92 



NOCTUIDiE. 



bro-\vn spots, meeting dorsally at the bifid hump on segment 11 ; 

 lateral line yellow; head brownish. Food-plant, Zonic^ra, 



Subsp. centralasice. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212 (1901). 



Larger ; thorax grey tinged with brown ; fore wing with the 

 cell and area beyond it slightly tinged with brown ; the orbicular 

 and reniform well separated below ; hind wing of male with the 

 terminal half suffused with brown, of female almost wholly suffused 

 with brown. 



Hab. W. TuKKESTA]sr, Ferghana, Issyk Kul, 1 cJ . Exj). 38 

 millim, 



*2187. Lophoterges fatua. 



LitliocamiM fatua, Piing. Iris, xvi. p. 288, pi. vi. f. 4 (1904). 



Head and tegula) grey tinged with brown ; palpi with strong- 

 black streak at side of 2ud joint; frons and vertex of head with 

 blackish bars ; tegulae with black line near base ; thorax blackish 

 with some grey at extremity of patagia and on metathorax ; pectus 

 and legs brown mixed with grey ; abdomen black-brown with grej' 

 segmental rings, paler in female. Fore wing grey suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the veins with slight blackish streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by double black striae from costa ; a short whitish streak 

 in base of submedian fold on a brown patch ; an oblique black streak 

 across the cell before the antemedialline, which is indistinctly double, 

 curved, somewhat dentate ; claviform absent ; orbicular narrow, 

 very oblique, elliptical, grey defined by black, its centre slightly 

 defined by bro-^n, connected with a similar semicircular mark below 



Fig. 14. — Loplwtcryes fatua, S • \- 



the cell nearly touching lower edge of reniform, which is a narrow 

 lunule with its extremities produced, with brownish centre and 

 whitish annulus defined by black 5 postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to short black streaks on the veins, 

 obliquely excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some slight grey 

 points beyond it on costa ; an obliquely curved blackish shade from 

 apex to lower angle of cell, crossed by a series of black streaks in 

 interspaces of terminal area ; an incurved dark subterminal line 

 from vein 4 to inner margin, with some whitish scales on inner 

 side in submedian fold ; a fine slightly waved black terminal line ; 

 cilia brown with whitish line at base. Hind wing ochreous, nearly 

 uniformly suffused with red-brown ; cilia white with a brown line 



