Publ. IS. IX. 1924. 
LYCOPHOTIA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
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L. melanoleuca Hmps. Forewing blackish-brown with a reddish tint and leaden lustre; transverse melanoleu- 
lines indistinct, the anterior lines double, the posterior line finely undulate, distally tinted lighter; traces of 
the median shade, maculae surrounded with black; darker traces of the undulate line. Hindwing white, costal 
margin and veins brownish. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Fuegia. 
L. lilaciiia Zerny (9 i) has lilac-grey forewings with a somewhat lighter costal-marginal part and equally lilacina. 
coloured, coherent maculae in the jet-black cell, below them a black basal ray; transverse lines double, some¬ 
times distinct, sometimes quite indistinct, particularly in the $; undulate line mostly indistinct, at the costal 
margin before it a minute triangular, dark spot. Hindwing white, at the costal and proximal margins faintly 
yellowish. Bolivia (Cuesta of Cillutincara). 
L. astricta Morr. (11 c). Large, of a deep purple blackish brown, in the discal area somewhat greyer, adrlcla. 
in the cell and its surroundings dusted reddish; transverse lines and median shade indistinct, the posterior 
line dentate, distally tinted with a lighter grey; maculae large, in a blackish ground, undulate line bordered by 
black sagittae. Hindwing dark brown with whitish fringes. Canada and Northern States. — subjugata Dyar r.ubjugaia. 
s another form with connected transverse lines. 
L. nigra 8m. (11c) is likewise a very large brownish-black species with black markings which are nigra. 
more or less bordered with whitish or oclireous yellowish scales; transverse lines double, filled up with a lighter 
tint, with a faded median shade; the yellowish or whitish undulate line is proximally bordered by a row of 
small black lunae. Hindwing dirty white with a darker central dot and postmedian line. From Utah and 
Colorado. 
L. occulta L. (Vol. Ill, t. 11 g). This well-known, large species having been dealt with in the pale- occulta. 
arctic part (Vol. Ill, p. 53) also occurs in America in Greenland, Canada, and the United States as far as Colorado. 
The brown larva with a flesh-coloured lateral stripe lives on low plants. 
L. ochronota Hmps. (lie) is also rather large and resembles somewhat margaritosa from which it oclironota. 
differs particularly by the very dark costal part, the forewing being otherwise oclireous brown, strewn with 
a dark brown; transverse lines double, undulate, filled up with ochreous-yellowish, the posterior line single 
dentate; the large maculae are black, in yellowish rings; undulate line yellowish, the marginal area darkened. 
Hindwing diaphanous white with brown veins. Mesothorax oclireous- yellowish. Uruguay. 
L. semifusca Btlr. (11c) on the whole resembles ochronota, it is smaller, of a lighter brownish grey, scmifusca. 
the darkened costal part is much narrower, the transverse lines are more indistinct; mesothorax not tufted 
yellowish as in ochronota, but blackish-brown. The P is much darker with a somewhat lighter marginal area. 
Chile. 
L. margaritosa Haw. (= inermis Harr.) (11 cl) is a well-known, almost cosmopolitan species having margaritosa. 
been dealt with at large in the palearctic part (Vol. Ill, p. 53). The more uni-coloured greyish-brown form 
saucia Hhn. (Vol. Ill, t. II h) occurs particularly in the South American ranges. In America this insect flies saucia. 
from Canada to Chile and Argentina. The brownish larva with oblique brownish subdorsal shades lives very 
polyphagous on low plants. 
L. serano 8m. (20 f). Habitus and colour agreeing with more contrasting margaritosa, whereas the scrano. 
markings recall the type of c-nigrum by the dark-filled cell, whereas on the whole the median area is somewhat 
darker against the lighter subbasal and postmedian areas. Described from Arizona (Chiricahua Mountains). 
L. margariteUa Dogn. has brownish-grey forewings with faintly yellowish submedian and marginal margarUcl- 
areas, with double, dentate transverse lines filled up with a somewhat lighter colour, the posterior line dentate, 1,1 ' 
behind the teeth whitish dots on the veins; ring-rnacula large, dusted with whitish, laterally bordered with 
black, the reniform macula downwards crossing the cell, likewise strewn with whitish; the indistinct light undu¬ 
late line is likewise dentate. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 34 to 
35 mm. Costa Rica (Volcano Irazu). 
L. grandipennis Grt. (lid). Forewing grey, dusted with a purple reddish brown, with somewhat grandipen- 
blackish veins, a black basal ray and an indistinct, dentate, anterior transverse line, the others being quite nis ‘ 
extinct; maculae small and rather inconspicuous, with a dark streak between and behind them. Hindwing 
brownish-grey with darker veins. New Mexico. 
L. rudens Harv. (11c, d). The $ has a lighter or darker orange-yellowish head and base of collar, in rudens. 
the ^ whitish. Forewing light grey, strewn with brownish with a strong black basal ray; the anterior transverse 
lines are only traceable, the posterior line as a row of dots; maculae small, before and. between them black stripes; 
undulate line distally bordered with brown. Hindwing diaphanous white with brown veins, costal and distal 
margins. Texas to Mexico. 
L. pellucidalis Grt. (11 d) is very similar, but without the black basal ray and the black stripes in the pellucidalis. 
cell; forewing light grey, more intensely strewn with red-brown, particularly in the costal part; transverse lines 
more distinct. In the $ the orange head and collar of the is like in rudens brownish-grey or whitish. From 
Texas to Mexico. 
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