494 NocxriD^. 



*So4. Episilia cinerascens. (Plate LXXITI. fig. 1,5.) 



Tach)iohia cinerascens. Smith, Trans. Am. Eiit. Sue. xviii. p. 103 (1891) ; 

 id. Cat. Noc't. N. Am. p. M. 



S. Head and thorax fuscous grey; palpi black at sides except 

 at tips ; tibioD and tarsi blackish : abdomen grey-brown. Eore win<»- 

 fuscous grey sparsely irrorated with black ; a blackish subbasal line 

 from below costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique waved 

 antcmcdial line ; orbicular and reniform black-brown with grey 

 annuli slightly defined by black, the former round; the postmerliaj. 

 line minutely dentate, indistinct, bent outwards bidow costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side especially towards costa, angled outwards at vei)i 7 and excurved 

 at middle. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, in Coll. J. B. Smith, Cali- 

 fornia, Alameda Co. Exj^. 34 millim. 



S.J5. Episilia nyctymerina. 



Agrotis nyctymerina. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 188S, p. (>; id. Cat. Lop. pal. 



p. 143. 

 Aqrotis mhdecora, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 353, pi. 6. f. 1 (ISO.')). 

 Agrotis decorans. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 247 (IS'JB); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Head grey and fuscous ; palpi blackish except at tips ; thorax 

 clothed with ochreous and fuscous hair ; tarsi banded witli Idack ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous, the disk tinged with orange ; a 

 double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold : a double 

 waved antcmcdial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined 

 by orange, a waved medial shade passing between them ; postmedial 

 line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area between it and the dentate ochreous sub- 

 terminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, more strongly sutfused with fuscous ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, rather 

 p:der towards base, the cilia ochreous, whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line, the termen 

 more or less strongly suffused Avith fuscous. 



Hab. W. Ttjekest.an, Issyk-kul, 2 S , Alexander Mts., 1 cj" , 1 $ ; 

 E. TuRKESTAx, Hi. Ej-j^. 42-48 millim. 



856. Episilia similis. 



Agrotis siiniiii:, Stand. Stctt. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 412 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 144. 

 Agrotis polifa, Alpli. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss, xvii. p. 51, pi. 2. f. 40 (1882). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous, patagia with flesh- 

 coloured patches, dorsum of thorax ficsh-colour; jialpi blackish at 



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