572 K0CTtJIDJ2. 



998. Lycophotia hadjina. (Plate LXXV. fig. 28.) 



Jgrotis hadjina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 270, pi. iii. f. S (1891); id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 145. 

 Agi'otis zeitima, Stand. Iris, sii. p. 301, pi. f). f. G (lSf)9). 



Head and thorax pale blue- grey mixed witli Idack ; palpi Idackish 

 at sides ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous grey irroratcd 

 with brown. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with black ; 

 a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold arising from a 

 black spot on eo.sta ; a waved antemedial line arising from a black 

 S])ot on costa ; on ochreous streak in submedian fold, the claviform 

 being represented by its extremity being slightly defined by black ; 

 orbicular and renifoi-m ochreous defined by blackish, the former 

 small, round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, sliyhlly 

 incurved in discal fold and more strongly below vein 4; the sub- 

 termiiial line ochreous, defined by darker suflTusion on inner side, 

 somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; an ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark fuscous ; 

 the cdia whitish, ochreous at base ; the underside ochreous M'hite, 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. self una. Paler and without the blue-grey, the ground- 

 colour of head, thorax, and fore wing being ochreous grev. 



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*999. Lycophotia macrina. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis macrina, Piing. ined. 



Head vvhiti.-h, palpi at sides excejjt extremity and antennje 

 blackish ; thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; alxlomen greyish white, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey, suffused with olive and thickly irrorated with fuscous, 

 the terminal area with a yellowish tinge ; subbasal line black, 

 waved from costa to vein 1 and defined by whitish on outer side ; 

 antemedial line strong, black defined by whitish on inner side, 

 waved and somcAvhat oblique : claviform with its extremity slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, the former 

 round, incompletely defined by black, the latter with its medial i)art 

 strongly suffused with rufous and defined by black except above 

 and below ; a very irregularly waved black medial line angled 

 outwards to lower angle of cell, diffused and darkening the cell 

 between the stigmata; postmedial line dentate and piodu(ed to 

 points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 4, then incurved, slightly defined on outer side by whitish 

 and with some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subtermiual line 

 whitish, defined by the contrast between the postmedial and paler 

 yellowish terminal area, irregularly dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing whitish, uniformly suftused with fuscous ; 

 cilia yellowish while; the underside whitish, the costal area more 



