538 NOCTTJID.^. 



Fore wing grey-white ; the veins slightly defined by brownish 

 streaks ; some broAvnish suffusion on costal area, in cell and below 

 its extremity ; a black streak below basal half of cell, with some 

 brownish on its lower edge ; claviform elongate, pointed at extremity 

 and defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform white prominently 

 defined by black, the former elongate and confluent with the latter^ 

 which has a brown centre and with its lower extremity somewhat 

 angled inwards on median nervnre ; the subterminal line defined 

 by the area beyond it being suffused with black, consisting of short 

 oblique black streaks below veins 7 and 6 running obliquely from 

 near termen to an angle in discal fold, then excurved, somewhat 

 dentate and below vein 3 incurved ; a fine terminal black line ; 

 cilia white slightly tinged with brown. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown, the cilia pure white ; the underside white, the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with black, a slight diseoidal luuule. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co., 1 c5' . Exp. 30 millim. 



935. Lycophotia vocalis. (Plate LXXIY. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis vocalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 56 (1879) ; id. 111. Essay, 54, pi. ii. 



f. 15 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 77. 

 Agrotis invenusta, Grote, Trans. Xans. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 48 (1883). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous black and some- 

 times slightly with brown ; palpi black except at ti]3s ; tegulse with 

 the tips black or dark brown with white line before them ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly 

 irrorated with black and often with some rufous suffusion on 

 medial area below the cell ; a black streak usually present below 

 the cell from base to beyond the antemedial line ; the subbasal line 

 angled outwards below costa and ending at the streak ; the ante- 

 medial line black, minutely dentate, oblique, with a longer tooth 

 above inner margin ; the cell black before and between the stigmata 

 defining the orbicular, which is elongate and often almost connected 

 with the inner edge of the reniform, which is undefined on outer 

 side ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area slightly tinged with 

 brown. Underside of both wings with diseoidal spots and curved 

 postmedial line obsolete except towards costa ; hind wing with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. hivenusta. Darker, the markings of fore wing indistinct. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 2 d , 2 $ type, Nevada, 1 S r 

 New Mexico. Exp. 38 millim. 



936. Lycophotia eminens. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 19.) 



GrapMphora eminens, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 106, pi. 1. f. S 



(1855) ; Staucl, Oat. Lep. pal. p. 139. 

 Agrotis excellent, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 107. 



Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish except at tips ; tegulse black at base and tips, patagia 



