LYCOPHOXIA. 539 



irrorated with some black scales ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 browjj. Fore wing brownish grey ; the subbasal line double, waved 

 from costa to submedian fold and with some blackish marks be3-ond 

 it, most prominent below the cell ; the antemedial line double, 

 black, bent outwards below costa and angled outwards above inner 

 margin, where it becomes contluent with the double postmedial line, 

 which is minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 5, then 

 obliciue, below vein 2 slightly excurved, then running inwards to 

 join the antemedial line above inner margin ; stigmata with pale 

 streaks on brown centres and grey an null defined by black ; the 

 claviform very large ; the orbicular oblique, elliptical, the cell before 

 and between the stigmata filled in with brown and the base of 

 interspaces from vein 7 to below 2 filled in with brown ; the sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of ochreous dentate marks 

 with dentate black marks before them, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a tine waved terminal line and line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing w^hite, the veins tinged with brown ; 

 a fine terminal line and line through the cilia ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. SiBEKiA, Altai ; W. TuRKESTAif, f>ir-Darya, 1 (5 , 1 $ , 

 Saisan, Issyk-kul ; E. Tuekesxan, Hi. Exp. 42 milHm. 



937. Lycophotia elegans. 



Noetiui dcgans, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ISoT, p. 33 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 

 Hadena gmmmiptcra, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 119 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 



Suppl. iii. p. 450, pi. 40. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff'. Schmett. Eur. ii. pi. 1. 



ff. 3, 4. 

 yoctua canceilata, Frey. Neu. Beitr. Sclmiett. iv. pi. 303. f. 2 (1842). 



c5" . Head and thorax white mixed with brown and black ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except at tips ; teguhe blackish at base and with 

 black medial line ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen white. 

 Fore wing pale fuscous brown ; the veins streaked with white to 

 the postmedial line ; the subbasal line represented by oblique black 

 stria' from costa and median nervure, defined by white on outer side 

 and with some black suffusion between them and the antemedial 

 line, which is defined by white on each side, angled outwards above 

 and below subcostal nervure, then oblique, and above inner margin 

 very strongly angled outwards ; claviform large, pointed at extremity, 

 defined by white and black; orbicular and reniform with white 

 annuli defined by black, the former with brown centre, oblique, 

 elliptical, the latter with white centre defined by brown and angled 

 strongly inwards on median nervure, the area between them more 

 or less suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line defined by white 

 on outer side, minutely -waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; the subterminal line whitish, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, defined 

 on inner side by a blackish patch at costa, then by a series of 

 elongate wedge-shaped marks ; a fine terminal black line. Hind 

 wing white with diffused subterminal brownish band and fine 



