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910. Lycophotia ononensis. 



Agrotis ononensis, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 9 (1864) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 151. 

 Agrotis scaramangce, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 47, pi. 2. f. 44 (1882). 



Head, tegulas, and front of thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; 

 thorax pale red-brown or greyish ; legs dark brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous brownish, dark brown below. Fore wing grey with a 

 pinkish tinge, irrorated with, brown, and the interspaces obscurely 

 streaked with brown, tte veins with fine dark streaks outlined 

 with grey ; a black streak in submedian fold to near middle ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, grey defined by black, the former 

 oblique, the cell before and between them black, the reniform with 

 short blackish streaks beyond it; the subteroiiual line represented 

 by a series of dentate black marks angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker intersected by 

 the grey streaks defining veins 3, 4, 6, 7 ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them. Hind wing 

 ochreous sufFased with fuscous ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside 

 pale irrorated with brown. 



Hah. E. TuRKESTAJf, Hi, Korla ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 S , 

 1 $ , Urga ; Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, Kamschatka, Amurland. 

 Exi). 40 millim. 



911. Lycophotia mendosica, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 6.) 



J . Head and thorax grey, mixed with pale brown and fuscous ; 

 tegula) with black medial band ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 brownish grey, irrorated with black and reddish brown ; a short 

 oblique dark subbasal fascia from cell to vein 1, followed by a fine 

 streak in submedian fold difl'used to vein 1 on medial area ; 

 orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former small, 

 round, the cell before and between them black-brown ; some brown 

 suffusion beyond and below end of cell ; the veins slightly streaked 

 with brown ; a brown mark on costa before apex and a terminal 

 series of small dentate blackish marks. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. Argentina, Andes, Aconcagua {Fitzgerald), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



912. Lycophotia porphyrea. 



Nod'iia porphyrea, Schiff. Wieii. Verz. p. 83(1776); IRibii. Samnil. Eur. 



Sohmett., Noct. if. 93, 473; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 440, pi. 100. f . 4 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent,, Haiist. iii. p. 19. 

 Noctua concinna, Esp. Scbiriett. iv. pi. 152. f. 1 (1786). 

 Noctua strigula, Thnnh. Mus. JSat. (Dom. iv.) p. 72 (1788); Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 135. 

 Nochucpicta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 91 (1793). 

 Noctua criccB, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 224 (1809). 



Agrotis marmorea, Grasl. Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 312, pi. 8. f. 9. 

 Agrotis suffusa, Tutt. Brit. Noct. ii. p. 90 (1891). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with white; tegulse with 



