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black scales ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wiug pale ochreous 

 thickly irrorated with brown ; a waved subbasal dark line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an obliquely waved autemedial line ; 

 claviform sbghtly defined at extremity by blackish ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by blackish, the former small, round ; a 

 waved medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1 ; subtermiual line 

 pale, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 3, 4 ; a terminal series of small dark 

 lunules. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 

 Hah. Switzerland, Valais, 1 d" , 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



993. Lycophotia pcecila. 



Agrotis pcecila, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 67 ; id. Eom. Mem. vi. 



p. '11, pi. 2. f. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 Agrotis superba, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. .32. 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with fuscous and grey-white ; 

 tegula} blackish at base, with black medial line and white tips ; 

 abdomen white tinged with pale biown. Pore wing pale ochreous 

 iirorated with black, the veins and costal area to subtermiual line 

 white irrorated with black ; a double, waved, subbasal black line 

 filled in with white from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 claviform very faintly defined by black scales and with a pale 

 streak from it to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform wliitish, 

 the former produced to a point on outer side, the latter with 

 fuscous mark on its lower part ; the postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, highly dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and incurved 

 in submedian interspace ; subtermiual line indistinct, whitish, 

 defined by a series of diffused dentate marks on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia white, with fuscous line at base. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous especially on 

 terminal area ; the cilia white ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot, traces 

 of a curved postmedial line and terminal series of black strife. 



Hab. E. TuEKESXAN, Kashgar ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 (S , 1 $. 

 ExjJ. 48 millim. 



994. Lycophotia fugax. 



Noctna fugax, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 195 (1825) ; Boisd. Icoues, 

 pi. 80. f. 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 73. f. 4 ; Herr.-Schaff. Scluiiett. Eur., 

 Noct. f. 170; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Agrotis ala, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 413 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; pectus with the 

 hair whitish ; tarsi black with pale rings. Fore wing grey thickly 



