LTCOPHOTIA. 521 



postmedial line minutely dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, obliquely curved to vein 4, then 

 extremely oblique ; the subterminal line white, defined by a series 

 of dentate blackish marks on its inner side, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a dark terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish, with a brown line through them. Hind wing whitish, 

 more or less strongly suffused with brown ; the cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Persia ; W. Tuekesian, Samarkand, 2 S , Ferghana ; Tibet, 

 Kuku-noor, 1 $ . Exp. 36-38 millim. 



904. Lycophotia erschoffi. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 2.) 



Agrotis ledereri. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 2, nee Ersch. 



Ayrotis erschoffi, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 248 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 



Head and thorax dark brow^n mixed with grey ; tegulsE blackish 

 at tips ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with fuscous ; a slight black streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line double, black filled in with grey, curved 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line waved, defined by 

 grey on inner side; claviform small, indistinctly defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black, the former oblique, 

 open above, the latter slightl}- angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

 defined by greyish on outer side, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

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

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight blackish lunulcs. 

 Hind wing brown ; cilia greyish, with brown line through them ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Uab. W. Turkestan, Samarcand, Turcomania, 1 c? , 1 $ j 

 Ferghana. Exp. 40-42 millim, 



905. Lycophotia militaris. 



Agrotis militaris. Stand. S'tett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 247; id. Eom. Mem. y\. 

 pi. 6. f. 5 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



(S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; palpi black 

 at sides except at tips ; sides of frons and a bar above it black ; 

 tegulse with black medial line, the patagia edged with black ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged w^ith fuscous, 

 ventrally irrorated with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 white and fuscous grey, and with slight ochreous streaks in and 

 below cell ; a dentate subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a minutely dentate antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform defined by black, narrow, 

 veiy elongate and extending almost to base ; orbicular and rcni- 



