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white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing white, slightly 

 sufFiised with fuscous and irrorated with black ; subbasal black 

 points below costa and cell ; the antemedial line rej)resented by a 

 blackish spot on costa and an obscure line from cell to inner naargin 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular absent ; the medial shade 

 represented by a blackish spot on costa and curved line from cell 

 to inner margin; reiiiforrn represented by a small black spot with 

 short streak below it ; the postmedial line dentate, black, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the 

 subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined by blackish spots on its inner side, becoming a 

 stronger shade towards costa ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous 

 and with a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, slightly tinged with fuscous on costal and inner areas ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous and 

 with diffused dark postmedial mark. 



Hub. Canada, Calgary ( Wullen Dod), 3 d ; U.S.A., Dakota, Volga 

 Co., 1 c? . Exj). 36 millim. 



*969. Lycophotia gaurax. (Plate LXXV. fig. 8.) 



Agrofis gaurax, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 117, pi. 4. f. 'J (1899); Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 254. 



c? . Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales tipped with rufous ; 

 abdomen grey with a rufous tinge. Fore wing lilacine grey, the 

 medial area suffused with rufous below the cell, the terminal area 

 tinged with rufous; the subbasal line represented by an oblique 

 black striga from costa ; the antemedial line oblique, somewhat 

 sinuous and indistinctly double, defined on outer side by a black 

 bar from costa and a striga from median nervure ; orbicular and 

 reniform very large, with pale annuli, the former V-shaped, open 

 above, the cell before and between them filled in with black ; post- 

 medial line indistinct or obsolescent except at costa, where it is 

 represented by a black bar, dentate, and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by rufous on inner side. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with rufous and with indistinct postmedial line on it. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Alexander Mts., type f in Coll. Piingelcr. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



970. Lycophotia margaritacea. 



Noctua margaritacea, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 272, pi. .5. f. 16 (1789) ; Ilerr.- 

 Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. p. o31 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



Isoctuci glareo&a, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2, p. 247, nei; Esp. 



Nuctua I-intactum, Hiibn. Sainml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. loO (1827) ; Dup, 

 Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 75, pi. 77. ff. '6, 4. 



Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown ; palpi black at 

 sides except at tips ; neck black at sides ; tegulse with some dark 

 scales ; fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen white, the anal tuft 



