540 



NOCXUII)^. 



terminal line ; the underside with rather indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



2 . Hind wing -with the terminal half, or almost entirel}-, suffused 

 with brown. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; IN". Spain ; Greece, Mts. ; S. Russia, 

 Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; 

 Syria, Leech Coll. ; Persia • W. Siberia, Zeller Coll., Altai ; W. 

 Turkestan, Issyk-kul. Rxy. 38-40 millim. 



938. Lycophotia larixia. 



Agrotis larixia, G-uen. Noct. i. p. 310 (1852) ; Hen-.-Schaff. Neiie Sclimett. 

 f. 125 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



6 . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulae with 

 black medial line and white tips ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, 

 the anal tuft with ochreous. Pore wing pale brown : the veins 

 streaked with white to the postmedial line ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by oblique black striae from costa and median nervure, defined 

 by white on outer side and the latter with difii'iised black streak 

 beyond it : the antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, 

 somewhat oblique and very strongly angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform large, defined by whitish and black : orbicular 

 and reniform whitish defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, 

 the cell before and between them slightly suffused with black ; an 

 indistinct diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined on 

 inner side by a series of dentate black marks ; cilia pale, with a 

 black line through them. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous ; 

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

 irrorated with fuscous, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Alps of S. France and N. Italy, 2 c? ; Armenia ; Persia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Mts. Exp. 42 millim. 



*939. Lycophotia grandipennis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 20.) 



■Agrotis granclipennis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 54 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 



c? . Grey tinged with purplish red-brown ; abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing with the veins slightly streaked with black ; a dark 

 streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 dentate, strongly above inner margin ; the other lines obsolete or 

 only marked at costa ; orbicular small, round, pale with a dark 

 point at centre ; reniform small, ill-defined, pale with red-brown 

 centre ; a slight dark streak between and beyond the stigmata ; 

 a distinct terminal series of black marks. Hind wing white slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, the veins darker ; the underside whitish, with 

 darker discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico. Eivp. 45-52 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts & Sci. 



