554 NOCTUID^. 



■witli fuscous ; the costal find terminal areas suffused with fuscous ; 

 a double, waved antemedial line ; claviforrn represented by a black 

 point ; orbicular and renifonu defined by black, the former somewhat 

 quadrate, the latter constricted at middle, the cell between them 

 deep black ; a sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmediid line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashon ALAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ type. Exj). 30 

 millim. 



*J59. Lycophotia orthogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 30.) 



d" . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, irrorated with a few 

 black scales ; palpi black except at tips ; a black bar above frons ; 

 tcgulae with black basal band ; tarsi blackish ; abdomen dark brown, 

 the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black and with sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, 

 the termen excurved below middle; whitish, thickly striated with 

 olive-brown ; the costal area suffused with olive-brown ; a subbasal 

 white line defined on each side by brown from costa to submediau 

 fold; an oblique antemedial white line slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and strongly on outer ; orbicular and reniform with 

 white an null defined by rufous, the former elliptical, inwardly 

 oblique, the latter narrow with a black spot in its lower part ; the 

 postmedial line white, slightly defined by brown on inner side and 

 strongly on outer, inwardly oblique from costa to vein 6, then erect ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia white at base, rufous at 

 tips. Hind wing hyaline white, the costal and inner areas tinged 

 with ochreous ; the termen irrorated with black and with terminal 

 scries of black points ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, some postmedial 

 points on the veins towards costa, and a terminal series. 



JJab. Brazil, Petropolis (Doer), 1 J type. Exj). 40 millim. 



9G0. Lycophotia ignicans. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis ignicans, Gueii. Noct. i. p. 274 (1852); Druce, Eiol. Ceiiti-.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 284. 

 Agrotis prodenoides, Wlk. x. 354 (] 856). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous, often slightly tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with a few dark scales ; palpi black-brown and rufous, 

 pale at tips ; basal half of tcgulae black ; fore coxa) and the tibiae 

 often tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with rufous or 

 luscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated and 

 striated with black, especially on inner half, the terminal area only 

 or wholly tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by slight 

 striae below costa and cell, the antemedial line by a black point 

 on costa; claviform and orbicular obsolete; the reniform repre- 

 sented by a black point at upper angle of cell and two at lower angle 

 on a rufous mark; the postmedial line reduced to a series of black 

 points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, then curved; 



