558 NOCTUID^. 



wing scmihyalino white ; tlie underside with slight discoidal poiut, 

 and the costal area irrorated with brown. 



5 . Hind wiuiJ' irrorated with brown, especially towards termcn. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing very much browner, the latter 

 without the black patches on costal area, which is sometimes sliglitly 

 tinged with ferruginous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous brown, 

 becoming whitish towards base ; the cilia white. 



IJab. CniLE, Valparaiso {Edmonds), 1 c? > ^ $ • Exp. 34 millim. 



966. Lycophotia minna. (Plate LXXV. fig. 5.) 



Cerastis minna, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1S82, p. 134. 



Orthoda mollis, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philoni. (7) ix. p. 02 (1885); id. Miss. 

 Sci. Cap Horn, tI. Ltip. p. 18, pi. 1. f. 7. 



S . Head greyish mixed with pale rufous ; palpi fringed with 

 blackish in front ; thorax ochreous tinged with pale rufous, the 

 tegulaj with the basal half black ; abdomen pale brownish irrorated 

 witli fuscous, and with some white hair at base. Fore wing pale 

 brown, tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with black; the 

 subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; a subbasal black point in 

 cell ; claviform represented by a black point, the orbicular by a 

 small spot, the reniform by two spots conjoined by ferruginous and 

 with traces of a pale annulus ; traces of a punctiform postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 4, tlieu incurved ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black points 

 except towards tornus ; the underside with discoidal point. 



Hah. Chilb, Valparaiso {Edmonds), 1 cJ type ; Patagonia, Straits 

 of Masellan, Beagle Channel, type t S mollis in Mus. Paris, Ea-^). 

 34 millim, 



967. Lycophotia digna. (Plate LXXV. fig, 6,) 



Agrotig diffi/a, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. 11. xviii. p. 115 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. 

 Aijrotis niijrocittata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 77 (1875). 



Head and thorax white, slightly tinged with ochreous ; palpi 

 black except at tijis ; tegula) black at base ; legs tirongly irrorated 

 with brown ; abdomen white, tinged with ochreous e.\cept towards 

 base. Tore wdng ochreous white, slightly striated with grey and 

 irrorated with dark brown especially towards termen ; all the 

 markings obsolete, except that the reniform is sometimes rei:)re- 

 sented by two black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the 

 costal area and termen slightly tinged with ochreous in female. 



Hah. U,S.A., Texas, 1 c? , 1 5 , type nigrovittata. Ex2>. 34 millim. 



968. Lycophotia atricincta. (Plate LXXV. fig. 7.) 



Noctua atricincta, Smith, Ent. News Pliilad. vi. p. '6'6\i, pi. xv. f. o (1895). 



J , Head and tegulic white ; palpi blackish at sides except at 

 extremities ; teguhc with black medial baud tapering to sides ; 

 thorax grey-white ; tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen 



