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sentetl by a small black spot; orbicular and reniform small, black, 

 defined by white, the former confluent with the aiiteraedial line, 

 the latter quadrate ; the postmediai line whitish, slightly curved, 

 the area beyond it darker. Hind wing grey-brown, paler and 

 tinged with ochreous towards base ; the cilia white, brown at base. 

 Underside of both wiugs bro\vn, irrorated with white, an indistinct 

 postmediai line. 



Hah, U.8.A., Texas, 1 S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



812. Episilia fungorum. (Plate LXXII, fig. 17.) 



Choeplwra fungorum, Grote, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. ii. p. l200, pi. 0. f. 74 

 (1808) ; "Smiih, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. 



c? . Head and thorax purple-red mixed with grey ; antenna^ and 

 abdomen briglit ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with pale 

 I)urplish red ; a fine blackish antemedial line oblique from costa to 

 liclow cell, where it is obtusely angled ; a quadrate blackish spot 

 in end of cell ; postmediai line oblique from costa to vein 6, where 

 it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with ]jurplish red, esi)ecially on terminal halt ; a curved 

 fuscous postmediai line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States (Lewis), 1 J . 

 Kvp. 48 millim. 



*813. Episilia madida. (Plate LXXII. fig. 18.) 



Mcsogona vmdida, Gueu. Nocf. i. p. 404, pi. 7, f. 3 (1852). 

 Agrotis peruteusis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. vi. p. 107 (1898). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous, the hair tipped with ochreous ; 

 antennte whitish, sides of palpi except at tips and frons black ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale rufous, 

 with slight dark irroration ; an indistinct straight oblicjue subbasal 

 line from costa to median nervure ; an indistinct straight oblique 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform yellow-brown with pale 

 annuli, the former oblique, oblong, the latter moderate, rather con- 

 stricted at middle ; postmediai line indistinct, pale, with series of 

 dark points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by brown on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of minute dark lunules and two fine brown lines through the 

 cilia. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins brownish ; the cilia 

 rufou.s ; the underside with small discoidal spot, the costal area 

 irrorated with rufous. 



Hah. Mexico, type f $ in Mus. Paris, Las Vegas, type t $ 

 jyeroUnsis in Coll. Schaus. h\vj). 4G millim. 



*814. Episilia molepa. (Plate LXXII. lig. lij.) 

 Agrotis molcjpa, fcjeliaus, J. 2s. Y. Eiit. Soc. vi. p. 108 (Ift'JS). 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales greyish at tijis ; 

 abdomen whitish. Lure wiijg bright rufous; slightly irrorated 



