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irrorated with brown, a more or less prominent diffused postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Patagokia, Punta Arenas (./. J. Waller), 2 $. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



1008. Lycophotia nanalis. (Plate LXXV. tig. 31.) 



Agrotis nanalis, Grote, Cau. Ent. xiii. p. lul (1881) ; Siuith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 67. 



(S . Head and thorax greyish brown, largely mixed with black ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brown sufiused with 

 black, most prominently towards inner margin and forming obscure 

 streaks on the veins ; subbasal line hardly traceable ; autemedial 

 line very indistinct, dentate ; claviform elongate, with faint pale 

 outline ; orbicular small, lanceolate, with pale outline ; reniform 

 small, very indistinct ; traces of a dentate medial line ; a very 

 indistinct highly dentate postmedial line ; faint traces of a dentate 

 subterminal line. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the underside with slight discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial 

 and subterminal points on the veins. 



Rab. U.S.A., jS'evada, 1 c? type. Exp. 30 millim. 



1009. Lycophotia oliveata. (Plate LXXV. fig. 32.) 

 Agrotis olioeata, Hmpsu. Ann. 3. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 262 (1902). 



J . Head and thorax olive-yellow, more or less strongly mixed 

 with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Fore wing olive-yellow, more or less strongly irrorated with black, 

 the inner and terminal areas sometimes mostly black ; a waved 

 subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; an irregularly 

 dentate autemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former round ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by more or less 

 developed dentate black marks on inner side ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown : the 

 underside whiter irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Xatal, Charleston, 1 S ; C CoLoxr, 1 (S type. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



1010. Lycophotia prseciirrens. 



Agrotis pracur re lis, Stand. iStett. eat. Zeit. 1888, p. 218; id. Eom. Mem. 



vi. p. 422, pi. 6. f. 7 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. loo. 

 Agrotis hisagittata, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 324. 



Head and tegulse white, slightly mixed with brown, the latter 

 with sliglit medial line ; thorax brown mixed with black and white ; 

 tegular edged with black ; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing bluish or 

 yellowish grey -green; a double, waved, autemedial line from costa 



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