658 



N0CTUIDJ5. 



wing semiliyalino wliite ; the underside witli slight discoidal poiut, 

 and the costal area iii'orated with brown. 



5 . Hind wing irrorated with, brown, especially towards termen. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing very much browner, the latter 

 without the black patches on costal area, which is sometimes slightly 

 tinged with ferruginous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous brown, 

 becoming whitish towards base ; the cilia white. 



IJab. Chile, Valparaiso {Edmonds), 1 J , 3 5 . Exp. 34 millim. 



966. Lycopho.tia mimia. (Plate LXXV. fig. 5.) 



Cerastis viinna, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 134. 



Orfhoda mollis, Mab. Bull. Soc. Pbilom. (7) ix. p. G2 (1885); id. Miss. 

 Sei. Cap Horn, vi. Lep. p. 18, pi. 1. f. 7. 



<S . Head greyish mixed with pale rufous ; palpi fringed with 

 blackish in front ; thorax ochreous tinged with pale rufous, the 

 tegulae with the basal half black ; abdomen pale brownish irrorated 

 with fuscous, and with some white hair at base. Fore wing pale 

 brown, tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; the 

 .subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; a subbasal black point in 

 cell ; claviform represented by a black point, the orbicular by a 

 small spot, the reniform by two spots conjoined by ferruginous and 

 with traces of a pale annulus ; traces of a punctiform postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing semihyalino white ; \:h.Q costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black points 

 except towards tornus ; the underside with discoidal point. 



Hah. CniLG, Valparaiso {Edmonds), 1 S type; Patagonia, Straits 

 of Magellan, Beagle Channel, type f S mollis in Mus. Paris. Exj^>. 

 ■^4 millim. 



967. Lycophotia digna. (Plate LXXV. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis digna, Moi-r. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 115 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. 

 -Agrotin nigrouittata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ili. p. 77 (1875). 



Head and thorax white, slightly tinged with ochreous; palpi 

 black except at tips ; tegulse black at base ; legs strongly irrorated 

 with brown ; abdomen white, tinged with ochreous except towards 

 base. Pore wing ochreous white, slightly striated with grey and 

 irrorated with dark brown especially towards termen ; all the 

 markings obsolete, except that the reniform is sometimes repre- 

 sented bj' two black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the 

 costal area and termen slightly tinged with ochreous in female. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 J , 1 ? , typo nigrovittatu. Exj). 34 millim. 



968. Lycophotia atricincta. (Plate LXXV, fig. 7.) 

 Nociua airioincla, Smith, Ent. News PLilad. vi. p. 333, pi. xv. i'. 3 (1895). 



S . Head and tegulfe white ; palpi blackish at sides except at 

 extremities ; tegulu3 with black medial baud tapering to sides ; 

 thorax gro} -white ; tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomcu 



