570 NOCTUIDiE. 



irrorated with dark brown ; a doiible, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to subraedian fold ; a double, highly waved, antemedial line ; 

 a waved medial shade angled outwards on median nervure ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, defined by 

 ochreous on outer side ; the subterminal line defined bj- dark brown 

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

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous white tinged with brown especially on terminal area ; the 

 veins brown ; the "cilia white; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown on costal and terminal areas, a dark discoidal s}»ot and 

 curved postmedial lino with darker striie at the veins, a terminal 

 scries of dark points. 



Ah. 1. ala. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 defined by ochreous-white annuli, the former round. 



Hah. Austria ; Hungary, Zeller & Erey Colls. ; Eussia. Centr. 

 & S.F. ; Armknia ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Sarawschan, Ala Tan, 

 Issyk-kul, Alexander :Mts., 1 d , 1 $ 5 1^- Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 

 44-56 millim. 



995. Lycopliotia photophila. 



Aqrofis pJwfopliila, Guen. Noct. i. p. 302 (1852) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 144. 

 Agrotissuller^. Stand. Stett. ent.Zcit. l.«77, p. 17»; Christ. Ilor. Soc. Ent. 



Ross. xii. 1)1. (i. f. 19 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 ^(7ro?'M tV««/W«, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 45, pi. 4. f. 4 (1870). . -, , , 



Spcdoti/uudukins, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 233 UH/S); ic^- -"J 



Yaikand Mission, pi. 1. f. 10; Hmpsn. Moths IikI. n. p. 183. 

 Agrotis obscurior, Stand. Stett. ent. Zcit. 1889, p. 27. 

 Agrotis Candida, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. __ 

 Agrotis obumhrufa, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed 

 with fuscous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; a waved subbasal 

 line^'from costa to submedian fold ; a waved, somewhat oblique 

 antemedial line with a pale line on its inner side ; orbicular a dark 

 point; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell; 

 reniform a sliglit dark lunule ; postmedial lino fuscous with pale 

 outer edge, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal hne 

 indistinct, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing and underside white suffused with 

 fuscous. . 



Ab. 1. vestilina, Piing. ined. Like Candida, but with the hind 

 wing almost entirely white. — Aksu. 



Ab. 2. Candida. Paler ; the ground-colour whitish or ochreous ; 

 hind wing Avhiter, the veins and terminal area tinged with 

 ochreous. — Issyk-kul. 



Ab. 3. ohscnnor. Darker, especially the hind wing and under- 

 side. — (Samarkand. 



