EPISILIA. 



477 



submediau fold and outwards above inner margin ; the subterminal 

 line rufous, ditfused on inner side, oblique from costa to vein (3 

 near postmedial line, then curved, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold and outwards above inner margin, the area beyond it rather 

 pinker with a fine dark terminal line; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing pale flesh-colour tinged with fuscous 

 except at terraen ; cilia pinkish ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused with blood-red. 



Ilah. TiBEf, Kukii-noor, 1 S , Amdo. E.vp. 30 millim. 



819. Episilia postfusca. (riate LXXII. fig. 22.) 



Ai/rotis postfusca, Hmpsu. Moths Iiul. iv, p. 508 (1898). 



c? . Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with olive ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except at tips : Irons and teguUe with some dark- 

 brown hair ; pectus and legs dark brown ; abdoaien brown, the 

 anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish, irrorated with fuscous 

 and tinged with olive-yellow towards costa and inner margin ; an 

 indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an obliiiue double, waved, antemedial line, strongly angled 

 inward on vein 1 and with blackish spot beyond it on costa ; 

 claviform ouly marked by soiue ])lack scales at its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, whitish, the former obliijue rounded, 

 the cell before and between them black ; an indistinct oblique 

 waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 area from end of cell to subterminal line black from costa to 

 vein 3 ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line 

 indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish. Hind 

 wing deep fuscous ; the cilia yellowish and fuscous ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area sutt'used with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Jlab. Cei'lon, Hadamulla {Ureen), I d type. Ed^. 3i millim. 



*82(). Episilia tibetana. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Agrotis fihetana. Stand. Iris, viii. p. 306 (1825) ; id. Cut. Lep. pal. p. Vol . 



S . Head and thorax purplish brown, the hairs tipped with 

 grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen reddish brown with pale 

 segmental lines, the ventral suiface darker. Fore wing brown 

 strongly suft'used with purplish grey ; the subbasal line represented 

 by indistinct double striae from costa ; antemedial line double, the 

 inner line indistinct except at costa, angled outwards below costa 

 and slightly inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform large, with 

 fine white annuli defined by black, the former V-shaped, open 

 above, the latter indistinctly defined except on inuer .side ; the 

 cell black-l)rown bofor(; and between the stigmata and below oi-bi- 

 cular, (shading into dilfused red-brown below the cell ; postmedial 



