526 NOCTUTDiE. 



tinged with fuscous ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown. 



2 . Browner; hind wing fuscous, the cilia white with dark line 

 at base. 



- Hob. Mexico, Teapa {H. H. Smith), 1 cS type cdtes, Mexico 

 City (Hoege), 2 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. E^ij^. 36 millim. 



914. Lycophotia flavina. 



Agrotisjlavlna, Hen-.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. vi. p. 59, f. 693(1856); 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 



<S . Head and thorax pale yellow, the vertex of head. and tips of 

 teguliB and patagia with a few black scales ; abdomen white tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale yellow, irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; traces of an antemedial line with a few black scales 

 on it, angled outwards in sabmedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 faint traces of orbicular and reuiforni stigmata ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces of a subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal, area tinged with ochreous. 



Hab. E. PtUMELiA; Armenia ; Asia Minor; Syria, Mardin, 1 c? ; 

 Persia, Mesopotamia ; Kurdistan. Exi^. 36 millim. 



915. Lycophotia ochrina. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 7.) 



Agrotis ochrina, Staud. Iris, s. p. 274, pi. 9. f. 13 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 148. 



J . Head and thorax white and pale yellow ; palpi, pectus, and 

 legs white ; abdomen ochreous white. Pore wing uniform pale 

 yellow. Hind wing pale ochreous, the cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing pale ochreous with the costal area white ; hind wing 

 white. 



Another specimen is more ochreous in tone, the lines of fore wing 

 all traceable, the claviform, orbicular and reniform imperfectly 

 defined with brown. 



Hah. Syria, 2 S , Leech Coll. Exi^. 38 millim. 



*916. Lycophotia cermesina. 



Noctua Jccrme&ina, Mab. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 1869, p. 55, pi, 2, f. 10 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 140. 



(5 . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi fuscous, white at tips ; 

 abdomen ochreous white tinged with fuscous. Pore wing bright 

 rufous ; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines with small 

 prominent black spots on costa, the first otherwise obsolete, the 

 second very indistinct, oblique, waved ; the last reduced to a series 

 of slight points, bent outwards below costa, slightly^ incurved at 

 di.scal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; a slight medial shade ; 



