478 NOCTUID^. 



line minutel}- dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line whitish, slightly defined by brown on 

 inner side and with a black bar before it on costa, angled ontwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine grey line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated with brown, the apex 

 slightly suffused with brown ; the underside more strongly irrorated, 

 the costal area tinged with vinous red, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



821. Episilia haesitans. (Plate LXXII. fig. 23.) 

 Agrotis hcssitans, Wlk. x. 329 (185fi) ; Smitli, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 63. 



(S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown, the hair.s blackish at 

 tips ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing- 

 pale grey-brown, irrorated sparsely with black ; the subbasal line 

 represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the ante- 

 medial line by small spots on costa and below cell ; the orbicular 

 and reniform concolorous, defined b}' rather X-shaped black spots 

 on their inner edge, the former round, the latter moderate ; the 

 postmedial line black, minutely crenulate, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of 

 cell ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing browu, rather 

 paler towards base and inner area ; the cilia pale, with a brown 

 line through them. 



Huh, U.S.A., Rocky Mts. {DoiibJedau), 1 J type. Exp. 

 33 millim. 



*822. Episilia infantilis. 



Agrofis infantilis. Stand. Iris, viii. p. 30.3 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 137. 



cJ . Head and thorax white, the former tinged with ochreous on 

 vertex ; palpi, except at tips, and sides of frons black ; thorax pale 

 grey-brown ; abdomen grey, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 purplish rufous ; subbasal line represented by double stride from 

 costa ; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, with prominent 

 black striae from costa; orbicular pale, obli(|ue, elliptical; reniform 

 narrow, with fuscous centre and indistinct greyish annulus ; the 

 cell before and between the stigmata and the area just below 

 the cell suffused with rufous ; postmedial line dentate, with pale 

 points beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian fold ; the veins 

 of terminal area with dark streaks ; the subterminal line pale, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the 

 area beyond it tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of dark 

 points ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous 



