542 KOCTtJIDiE. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi dark brown 

 except at base ; abdomen ochreoiis white, the ventral surface tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with pale rufous ; a curved 

 siibbasal black line from costa to submedian fold interrupted at 

 cell ; a double subbasal line excurved from costa to submedian fold 

 and above inner margin, the outer line prominently black from 

 costa to submedian fold ; claviform often slightly defined by whitish 

 above ; orbicular and reniform large with narrow white annuli, the 

 former oblique, rather V-shaped, open above, the cell before and 

 between them black ; traces of a medial shade from cell to inner 

 margin ; a double postmedial line with a series of points on the 

 veins beyond it, arising from a small black spot on costa, excurved 

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

 subterminal line grey, defined by red-brown on inner side, angled 

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

 dark points. Hind wing pure white, the veins slightly tinged with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. spodia. Fore wing grey without rufous tinge. 



Hah. KiJSsiA, Sarepta, 1 S , Urals, 1 cJ ; W. Siberia, 2 c? , 1 5 , 

 Altai ; W. Titkkestast, Turcomania, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., 

 Ala-tau, Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, Hi. Eccp. 40-44 millim. 



-*943. Lycophotia funcei. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 23.) 



Agrotis ftonkei, Pilng. Deutsche ent. Zeit., Lep. xiv. p. 181, pi. 2. ff. 1, 2 

 (1901). 



Head and thorax brownish grey thickly irrorated wnth black ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi black with pale rings : abdomen 

 brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with 

 black ; i.he subbasal line represented by double black striae from 

 costa and cell ; autemedial Hue double, prominent, rather irregularly 

 waved and slighth' oblique ; claviform strongly and diffusedly 

 defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former round, open above, the cell black before and between the 

 stigmata, a blackish streak in discoidal fold from reniform to sub- 

 terminal line; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dentate, and defined on inner side by an 

 irregular series of dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white with brown line at base ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, type t in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Eccp. 40 millim. 



944. Lycophotia pelliicidalis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 24.) 



Agr Otis 2)6111101(10,118, Grote, Eull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 567 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. 

 JS^oct. N. Am. p. 69. 



(5 . Head fulvous yellow ; palpi black, whitish at tips ; tegulcB 

 fulvous at base, with brown medial line, the tips grey pencilled 



