532 NOCTLTID/E. 



*926. Lycophotia nigra. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 13.) 



Peridromu nigra, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 43, pi. 1 (1894). 



Puseous brown thickly irrorated with black ; abdomen rather 

 paler. Fore wing with the markings more or less interrupted ;. 

 subbasal line double, black, with white irroration in included 

 space, terminating in a reddish blotch at base of wing ; antemedial 

 line double, black, with white and ochreous scales in included space, 

 erect, excurved below costa and above inner margin ; claviform 

 small, irrorated with white and ochreous and defined by black ; 

 orbicular irregular, oblique, with some white irroration at centre 

 and a white annulus defined by black ; reuiform large, with pale 

 irroration at centre, some white or ochreous scales representing the 

 annulus and defined by black ; a diffused medial shade ; post- 

 medial line double, the inner line lunulate, the outer indistinct, 

 with white and ochi'eous scales in included space, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 whitish or ochreous, irregular, interrupted, defined on inner side by 

 a series of black luaules ; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind 

 wing dirty white with dark irroration and a clearer terminal band ;, 

 an indistinct discoidal point and postmedial line ; a terminal line ;, 

 the underside whitish with dark irroration. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah, Salt Lake City, Colorado {Bruce). Exp., 

 (S 50, 2 53 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from 

 drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 



Sect. V. Anteunaj of male ciliated. . . i 



A. (Peridrov?a). Pro- and nietathorax -with divided crests. 



a. Hind wing uniform fuscous. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line Terj- highly 



dentate at middle '. dentmdaia. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line moderately 

 dentate. 

 a-. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a^. Hind wing blackish ; expanse about (iO millim. v-'occulta. 



b^. Hind fuscous; expanse about 40 millim f^jrafixa. 



b-. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown erythrina. 



b. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area fuscous. 

 a}. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with black. 



cr. Thorax with the crests pale rufous, contrasting ...S oclironota. 



b-. Thorax with the crests concolorous c^semifusoa. 



6\ Fore wing with the costal ai-ea concolorous or 



paler • ^margariiosa. 



c. Hind wing entirely white or slightly tinged with 



fuscous. 

 a^. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular confluent with 



the reniform (4 demtitabilis. 



b'-. Fore v/ing with the orbicular elongate ^t vocalis. 



c'-. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical. 

 a?. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 



confluent above inner margin er/miens. 



b''. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 not confluent above inner margin. 

 a^. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards 



on median nervure elegann. 



