LYcornoTiA. 519 



medial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; costa towards apex black, with some white 

 points on it ; sabterminal line obscurely dentate, diflfused, black, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 fuscous and white. Hind wing white irrorated with brown ; the 

 inner margin brownish ; a fine terminal line ; the underside with 

 discoidal bar and curved postmcdial line. 



Huh. Mexico, Coffre de Perote, Las Vegas, type f (S in Coll. 

 Schaus. Exjp. 138 millim. 



902. Lycophotia sichima. (riate LXXIV. fig. 1 .) 



Mamestra sikhima,M.oovQ,'2.Z.^. 1867, p. 53; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 183. 



Head and thorax black and dark-brown, some of the scales 

 tipped with white, the tegula) often wholly white except the tips, 

 which are rufous as also the dorsal crests ; tibia3 and tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated 

 with black and a few large yellowish-white scales ; double waved 

 black subbasal and antemedial lines filled in with grey, the former 

 ending at submedian fold where there is a black jiatch beyond it, 

 the latter angled outwards below costa and more strongly above 

 inner margin ; claviform defined by black, and with more or less 

 diffused yellowish- white scales on it ; orbicular and reniform more 

 or less completely suffused with yellowish-white scales and defined 

 by black, the former somewhat quadrate; a waved medial line 

 excurved at median nervure ; the postmedial line double, dentate, 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line 

 greyish, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, defined by a blackish patch before it at costa and some 

 dentate marks at middle ; a greyish apical patch ; a waved black 

 terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, 

 the cilia greyish with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly brown irrorated with 

 white, a slight discoidal spot. 



i/«7). Tibet, Yatong {Bingham, IJohson), 2 J , 4 $ ; Sikhim 

 {Atkinson, Lidderdale, Pilcher), 6 (J , 3 5 , type. Kvp. 28-36 

 millim. 



Sect. IV. {Lycoplwfia). Antennae of male minutely seri'ate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wi\ig with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure. 

 ci}. Fore wing with the claviform white and extending 



to basi^ junciiinaciila. 



b^. Fore wing with the claviform minute, slightly defined 



by black ersclioffi. 



b. Fore wing vvith the reniform not angled inwards on 



median nervure. 

 ct}. Fore wing wliitish, the orbicular elongate militaris. 



