574 NOCTTJID^. 



area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. turana. Paler and more tinged with ochreous. — Trans- 

 caspia and Mongolia. 



Ab. 2. intermedia. Ochreous white with a violaceous tinge, the 

 markings indistinct. — Armenia ; Syria ; Persia. 



Ab. 3. erubescens, Fulvous or reddish with the markings 

 distinct. — N. Syria ; Mesopotamia ; Kurdistan. 



Ab. 4. funebris. Much darker, leaden grey. — Armenia; Taurus. 



Hab. Prance, E. Pyrenees ; IS". Spain ; Switzerland, 2 § ; 

 I!^. Italy; Hungary ;■ Cakinthi a; Bosnia; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Syria, Lebanon (Mrs. Niclioll), I cJ , Palestine, 

 1 2 ; Persia, Mesopotamia, 1 c? , 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, 

 Ferghana ; Mongolia. Exp. 38-42 millim. 



1002. Lycophotia pudica. 



Agrotis pudica, StaucT. Iris, viii. p. 351, pi. vi. 1". 3 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 143. 

 Jgrotiti griseola, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 353 (1895). 



c^ . Head and thorax pale orange ; palpi blackish except at tips ; 

 tibice and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish, tinged with 

 ochreous towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing 

 pale orange, slightly irrorated with black ; a subbasal black spot on 

 costa with line from it to submedian fold ; an oblique antemedial 

 line expanding into spots at costa, submedian fold, and inner margin ; 

 a medial shade strong from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is 

 bent outwards, then waved and diffused ; a curved diffused obscurely 

 waved postmedial line slightly angled inwards in discal fold ; a 

 subterminal blackish patch on costa and faint traces of a subtermiual 

 line; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with pale fuscous ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. griseola. Fore wing suffused with violaceous grey. 



Hah. W. Tereestan, Issyk-kul, 1 c? ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts. Exj). 36 millim. 



1003. Lycophotia umbrifera. 



Agrotis umbrifera, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Koss. svii. p. 53, pi. i. f. 33 (1882) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



5 . Head whitish ; palpi black at sides except at base ; thorax 

 very pale rufous mixed with fuscous ; tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous with a fleshy tiiige, thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 fuscous, less so on costal half to postmedial line ; a waved fuscous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved fuscous ante- 

 medial line ; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell : 

 reniform an indistinct lunule ; postmedial line dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the terminal 

 area more strongly suffused Avith fuscous ; a pale diffused subterminal 



