37, pi. 1 . f. 5. 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with white and a 

 few black scales ; the lower part of frons white ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen ochreotis white. Fore wing i)ale red-brown, 

 irrorated sparsely with black ; the veins streaked with white ; 

 blackish streaks on base of costa and below cell ; a waved Avhitish 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, ante- 

 medial line angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner 

 margin ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, with blackish centres and whitish annuli defined by black ; 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



