LYCOPHOTIA. 571 



Ab. 4. olmnibrata. Much darker ; fore wing very thickly irro- 

 rated with fuscous ; orbicular and reniform often more developed 

 and defined by ochreous ; hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area 

 Avith a rufous tinge, the cilia white ; the underside white irrorated 

 with fuscous, discoidal points and a curved postraedial line, — Issyk- 

 kul. 



Hah. Algeria ; Stria, 2 $ ; E. Turkestan, Yarkand; S. Afghan- 

 istan ; SciNDE, Karachi (Siuinhoc), 1 5 ; W.Turk-estan, Turkomania, 

 1 d" , 1 ? , Samarkand (Haberhauer), 2 $ , Issyk-kul, 6 d" , 4 $ ; 

 Mongolia, Aksu. E,vj). 56 millim. 



*996. Lycophotia electra. (Plate LXXV. fig. 27.) 



Af/rotis electra, Stand. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 6; id. Cat. Lep. p;il. p. 145. 



Head and thorax grey-white, the hairs ti})ped with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-white. Fore wing grey-white, thickly and finely irrorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line obsolescent, double, waved from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, double, waved, in- 

 distinct but with prominent black point at costa ; stigmata obsolete ; 

 an indistinct medial shade angled at lower angle of cell ; postraedial 

 line minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, with a 

 distinct black point at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a very 

 indistinct series of dentate marks ; a waved brown terminal line ; 

 cilia grey, with a brown line through them. Hind wing white, 

 slightly but nearly uniformly tinged with fuscous ; cilia pure white ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown and with 

 a iiostmedial line crossing it, a slight discoidal point. 



Hah. W. TiTKKEsiAN, Ferghana, Tagus-torau in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



997. Lycophotia caradrinoides. 



Agrotis caradrinoides, Stand. Iris, ix. pp. 248, 368, pi. 4. f. 4 (1896) ; id. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 14.5. 

 Agrotis hydriUoides, Alpb. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 203, pi. 13. f. 11 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax pale brown mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 banded wath black. Fore wing pale greyish-brown thickly irrorated 

 with black ; the subbasal and antemedial lines ili-defiiied double, 

 waved, the former from costa to submedian fold ; claviform repre- 

 sented by some blackish scales ; orbicular and reniform represented 

 by indistinct pale luuules slightly defined by black ; the postraedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of black ])oints. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown : the underside whiter, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postraedial line. 



Hah. llussjA, Urals ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 c? , Changai Mts. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



