540 



NOCTUID^. 



terminal line ; the underside with rather indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



_ 2 . Hind wing with the terminal half, or almost entirely, suffused 

 with brown. 



Hah. FRA]srcE, Sand Coll. ; N. Spao ; Greece, Mts. ; S. Kussia, 

 Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus : 

 Syria, Leech Coll. ; Persia ; W. Siberia, Zeller Coll., Altai : W. 

 TuRKEsxAN, Issyk-kul. Exj). 38-40 millim. 



938. Lycophotia larixia. 



Agrotis larixia, Guen. Xoct. i. p. 310 (1852); Hen-.-SchJiff. Neue Sehmett. 

 f. 125 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; teguUr' with 

 black medial line and white tips ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, 

 the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wing pale brown : the veins 

 streaked with white to the postmedial line ; the subbnsal line repre- 

 sented by oblique black stria3 from eosta and median nervure, defined 

 by white on outer side and the latter with diffused black streak 

 beyond it : the antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, 

 somewhat oblique and very strongly angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviforra large, defined by whitish and black : orbicular 

 and reniform wliitish defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, 

 the cell before and between them slightly suffused with black: an 

 indistinct diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin : the postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined on 

 inner side by a series of dentate black marks ; cilia pale, with a 

 blaek_ line through them. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous ; 

 the cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the underside white 

 irrorated with fuscous, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Alps of S. France and N. Italy, 2 c? ; Armenia ; Persia ; 

 ^Y. Turkestan, Mts. E.vjy. 42 millim. 



*939. Lycophotia grandipennis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 20.) 



Agrotisgrandipenuis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) si. p. 54 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 



6. Grey tinged with purplish red- brown ; abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing with the veins slightly streaked with black; a dark 

 streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 dentate, strongly above inner margin ; the other lines obsolete or 

 only marked at costa ; orbicular small, round, pale with a dark 

 point at centre; reniform small, ill-defined, pale with red-brown 

 centre ; a slight dark streak between and beyond the stigmata ; 

 a distinct terminal series of black marks. Hind wing white slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, the veins darker; the underside whitish,\vith 

 darker discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew Mexico. Exp. 45-52 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts & Sci. 



