552 koctuidyE. 



tarsi banded with blnck ; abdomen white, slightly tinged M'ith pale 

 brown. Pore wing white, irrorated with broAvn and tinged with 

 jialc brown in cell, discal and snbniedian folds, and on terminal area ; 

 the veins slightlj- streaked with black ; a black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to below origin of vein 2 ; the subbasal line indistinct, 

 brownish, from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; 

 the antenicdial line indistinct, brownish, angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin and incurved between those points, a 

 black streak from it in cell to the subterminal line passing below the 

 stigmata, which are white defined by black and the brown suffusion 

 between them in cell ; the orbicular small, round or elongate elliptical ; 

 the iiostmcdial line diffused, brownish, ex curved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, detined by 

 the area beyond it being tinged with brown and with dentate black 

 marks on its inner side between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia greyish, inter- 

 sected with red-brow n. Hind wing pure white, the veins sometimes 

 l)rownish towards termen ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. rana. Paler ; fore w'ing without black fasciae or trans- 

 verse lines. — Persia; C. Asia. 



IJuh. Alps of France, Switzerland and N. Italy, Prey & Leech 

 ('oUs. ; Austria, Zellcr Coll. ; Hungary; A.kmknia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Issyk-kul ; 

 \V. (Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi. E;ci>. 44-40 inilUm. 



956. Lycophotia miiscosa. 



]\fet)taxi/a muscosa, Gejer, Saniuil. Exot. Scbiuuit. p. 10. 414, fT. 827, S28 



(1S37). 

 EKqraphc alhifruns, Gevcr, Saioiul. Exot. Scbiiiett. p. 17. -i'M, £f. SoO, 860 



(■1827). 

 Ayrofis rimosa, Giien. Noct. i. p. 277 (1852). 

 Agrotis igvicollis, Wlk. xi. 740 (1857). 

 Agrotis umatitra, Wlk. xv. 1700 ^1858). 

 Diphtera cionnhiia, Wlk. xxxii. ()I3 (1865). 

 Aijroiis carta, \\'lk. xxxii. (il)4 (18()5j. 



Diaiifhoecia (erwnicii. Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 15 ('1874). 

 Aijrofis decipieus, Eeld. Keis. Kov. pi. 110. f. 17 (1874). 



Head white and pale brown ; jialjii except at ti])s and antenn^i3 

 black ; teguliP. green at base, willi black medial line, rufous and 

 blackish at tips ; thorax rufous and blackish ; tarsi banded w ith 

 black ; aljdomen ochreous, dorsally suti'used with fuscous, and with 

 lateral, sublateral. and ventral series of small black spots. Fore 

 wing sap-green irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal black line 

 from costa to submedian fold, defined by white on outer side and 

 with two black spots before it; a white antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on median 

 nervure and vein ], the area between it and the subbasal line 

 sulfused with black except towards inner margin ; claviform repre- 

 sented by a black point ; orbicular and reniform whitish, irrorated 

 with green and detined by black, the former e]lii)tical, the latter 

 often with brownish centre, a black bar between them ; a dentate 



