LTcopnoTiA. 575 



line angled outwards at vein 7, strongly inwards in discal fold, 

 then escurved ; cilia ochreous, with a slight dark line at base. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; 

 cilia ochreous white ; underside ochreous white with broad fuscous 

 terminal band ; fore wing with dark spot on middle of costa. 



Bob. "W. Tttrkestan, Ferghana, Turcomania, Issyk-kul, 1 § ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, IJliassutai Mts. Exp. 42 millim. 



*1004. Lycophotia spreta. 



Noctua spreta, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Boc. x. p. 36 (1902). 



Fawn-grey, more or less strongly tinged with rufous ; frons 

 paler grey ; palpi black at sides. Fore wing with the markings 

 indistinct, diffused ; subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa, then interrupted, obscure or obsolete ; antemedial line 

 single, incomplete, sometimes obsolete ; claviform and orbicular 

 obsolete ; reniform represented by some black scales or irregular 

 spots ; a reddish medial line sometimes traceable ; postmedial line 

 single, usually marked at costa ouly, sometimes traceable as a 

 somewhat lunulate line excurved beyond the cell ; the terminal 

 area somewhat darker, the subterminal line sometimes represented 

 by whitish points with a dark shade before them on costa ; an 

 indistinct lunulate terminal line. Hind wing fuscous, somewhat 

 paler at base, darker in female. 



Hah. U.S.A., Floiida, Hastings. Exjy. 33-37 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



1005, Lycophotia fimbriola. 



Noctna firahriola, Esp. Sehmett. iv. pi. 193. f. 3 (1788) ; Hiibn. Samml. 

 Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 603 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 33, pi. 74; Boiscl. Ic. 

 pi. 81. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 

 Agrotis maravigna, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 82. f. 2 (1826). 

 '' Agrotis raddei, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 246, pi. 6. f. 20 (1877) ; 

 'id. Eom. Mem. ii. pi. 2. f. 9. 



Head and thorax ochreous white irrorated with dark brown ; 

 tegulee with dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey, irrorated and dorsally suffused with fuscous, the 

 anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing greyish ochreous, irrorated and the 

 terminal area suffused with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, irregularly waved, 

 antemedial line excurved above inner margin ; claviform with its 

 extremity slightly defined by brown or obsolete ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by brown, the former small, round, a 

 strongly developed dark sinuous medial shade ^^assing between 

 them ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line pale, strongly defined by black-brown suffusion on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate at 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the under- 



