492 



NOCTUID.Ti;, 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, L"p. Bril. iv. p. 74, pi. 14(i. 



Pale ochreous, grey-greenish, or purplish brown ; dorsal lino p;jle, 

 dark-edged, indistinct ; subdorsal line pale or whitish, edged above 

 by a series of thick dark or blackish marks ; sometimes a lateral 

 series of oblique dark marks ; subspiracular line pale ; head brown, 

 with dark marks. Eood-plants : liuhus, llumex, iSaliv. 8-5. 



849. Episilia ceramophaea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 11.) 



Aijrotis cera,Hophci'a, Meyr. Faun. Ilawai. i. p. 151 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax bright chestnut-brown ; tegulte with black 

 medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen paler chestnut. 

 Pore wing bright chestnut-brown ; the autemedial line hardly 

 traceable, excurved above inner margin ; claviform small, fuscous ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, fuscous, with some whitish scales on 

 edges of former and inner edge of latter and a black-brown patch 

 between them ; postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with chestnnt-brown, and with darker terminal 

 line ; the underside paler, with black discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial series of short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Hawaii, Kilauea {Pcrlcins), 1 J type. Exp. 4:^ millim. 



850. Episilia tenuis. 



Aiwhocelis tenvis.Hnil. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 57, pi. 127. f. 12(1889); 

 Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 184. 



c5' . Head and thorax rcd-browu, the hairs sometimes tipped 

 with grey ; abdomen ochreous brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Pore 

 wing purplish red ; the costal edge red-brown ; a rufous spot below 

 base of cell ; traces of a double antemedial line between median 

 nervure and vein 1, with a patch of rufous scales beyond it below 

 the cell ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by rufous before 

 and between them and beyond the reniform ; the orbicular oblique, 

 open above ; traces of a double, waved, postmedial line, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct 

 dark subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with pale brown especially towards termen ; the underside 

 with slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Kashmir {Thompson), 1 d" ; Punjab, Kangra, Laka, 1 S 

 type. Exj). 32 millim. 



*851. Episilia loresi. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 12.) 



Hiptelia lorezi, Staud. Soc. Ent. vi. p. 137 (1891); Hofm. Gr.-Schmett. 

 Eur. ed. 2, pi. 45. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 



(S . Head and thorax bright red-brown ; abdomen pale red-brown 

 with a greyish tinge. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the 

 medial area strongly suffused with red-brown ; traces of a waved 



