480 ]5rocTuii)JE. 



line obli(]ue, sHglitly nnglcd inwards on vein 1, with tlic rather 

 elongate rufous claviform stigma on its outer edge ; orbicular and 

 reniform grey, with brown centres and rufous outlines, the former 

 round, moderate, the latter large ; the medial shade with its inner 

 edge angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line 

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

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale grey, slightly angled inwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved below middle, with a ferruginous shade on 

 its inner edge expanding into a spot at costa and the area beyond 

 it darker ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing reddish 

 brown slightly mixed with grey ; the cilia whitish. Underside 

 grey irrorated with brown ; hind wing with discoidal spot, both 

 wings with sinuous postmedial line. 



Ilah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, (^BramHon) 4 5 type, {Normati} 

 1 J ; U.S.A., 1 5 type orilluaa, llaine, Massachusetts. Exjp. 

 34 millim. 



825. Episilia manifesta. (Plate LXXII. fig. 24.) ' 



Agrofis manifesta, Morr. Proc. Boit. Sue. xviii- p. 116(1868) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 62. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey ; palpi black at 

 sides except at tips. Fore wing grey-bi"own sliglitly irrorated witli 

 fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below 

 costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved; 

 orbicular a small black spot, reniform a small lunule ; the post- 

 medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then obliijue ; the subterminal line indistinct greyish 

 defined by slight fuscous suifusion on inner side, slightly excurved 

 at vein 7 and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the imderside 

 greyer thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a small black discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah, U.S.A., New Jersey, Newark, 1 5 , New York, Long 

 Island. Ea2^. 36 millim. 



826. Episilia ocliracea. 



Oxira ochracca, Wlk. xxxii. 657 (1865) ; Fmpsn. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 182. 



Hadeiia nipti^triga, Wlk. xxsiii. 739 (186;")). 



Mt/thimva deparca, But]. A. M. N. H. (.^) iv. p. 358 (1879). 



Grafhiphora frontalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 35 (1884) ; Hmpsn. 111. 



Het. ix. pi. 161. ff. 20, 21. 

 Agrotis stictica, Poiij. Bull. See. Ent. Fr. (6) Tii. p. Ixviii (1887). 

 Graphiphora varia, Swiiih. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 412. 



(5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous to bright ferruginous, 

 dark rufous, or olive-brown ; palpi deep chocolate at sides except 

 at tips ; pectus and legs chocolate and black, the spurs and tarsal 

 joints ringed with white, Uore wing ochreous tinged with 

 ferruginous, rufous, olive-brown, or grey-brown ; a double Avaved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with black points 

 in the cell before and bevond it ; a double waved antemedial 



