570 NOCTUID^. 



irrorated with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a double, highly waved, antemedial line ; 

 a waved medial shade angled ontwards ou median nervure ; the 

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

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, defined by 

 ochreous on outer side ; the subterminal line defined by dark brown 

 sufi'usion on inner side, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 oclireous white tinged with brown especially on terminal area ; the 

 veins brown ; the cilia white ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown on costal and terminal areas, a dark discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line with darker striae at the veins, a terminal 

 series of dark points. 



Ab. 1. ala. Fore wing with the orbiciilar and reniform stigmata 

 defined hj ochreous-white annuli, the former round. 



Hah. Austria. ; Htjngaey, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Russia, Centr. 

 & 8.F. ; Armenia ; W. Tckkestan, Ferghana, Sarawschan, Ala Tan, 

 Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts., 1 J , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 

 44-56 millim. 



995. Lycophotia photophila. 



Jqrotis photophila, Guen. Koct. i. p. 302 (1852) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



■p. 144. 

 Agrotis so/krs, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1P77, p. 179 ; Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. 



Boss. xii. pi. 6. f. 19 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 Agrofis ignipeta, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 45, pi. 4. f. 4 (1876). 

 Spmlotis ■unduJans, Moore, A. M. N. H. (.5) i. p. 233 (1878); id. 2nd 



Yarkand Mission, pi. 1. f. 10; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183. 

 Agrotis obscurior. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. 

 Agrotis Candida, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. 

 Agrotis obtunbrata, Staud. Stett. cut. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed 

 with fuscous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; a waved subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold; a waved, somewhat oblique 

 antemedial line with a pale line on its inner side ; orbicular a dark 

 point ; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell ; 

 reniform a slight dark lunule ; postmedial line fuscous with pale 

 outer edge, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing and underside white suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Ab. 1. vestilina, Piing. ined. Like Candida, but with the hind 

 wing almost entirely white. — Aksu. 



Ab. 2. Candida. Paler ; the ground-colour whitish or ochreous ; 

 hind wing whiter, the veins and terminal area tinged with 

 ochreous. — Issyk-kul. 



Ab. 3. obscurior. Darker, especially the hind wing and under- 

 side. — Samarkand. 



