LTCOPHOTIA. 535- 



930. Lycophotia erythrina. 



Agrotis erythrina, Ramb. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849 ; Herr.-Scbaff. Schmett. 

 Eur., Noct. f. 543 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 



Head and thorax bright purplish red to dark brown, the scales 

 tipped with grey ; palpi blackish at sides, whitish at tips ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 bright purple-red to dark brown slightly irrorated with white ; the 

 costa blackish ; a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median .fold, defined by whitish on inner side ; a waved antemedial 

 line defined by whitish on inner side, and strongly angled inwards 

 on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform represented 

 by a few white scales ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on 

 outer side, dentate and produced to white points at the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the veins 

 beyoiid it slightly streaked with black ; some white points on costa 

 towards apex ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge, the cilia whitish 

 with brown line at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the costal area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. C. & S. Fkance, Sand & Zeller Colls. ; Switzerland : Spain. 

 Exp. 30-34 millim, 



931. Lycophotia ochronota, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 15.) 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous black ; palpi in front and at 

 extremity and lower part of frons pale ochreous ; tegulse tipped 

 with ochreous ; dorsal crest ochreous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing ochreous brown, strongly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; the costal area to below the cell suffused with 

 fuscous ; indistinct double, waved, black subbasal and antemedial 

 lines filled in with ochreous, the former extending to vein 1, the 

 latter oblique ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 black with ochreous annuli, the former elliptical ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved; ah ochreous subterminal line angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it fuscous ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; 

 ,the veins brown ; the costal and terminal areas broadly brown ; 

 cilia ochreous white, with a brown line at base ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a postmedial 

 series of dark points on the veins. 



Hah. Ueugitay (Darivin), 1 $ type. Exp. 50 millim. 



932. Lycophotia semifusca. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 16.) 

 Agrotis semifiisca, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 129. 



(S . Head and thorax fuscous black : palpi pale at extremities ; 

 abdomen fuscous, with greyish segmental lines. Fore wing pale 

 brownish grey irrorated with fuscous ; the costal area broadly suffused 



