EPISILIA. 495 



siiles, white at tips ; tarsi fuscous, with palo rings to the joints ; 

 abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wing ochreous thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous; a diffused flesh-coloured fascia in basal half of subraodiaii 

 fold ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemcdial line double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniforni 

 with fuscous centres and flesh-coloured annuli, the former round ; 

 a waved medial shade ; postmedial line double, the inner dentate, 

 the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 

 4, then incurved ; subterminal line ochreous, dentate, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by 

 a dark shade, the area beyond it sometimes darker ; cilia ochreous, 

 with two fu-*cous lines through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 paler towards base ; the cilia ochreous at base, with fuscous medial 

 line and whitish tips ; the underside ochreous whitish with slio-ht 

 dark irroration, a diffused postmedial line and terminal band. 



Bab. W. TgRKEsrAN-, Alexander Mts., 1 c? , 1 ?• Exj). 44 

 millira. 



857. Episilia psammoda. 



Agrofia pi^ammocla, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 3.3."), pi. (i. f. 5 (1895); id. Cat Lep 

 pal. p. 148. 



Head and thorax white mixed with yellow ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen white, the last tinged with ochreous at extremity. Fore 

 wing ochreous yellow, the veins whitish ; slight streaks of rufous 

 in and below cell, above vein 4, and shorter subterminal streaks 

 from below vein 2 to above 5; reniform obscurely defined by rufous 

 and with fuscous centre ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing white, the veins slightly tinged with ochreous. 



Hub. Mongolia, Uliassutai, \ S , 1 2 • E.vp. 40 millim. 



Sect. IV. {Episilia). AntennEe of male ciliated. 



A. Hind wing yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the stigmata pro'ninenfc cpuu-h^rcta. 



h. Fore wing with the stigmata obsolescent hcpirlnoidcs. 



B. Hind wing not yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the cell blackish b>?tween tiie stiirmata. 

 a}. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on 

 median nerviire. 

 a?. Fore wing with dentate grey marks on the veins 



beyond postmedial line sfridida. 



Ir. Fore wing withon' dentate grey marks o.i the veins 

 beyond postmedial line. 

 «"". Fore wing with tiie orbicular whitiiih, open 



abo ve voccei. 



h'^. Fore wing witli the orbicular defined by whitish, cuprea. 

 b^. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwai'ds on 

 median nei'vure. 



ft'-. Fore wing purplish brnwn jirwcipnri, 



Ir. Fore wing pale olivo-brown mu^fula. 



h. Fore wing with tlio cell not blackish between the 

 siigmata. 

 «'. LA:re wing with the costal area whitish to the post- 

 medial line; tlie orbicular V shaped, open above. 



«■-. Hind wing white Ir/'^clva. 



h-. Hind wing sufl'n-ii'd witli fuscous jidditsxi. 



