516 NOCXTTID^.. 



blacldsh, defining the orbicular and reniform, which liave rather 

 obscure grey annuli, the former produced on outer side ; the sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of greyish points Avith dentate 

 black marks on their inner side between vein 6 and submedian fold ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey sulfnsed and 

 irroratcd with fuscous brown ; the cilia white ; the underside paler, 

 with terminal series of dark points. 



Hah. N. Zealand (Enys), 1 c? . E.vp. 3G millim. 



896. Lycophotia molothina. 



Noctua molothUta, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 85. f. 1 (1789); Stand. Cat. Lop. 



pal. p. Vdb. 

 Jgrotu vehvn, Germ. Faxme Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 13(1812); Herr.-i?cliiiff. 



Scbmett. Eur ii. pi. (i. f. 30. 

 Chersotis erica, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 104 (1840). 

 Agrotis occidentalis, Eell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1800, p. GG5, pi. 12. ff. fi, 7. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with grey ; 

 antennae with the basal joint white in front ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grej'' irrorated with fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 black-brown slightly irrorated with grey and sometimes tinged with 

 rufous ; a grey patch on basal costal area extending to just below 

 cell ; a black streak above base of vein 1 confluent with the elongate 

 black-defined claviform stigma ; the antemedial line grey, waved, 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined by black, 

 the former somewhat irregular, elliptical, the latter sometimes angled 

 inwards on median nervure, a black fascia before and between them 

 in lower part of cell : the postmedial line indistinct, minutely den- 

 tate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costn, 

 escurved to vein 4, then incurved and oblique ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, grey, defined by a series of dentate blackish marks on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at 

 veins 4, 3, and 1 ; some pale points on costa towards apex, a ter- 

 minal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown, the last narroM'ing 

 to torniis ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with fuscous. 



$ . Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown. 



Ab. 1. occidentalis. Darker, blackish. 



Hah. France, Sand & Frey Colls. ; Belgtum, Zeller Coll. ; Ger- 

 many ; AtrsTKiA ; Hungary; IIussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. Exj). 

 40 millim. 



*897. Lycophotia perigrapha. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis pcrigra/pha, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 290, pi. 8. f. 10 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 135. 



Head and thorax grey, the scales tipped with dark brown, the 

 thoracic crests blackish at tips ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with 

 dark brown. Fore wing lilacine grey thickly irrorated with brown ; 



