LYCOPHOTIA. 551 



apical half. Hind wini;: somiliyaline white ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged and ii'rorated with brown, some black points on 

 apical part of costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, typef 6 in Coll. Schaus. E.cj^. '6^ 

 millim. 



*953, Lycophotia microstigma. (Plate LXXVLll. fig. A.) 



Lycophotia microstignia, Schaus, ined. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous ; tegula3 at tips and thorax mixed 

 with reddish brown and black ; palpi black except attijjs ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous, the vential surface paler with some black irrora- 

 tion. Fore wing grey, with a violaceous tinge and slight black 

 irroration ; the costal area ochreous white to beyond middle ; a 

 black streak in base of submedian fold expanding as a fascia to 

 median nervure before middle ; median nervare streaked with 

 ochreous white ; a black fascia in cell from middle to extremity 

 interrupted by the small, round, white orbicular stigma ; renitorm 

 small, with blackish centre and white annulus ; postmedial line 

 represented by a series of black points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then obli(|ne ; some fuscous suffusion 

 in terminal parts of discal and submedian folds ; subterminal line 

 represented hy a series of small indistinct dentate marks ; a terminal 

 series of small triangular black marks. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, with some dark points on termen ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black. 



Eah. Bkazil, Castro Paraiia, type cj" in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 80 

 millim. 



*954, Lycophotia interrupta. 



Agrotis mtvmipta, Mssn. Stiibel's Eeise, p. 144, pi. (i. f. 25 (1890). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Fore wing grey ; a black 

 fascia below base of cell ; the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete ; 

 the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata, which 

 arc small, rounded, with black centres and outlines ; subterminal 

 line only defined by a series of black points on its inner side and 

 more prominent mark at costa. Hind wing white, the termen 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hub. Ecuador, Guayaquil. Exp. 32 millim. This species is 

 unknown tome; ty])e in !JlIus. Pcidin, the structural characters 

 examined by Prof. Karsch. 



955. Lycophotia caiidelisequa. 



Noctua candelineqiia, Strliiil'. Wieii. Verz. \). 72(i77(i); Iliibii. Vog. & Scliiii. 

 pi. .")r) ; id. 8ainuil. Eur. Sclniiett., Noct,. f. li\)~ ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 72, 

 pi. 77. f. 2 ; Herr.-SL-luiir. Schmctt. J'^iir. ii. p. 3',j'2 ; Stand Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 143. 



Noctua sogitfifera, IHibn. Eur. Scliui(>tf., Noct f. .')32(b^27). 



Jgrotis rana, Ia'cI. Verb, /.ool.-bdt. (Jo?;. VVicii, lSii3, p. ot57. 



Head and thorax white tinged with ])ale brown ; palpi black, 

 white at tips ; patagia with some black scales on their upper edge ; 



