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band and line from eye. Bodj' green, finely mottled with white, 

 with faint, narrow, irregailar dorsal, double subdorsal, lateral, and 

 broad substigmatal white lines. 



More usually the larva is brown. Head pale brown, the markings 

 dark brown. Body pale brown, mottled with black, mostly in longi- 

 tudinal streaks edging the whitish lines, which are dorsal, obscurely 

 double subdorsal, and lateral, besides the broad distinct substigmatal 

 band, white, sharply edged, red-centered. White subdorsal dots 

 anteriorly on segments ; spiracles white, black-rimmed. Subdorsal 

 black shades longitudinal, Feeds on grass, — H. G. D. 



902. Lycopliotia biformis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 32.) 

 Meiitaxya bifonnis, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 109 (1898). 



<S . Head and thorax grey-white, slightly pencilled with pale 

 brown, the thorax irrorated with a few dark brown scales ; palpi 

 black-brown except at extremities ; tegulcB with an elliptical black 

 patch ; legs tinged with blackish above ; abdomen ochreous white, 

 the ventral surface irrorated with black scales. Fore wing white, 

 striated with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales : the 

 subbasal line represented by blackish points below costa and cell ; 

 faint traces of a nearly s.traight antemedial line, with the black point 

 representing tlie claviform on its outer edge ; orbicular obsolete ; 

 reniform represented by two rufous points on discocellulars ; an 

 indistinct brownish postmedial line highly excurved beyond the 

 cell ; subterminal line obsolete ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 S . Exp. 34 millim. Type f 

 in Coll. Schaus, 



963. Lycopliotia messia. (Plate LXXV, fig, 2.) 



Agrotis messium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 276 (1852). 

 Agrotis pesronii, Guen. Noct. i. p. 282 (1852). 

 Agrotis furcif era, Wlk. xv. 169'.) (18.">8). 



Ccrastis ferruginescens, var. lucilla, Butl. Trans, Eut. Soe. 1S82, p. 133. 

 Agrotis digraonma, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philoin. (7) ix. p. 00 (1885) ; id. N. 

 Arch. Mus. (3) i. p. 146, pi. xi. f. 2. 



Head grey, more or less strongly tinged with purplish red-brown ; 

 thorax grey, pencilled with brown, sometimes irrorated with black 

 scales ; tegulse with the basal half black ; tibiae with the spurs 

 black and white ; abdomen greyish or ochreous, more or less strongly 

 suffused aiid irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated and 

 sometimes suffused with dark brown, the costal area suffused with 

 ferruginous or purple-broAvn ; the subbasal line double, waved from 

 costa to submediau fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, bent 

 outwards above inner margin ; the claviform usually delincd by 

 black and well-developed, sometimes reduced to a point at its 

 extremity ; the orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, 

 and with blackish centres, the former round ; the postmedial line 

 double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved and slightly bent outwards above inner 



