566 



NOCTUID^. 



veins, costal and terminal areas suifused with brown ; cilia with brown 

 line at base ; the underside with the costal area irroratcd with brown. 

 Hah. Venezuela {Dyson), 1 c? , Exp. 40 millim. 



*985. Lycophotla exuberans. (Plate LXXY. fig. 22.) 

 Noctua exuberans, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 103 (1898). 



(Srrey varying from reddish to ashen and with more or less dark 

 irroration ; palpi deep brown at sides ; tegulae deep brown at base. 

 Pore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines represented by black 

 spots on costa, the antemedial line sometimes faintly traceable ; 

 claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform small, black, ill-defined 

 and incomplete above ; a slight medial shade ; subterminal line 

 faint, pale, defined on inner side by a slight dark shade on costal 

 area, the area beyond it somewhat darker. Hind wing iridescent 

 white, tinged with fuscous towards termen ; a dark terminal line ; 

 cilia white ; the underside with the marginal areas slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs. Exp. 40 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from. 

 type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



986. Lycophotia postventa. (Plate LXXV. fig, 2e3.) 



Earois postventa, Geyer, Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. ff. 865,866 (1837). 



$ . Head and thorax grey ; frons blackish ; thorax tinged with 

 black ; abdomen fuscous black above, greyish below, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Pore wing lilacine grey irrorated with black-brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former round, the latter with some grey in centre, a 

 blackish jjatch between the stigmata extending to costa ; traces of 

 an oblique double line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the 

 veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

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

 veins, inner and terminal areas tinged with brown; a terminal 

 series of dark stria3 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on 

 the veins. 



Hah. Namaqualand ; C. Colony, 1 $ . Exp. 50 millim. 



987. Lycophotia costigera. (Plate LXXV. fig. 24.) 



Agrotis costigera, Wlk. xv. 1702 (1858). 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; tegulse 

 with slight blackish medial line ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged 

 with ochreous towards extremity, ventrally irrorated with brown. 

 Tore wing grey suffused with pale reddish brown and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; the costal edge white to beyond middle, with 

 four dark marks on it at origin of lines ; faint traces of a waved 

 antemedial line ; reniform small, greyish, incompletely defined by 

 black ; the postmedial line very indistinct, waved, bent outwards 



