EPisiLiA. 469 



Larva. Moyr. Brit. Lcp. p. 107 ; Bai-rett, Lop. Brit. v. p. 2.31, pi. 21'). f. 1. 



Brown-red, striated with black ; a dorsal series of rather V-shaped 

 ])atches composed of striations ; dorsal and subdorsal lines ochreoiis, 

 ])artly black-edged above ; spiracular line indistinct, pale ; head 

 brown. Food-plants : Emj_etvum, Arbutus, Vaccinlum. 8-6. 



802. Episilia gravida. 



At/roth gravida, Miib. Bull. Soc. Pliiloiu. ix. 1885, p. 59; id. Miss. Scioiit, 

 Ctip Horn, vi. Lep. p. 15, pi. ii. t'. 4. 



Head and thorax olive-brown ; palpi with the 2iid joint black at 

 sides; legs mostly fuscous; alxlomeu black, mixed with rufous. 

 Fore wing olive-brown ; a rufous aud black fascia below basal half 

 of cell attenuate at extremities ; the subbasal line represented by 

 a striga from costa, the antemedial line by strigic from costa and 

 median nervure ; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined 

 by black in the cell before and between them and a rufous patch 

 with blackish streaks bej'ond the latter; some black points on 

 costa towards apex and a terminal series. Hind wiug fuscous 

 brown, with dark maculate terminal line ; the underside grey- 

 brown, with black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved post- 

 medial line. 



Bab. PATAGOifiA. Straits of Magellan, Port Charrua (,/../. Walker), 

 1 J ; TiEKiiA DEL FuEGO, type f 2 "1 ^ns. Pans. Ea^). 44millim. 



*803. Episilia perdita. (Plate LXXII. fig. 13.) 



Agrofisfcrdita, Stand. Ilauibiirg. Mngaliiaeus. iv. p. 55 (18U9). 



(5 . Head and tegula; pale rufous ; thorax dark rufous ; pectus, 

 logs, and abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 rufous ; the costal area greyisli to the postmedial line ; the cell and 

 a patch below its base dark brown ; the subbasal and antemedial 

 lines represented by brown stri^u from costa ; median nervure 

 streaked with grey ; orbicular and reniform grey and conjoined to 

 costal area, the former small, oblique, elliptical ; an oblique brown 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial 

 line indistinct, defined by greyish on outer side, minutely waved, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subtermiiud line represented ])y an indistinct series of dark points ; 

 a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing grey suHuscd with 

 brown ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 t.pot. 



Hah. TiKKKA DEL FuEfio, Itio drande (C/t//;*), type t J in Mus. 

 Stockholm. Exp. o4 milliin. 



804. Episilia bicolor. 



Bull. &Joc. riiildiii. ij) ix. J 

 p. 17, pi. ii. I'. 1. 



S- Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, thorax with some 



Jgroiis hicolor, Mab. Bull. tJoc. riiih.in. (i ) 'x- !'• ^'^ (1885) ; id. Miss. Sci. 

 Cap Horn, vi. Lep. p. 17, pi. ii. I'. 1. 



