490 



NOCTUIDJ^. 



IJdh. Pataro.ni.a, Siiiidy Toint (Ctoinhu/Jiam), 1 $ lypc wa</el- 

 hnnca, Latitude Cove [Coppiiujer), 1 $ , Cockle Cove, 1 "$ , Puerto 

 Bueuo, 1 2 , Wolsey Sound, 1 " $ . E,q>. 44-^8 millim. Type t iu 

 Mus. (Stockholm. 



840. Episilia lishi. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Ayrotisfihli, Grotc, BuU.Geol. Siirv. iv. p. 175 (1S78); Siuilli, Cat.Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 64. 



Head and thorax purplish brown, the scales tipped with grey; 

 antennae with the shaft whitish at base ; abdomen red-brown mixed 

 with white, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing ],urpli!sh brown 

 sutiused with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; a waved dark sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved dark antemedial 

 line ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular marked by a few grey and dark 

 scales; reniform with a patch of greenish-giey scales in centre and 

 some dark scales on outline; the medial hhadc obli(jue from costa 

 to lower angle of cell where it is angled, then inwardly oblicjue : tlie 

 postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the sublerminal line represented by a 

 sinuous series of grey and daik jjoints and a dark bar from costa to 

 vein 0; a fine waved terminal line; cilia rufous. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside greyish irrorated 

 thickly with rufous, and with indistinct discoidal spot and cur\ed 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, Oldtown, 1 J , 2 $, type. Exp. 40 

 millim. 



847. Episilia cinerea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 10.) 



Tachnohia civt-rca, Shiud. Ciit. Lep. p. 114 (b"57J); id. Cat. Lcp. pal. 

 p. 138 ; Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. G4. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish brown. Pore wing 

 purjdish brown, tingtd with grey on basal and terminal areas; the 

 antemedial line fjreyish, indistinct, obli(]ue, waved ; the claviform 

 wedge-shaped, greyish with dark outline; the cell lilltd in with 

 black-brown or daik red-brown defining the orbicular and reniform, 

 which have brown centres and gre)ish outlines, the former open 

 above and somewhat V- or U-shapcd, the latter moderate ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by the greyer terminal 

 area, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurvtd below vein 3 ; 

 a fine dark teiminal line and grey points on extremity of veins. 

 Hind wing yellowish brown, with indistinct daik discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line; a fine dark terminal line; the cilia 

 pale. 



Uah. Canada, Labrador {Gtrhard], Zeller, Prey, Grote, and Letch 

 Colls., 6 S . Ea:p. 38 millim. 



