578 NOCTIJIDiE. 



to snbmeclian fold, with yellow patch bej'ond it on costal area ; a 

 double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 large, defined by black and often filled in with yellow ; orbicular 

 and reniform each more or less figure-of-eight-shaped, with dark 

 centres and yellow annuli defined by black ; a waved medial black 

 line; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the terminal area from slightly beyond 

 postmedial line, except on costal area, red-brown ; the subterminal 

 line pale, Avaved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, with series of elongate dentate black marks on its inner 

 side ; an apical whitish patch ; the veins of terminal area finely 

 streaked with black ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 chequered brown and grey. Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia white with a brownish line through them ; the 

 underside paler, the costal area suffused with white, a discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct oblique postmedial line. 



Hah. Amukland, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 2 $ . Exp. 

 48 millim. 



1011. Lycophotia praecox. 



Koctua prcscox, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 517 (1758); Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 168. 



ff. 4-7 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 21 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 163. 

 Noctua prcBceps, Sohi£P. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 70 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 73. f. 2. 

 Agrotin flavomaculata, Grosser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 323. 



Head and thorax white and pale brown, the edges of patagia and 

 metathorax with some black scales ; legs brown, the tibiaj and 

 tarsi with white and black bands ; abdomen grey -brown, the ventral 

 surface with some white, black, and rufous scales. Fore wing pale 

 brassy-green irrorated with white ; a waved black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, defined by white on outer side ; a 

 double, waved, antemedial line filled in with white and with a 

 small white spot before it in cell ; claviform yellowish defined by 

 black, more or less developed; orbicular and reniform yellowish 

 defined by black, and with rufous or blackish centres, the former 

 round ; an indistinct, waved, medial shade ; postmedial line double, 

 black, filled in with white, waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; costa 

 black, with white points towards apex; a waved white subterminal 

 line angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, and with a red band on its 

 inner side from vein 7 to inner margin, the area beyond it blackish, 

 white at apex ; a terminal series of black points defined by a 

 crenulate white line ; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind 

 wing pale brown, with dark terminal line ; the cilia white. Under- 

 side of fore wing pale brown, with the costal and terminal areas 

 greenish white ; hind wing brownish white, the costal area white 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and postmedial line on 

 costal area. 



