THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 711 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, clothed with long hair ; 

 frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with long ha ; r ; fore tibiae spined at 

 sides ; mid and hind tibiae spined Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from Id anastomnsii g with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from middle of discocellulars ; 6 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I., Ox ra. Antennae of male bipectionate with moderate branches, the 

 apical part serrate. 



A. Forewing with the cell black between the stigmata. 



a Forewing with large black patch beyond the cell... postfusca. 



b. Forewing without black patch beyond the cell ochmcen nb. 



ruplistriga. 



B. Forewing with the cell not black between the srigmata. 



a. Forewing with distinct pale subterminal line ochracea. 



b. Forewing with the subterminal line indistinct, dark olitascens. 

 1627a. Episilia postfosca. 



Episilia ochracea. $ 1. fi 



1621. Episilia ochracka, insert (/Jyn.) Mythimna deparca, But], A.M.N. 

 H. (5) VI., p. 358 (1879). 



Agrotis stictica, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (0) vii,, p. lxviii (1887). 



1625. EPISILfA OL1VASCKNS. 



Sect. II. (Pachnobia). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Forewing with the costal area pale to postmedial line retracla. 



B. Forewing with the costal area concolorous 



a. Forewing with the ce'l dark rufous tenuis 



b. Forewing with the cell concolorous „ . Lomcclroma 



1634a.— Episilia retracta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV ; p. 489, pi. 73, 



f. 7 (1903). 



$. Head and tegulae rufous, the latter with some grey near base and grey 

 tips ; thorax olive-brown ; pectus*, legs, and abdrmen rufous. Forewing dark 

 olive brown, thickly irrorated with blue-grey; the costal area pale rufous 

 irrorated with grey ; the cell black-brown ; traces of an antemedial line from 

 •submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform a narrow pale rufous streak ■ 

 orbicular and reniform pale rufou« defined by whitish and confluent with costal 

 area, the former very narrow and oblique, the latter narrow and angled inwards 

 on median nervure to middle of c?ll ; the postmedial line double, minutely 

 waved, filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa to long beyond cell 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a curved dark subterminal line ; cilia brown. 



