534 NOCTUIDiE. 



antemedial line oblique, double, waved, tilled in witb whitish ; the 

 claviform grey, defined by black, large, conical; the orbicular and 

 reniform large, grey defined by black and with some fuscous suffusion 

 at middle, the former oblit]ue, elliptical, open above, the area before, 

 between, and below the stigmata suffused with dark brown ; the 

 postmedial line double, dentate, filled in with white, bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to vein 5 where it is angled, then inwardly 

 oblique ; the subterminal line formed by a series of dentate whitish 

 and black marks, angled outwards at vein 7, the dentate marks 

 above veins 5 and 4 almost reaching the postmedial line, excurved 

 between veins 4 and 2, and incurved in submediau interspace : a 

 terminal series of small black luuules ; cilia brownish. Hind wing 

 brown, the cilia white ; the underside grey irrorated with brown 

 especially on terminal area ; a large discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. implicata. Smaller, duller grey with the markings in- 

 distinct. — Greenland, Finland. 



Ab. 2. passeti. The ground-colour almost black. — Scotland. 

 Hartz Mts. 



Hab. Greenland; Canada, Orilla (Bush), 1 cS , Br. Columbia; 

 r.S.A., X. & E. States, 1 d , Massachusetts, New York, Illinois 

 Colorado ; Etjrope, Central and Southern : Germany, Zeller & Frey 

 Colls., 3 c? , 4 2 ; Russia, Finland, 1 d , St. Petersburg, 1 d , 1 $ ; 

 Northern Asia ; Central Asia ; Amtjrland, Ussuri ; Corea, 

 Gensan {Leech), 1 6 • I^^P- (JO-66 millim. 



Larva. Meyi-. Brit. Lej). p. 97 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 108, pi. 150. f. 1. 



Brown with darker irroration ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale 

 yellowish, the latter including a series of oblique dark marks : 

 spiracular lines whitish, the dots pale yellowish ; head Itrown. 

 Food-plants : Primula, Taraxacum, etc. 9-5. 



*929. Lycophotia praefixa. 



Agrotis prcefixa , Morr. Proc. Bost. See. N. H. xviii. p. 117 (1875); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. 



2 . Ash-grey sparsely irrorated with black. Fore wing with 

 the markings fuscous or black ; a small dark basal patch ; the sub- 

 basal line double ; the antemedial line oblique, sinuous ; claviform 

 strongly defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, concolorous 

 or pale, the former rather oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter 

 erect, narrow, with an unusually straight inner edge: the cell 

 between the stigmata dusky ; a faint, rather narrow medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, then crenulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 pale, defined on inner side by a broad dark shade and on outer side 

 by a slight shade not reaching costa or inner margin ; a lunulate 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing pale fuscous, darker towards 

 termen ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Rocky Mts. Exp. 42 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



