EPISILIA. 



4S9 



brown, with a fine brown terminal line ; the cilia pale ; the iindor- 

 sido with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Antennae of male very minutely serrate. 



liah. 8cANX)l^uvIA ; Russia, Livonia, 1 d , 2 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 18G1, p. 367; Saodberg, Berl. ent. Zeit. 

 xxix. p. 2.58 (1885). 



Head chestnut-brown, witli dark reticulations and dark margins 

 on inner side of hemispheres ; body reddish brown thickly striated 

 with black ; dorsal line fine, white, on abdominal segments edged 

 with black ; segmental incisions almost black ; subdorsal lines indis- 

 tinct ; lateral area darkest; spiracles black with white centres; 

 subbasal area fiesh-coloured with black warts. Food-plants : Vac- 

 cinium myrtillus and ulv/lnosum, AlchemUla, Betida. 



Pupa dark brown, with the cremaster black. 



*844. Episilia retracta, n. sp. (^Plate LXXIII. fig. 7.) 



J. Head and tegular rufotis, the latter with some grey near base 

 and grey tips ; thorax olive-bvown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 rufous. Fore wing dark olive-brown, thickly irrorated with blue- 

 grey ; the costal area pale rufous irrorated with grey ; the cell 

 black-brown ; traces of an antemedial line from submedian fold to 

 inner margin ; claviform a narrow i)ale rufous streak ; orbicular 

 and reniform pale rufous defined by whitish and confluent with 

 costal area, the former very luirrow and oblique, the latter narrow 

 and angled inwards on median nervure to middle of cell ; the post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, filled in with grey, bent out- 

 wards below costa to long beyond cell, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; a curved dark subterminal line; cilia browu. Hind 

 wing brown, tinged with fuscous on costal and terminal areas ; cilia 

 pale 1)rown. 



IJab. tSiKKiM (Moller), type f J in Coll. Elwcs. E.i2K 30 

 millim. 



845. Episilia flavicosta. (Flate LXXIII. fig. 8.) 



JS'orhia flavicosta, Wllgrn. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). 

 Ochroplcura mcujcUunica, Eutl. V. Z. S. 1881, p. 83. 



5 . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi and frous more 

 ochrcous ; legs and abdomcji dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing dark red-brown, sometimes with some dark irroration ; 

 the costal area oclireous to beyond middle ; the lines obsolete, some- 

 times represented by dark points on costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 ochreous, confluent with the costal area, the former elliptical ; the 

 postmedial line sometimes traceable, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, theu incurved ; a terminal series of 

 blackish poiuts sometimes present, iliiid wing pale suffused with 

 reddish l)rown ; cilia ochreous ; the underside i)ale, the costal area 

 sufl'used with reddish brown; a discoidal luuule and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



