LYCOPHOTIA. 531 



suffused with fuscous ; the underside whitish with dark irroration, 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Gillette). Exp. 36-40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



924. Lycophotia ciiprina. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis cuprina, Staucl. Iris, xii. p. 365, pi. 6. f. 11 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 144. 



Head and thorax dark brown, mixed with white and more or 

 less strongly tinged with red ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 grey-white, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing leaden grey suff"used 

 with purplish red ; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines ; 

 claviform defined by white and black scales ; orbicular and reniform 

 with white annuli defined by black, the former large, somewhat 

 elliptical, open above ; postmedial line indistinct, defined by grey on 

 inner side, obscurely dentate, bent outwards below costa, exeurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; an indistinct grey subterminal line, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; cilia with whitish 

 line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area 

 browish ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 Avith brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Hab. W. Ttjekestan, Kuruk Tag, 1 d~ , 1 2 ; Thian-Shan Mts. 

 Exp., S 42, 2 44 millim. 



925. Lycophotia astricta. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 12.) 



Eurois astricta, Morr. Pi-oc. Bost. Soc. IS!". H. xvii. p. 1.3.5 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. 



S . Head and thorax black-broMai, some of the scales tipped 

 with white, pectus and legs with the hair grey at tips ; abdomen 

 blackish brown, the anal tuft reddish brown, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with grey. Fore wing blackish brown slightly irrorated 

 with white ; the medial area greyer sufi'used with black-brown ; 

 some rufous suffusion in, below, and beyond the cell ; the subbasal 

 line indistinct, black from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line indistinct, waved, more strongly exeurved above inner margin ; 

 claviform obsolescent, its outer edge defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, indistinct, with blackish patches before and between 

 them ; an indistinct sinuous medial line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by grey on outer side 

 bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal series of indistinct black dentate marks, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind 

 wing brown, with traces of a grey postmedial line and a crenulate 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the underside grey irrorated 

 with brown, and with indistinct discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Canada; U.S.A., X. States, X. Woods (Thaxter), 1 J, 

 Xew Hampshire, Xew York. Exp. 50 millim. 



2 m: 2 



