LYCOPHOXXA , 541 



. 940. Lycophotia riidens. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 21.) 



Aijrotis nidcm, Harr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1874) ; Sinith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Alu. p. 69. 



S • Head pale yellow or orauge-j-ellow ; palpi black-brown, 

 whitish at tips ; tegula3 pale yellow at base, then with black medial 

 band, the tips grey pencilled with brown ; thorax grey pencilled 

 with brown and often tinged with purple-red ; legs banded with 

 black ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the anal tuft 

 tinged A^^ith ochreous. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area tinged with red on outer half of wing ; a black 

 streak below the cell from near base to near middle, downcurved 

 towards base ; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines, the 

 former ending at vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform small, grey with 

 slight fuscous centres, defined by black and with black fascia above 

 median uervure from before the orbicular to the reniform ; a post- 

 medial series of black points ; the subterminal line defined by the 

 area beyond it being brown except at apex, where there is a grey 

 patch, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, and 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind Aving semihyaline white, the veins, costa, and 

 termen slightly tinged with brown ; the cilia white, with a brown 

 line at base ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown ; a terminal series of black points on costal half of wing. 



$ . Head and base of tegula^ whitish instead of yellow. 



Huh. U.S.A., Texas, 2 J , 1 $ , type. Eajj. 38-40 millim. 



941. Lycophotia tamerlaiia. (Plate LXXIY. fig. 22.) 

 Agrotis tamerlaiia, Bang-Haas, ined. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; palpi blackish 

 except at tips ; abdomen white slightly tinged Avith ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey-white sparsely irrorated with black ; a slight 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, slightly sinuous, oblique towards costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, the former oblique and confluent with 

 the latter at lower extremity, both open above and below and with 

 slightly defined pale annuli, an L-shaped black-brown patch in cell 

 before the former and a triangular patch between them : postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, with a black point at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; the 

 subterminal line formed by a series of fuscous lunuies, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal scries of 

 small black lunuies and a line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. W. TuKKKsxAN, Sir-Darya, 1 d", 1 ? • ^^p- ■^- millim. 



942. Lycophotia chaldaica. 



Noctua chaldaica, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Metb. p. 140 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii.p.481, 1)1.41. f . .5 ; Frey. Neu. Beitr. Schiiielt. iv. pi. 304. f. 1 ; 

 Hi'ri-.-Schal}'. Eur. Schuiett., Noct. f. 110; tjtaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. IG'J. 



Agrutis spodia, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 280 (1899). 



