. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LYCOPHOTIA. 529 920. Lycophotia scandens. Agrotis scandens, Riley, 1st Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 76, pi. i. ff. 5, 7 (1869); Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 4 ; Sauud. Fruit Insects, p. 107, f. 105; Slingerlancl, Bull. Cornell Exp. Stat, xciii. pp. 567, 569, pi. 1; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 93. (S . Pale grey, ofteu more or less suffused with pink or yellow; palpi and legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with slight blackish irroration; two subbasal black specks on costa and traces of a
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LYCOPHOTIA. 529 920. Lycophotia scandens. Agrotis scandens, Riley, 1st Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 76, pi. i. ff. 5, 7 (1869); Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 4 ; Sauud. Fruit Insects, p. 107, f. 105; Slingerlancl, Bull. Cornell Exp. Stat, xciii. pp. 567, 569, pi. 1; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 93. (S . Pale grey, ofteu more or less suffused with pink or yellow; palpi and legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with slight blackish irroration; two subbasal black specks on costa and traces of a double waved subbasal line : two antemedial specks on costa and an indistinct double, waved, ante- medial line ; the claviform represented by a few dark scales; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, outlined by some orange or pink and black scales, the former round, the latter with dark spot on its lower edge ; two dark ])ostmedial points on costa, the postmedial. Fit;. 91.—LycopJio/ii/ scandens, (^ line represented by a series of points bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved; two white points on costa before the subterminal line, which consists of a series of small white lunules with some orange or pink and black scales on their edges ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing white, with the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; the underside with small discoidal lunule and post- medial series of points. Hah. , N. & E. States, 2 S, Grote & Zeller Colls., Illinois, Chicago, 1 c? ; Colorado. Exp. 40 millim. Larva. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. i. p. 78 (1869). Head pale brown with brown bands. Body pale, mottled in darker, somewhat greenish from the food. Dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and stigraatal lines obscure, irregularly clouded, the dorsal line sometimes narrowly white. Cervical shield brown, with a black spot on each side. Tubercles blackish dorsally. A general feeder.—H. G. D. *921. Lycophotia congrua. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 8.) Agrotis congrua, Sniitb, Trans. A
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