5-18 NOCTUID.Ti;. 



ochreous with a brown line throui^li tliem. Hind wins: fuscous 

 brown, pnlcr towards base in male ; cilia ochreons white with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside paler, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subtermiual band. 



Jli(h. France, Pyrenees ; N. Spain Mts. ; Switzfrland, Valais, 

 Engadine, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Kussia, 

 Urals; Armenia; Syria, Leech Coll.: Pkrsia ; W. Turkestan; 

 Sibi:kia, Zeller Coll. ; Kamschatka, Exp. 84 miUim. 



947. Lycopliotia multifida. 



Aiirotismidtifida, Led. Ann. Sop. Ent. Belse, xiii. p. 40, ])1. ]. f. 10 C1870) ; 

 'Rebel, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 189U, p. 165, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Slaud. C:it. 

 Lep. pal. p. lol. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown; teguhc whitish, 

 with black patch at tips; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 pale reddish brown, irrorated and in places suffused with black ; 

 the veins streaked with white ; a sinuous black streak l)eL)w base 

 of cell : subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line obsolete from costa to median neryure, then double, 

 angled outwards below cell and very strongly to join the post- 

 medial line at inner margin : clayiform sliglitlv defined by black at 

 extremity ; the cell tilled in with black ; orbicular and reniform 

 Avhitish defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the former 

 oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, and ycry oblicjue 

 below vein 4 to join the antemedial line at inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by a series of dentate black marks on its 

 inner side interrupted between veins 7 and 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and margins tinged with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, some postmedial dark points on 

 the veins. 



Hah. Atjstkia, Tyrol, 1 $ : Hungary ; Armenia, in CoU. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 34-36 millim. 



948. Lycophotia degeniata. 



Agrotis degeniata, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xii. p. 244, pi. 6. f 18 



(ISTC)) ; id. llom. Mem. ii. pi. xii. f. 4; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 13(). 

 Agrotis dejunda. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 243, pi. 4. 1'. S (IS'JG). 

 Agrotis per dca. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 243 (1896). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi blackish at sides except 

 at tips ; vertex of head with black spot ; tegula3 Avith black lines near 

 base and extremity ; patagia with black patches ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with fuscous ; the subbasal 

 line represented by black stria) from costa ; a black streak in sub- 

 median fold to the antemedial line, which is double, dentate, and 

 rather indistinct ; claviform slightly outlined with black and with a 



