PSEUDOETHOSIA. — EPISILIA. 



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the reniform a pale-cdgcfl, dark, bar-shaped mark ; the posl medial line 

 with pale outer edj^'e, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a pale subterminal line detined by fuscous on inner side, and with 

 dark mark at costa, angled outwards at vciu 7 and excurved at 



Fig. 83.— Pseudor/Jiosia variahilis, c^ . i. 



middle ; a series of black terminal points. Hind wing ochrcons 

 white, often tinged with brown; a dark discoidal spot and more or 

 less distinct diffused subterminal band; a terminal series of dark 

 points. 



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Genus EPISILIA. 



Type. 



EphiUa, Hiibri. Verz. p. 210 (1827) lafem. 



Pavhiioliia, G-uen. Noct. i. p. 341 (1S.52) tecta. 



Cyrebio,, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 195 (1852) Iwperinoides. 



Psapkara, Wlk. xi. HOT (1857) infcrduaa. 



O-xira, Wlk. xxxii. 656 (1865) ochmcea. 



Chocphora, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 109(1868) fiuujorunu 



liaddea, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxvi. p. 450 (1892) dUjiw. 



Ammogrotis, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 358 (1895) suuris. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi obliquely upturned, clothed with long liair ; 

 frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with long hair; fore tibi;« spined at 

 sides; mid and hind tibiae spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 froni near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from ujiper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 6 obsolesceut from middle of discocellulars ; (J, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. 1. (Psaphara). Antenna; of male bipeolinate, with rather long branches 

 to apex. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular large, open above. 



a^. Fore wing with distinct subterminal line h//perhorea. 



h\ Fore wing with the subterminal line absent rjravidd. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular small, entire. 



a^. Fore wing with the orbicular obliqup, elliptical pcrdKn. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical h/rolor. 



c. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent t^phlitia. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 

 a. Fore wing with the lines dentate. 



a^. Fore wing with the grouurl-colonr greyish brown. 

 a-. Fore wing with qnadnite blackish patch in cell 



between the stigmata obhiiffida. 



b'^. Fore wing with rul'ous streak i\i cell and discal fold, disnociata, 

 c'^. Fore wing with black ."^pot in cell between the stigttjata. interclusa. 



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