EPISILIA. 



483 



area suflfased with rufous, the tcrrainal area with brown, traces of 

 a curved postmcdial line. 



Hall. Amdrland, Potrovka, 1 S . E.vp. 36 millim. 



831. Episilia littoralis. (Plate LXXII. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis liftoralis. Pack. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 30 (18r)S) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. i\'2. 

 P.sciidorthn.'</n pectiuafa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliil. p. 207 (1*74). 

 Pachmhiafcmiffijioides, Sniilh, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 50 (18'J0). 



c? . Head and thorax pale ferruginous ; abdomen ochreous irro- 

 rated with fuscous brown. Fore wing pale ferruginous ; traces of 

 an oblique antemedial line; the orbicular very indistinct, round, 

 with ferruginous annulus ; reniforni obscure, small, on the rather 

 obli(iue ferruginous medial shade ; traces of a curved postmedial 

 line ; the subterminal line defined by a curved ferruginous band on 

 its inner edge. Hind wing fuscous brown, with traces of a dark 

 discoidal spot ; cilia pale. 



2 with the markings more distinct. 



Ifah. Canada, Labrador, Caribou I.; U.S.A., Montana, Plack Hills, 

 Colorado, Hall Valley, 1 c? type nectinata. Kvjy. 38 millim. 



*832. Episilia monochroniatea. (Plate LXXII. fig. 28.) 



Agrotis monoehromatea, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 10.5 (1874) ; 

 Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. (52. 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey, the extremitj^ 

 rufous. Fore wing fuscous grey, entiiely and evenly suffused with 

 bright red-brown ; an indistinct curved dark antemedial line ; the 

 postmedial line oblique from costa just beyond middle to vein 4 

 where it is angled, then strongly incurved and slightly angled out- 

 wards on vein 1 ; no trace of the stigmata or other markings. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; 

 the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with rufous, traces of 

 a difl'used postmedial line more distinct towards costa. 



//((h. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Durham, in Coll. J. B. Smith, 

 Massachusetts. Ex^^. 32 millim. 



833. Episilia xanthostola. (Plate LXXII. fig. 29.) 



Af/rotis .raiithos/idn, jMab. Bull. Soc. Pliilom. (7) ix. p. 01 (ISS.'.). 

 Agro/h clalci, Butl. A. M. N. II. (0) xii. ]). 207 (18'J;5). 



(5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi black at sides 

 except towards extremity ; extremity of 1st joint of antennae black ; 

 jjcctus blackish in front ; legs strongly irrorated with black ; abdo- 

 men ochreous white tinged wiih fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral 

 suiface ferruginous red. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous sparsely 

 striated with black, the margins tinged with rufous; the maikings 

 obsolete excc[)t a faint trace of the reniform and the ])<)stmedial 

 line, which is represented by a series of black points on the veins, 



