LTCOPHOTIA. 



577 



irrorated with brown, a more or less promiuent diffused postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Patagonia, Punta Arenas {J. J. WalJcer), 2 $ . My. 

 34 millim. 



1008. Lycophotia nanalis. (Plate LXXV. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis nanalis, Grote, Oau. Ent. xiii. p. 131 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 67. 



(3 . Head and thorax greyish brown, largely mixed with black ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brown suft'used with 

 black, most prominently towards inner margin and forming obscure 

 streaks on the veins ; subbasal line hardly traceable ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, dentate ; claviform elongate, with faint pale 

 outline ; orbicular small, lanceolate, with pale outline ; reniform 

 small, very indistinct ; traces of a dentate medial line ; a very 

 indistinct highly dentate postmedial line ; faint traces of a dentate 

 subterminal line. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the underside with slight discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial 

 and subterminal points on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 S type. Exy. 30 millim. 



1009. Lycophotia oliveata. (Plate LXXV. fig. 32.) 

 Agrotis oliveata, Hmpsn. Ann. 3. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 262 (1902). 



d" . Head and thorax olive-yellow, more or less strongly mixed 

 with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Pore wing olive-yellow, more or less strongly irrorated with black, 

 the inner and terminal areas sometimes mostly black ; a waved 

 subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; an irregularly 

 dentate antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former round ; postmedial Hue dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below eosta, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by more or less 

 developed dentate black marks on inner side ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown ; the 

 underside whiter irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. IS"atal, Charleston," 1 ^ ; C. Colont, 1 <S type. Exp. 42 

 miUim. 



1010. Lycophotia praecurrens. 



Agrotis prcecurrens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 248 ; id. Eom. Mem. 



vi. p. 422, pi. 6. f. 7 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 

 Agrotis bisagittata, Grjes. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 324. 



Head and tegulse white, slightly mixed with brown, the latter 

 with slight medial line ; thorax brown mixed with black and white ; 

 tegulse edged with black ; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing bluish or 

 yellowish grey -green; a double, waved, antemedial line from costa 



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