488 



NOCTUIDiE. 



with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmcdial scries of short 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado I^Bruce), 1 J . Exp 36 millira. 



*8i2. Episilia elevata. 



Vachnohia dcmta, Siiiitb, Traus. Am. Eat. Soc. xviii. p. 104 (1801) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Aiu. p. 64. 



S . llcddish grc)'. Fore wing with the lines single ; subbasal 

 line incomplete, ill-delincd ; antemedial line erect, rather even, 

 excurved above inner margin, interrupted ; claviform a yellowish 

 streak defined by black and produced as a yellowish streak to base ; 

 orbicular and reniform jiale grey dchned by black scales, the former 

 elongate, produced on inner and outer sides, the latter a small 

 lunule; postmedial line entire, rather even, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then rather unevenly oblique ; subterniinal 

 line represented by a series of brown dashes in the interspaces on a 

 greyish shade; an interrupted terminal line. Hind wing whitish, 

 tinged with fuscous towards apex ; the underside whitish w ith dark 

 irroration, a discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (5race). i;.i;^:>. 35 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



843. Episilia tecta, 



iiocttm carnea, Treitscli, Scbuiett. Eur. t. 2, p. 210 (182.5), nee Tlumbg. 

 i;udua tecta, Hiibn. Scbmett. Eur., Koct. 1'. 877 (1827); Stand. Cat. Lcp. 



pal. p. 138. 

 Koctua aiiipla, Hubn. Scbmett. Eur., Noct. f. 425 (1827). 



Head and thorax ferruginous ; abdomen yellow-brown, with the 

 hair at sides and the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ferruginous, 



Fig. 86. 



-Ejiisilia tecta, <^ . 



suffused with grey on basal, costal, and terminal areas ; the ante- 

 medial line indistinct, oblique, waved, defined by grey on inner 

 side; claviform elongate, linear, grey defined by rufous; the cell 

 filled in with rufous, defining the grey orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata, the former open above and somewhat diamond-shajjed, 

 the latter constricted at middle ; the postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; the 

 subterminal line indistinct and shghtly angled outwards at veins 7 

 and 4 ; a terminal series of brown stria;. Hind whig pale yellow- 



