536 



NOCXUIDiE. 



with fuscous : traces of a waved double subbasal line from costa to 

 vein 1 : an indistinct waved double antemedial line obsolete on the 

 pale area ; claviform represented by a dark spot ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, with brownish annuli defined by black and fuscons 

 centres, the former somewhat elliptical ; traces of a dentate post- 

 medial line produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct subterminal 

 line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins, 

 costal area, and termen suffused with fuscous ; cilia white, with a 

 brown line at base ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown ; a postmedial series of dark points on the veins. 



2 . Fore wing with the ground-colour fuscous to the postmedial 

 line, the terminal area brown suffused with fuscous ; claviform 

 well developed and defined by black ; hind wing with the terminal 

 area broadly suffused with brown. 



Hah. Chile (Edmonds), 1 cS type, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 $ . 

 E.vj). 44 millira. 



933, Lycophotia margaritosa. 



Noctua marffciritosa, Haw. Lep. Br. p. 218 (1809). 



Noctua saucici, Hiiba. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 378 (1827) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 152 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 

 Noctua csqua, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 564 (1827). 

 Brotis orofUla, Geyer, Zutr. Esot. Schmett. v. p. 7, ff. 809, 810 (1837). ' 

 Agrotis inermis, Harris, Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 323 (1841). 

 Spmlotis stictica, Blanch. Gay's Chile, vii. p. 73, pi. 6. f. 8 (1854). 

 Spcelotis inficscata, Blanch. Gay's Chile, vii. p. 74 (1854). 

 Acjrotis ionpcccta, Wlb. s. 337 (1856). 

 Agrotis intecta, Wlk. x. 338 (1856). 

 Agrotis ambrosioides, Wlk. si. 738 (1857). 

 Agrotis cmguUfera, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). 

 Agrotis ortonii, Pack. 1st Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 63 (1869). 

 Noctua cequa, ab. j)hiUp2^si, Caspari, Jahrb. Nass. lii. p. 201, pi. iv. if. 14, 15 



(1899). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi fuscous 

 except towards extremity ; thoracic crest often whitish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with brown; 



, 92. — Lt/cophotla margaritosa, (^ 



a double waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a double waved 

 antemedial line ; claviform moderate, with brown outline and line 

 in centre ; orbicular and reniform large with brown outlines, the 

 former elliptical, \h.Q latter with fuscous in its lower portion ; the 



