572 



NOCTUID.55, 



998. Lycophotia hadjina. (Plate LXXV. fig. 28.) 



Jgrofis hadjina, Stand. Iria, iv. jJ. 270, pi. iii. f. 8 (1891) ; id. Oat. Lep, 



pal. p. 145. 

 Agrotis zeiUrna, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 3Gi, pi. 6. f. 6 (1899). 



Head and thorax pale blue- grey mixed with black ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with black ; 

 a waved subbasal line from costa to snbmedian fold arising from a 

 black spot on costa ; a waved antemedial line arising from a black 

 spot on costa ; an ochreous streak in submedian fold, the claviform 

 being represented by its extremity being slightly defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by blackish, the former 

 small, round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, slightly 

 incurved in discal fold and more strongly below vein 4; the sub- 

 terminal line ochreous, defined by darker suffusion on inner side, 

 somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; an ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark fuscous ; 

 the cilia whitish, ochreous at base ; the underside ochreous white, 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab, 1. seituna. Paler and without the blue-grey, the ground- 

 colour of head, thorax, and fore wing being ochreous grey. 



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*999. Lycophotia macrina. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis macrina, Piing. ined. 



Head whitish, palpi at sides except extremity and antenna 

 blackish ; thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen greyish white, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. 

 Pore wing grey, suffused with olive and thickly irrorated with fuscous, 

 the terminal area with a yellowish tinge ; snbbasal line black, 

 waved from costa to vein 1 and defined by whitish on outer side ; 

 antemedial line strong, black defined by whitish on inner side, 

 waved and somewhat oblique ; claviform with its extremity slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, the former 

 round, incompletely defined by black, the latter with its medial ]iart 

 strongly suffused with rufous and defined by black except above 

 and below ; a very irregularly waved black medial line angled 

 outwards to lower angle of cell, diffused and darkening the cell 

 between the stigmata ; postmedial line dentate and produced to 

 points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 4, then incurved, slightly defined on outer side by whitish 

 and with some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, defined by the contrast between the postmedial and paler 

 yellowish terminal area, irregularly dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing whitish, uniformly suflFused with fuscous ; 

 cilia yellowish white; the underside whitish, the costal area more 



