lYCOPHOTIA. 559 



white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing white, slightly 

 suflfused with fuscous and irrorated with black ; subl)asal black 

 points below costa and cell ; the anteraedial line re])resented by a 

 blackish spot on casta and an obscure line from cell to inner margin 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular absent ; the medial shade 

 represented by a blackish si)ot on costa and carved line from cell 

 to inner margin ; reniforin represented by a small black spot with 

 short streak below it; the postmedial line dentate, black, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined by blackish spots on its inner side, becoming a 

 stronger shade towards costa ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous 

 and with a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaliiie 

 white, slightly tinged with fuscous on costal and inner areas; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous and 

 with diffused dark postmedial mark. 



Hub. Canada, Calgary ( iroZ/('y Dod), 3 S ; U.S.A., Dakota, Volga 

 Co., 1 (S . Exp. 36 millim. 



*969. Lycopliotia gaurax. (Plate LXXV. fig. 8.) 



Aip-otis gaurax, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 117, pL 4. f. 9 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 ■ pal. p. 254. 



cT . Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales tipjjed with rufous ; 

 abdomen grey with a rufous tinge. Fore wing lilacine grey, the 

 medial area suffused with rufous below the cell, the terminal area 

 tinged with rufous; the subbasal line represented by an oblique 

 black striga from costa ; the antemedial line oblitpie, somewhat 

 sinuous and indistinctly double, defined on outer side by a black 

 bar from costa and a striga from median nervure ; orbicular and 

 reniform very large, with pale aniiuli, the former V-shaped, o[)en 

 above, the cell before and between them filled in with black ; post- 

 medial line indistinct or obsolescent except at costa, where it is 

 represented by a black bar, dentate, and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and IjcIow 

 vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by rufous on inner side. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with rufous and with indistinct postmedial line on it. 



Hub. W. TuEKESXAN, Alexander Mts., type f iii Coll. Piingeler, 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



970. Lycopliotia margaritacea. 



Kocfrta. mnrfiarifacen, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 272, pi. .'">. f. IG (1789) ; irorr.- 

 Schaff. Sdunett. Eur., Noct. p. ;>;U ; ytaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



Nocitta ffiureosa, Treit. SohiueU. Eur. v. 2, p. 247, nee E.sp. 



JSfoctua 'l-intactum, Hubn. Sauunl. Eur. Sclnnett., Nout. f. liiU (1827) ; Dup, 

 Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 75, pi. 77. ff. 3, 4. 



Head and thorax white tinged with ])ale brown ; ])a,li)i black at 

 sides exce])t at tips; neck black at sides ; tegular with some dark 

 scales ; fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen white, the anal tuft 



