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and with some black suffusion below it ; orbicular oblique elliptical, 

 with oblique black striga from costa above it ; reniform narrow, 

 creamy white, with the centre dcfiued by red-brown ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line wdth the area beyond it suffused with black ; the 



Fig. 88. — Ki/ssocne7nis ohcsa, (^ . \. 



postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved ; the subterminal line ochreou«!, with 

 black suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

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

 yellowish white, the terminal area fuscous brown, broadly so at 

 costa, narrowing to a point at tornus ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated and suffused with brown, a slight discoidal striga 

 and indistinct postmedial line. 



Ilab. S. ErssiA ; W. Siberia, Altai, 2 2 ; E. Siberia, 4 d, 3 $ , 

 Zeller Coll., Amurland, 2 d . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Genus LYCOPHOTIA. 



Type. 



Lyco2')'hotia, Ilubn. Verz. p. 215 (1827) poijjhyria. 



Haqialia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 220 (1827) prcpcox. 



Feridroma, Hubn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) margaritosa. 



Scotophila, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 18 (1829) porphyria. 



Actebia, Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 20 (1829) prcecox. 



IlaruR, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 76 (1829) porphyria. 



Neiiria, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 241 (1841), nou descr.... elcc/ans. 



Fhleboeis, Cbrist. Slett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 164 p)'^^crsi. 



Setagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 59 (1894) planifrons. 



Hypernaiiia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 194 (1894) denficulata. 



Praina, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 114 (1898) radiaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi ujjturned, the 2nd joint broadly sealed and 

 ■with pointed tuft of hair at extremity, the 3rd joint somewhat porrect ; fi-ons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; thorax clothed with hairs and scales and with 

 divided ridge-like or spreading dorsal crest ; tibite spined ; abdomen cylin- 

 drical, dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing narrow, elongate, 

 the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 Jrom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. (Fraina). Antenna; of male bipectinate to apex with moderate branches, 

 *894. Lycophotia radiata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 25.) 



Fraina radiata, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 114 (1898). 

 Lycophotia airidriata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 199 (1903). 



Head and thorax deep black ; base of shaft of antenuce and 



