530 NOCTUID^. 



distinct costal sjiot, then traceable and dentate below costa and 

 in cell, obsolete to vein 1, then excurved ; claviform obsolete; 

 orbicular defined by black, elongate and connected with reniform 

 by a short spur ; the reniform incomplete, ill-defined ; postmedial 

 line single, indistinct, produced to slight points on the veins, bent 

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

 terminal line pale, ill-defined, interrupted ; the terminal area tinged 

 with rufous ; a terminal series of dusky lunules. Hind wing 

 glistening whitish ; the veins tinged with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 discoidal luuule ; the underside whitish with dark irroration, a 

 postmedial line on costal area only. 



i/rt?>. U.S.A., Oregon, ^liy^. 33 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*922. Lycophotia quebecensis. (riate LXXIV. fig. 9.) 

 Setagrotis quebecensis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 417 (1900). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale dirty fuscous grey. Fore 

 wing pale dirty fuscous grey with darker irroration, the markings 

 very indistinct ; subbasal line only indicated below costa and 

 median nervure ; antemedial line nearly erect, single, slightly 

 excurved in interspaces ; orbicular elliptical longitudinally, rather 

 paler than ground-colour ; reniform large, Avith fuscous centre 

 defined by a slight grey annulus ; faint traces of a medial .shade ; 

 postmedial line single, crenulate and produced to points on the veins, 

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

 subterminal line represented by white irroration diffused outwardly. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous, with a .slight ochreous tinge at base; cilia 

 white : the underside grey with darker irroration, a prominent 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Quebec. -Ei;/). 33millim. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Xat. Mus. 



*923. Lycophotia elata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 10.) 

 Setagrotis data, Smith, J. N. York Ent. Soc. tI. p. 106 (1898). 



Yellowish to bluish ash-grey. Fore wing with the markings 

 indistinct and faintly traceable ; the subbasal line represented by 

 double striae on costa ; the ante- and postmedial lines with double 

 striae on costa, then hardly traceable, the former slightlj- excurved 

 in interspaces, the latter even, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved : claviform represented by a few black 

 scales ; orbicular moderate, round, with slight yellowish annulus 

 ncompletely defined by a few black scales ; reniform with slight 

 yellowish annulus incompletely defined by black scales, its lower 

 part filled in with fuscous ; subterminal line whitish, irregular, 

 interrupted, defined on inner .side by a blackish shade, the area 

 beyond it somewhat darker. Hind wing white, with slight dark 

 discoidal luuule the termen tinged with fuscous, in female more 



