552 KociuiD^. 



tarsi banded with Llaclc ; abdomen white, slightly tinged wnth pale 

 brown. Fore wing white, irrorated with broAvn and tinged with 

 ])alc brown in cell, discal and submedian folds, and on terminal area ; 

 llie veins slightlj' streaked with black ; a black streak in submedian 

 fold from base to below origin of vein 2 ; the subbasal line indistinct, 

 brownish, from costa to snbmedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; 

 the antcmcdial line iiidistinct, brownish, angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin aiad incurved between those points, a 

 black streak from it in cell to the subtcrminal line passing below the 

 stigmata, which are white defined by black and tbe browai suffusion 

 between them in cell; the orbicular small, round or elongate elliptical; 

 the postmedial line diffused, brownish, e:scurvf d from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, defined by 

 the area beyond it being tinged with brown and wdth dentate black 

 marks on its inner side between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia greyish, inter- 

 sected with red-bro\^n. Hind wing pure white, the veins sometimes 

 brownish towards termen ; the underside wdth the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. rana. Paler ; fore wing without black fasciae or trans- 

 verse lines. — Persia; C. Asia. 



Hub. Alps of France, Swtxzeeland and N. Italy, Frey & Leech 

 Colls. ; AusxKiA, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary ; Armenia ; Asia Minok, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Issyk-kul ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi. Kv2>. 44-46 millim. 



956. Lycophotia muscosa. 



JSIentaa^ya muscosa, Geyer, Samml. Exot. Scliiiiett. p. 10, 414, ff. 827, 828 



(1837). 

 Euip-a-phc alhifrons, Geyer, Samml. Exut. Schmet.t. p. 17. 4110, ff. 85'), 860 



(■lS27). 

 Ayrotis rimosa, Giien. Koct. i. p. 277 (1852), 

 Agrotis ignicoUis, Wlk. xi. 740 (1857). 

 Afjrotis aviatura, Wlk. xv. 1700 (1858). 

 IJijjhtera cmnulafa, Wlk. xxxii. 613 (1865). 

 Agrotis varia, Wlk. xxxii. 694 (1865). 

 Dianfhoecia cerumen, Feld. Ileis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 15 ("1874). 

 Agrotis decipiens, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 17 (1874). 



Head white and pale brown ; ])alpi except at tips and antenna? 

 black ; tegulfie green at base, with black medial line, rufous and 

 blackish at tips ; thorax rufous and blackish ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally sufl'used with fuscous, and with 

 lateral, sublateral. and ventral series of small black spots. Fore 

 wing sap-green irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal black line 

 from costa to submedian fold, defined b)'^ white on outer side and 

 with two black spots before it; a white antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1, the area between it and the subbasal line 

 suffused with black except towards inner margin ; claviform repre- 

 sented by a black point; orbicular and reniform whitish, irrorated 

 wnth green and defined by black, the former e]li])tical, the latter 

 often with brownish centre, a black bar between them ; a dentate 



