LYCOrHOTIA. 571 



Ab. 4. olmmbrata. Much darker ; fore wiug very thickly irro- 

 rated with fuscous ; orbicular and reuiform ofteu more developed 

 and defined by ochreous ; hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area 

 with a rufous tinge, the cilia white ; the underside white irrorated 

 with fuscous, discoidal points and a curved postmedial line. — Issyk- 

 kul. 



Ifab. Algeria ; Stria, 2 $ ; E. Turkestan, Yarkand; S. xIfghan- 

 ISTAN ; SciNDE, Karachi (Sivinhoe), 1 $ ; W. Ttjekestan, Turkomania, 

 1 c? , 1 $, Samarkand (HaberJiauer), 2 5, Issyk-kul, 6 c? , 4 g; 

 Mongolia, Aksu. Ex2^. 56 millim. 



*996. Lycophotia electra. (Plate LXXV. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis electra. Stand. Stett. eat. Zeit. 1888, p. 6 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 



Head and thorax grey-white, the hairs tipped with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-white. Fore wing grey-white, thickly and finely irrorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line obsolescent, double, waved from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, double, waved, in- 

 distinct but with prominent black point at costa ; stigmata obsolete ; 

 an indistinct medial shade angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, with a 

 distinct black point at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a very 

 indistinct series of dentate marks ; a waved brown terminal line ; 

 cilia grey, with a brown line through them. Hind wing white, 

 slightly but nearly uniformly tinged with fuscous ; cilia pure white ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown and with 

 a postmedial line crossing it, a slight discoidal point. 



Hah. AV. Turkestan, Ferghana, Tagus-torau in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



997. Lycophotia caradrinoides. 



Agrotis caradrinoides, Stand. Iris, ix. pp. 248, 368, pi. 4. f. 4 (1896) ; id. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 

 Agrotis hydriUoides, Alph. Eom. Mem. is. p. 203, pi. 13. f. 11 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax pale brown mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 banded with black. Fore wing pale greyish-brown thickly irrorated 

 with black ; the subbasal and antemedial lines ill-defined double, 

 waved, the former from costa to submedian fold ; claviform repre- 

 sented by some blackish scales ; orbicular and reniform represented 

 by indistiuct pale lunules slightly defined by black ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Russia, Urals ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 6 , Changai Mts. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



