LTCOPilOTIA. 



555 



the subterminal line dark, defined by the area beyond it being rufons 

 except at apex, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; the teriuen sometimes with some white points. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white ; the costal and inner areas and tormen tinged 

 with ochreous or fuscous; the underside with the costal area irro- 

 rated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (TritjiUo), 3 cJ ; Panama, Chiriqui (Cliam- 

 2)'>oii), 1 $ , Godman-lSalvin Coll. ; Vkxezdela, 1 6 ; Brazil, 1 S , 

 Organ Mts., Tijvca (Wagner), 1 c? ; ? hab., 1 (S type i^rodenoides. 

 Exj). 44 millim. 



961. Lycophotia iiifecta. 



Agrotis hifecfa, Orbs. Sebmett. Eur. iv. p. 6-7 (1816). 



Noctaa prcecox, Hiibn. Satimil. Eur .Scbuiett , Koct. f. 259 (1827), nee Linn. 



Agrotis incivis, Guen. Noct. i. p. -74(1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aui. 



p. 70; Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 284. 

 Lcvpliygma •prcBcvpua, Wlk. Cliar. Undescr. Het. p. 29 (1869). 

 Graphiphora bartholemica, WUgrn. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forb. 1871, p. 915. 

 Atiicla alabamcs, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci. ii. p. 159 (1874). 

 Prodeiiia 2Mioper, Bull. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 485. 

 Agrotis mulina, Moscbl. Abb. Senek. Ges. xiv. (3) p. 47 (1886). 

 Aiiicla mahalpa, Scliaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 109 (1898). 



Head and thorax grey, irrorated with a few dark scales ; palpi 

 black except at extremity ; teguhe with the basal haK black ; mid 

 and hind tibia? and tarsi snfFused with black above ; abdomen 

 Avhitish tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Eore wing 

 ochreous grey or violaceous grey, more or less strongly irrorated 

 and striated with fuscous ; the subbasal and antemedial lines 

 usually represented by black points on the costa, sometimes trace- 

 able ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform small, grey with 

 fulvous annuli, the former round, the latter with one black point in 

 upper portion and two in lower ; the postmedial line represented by 

 a curved series of black points, sometimes connected by a minutely 

 dentate line ; the subterminal line j^ale, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, with rufous or dark brown suffusion be3-oiid 

 it and often on its inner edge, leaving the apex grey. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the costa and termen tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated Avith brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Illinois, Alabama, 1 S type aJahama^, 

 Mississippi, Kansas, 1 6 , ^ $ ? Texas, Dallas, 1 6 , Washington, 

 California, Florida, St. John's Bluff (Doubleday), 1 c? , 3 5 type 

 incivis; Bermuda, 'Challenger' Coll., 2 5 ; Jamaica {Boivry), 1 c? 

 ty\ie imuper, Gordon Town (Kai/e), 1 $ ; Haiti (Tivcedie), 1 c? ; St. 

 Lucia (Maj. Cowie), 2 $ ; Grenada (H. H. Smith), 2 2 : Barbados 

 {Frampton), 2 J ; Mexico, Jalapa {TrvjUlo), 1 c? , ^ $ ; Guatemala 

 (Kodricjuez), 1 c? ; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 (j" , Godman- 

 ISalvin Coll.; Venezuela, Caracas, 1 ^ ; Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 

 1 S , 1 2 , Paraiia, type f maludpa in Coll. Schaus ; Argentina, 

 Ooya (Perrhis), 1 § ; Peru, Lima, 1 5 type prcecipua. Exp. 

 34-42 millim. 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. xii. p. 14 (1880), as lubricuns, in error ; Dyar, 

 Can. Eut. xxvi. p. 18(1894). 



Head pale green with brownish reticulations, curved vertical 



