548 N0CTuiD3i;. 



ocbreous M'ith a brown line through them. Hind wing fuscons 

 brown, paler towards base in male : cilia ocbreous white with ■ 

 a brown line through them ; the underside paler, the costal area 

 irrorated Avith brown, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. France, Pyrenees ; N. Spain Mts. ; Switzkeland, Valais, 

 Engadine, Frey and Leech Colls.; Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Htjssia, 

 Urals; Armenia; Syria, Leech Coll.: Persia; W. Tttrkesxan ; 

 Siberia, Zeller Coll. ; Kamschatka. Eccp. 34 miUim. 



947. Lycophotia multiflda. 



Aqroti&muUificla, Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xiii. p. 46, pi. 1. f. 10 (1870) ; 

 'Rebel, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1899, p. 165, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 151. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown; tegula3 whitish, 

 with black patch at tips ; abdomen ocbreous white. Fore Aving 

 pale reddish brown, irrorated and in places suffused with black ; 

 the veins streaked with white ; a sinuous black streak below base 

 of cell ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line obsolete from costa to median nervure, then double, 

 angled outwards below cell and very strongly to join the post- 

 medial line at inner margin ; claviform slightlv defined by black at 

 extremity ; the cell filled in with black ; orbicular and reniform 

 Avhitish defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the former 

 oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate, strongly bent out- 

 Avards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, and A'ery oblique 

 below vein 4 to join the antemedial line at inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by a series of dentate black marks on its 

 inner side interrupted between veins 7 and 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing Avhite, 

 the A-eins and margins tinged with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, some postmedial dark points on 

 the veins. 



Rah. Austria, Tvrol, 1 5 ; Hungary ; Armenia, in Coll. Piingelcr. 

 Exp. 34-36 milliin. 



948. Lycophotia deg-eniata. 



Agrotis degeniata, Christ. Hor. Soc. Enfc. Ross. xii. p. 244, pi. 6. f 18 



(1876) ; id. Eom. Mem. ii. pi. xii. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Agroiis defuncta, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 243, pi. 4. f. 8 (1896). 

 Agrotis jjcrsica, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 243 (1896). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi blackish at sides except 

 at tips ; vertex of head Avith black spot ; teguliB Avith black lines near 

 base and extremity ; patagia with black patches ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 brown. Fore Aving grey-broAvn tinged with fuscous ; the subbasal 

 line represented by black strice from costa ; a black streak in sub- 

 median fold to the antemedial line, which is double, dentate, and 

 rather indistinct ; claviform slightly outlined Avith black and Avith a 



