LTCOPHOTIA. 561 



972. Lycophotia butleri. (Plate LXXV. fig. 10.) 



Menfaxya butleri, Schaus, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). 



5 . Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown ; palpi black 

 except at tips ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing- 

 pale grey, slightly irrorated with black and tinged in parts with 

 brown ; the subbasal line represented by black spots on costa and 

 below the cell ; the antemedial line double, brown, slightly excurved 

 below cell and strongly above inner margin ; claviform small, 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by 

 black and with brownish centres ; traces of a waved medial shade ; 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

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

 subterminal line diffused reddish brown, developed into a patch on 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series 

 of black points just before termen. Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown ; the veins towards termen 

 brown ; a brown terminal line except towards tornus. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, type t § in Coll. Schaus ; Bkazil, Eio 

 Janeiro, 1 5 . Exp. 31 millim. 



•973. Lycophotia yaxcaba. (Plate LXXV. fig. 11.) 

 Amathes yaxcaba, Schaus, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous, the scales tipped with grey ; pali^i 

 black, pale at tips ; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with brown, the 

 ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing thickly irrorated 

 with black ; a slightly waved black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a somewhat dentate antemedial line oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold, then incurved ; claviform and orbicular 

 obsolete ; reniform only defined by a slightly curved black striga 

 below it ; postmedial line minutely dentate, somewhat diffused, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4 where it is angled, then erect ; no 

 trace of subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing hyaline white, the veins brownish ; a slight terminal 

 brown line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with black. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, type t $ in CoU. Schaus. Exp. "Mvcnlliva. 



974. Lycophotia simplicia. (Plate LXXV. fig. 12.) 



Agrotis simplicius, Morr. Proc. Bosfc. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). 

 Agrotis simplaria, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 1210 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. 



J . Head and thorax grey irrorated with dark brown ; palpi 

 black except at tips ; tegulse with traces of a black medial line ; 

 pectus and legs strongly irrorated witli black ; abdomen grey, the 

 dorsal surface irrorated with brown, the ventral strongly with 

 black. Fore wing grey-white, irrorated with black ; the lines 

 obsolete ; the claviform represented by parallel short streaks ; the 

 orbicular by a short streak above median nervure, sometimes con- 

 joined to the reniform, which consists of black points on each side 



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