KrjSII.IA. 



507 



Hah. Alps of S. Fkance, Leech Coll. ; Germany ; Austkia ; 

 SwiiZEKLAND, Zeller & i'rey Colls.; N. Italy; Akme.ma. Exp. 50 

 ruilliiu. 



879. Episilia plumbea. 



Agrotis jdumhea, Alpb. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 1G3 ; id. Rom. Mem. v. 

 "p. 136, pi. 6. 1'. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



cJ . Head and thorax fuscous black, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 Icps browuish ; abdomen whitish, tinged with pale rufous towards 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Pore wing leaden-fuscous, 

 slightly irrorated with grey-white ; a whitish subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct diffused oblique waved antc- 

 niedial whitish line ; claviform obscurely defined by whitish ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former small, round ; 

 postmedial line dentate, whitish, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dentate whitish 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and cxcurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black jjoints ; cilia pale ochreous brown. Hind 

 wing white, slightly tinged with fuscous, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous; cilia white; the underside with discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line obsolete except towards costa. 



Hah. W. Tukkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; E. Tctekestax, Hi; 

 Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 cJ • Exp. 44 millim. 



880. Episilia siibplumbea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 25.) 



Aqrotis subplujuhca, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 31U (1895) ; Stand. Cat. I-ep. pal. 

 ■p. 144. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown, the hairs slijihtly tipped with 

 grey; antennae rufous; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface 

 strongly irrorated with dark brown. Pore wing black-brown, 

 slightly irrorated with grey ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform blackish defined by greyish aunuli, the 

 former rather small, round ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 cilia rufous. Hind wing whitish, the termiual area broadly suffused 

 with fuscous; cilia ochreous ; the under&ide whiter, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line almost obsolete except towards costa. 



Uab. TiiiEX, Xuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 44 millim. 



881. Episilia quadrangula. 



Ji/ra/ia qiiadtroKjuIa, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 'J3,) (lylUj ; Stand. Cat. Lcp. pal. 



p. 141). 

 Aynifis rdva, Ilerr.-Scliair. Scliiiictt. Eur. vi. p. .59, Suppl. f. 541 (1850); 



Smith, Cat. Lep. >i. Anj. p. 73. 

 Ayroiis umbratus, i^ack. i'l-uc. Host. Soc. N. 11. xi. p. 37 (18(57). 



(S . Pale grey-brown. Pore wing with some dark irroration ; 

 traces of u dark streak below base of cell and subbasal line ; the 



