568 NOCTUID^. 



the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, more uniformly 

 suffused in female ; the cilia white ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a onrved postmedial line. 



Hah. Cyprus, Mts. {Miss D. M. A. Bate), 1 c?, 1 $ type. Exp. 

 32-36 millim. 



990. Lycophotia pudens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 26.) 

 Agrotis pudens, Mab. Ann. Soc. Eat. Fr. Ixviii. p. 728 (1900). 



5 . Head and thorax lilacine grey slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black at sides except at tips ; tegulge with black medial line ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen dorsally ochreous brown 

 tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface whitish, with black sub- 

 lateral points. Fore wing lilacine grey slightly irrorated with 

 black, the costal area tinged with ferruginous red ; a double rufous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial 

 line angled outwards in cell and above inner margin ; claviform 

 represented by a rufous striga at its extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform with pale fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by 

 rufous ; the postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, with a series of black points on 

 its outer edges and a series on the veins beyond it ; the subterminal 

 line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 with a rufous patch on its inner side at costa, then a series of 

 points and slight rufous marks on its outer edge ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia pale bi'owu. Hind Aving semihyaline white, 

 the veins, costal and inner areas and a terminal line brownish ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, postmedial 

 and subterminal series of black points. 



The type from E. Africa has the lower part of cell before and 

 between the stigmata black, the area above and beyond it redder. 



Hah. Madagascar, Eetsileo {Cowan), 1 $ ; E. Africa, type f $ 

 in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 42 millim. 



991. Lycophotia conformis. 



Agrotis conformis, Svpinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pi. 9. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 184. 



(S . Head and thorax whitish irrorated with pale ochreous brown ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous brown. Eore wing pale ochreous brown 

 slightly irrorated with dark scales ; the ante- and postmedial lines 

 represented by black points on costa ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 defined by ochreous annuli, the former oblique, elliptical. Hind wing 

 whitish, the veins, inner and terminal areas tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Baluchistan, Quetta {Swinhoe), 1 6 type. Exp. 38 millim. 



992. Lycophotia vallesiaca. 



Agrotis vaUesiaca, BoxsA. Ic. pi. 78. f. 3 (1832); Stand. Iris, i. p. 217, 

 pi. 10. f. 10; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 334, Noct. f. 80; Stand. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown and a few 



