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940. Lycopliotia mdens. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis rudcns, Harr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 



S • Head pale yellow or orange-yellow ; palpi black-brown, 

 whitish at tips ; tegulse pale yellow at base, then with black medial 

 band, the tips grey pencilled with brown ; thorax grey pencilled 

 with brown and often tinged with purple-red ; legs banded with 

 black ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the anal tuft 

 tinged with ochreous. Pore wing pale grey irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area tinged with red on outer half of wing ; a black 

 streak below the cell from near base to near middle, downcurved 

 towards base ; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines, the 

 former ending at vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform small, grey with 

 slight fuscous centres, defined \>j black and with black fascia above 

 median nervure from before the orbicular to the reniform ; a post- 

 medial series of black points; the subterminal line defined by the 

 area beyond it being brown except at apex, where there is a grey 

 patch, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, and 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costa, and 

 ternien slightly tinged with brown ; the cilia white, with a brown 

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

 brown ; a terminal series of black points on costal half of wing. 



5 . Head and base of teguliJe whitish instead of yellow. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas, 2 c? , 1 $ , type. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



941. Lycopliotia tamerlana. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 22.) 

 Agrotis tamerlana, Bang-Haas, inecT. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; palpi blackish 

 except at tips ; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey- white sparsely irrorated with black ; a slight 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, slightlj' sinuous, oblique towards costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, the former oblique and confluent with 

 the latter at lower extremity, both open above and below and with 

 slightly defined pale annuli, an L-shaped black-brown patch in cell 

 before the former and a triangular patch between them ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, with a black point at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; the 

 subterminal line formed by a series of fuscous lunules, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules and a line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. W. TtTEKESTAN, Sir-Darya, 1 c?, 1 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



942. Lycophotia chaldaica. 



Noctua chaldaica, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 140 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fi-., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 481, pi. 41. f. 5 ; Frey. Neu. Beitr. Sclimett. iv. pi. 304. f. 1 • 

 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbuiett., Noct. f. 110 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139.' 



Agrotis spodia, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 289 (1899). 



