LYCOPHOTIA. 5-17 



anglod outwards below costa, then obliciue and strongly angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; clavlforni elongate, defined by 

 whitish and black ; orbicular and reniform whitish with brown 

 centres, the former obli(iue, elliptical, or small and round, the latter 

 strongly angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and 

 between them black ; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer 

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

 and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; the subterminal line 

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

 defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia with blackish line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through 

 them ; the underside with the costal area greyish, an ill-defined 

 curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. transieas. Paler and intermediate to alj^cstris, of which it 

 may be a variety. — C. Asia. 



Ifah. France, Pyrenees ; Switzerland, Valais, Engadine, Ortler, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Ausiria, Tyrol, Gr. Glockner ; Hungary, 

 Leech Coll. ; Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Russia, St. Petersburg ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, Ala Tan, 

 Tarbagatai; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan ^fts. ; Mongolia, Uliassntai, 

 Changai Mts. ; Tibet, Amdo. Exj^. 30-34 millim. 



946. Lycophotia alpestris. 



Noctua oeell'uia. Hiibn. Sflimett. Eur., Noct, t. 5'J9 (nee SchilT.). 

 Cliersofis alpesfris, Boisd. lu. Lep. Eur. pi. 7(3. tf'. 4, 5 (18o:i) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. Siippl. iii. p. 45i, pi. 40; Herr.-Sjhaff.^ SchiasLb. Eur. ii. pi. 1. 



ff. 5, () ; St.iud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 



Head and thorax reddish brown to fuscous brown mixed with 

 grey ; teguhe with black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous or greyish irrorated with dark brown. Fore 

 wing grey-brown ; the veins with pale streaks to the postmedial 

 line ; the subbasal line represented by oblique black striai from 

 costa and median nervure, defined by whitish on outer side and 

 with slight black streak beyond it in submedian fold ; the ante- 

 medial line double, filled in with greyish, the outer line strong, 

 blackish, slightly angled outwards below costa and in cell and 

 more strongly above inner margin ; the claviform elongate, defined 

 by whitish and black ; the orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 centres defined by brown and whitish annuli defined by black, 

 the former oblique, elliptical, the latter more or less strongly 

 angled inwards on median nervure, the cell between thom slightly 

 suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line defined by greyish on 

 outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, the area 

 beyond it with greyish dentate niai'ks defining the dark veins and 

 interdigitating with the series of dentate black marks before the 

 indistinct greyish subterminal line, which is angled outwards at 

 vein 7, slightly excurved and somewhat dentate at middle ; cilia 



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