KPISILIA. 471 



*807. Episilia dissociata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 14.) 



Agrotis dissociata. Stand. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 58 (1809). 



cJ . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tegulaj 

 with black medial line ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey mixed with dark brown, the costa, cell, 

 and submedian fold to postmedial line rufous ; a waved subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line rather ill-defined, 

 angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin ; 

 ciaviform absent ; orbicular and reniform small, with slight daik 

 centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former somewhat 

 elliptical ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of slight dentate dark marks. Hind 

 wing whitish, suftused with fuscous ; cilia yellowish white ; the 

 underside paler, with dark diseoidal point and curved diftused 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagoxia, Magellan, Punta Arenas (Nonlensldold), type f 

 (S in Mus. Stockholm. Krj). ^4 millim. 



808. Episilia interclusa. 

 Psaphara interclusa, Wik. xi. 607 (1857). 



S . Pale grey-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint tinged with 

 fuscous at sides, thorax with fuscous mixed. Fore wnng irrorated 

 with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black marks below 

 costa and cell ; the antemedial line angled inwards in cell and on. 



Fig. 84. — Ejjisilia interclusa, J . '• 



vein 1, almost obsolete except for black spots below costa and cell 

 and a short curved part from latter to submedian fold; the stigmata 

 obsolete, with a somewhat quadrate black mark in cell between 

 orbicular and reniform, with a black point on costa above it ; the 

 postmedial line represented by a series of small black lunules, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; a diffused fuscous subterminal shade angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of points. Hind 

 wing pale, tinged with }ellow-brown especially towards termen ; 

 a terminal series of dark striae. 



Nrih. N.W. Coast of Amkkica (KelJett ^" Wood), I J type. E.rp. 

 44 millim. 



