LYCOPHOTIA. 



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920. Lycophotia scandens. 



Jgrotis scandens, Eiley, 1st Rep. Ins. Mo. p. 76, pi. i. ff. 5, 7 (1869) ; 

 Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. iii. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 4 ; Sauud. Fruit 



Insects, p. 107, 

 pp. 567, 569, pi. 



f. 105; Slingerlancl, Bull. Cornell Exp. Stat. xcui. 

 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 93. 



S 

 palpi 

 Fore 



Pale grey, often more or less suffused with pink or yellow ; 



and legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. 



wing with slight blackish irroration ; two subbasal black 

 specks on costa and traces of a double waved subbasal line : two 

 antemedial specks on costa and an indistinct double, waved, ante- 

 medial line ; the claviform represented by a few dark scales ; the 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, outlined by some orange or pink 

 and black scales, the former round, the latter with dark spot on its 

 lower edge ; two dark postmedial points on costa, the postmedial 



Fig. 91. — Lycophutia scandens, S- t- 



line represented by a series of points bent outwards below costa, 

 then obliquely curved ; two white points on costa before the 

 subterminal line, which consists of a series of small white lunules 

 with some orange or pink and black scales on their edges ; cilia pale 

 rufous. Hind wing white, with the veins and terminal area tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with small discoidal lunule and post- 

 medial series of points. 



Hah. U.S.A., N. & E. States, 2 S, Grote & Zeller Colls., 

 Illinois, Chicago, 1 (S ; Colorado. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. i. p. 78 (1869). 



Head pale brown with brown bands. Body pale, mottled in 

 darker, somewhat greenish from the food. Dorsal, subdorsal, 

 lateral, and stigraatal lines obscure, irregularly clouded, the dorsal 

 line sometimes narrowly white. Cervical shield brown, with a 

 black spot on each side. Tubercles blackish dorsally. A general 

 feeder.— H. Gf. D. 



*921. Lycophotia congrua. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis congrua. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 43 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 65. 



J . Ashen grey ; palpi dark at sides; tegulse with a narrow dark 

 medial line edged with white scales above, reddish at tips. Fore 

 wing with somewhat ferruginous shade trom base through the cell 

 and postmedial area ; the veins with slight dark streaks ; the sub- 

 basal line marked on costa only ; the antemedial line single with a 



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