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LYCOPHOTIA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
adorea. 
microstig¬ 
ma. 
interrupia. 
orthogram- 
ma. 
striolata. 
/ uscicosta. 
molUrix. 
tetraonis. 
ignicans. 
infecia. 
biformis. 
L. adorea Schs. (11 d). Anterior body and forewing violettish-whitish, strewn with black, with brown 
veins bordered with white, and a black basal ray; the ring-macula is a small, elliptical, black spot; in the lower 
cell-end there is a brown patch, dusted with brown behind the upper cell-end and near the anal angle. Hindwing 
diaphanous white. Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
L. microstigma Schs. (11 d). Forewing grey with a violet tint and strewn with black, with a yellowish 
white costal part and black basal stripe and a similar one above the median before and between the small white 
ring-macula and the blackish-pupilled reniform macula; the median is striped yellowish-white; a postmedian 
transverse row of black dots on the veins; the undulate line consists of small, indistinct sagittae. Hindwing 
diaphanous white. Brazil. 
L. interrupta Maass. is grey with a black basal stripe, extinct transverse stripes, the cell filled up 
with black before and between the small, round, black-pupilled maculae; undulate line composed of a row of 
black dots on its proximal side and a somewhat larger spot at the costal margin. Hindwing white, at the margin 
darkened. Ecuador. 
L. orthogramma Hmps. (He) is very easily recognizable by the two slightly bent, dark transverse 
lines being towards the base bordered with light; ground-colour whitish, densely covered with olive-brown 
transverse striae, particularly in the costal part; the macidae are whitish rings surrounded with red-brown, 
the reniform macula is below pupilled black. Hindwing diaphanous white, at the costal margin ochreous- 
yellowish. Brazil. 
L. striolata sp. n. (13 d). Forewing greyish-white with numerous long transverse striae, which are 
scantier and more brownish in the centre of the wing, more densely arranged and of a more brownish grey 
at- the costal margin and in the distal-marginal area, whilst in the two central quarters of the proximal margin 
they flow together into a broad grey surface and in the marginal area they leave free a lighter undulate line; 
the lightest is the proximal half of the basal area; the anterior and posterior transverse lines are remarkably 
distant from each other and marked by single brownish arcuate lines, the posterior line besides marked by 
blackish dots on the veins on the feet of the bows; of the maculae only the reniform macula is marked by lateral 
light- bordering and black filling of its lower half, behind it there are traces of ferruginous brown dusting; the 
flight fringes are parted by two fine brown lines. Collar deep black. Hindwing of a pure white. 1 $ from the 
Cuesta de Cillutincara (Bolivia) at an altitude of 3000 m, captured by Fassl. 
L. fuscicosta sp. n. (13 d) is on its light- pinkish-grey ground coarsely dusted with black and in some 
places, particularly in the costal half and near the maculae and transverse lines feebly dusted with chestnut-red; 
costal margin from the base to the undulate line broad dark brownish-black; transverse lines double, blackish, 
behind the posterior line there are besides blackish dots on the veins; maculae rather inconspicuous, of the 
ground-colour, the upper third penetrating into the dark costal area, the reniform macula below filled up 
with blackish. Undulate line dark, dentate, proximally faded, distally distinctly defined against the light 
silvery grey marginal area; on the margin black dots between the veins; fringes light, near the base parted 
by a dark line being interrupted on the light veins. Hindwing snow-white, diaphanous. Abdomen with a 
ferruginous-yellowish anal tuft. 1 $ from the Cuesta de Cillutincara (Bolivia), 3000 m, taken by Fassl. 
L. molitrix sp. n. (13 d) is on the forewing very light pinkish-grey, in the disc and proximal part 
santily and coarsely strewn with chestnut-red, a dark brown costal part- like in fuscicosta, and in the marginal 
area with accumulations of purple blackish scales flown together to long transverse striae; transverse lines 
single, of a deep chestnut-red colour, the anterior line composed of 3 bows, the posterior line dentate; maculae 
inconspicuous in the dark costal part, surrounded with chestnut-red, the reniform macula in the lower third 
pupilled blackish, from its lower angle dense transverse striae form a kind of short median shade. Hindwing 
whitish diaphanous, at- the costal margin brownish. Costa Rica (Volcano Irazu). 
L. tetraonis Drc. The description of this species being unknown to me says: anterior body greyish- 
brown, abdomen lighter brown. Forewing dark brown, basal and costal areas strewn with grey, with a grey 
submarginal line running from near the apex to the posterior angle; fringes speckled light and dark brown. 
Hindwing diaphanous white, at the distal margin near the apex with a row of fine black dots. Expanse of 
wings: 1% inch. North Peru (Huancabamba). 
L. ignicans Gn. (= prodenoides Wkr.) (lie, f) has ochreous-yellowish forewings striated black with 
a ferruginous brown or chestnut-brown marginal area; transverse lines and maculae quite extinct or marked 
by dots, only the reniform macula is marked by 3 black dots on a red-brown spot. Hindwing diaphanous white, 
costal, proximal and distal margins tinted oclireous or brown. Mexico to Brazil. 
L. infecta O. (= incivis Gn., alabamae Grt.) (11 f) resembles ignicans, but- it- is smaller, in the margi¬ 
nal area not- red-brown, but more brownish-grey; ground-colour more violettish-grey, both maculae present, 
the reniform macula not on a red-brown ground. Distributed from the United States in the whole of Central 
and South America to Argentina and Peru. — The light brown larva with whitish longitudinal stripes lives 
on grasses. 
L. biformis Schs. (11 e) chiefly differs from the preceding by the marginal area not- being darkened 
at all; forewing white, striated red-brown and strewn with black; transverse lines indistinct, the posterior line 
