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*982. Lycophotia tenuescens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 19.) 



Peridroma tenuescens, Smith, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mu?. 38, p. 73 (1890) ; id. 

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



Head and thorax whitish, with a few scattered reddish and black 

 scales. Fore wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with reddish ; 

 the lines obsolete ; elaviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform 

 blackish, ill-defined. Hind wing greyish or fuscous, paler at base; 

 the underside pale grey, irrorated with blackish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska. Exp. 31 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. 

 Arts & Sci. 



983. Lycophotia conchidia. (Plate LXXV. fig. 20.) 

 Hadena conchidia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 135. 



(^ . Head grey, with rufous bars above frons and between 

 antennae ; tegul^ yellow-brown at base, their tips and the thorax 

 grey mixed with black and brown and the scales tipped with white ; 

 abdomen whitish, irrorated with brown, tinged with ochreous 

 towards extremity. Fore wing grey, tinged Avith brown and 

 irrorated with black ; the veins streaked with white ; a double 

 black subbasal curved line from costa to submediau fold, interrupted 

 at cell and with black mark beyond it below the cell ; an indistinct 

 double, waved, antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1 

 and outwards above inner margin ; elaviform faintly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform defined bj^ black and with blackish 

 centres, the former round, the latter with some rufous in its outer 

 part ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; snbterminal line 

 represented by a very indistinct series of dentate marks ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing hyaline white, the termen 

 suftused with fuscous brown, narrowing to a point at vein 1 ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with black, a terminal 

 series of black points. 



5 . Head and thorax grey irrorated with black ; hind wing with 

 the marginal areas suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. QuiL^ {Edmonds), \ c? , 1 $ type, Coquimbo (J". J". TFrtZ/ier), 

 1 c? , 1 $ • Exp. 34 millim. - 



984. Lycophotia differens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 21.) 

 Jgrotis differens, Wlk. x. 336 (1856). 



(S . Head and front of thorax purple-brown, metathorax grey- 

 brown, the scales tipped with grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing dull 

 brown, slightly suffused with purplish red ; traces of double, 

 waved, subbasal and antemedial lines ; elaviform short, faintly 

 defined by red-brown ; orbicular and reniform obscurely defined by 

 red-brown, the former round ; some pale points on costa towards 

 apex ; the subterminal line represented by some very faint dark 

 points ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 



