EPISILIA. 



479 



brown ; the underside grej- irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 luuule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. Exi^. 38 millim. 



823. Episilia faceta. 



Noctua faceta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. x. 2, p. 35 (1835); Mill. Mem. Soc. 



Nat. Cannes, 187'J, pi. 7. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1.54. 

 Noctua varikoUis, Delahaje, Bull. Soc. Pr. 1886, p. 63 ; Obertli. Et. Eut. 



xii. p. 30, pi. 7. f. 53 rt ; Mab. Nov. Lep. p. 68, pi. 11. f. 6 (1892). 



<S . Head and tegulfB red-brown largely mixed with white; 

 thorax deep chestnut-brown ; palpi chestnut, white at extremity; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. I'ore wing reddish 

 brown suffused with grey ; a waved black subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and with some 

 reddish marks beyond it ; an irregularly waved black antemedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former small, 

 round, the latter with black centre and placed on a brown line 

 which is bent inwards to costa and incurved in submedian fold ; 

 postmedial line fine, black, highly dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterininal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, grey, defined by a dark patch before it on costa, 

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

 series of black points ; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous-white 

 suffused with fuscous-brown especially towards termen ; cilia pale 

 rufous ; the underside ochreous-white irrorated with black-brown, 

 a discoidal bar, dentate postmedial line, and terminal lunulate 

 line. 



Hah. S.E. France ; Corsica ; Sp.iiN, Grenada {A. JT. Jones), 

 1 S ; PoRTUG.iL ; S. Italy, Capri (S. Browne), 1 c? ; Algeria, 1 J ; 

 Morocco, Tangier {Meade- Waldo), 2 S • Kq^ 34 millim. 



824. Episilia salicariim. 



Hydmcia salicariim, Wlk. xi. 717 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 03. 

 A(jrotiif claviforniiii, iVIorr. Pnjc. Bost. Sao. N. IT. xvii. p. KI'J (1874). 

 I'avhnohia ortlliaiia, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. pp. 154 & 227 (1875). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey ; teguUc with a white 



Fig. 85. — Episilia ttal tear urn, (J. ]. 



line at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown mixed with dark brown, 

 the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing rufous suft'used witli grey ; a 

 subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 



