504 NOCTUIPiE. 



the cilia whitish ; underside white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Uah. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Kuriik Tag, 1 (5', 1 5, 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Iss^k-kul, 1 S ■ Ed-p. 48 millira. 



873. Episilia suavis. 



Ammogrotis suavis, Staud. Iris, \in. p. 358, pi. 6. f. 11 (1895); id. Cut. 

 Le]). pal. p. 178. 



(5". Head and thorax clothed with ochrcous white mixed with 

 black hair ; palpi bhickish at sides ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen ochrcous white, the ventral surface irrorated with broAvn. 

 Fore wiijg white, tinged with ochrcous and irrorated with black ; 

 a blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards below costa ; an oblique waved blackish autcmedial 

 line arising from a small black spot on costa ; the claviform 

 diffuscdly defined by blackish ; orbicular represented by a small 

 blackish spot ; rciiiform diffused blackish, with diffused spot above 

 it on costa and another on its outer edge ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dentate, with more prominent points at the veins, arising from a 

 black spot on costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subtermiiial line dentate, irregularly 

 diffused ou inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 aud excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black stripe. Hind wing ochrcous 

 white, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; slight spots on the veins 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; a diffused subterminal band. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. 



JJab. Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 (S , Korla. E.vj^ 4G millira. 



874. Episilia siinulatrix. 



Koc/ua simulatrix, Iliibn. Samml. Eur. Schiuett, Noct. f. 712 (1827); 



Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schiuett., Noct. f. 712. 

 Agrotis nictymera, Boisd. Icones, pi. 78. ff'. 1, 2 (1832) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Siippl. iii. p. G04, pi. 50. f. 3 ; Ilerr.-Scbati: Sebuielt. Eur., JSoct. f. 171 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 

 Agroiis dalmata, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 (1001). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish Avhite. Fore wing 

 brownish white ; an indistinct double, Avaved, subbasal line from 

 cost a to submedian fold ; a double, Avaved, antemedial line angled 

 inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; a Avaved medial shade 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; reniform very indistinctly 

 deliiied Avith brownish ; a strongly dentate postmedial line bent 

 outAvards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line dehned by a fuscous shade on its inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia whitish, Avith a 

 brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous AA'hitish, the 

 terminal half suffused Avith broAvn ; the cilia Avhite ; the underside 

 white, irrorated Avith pale broAN'n and suffused with fuscous towards 

 teruien, a dark discoidal spot and siniious postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. daliuata. (j round-colour rather more ochrcous. 



