500 NocruiD-^':. 



and teguloe irroratcd with grey ; fore tibice and tarsi whitish in 

 front ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral 

 surface reddish brown. Fore wing purplish brown tinged with 

 grey, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with red-brown except 

 on inner area, the costal area suffused with purplish ; a blackish 

 streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line slightly curved, 

 obsolete below vein 1 ; orbicular and rcnifurra small, grey, the 

 former oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between them filled in 

 •with black- brown ; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 7, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and produced to slight points at the veins ; the siibterminal line dark, 

 diffused, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine 

 dark terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wins 

 ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous except towards base and 

 inner margin, the cilia ochreous ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal point and diffused 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. W. SiBKRiA, Dauria; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Iventoi, 

 1 cJ , W. Amurlaud. Exj). 3S millim. 



864. Episilia muscula. 



Agrofis musadus, Stand. Stctt. ent. Zeit. 18<S9, p. 30; id. Cat. Lcp. pal. 



p. 145. 

 Agrotis citilhis, Alpb. Rom. Mem. v. p. 133, pi. 7. f. 2 (1889). 



c5" . Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing 

 pale olive-brown, tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; 

 tlie veins greyish ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian 

 fold, angled below costa and defined by grey on outer side ; a double 

 dentate antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; clavi- 

 form small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with 

 rufous centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter with some black in lower portion, the cell before 

 and between them black ; the postmedial line double, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by 

 blackish on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, reddish towards inner margin ; the cilia pale yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous, with the costal and terminal areas 

 yellowish ; hind wing yellowish, with dark discoidal point and 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. ^Y. TuKKEsTAN, Issyk-kul, 1 cj' . Exp. 34 millim. 



865. Episilia lasciva. 



d. Stelt. ent. Zeit. 1888, p 

 , Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



J . Head and thorax purplish red ; teguhe with the basal half 



Agrofis lasciva, Stand. Stelt. ent. Zeit. 1888, p 14; Alpli. Rom. Mem v 

 pi. 8. f. 10 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



