554 NOCTUID^. 



with fuscous ; the costal and terminal areas sufTuscd with fuscous ; 

 a double, waved antcmedial line ; clavifonn represented bj' a black 

 point ; orbicular and roniform defined by black, the former somewhat 

 quadrate, the latter constricted at middle, the cell between them 

 deep black ; a sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmediiil line do\ible, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashunaland, Salisbury {MarshaU), 1 $ type. ExjK 30 

 millim. 



959. Lycophotia orthogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 30.) 



(S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous. irroratcd with a few 

 black scales ; [)ali)i black except at tips ; a black bar above frons ; 

 teguUc with black basal band ; tarsi blackish ; abdomen dark brown, 

 tlie ventral surface whitish irrorated with black and with sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, 

 the termcn excurved below mi(]dle; whitish, thickly striated with 

 olive-brown ; the costal area suffused with olive-brown ; a subbasal 

 white line defined on each side by brown from costa to submediau 

 fold; an oblique antemedial white line slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and strongl}- on outer ; orbicvdar and reniform with 

 white an null defined by rufous, the foimer elliptical, inwardly 

 oblique, the latter narrow with a black spot in its lower part ; the 

 jiostmedial line white, slightly defined by brown on inner side and 

 strongly on outer, iuAvardly oblique from costa to vein G, then erect ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia white at base, rufous at 

 tips. Hind wing hyaline white, the costal and inner areas tinged 

 with ochreous ; the termcn irrorated with black and with terminal 

 scries of black points ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, some postmedial 

 points on the veins towards costa, and a terminal scries. 



JJab. liRAZiL, Petropolis (Ducr), 1 J type. Exj^.. 40 millim. 



960. Lycophotia ignicans. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 31.) 



Ai/ro/is ignicans, Guen. Nuct. i. p. 274 (1852); Drucc, Eiol. Ceulr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 284. 

 Agrutis prodenoides, Wlk. x. 354 (1856). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous, often slightly tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with a few dark scales ; palpi black-brown and rufous, 

 pale at tips ; basal half of tegulae black ; fore cox;e and the tibiiu 

 often tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with rufous or 

 fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated and 

 striated with black, especially on inner half, the terminal area only 

 or wholly tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by slight 

 striae below costa and cell, the antemedial line by a black point 

 on costa ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; the reniform repre- 

 sented by a black point at upper angle of cell and two at lower angle 

 on a rufous mark ; the postmedial line reduced to a series of black 

 points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, then curved ; 



