EPiA. 233 



*1454. Epia renati. 



Matncstra renati Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 187. 

 Mamcstra mcigdalene, Obertli. Et. Eut. xx. p. 68, pi. 9. f. 157 (1890); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 



2 . Head and thorax clothed "with red-brown, grey, and fuscous 

 scales ; frons with bhick bar; tegulsc with black medial line, patagia 

 with black line near upper edge ; teguloe and tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing red-brown with a greyish 

 tinge and slight fuscous suffusion in ])arts ; subbasal line defined b}' 

 white on outer side, angled outwards on subcostal and median 

 nervures and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double at 

 costa, then single and defined by white on inner side, acutely angled 

 inwards on the veins and outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin ; claviform minute, indistinctly defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined 

 by black, the former small, elongate elliptical, the latter large, 

 constricted at middle and prominently marked with white at lower 

 extremity ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, dentate 

 and produced to points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of small white lunules with 

 dentate black marks before them, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia intersected with white and with black line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown, a terminal series of blackish 

 striae : cilia whitish ; the underside white, the veins streaked with 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas irroratcd with brown, a dis- 

 coidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Fkance, Pyrenees, Veruet type t $ in Coll. Oberth iir. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1455. Epia silenes. 



Noctua silenes, Iliibn. Eta-. Schmott., Noct. f. 653 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 



Suppl. iv. p. 219, pi. m. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 164. 

 Dianthcecia sejuncfa, Hcrr.-Schaff. Sclimett. Eur. ii. p. 249, f. 391 (1843). 



Head and thorax clothed with white and roddish-brown hair ; 

 tegulffi with dark medial line ; patagia with dark edges ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous white suffused with reddish brown, the inner ante- 

 medial and postmedial areas white with a slight violaceous tinge ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, M'ith bro\vn centres and white ainiuli 

 defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line excurved from costa to median nervure ; post- 

 medial line double, slightly waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some 

 ■white points beyond it on costa; subtcrminal line white, defined 



