EPISILIA. 505 



Hah. France, Centr. & S. East, 2 J ; Spain, Centr. ; Dalaiatia, 

 1 J ; Asia Minor, Poutus, Taurus. Exjj. 4-J- millim. 



Larva. Bniaud, Ann. Sue. Eiit. Fr. (2) ii. p. 192, pi. 6. f. C (1844). 



Black, greenish on lateral and veutral surfaces ; subdorsal stripe 

 bordered above by three white strite on each somite. Pood-plunt, 

 FestiKxi oviiui, 4, 



875. Episilia viscotti. 



Affwfis v:isJ:otti, Stndf. Iris, i. p. 212, pi. 10. ff. 3.4, & xi. f. 2 (18SS); 

 Rebel, Verli. zool.-but. Ges. Wieu, 1«9'J, p. 1(34, pi. 4. f. 3; Slaud. Oat, 

 Lap. pal. p. 145. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale 5'ellow mixed largely with 

 fuscous ; tarsi fuscous, M'ith yellow rings. Fore wing pale yellow, 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct from costa 

 to submedian fold, defined by yellowish on outer t.ide ; antemedial 

 line fuscous, defined by yellow on inner side, highly waved, nearly 

 erect ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform a small fuscous 

 lunulo with greyish centre ; medial shade waved ; postmedial line 

 defined by yellowish on outer side, strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line yellowish, strongly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia 

 chequered fuscous and yellow. Hind wing yellowish white, tiuged 

 with fuscous brown except towards base ; cilia pale yellow ; the 

 underside pale yellow, with some fuscous sutt'usiou on inner area, 

 a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



5 rather yellower. 



Hah. Switzkkland, High Alps, 1 $ , Zeller Coll. Edj).., S 42, 

 5 40 millim. 



870. Episilia lucernea. 



h^odHd lucernea, Linu. Sjst. Nat. i. p. 51U (1757); Stand. Cat. Lop. pal. 



p. 143. 

 Graphij[)horarcnigera, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. ii. p. 129 (1827). 

 Aocfua caialcuca, Boisd. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 377, pi. 14. f. 2; id. 



Iconcs, pi. 82. ff. 5, G ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 19. f. 3 ; Ilerr.-Schair. 



Schniett. Eur., Noct. If. 574-5. 



Head and thorax brownish grey, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 a))domen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore Aving grey 

 irrorated with browMi, the terminal area darker ; the subbasal line 

 l)ale, waved from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial lino 

 waved, angled outwards in submedian fold and defined by grey on 

 inner side; orbicular and reniform small, with grey annuli, the 

 former round ; the ])ostraodial lino dentate and jn-oduced to ])oiiits 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, defined l)y grey on outer side ; the subterminal line in- 

 distinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind Aving fuscous brown, paler towards base; cilia white; the 

 underside white irrorated wiih brown, the terminal area more or 

 less completely sufi'used with fuscjus, a dark discoidal p-jint. 



