476 



NOCTUID^. 



reniform and imvards at lower angle of ctll, then oblique to 

 join the anteniedial line at inner margin, and with some black 

 suffusion on its inner side; the subterminal line slightly sinuous 

 and formed of minute dentate black spots ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with dark terminal 

 line ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved 

 postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hal). Mongolia, Changhai Mts., Uliassutai, Urga, 1 c? . Exi). 

 2)2 millim. 



817. Episilia vittata. (riate LXXII. fig. 21.) 



Agrotia vittata, Stand. Iris, viii. p. ol4, pi. 5. f. 15 (iS'jr)) ; id. Cat. Lop. 



pal. p. 137. 

 Agrutis agania, Staud. Iris, yiii. p. 315 (1895). 



d" . Head and thorax red-brown; palpi black at sides, grey 

 at tips; tegula3 grcj', with black medial line and the tips black; 

 abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing reddish brown, the costal 

 edge darker ; the costal area whitish at base ; the subcostal and 

 median nervurcs streaked with white, the latter with whitish 

 fascia below it, its lower edge defined by black and dentate at 

 middle ; the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete ; the cell filled in 

 with black ; the orbicular and reiiiform whitish, the former small, 

 oblique, elliptical, the latter confiuent with the submedian fascia ; 

 the subterminal lino formed by a series of small maculate marks, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing pale brownish. 

 Hah. Tibet, Ivuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. /i'.rjj. 34 millim. 



818. Episilia digna. 



Hadclca digna, AIpli. Tlor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 450 (1892) ; id. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 35, pi. 3. t'. L ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 



(5 . Head and teguliB rufous, antennse with the shaft whitish, the 

 tegulae with some grey at base ; thorax purplish red, slightly mixed 

 with grey ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish grey, slightly irrorated 

 with rufous ; the costal edge rufous ; a w^aved rufous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, with a black streak from its lower 

 extremity to near antemedial line, with some whitish above it and 

 rufous below it ; the antemedial line rufous, very oblique from 

 costa to subcostal nervure, then oblique to submedian fold wdicre 

 it is acutely angled, then very oblique inwardly to vein 1 and angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, rufous, slightly 

 defined by whitish above and at extremity ; the orbicular and 

 reniform with rufous centres and white annuli defined by black, 

 the former small, oblique, somewhat wedge-shaped, the latter 

 angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between 

 them deep rufous, the interspaces just beyond the cell and below it 

 to submedian fold suffused with rufous ; the postmedial line rufous, 

 oblique from costa to vein 1 , dentate to vein 2, angled inwards in 



