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*1200. Lasionycta conjugata. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 26.) 



Scotogramma conjugafa, Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. Tii. p. 41 (1899) ; 

 Djar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulae with 

 black media] band ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; 

 abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing bluish white mixed 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemcdial line strong, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, elongate 

 and extending to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform grey 

 defined by black, the former elongate, acute at extremities and 

 0})en above and below, the cell between them filled in with black 

 conjoined to some black on costa ; postmedial line black, dentate, 

 with an inward curve from costa to vein 7, where it is angled 

 outwards, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line only 

 deBned by a dark patch before it on costa, and the area beyond it 

 slightly darker on costal half, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; an indistinct terminal series of lunules. 

 Hind wing grey suff'used with fuscous ; the underside whitish 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah, U.S.A.., Colorado, in U.S. Xat. Mus. Exi^. 40 millim. 



*1201. Lasionycta bryoptera. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Mamestra hryoptera, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 292, pi. 9. f. 6 (1900) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 159. 



Head and thorax olive-ycUow mixed with fuscous and grey ; 

 tarsi ringed black and a'cIIow ; abdomen ochreous grey mixed with 

 fuscous. Fore wing olive-yellow irrorated with black, the veins 

 streaked with grey ; subbasal line double, filled in with grej% waved 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 gre)', angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly waved ; 

 claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform moderate, with blackish centres and grey and j'ellow 

 annuli defined by black at sides only, the former rather quadrate ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with grey, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, slightly defined 

 by blackish suffusion on inner side, somewhat dentate, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia yellow, with three black 

 lines through them. Hind wing greyish, uniformly suff'used with 

 fuscous except the terminal area, which is yellowish ; a dark 

 terminal line ; cilia yellow, with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside yellow thickly irrorated with black, a discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type fin Coll. Piingeler. i/.rp. 38 millim. 



