508 



NOCTtriDJE. 



antcmcdial line acutch' angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, 

 exeurved below costa and cell and angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform elongate, slightly defined by daik .scales ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform slightly defined by dark, scales, the cell between 





I I 



Fig. 87. — Episilia quadrangulu, (J . l- 



them blackish, the former round, the latter open above and below ; 

 a patch of blackish scales beyond the cell; the postmedial line 

 highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then 

 oblii^ue ; faint traces of a subterminal lino. Hind wing grey suf- 

 fused wiih fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous white; the underside 

 with discoidal spot and diti'used waved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. Gkeknland ; Canada, Labrador, 1 J , Nova Scotia ; Ice- 

 land ( Walker), 1 d , 3 ? . E.iy. 40 millim. 



882. Episilia laetifica. 



Agrotis latifica, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. IS.'^O, p. 29 ; Alpli. Eora. Mum. 

 is. pi. 13. f. 10 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



c? . Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark brown hair ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing clothed 

 with white and black scales, the interspaces ochreous except towards 

 costa and inner margin ; a wavi-d dark subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform with fuscous centres aud whitish annuli, the former round ; 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, exeurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a whitish subterminal line defined by fuscous 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with 

 fuscous especially towards termen ; the cilia white ; the underside 

 white, the costal" area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and 

 postmedial series of .slight streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 S , Changhai Mts., Hi. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



883. Episilia diplograiiima, n. sp. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 26.) ' 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and ochreous ; pal])i 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish grey ; tarsi iuscous, with 

 ochreous rings. Fore wing grey, mixed with ochreous and irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, Avavcd, 



