LYCOPHOIIA. 



533 



i*. Fore wing with the reniform not angled in- 

 wards on median ner vure larixta. 



cP. Fore wing with the orbicular small, round. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line strong, 



dentate W grcmdipennis. 



h^. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, 



waved f . riidens. 



b^. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 

 a-. Fore wing with the cell black before and between 

 the stigmata. 



a^. Fore wing grey-white tamerlana. 



b'\ Fore wing pale rufous chaldaica. 



c^. Fore wing brownish grey funcei. 



b'-. Foi-e wing with the cell not filled in with black ... i-/2oelhi.cidalis. 



927. Lycopliotia denticiilata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 14.) 



Ochro^ilcura denticiilata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 307 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 194. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with black ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, the anal tuft red-brown. Fore wing purplish 

 brown, irrorated with black and slightlj' suffused with fuscous ; the 

 costal area paler to the postmedial line ; a slight black streak 

 below base of cell ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double antemedial line filled in with pale rufous, 

 obsolescent and angled outwards towards costa, below the cell 

 oblique, aud slightly sinuous ; claviform large, indistinctlj^ outlined 

 with black ; orbicular and reniform large, defined bj^ black, the 

 former pale, oblique, open above, the latter with fuscous centre, 

 the cell between them blackish or with small wedge-shaped blackish 

 mark ; postmedial line double, filled in with ochreous, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then highly dentate to vein 2 and angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, defined by diffused dentate black marks on its 

 inner side ; a terminal series of black points, a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia pure white ; the 

 underside pale irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule, curved 

 postmedial line, and the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. KASHMiR,^j,Goorais Valley {Leech), 1 $ ; Punjab, Thundiani 

 (Terhury), 3 S , type. Exp. 60 millim. 



928. Lycophotia occulta. 



Nocttia occulta, Linn. Syst. JVat. i. p. 514 (1757) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. 1. 



f. 6; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 79; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153; 



Smith.Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. 

 Haclena implicata, Lef. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1836, p. 394, pi. 10. f. 4 ; Herr.- 



Schaff. Schmett. Eur. f. 632. 

 Agrotis passetii, Th.-Mieg. Le Nat. 1886, p. 237. 



Head and thorax grey and fuscous-black mixed ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-white, strongly 

 irrorated and suffused with black-brown and slightly with reddish 

 brown ; a black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, filled in with whitish ; the 



