560 NOCTTJIDJ;. 



tingcfl ^^■\{h. ochrcous. Fore wing violaceous white, slightly tinged 

 with ochreous towards termeu and sparsely irroratcd with black 

 scales ; the subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa ; 

 an indistinct double, minutely M-avcd antemcdial line arising from 

 a small black spot on costa; claviform represented by a black point 

 at its extremity or absent ; orbicular and renif'orm very faintly 

 defined, the former round, a small quadrate black spot between 

 them, sometimes placed on a faint brown medial shade which ari-^es 

 from a blackish spot on costa ; the postmedial line very indistinct, 

 dentate, and produced to points on the veins, arising from a black 

 spot on costa, bent outwards below^ costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight yellow-brown 

 suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, in 

 female more or less tinged with brown on veins and terminal half. 



Hab. Feanoe, Leech Coll.; Gekmany, Zeller Coll.; AtisTKiA ; 

 HuNGAEr, Leech Coll. ; Switzekland, Frey Coll. ; Italy; Rumelia : 

 Bythtnia ; IlussiA, 1 $; Armenia; Asia IMtnok, Pontus ; Siberia 

 ( Lederer), 2 cS ■, Altai; \V. Tl'kkestan, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi. Exp. 40 millim. 



971. Lycophotia insignata. (Plate LXXV. fig. 9.) 



Graj)liiph(ira vitn'piKitd, Led. Yerli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 18»i3, p. 36f), 



pi. 4. f. 2 ; Staiid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. loO. 

 Kocfiiu iiitcrDieiUa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iv. p. 421 (1855). 

 Agrotis jJdlh'sceiis, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (isyo). 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey and irroratcd with 

 a few black scales ; palpi blackish, white at lips ; abdomen ochreous 

 white. Fore wing pale brownish grey, irroratcd with a few black 

 scales ; a sliglitly curved black subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; the antemcdial line pale, defined by black on outer 

 side from costa to vein 1, angled outwards on subcostal and median 

 nervures and bent outA\ ards above inner margin ; claviform, orbicular, 

 and reuiform with grey brown-edged centres, and whitish annuli 

 defined by brown, the former rather small, the two latter very 

 large, the orbicular oblique rounded ; an indistinct waved medial 

 shade from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line pale, slightly 

 defined by brown and with some black x)oints on its inner side 

 towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, defined by black 

 sufi'usion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing pure white, with fine brown terminal line ; underside wdth 

 the costal area irroratcd with pale brown. 



Ab. 1. pallescens. Fore wing with the markings very indistinct, 

 — Persia ; Turcomania. 



JJah. y. llussiA, Sarepta ; Persia ; W. Siiseeia, Altai, 3 J , 3 5 , 

 Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk-kul, E. Turkestan, 

 Hi. E,v2J. 42-44 millim. 



