550 



NOCTUID^, 



at vein 7 and slightly cscnrved at middle, defined on inner side by 

 a prominent series of dentate black marks defined by whitish V- 

 shapcd marks; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with 

 a dark line through them. Hind wing pure ^^ hite with hne brown 

 terminal line. 



Hab. SxiUA, 1 (5 fypo. Ea-p. 30 millim. 



951. Lycophotia hahni. 



Agrctis hahni, Christ. Eom. Mem. ii. p. 33, pi. 2. f. 8 (1885) ; SlaiuL Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 141. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous ; jialpi blackish at sides ; teguloe 

 blackish in front ; patagia irrorated with black ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, the terminal area strongly suffused with black ; 

 a waved siibbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, in which 

 there is a short black streak from its extremity ; the antemcdial line 

 oblique, double, the inner slight, the outer strong, black, excurved 

 below costa and cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented 

 by a small black lunulc at its extremity, with a sti'eak from it to 

 ])ostmedial line ; orbicular and reni form defined by the cell before 

 and between them and the area between the latter and postmedial 

 line being black, the former rather produced on outer side ; traces of 

 a waved medial line ; the postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate,, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by black suffusion before and 

 beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and dentate at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black ])oints. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and marginal areas tinged with brown ; underside white, the 

 costal area tinged with ochreous. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer and less ochreous, the last 

 more suffused with fuscous and with the black markings rather less 

 j)rominent. 



IJuh. Aemekia ; IN". Pkrsia, Askhabad, 1 c?, 1 $; AV. Tueksstan. 

 Exp., (S 34, 5 38 millim. 



*952. Lycophotia adcrea. (Plate L.XXVIII. fig. 3.) 

 Lcucania adorca, Schaiis, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 233 (1894). 



(S . Head and thorax violaceous white ; paljn dark brown except 

 at tips; vertex of head, basal joint of antenna), and medial and 

 terminal bands on tegular dark brown; pectus brown mixed with 

 purple ; legs white above, blackish below ; abdomen ochreous 

 irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface pinkish. 

 Eore wing violaceous white irrorated with black, the veins streaked 

 with brown defined by whitish ; a black fascia below the cell from 

 base to origin of vein 2 ; orbicular a small elliptical black spot ; a 

 brown fascia in lower end, of cell; some brown suffusion beyond 

 upper angle of cell; some.brpwn in subterminal part of discal fold 

 and above and below vein 2'; some slight subterminal streaks oil 



