512 NOCTUIDiE, 



Agrotis sigvaia, Stand. Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871). 

 Agrotis jotinic/isis, Aiiriv. Nord. Fjtir. p. 12"2 (1888). 



Head and thorax white to pale purplish brown, largely mixed 

 ■with grey ; palpi hrown except at tips ; abdomen white, tinged 

 with brown or ochreons. Fore wing grey-white, more or less tinged 

 ■with ochreous brown, and with some darker irroration and dark 

 spots on costa at the lines ; a waved dark snbbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a waved dark antemedial line angled outwards 

 below costa ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by brownish, 

 the former rounded ; a diffused curved medial line; the postmedial 

 line fairly prominent or almost obsolete, dentate and produced to 

 points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, slightly defined by 

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

 middle. Hind wing wliitc, suffused with ochreous brown especially 

 towards termen ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. jotunensis. Darker. 



Ab. 2. siqnata. Paler, the postmedial dentate line very prominent. 



Hal). France, Leech Coll. ; Germ.\ny, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Aus- 

 tria ; Switzerland; Scandinavia; Uussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals; Balkan States; Bythinia ; AA^ Turkestan, Turcomania ; 

 Tibet, Amdo. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



*890. Episilia castra. (Blate LXXVII. fig. 30.) 

 Leucania castra, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. xxi. p. 233 (1894). 



(J . Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous ; sides of palpi 

 and frons black.; pro- and metathorax with black marks ; abdomen 

 ochreous, veutrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 white, sparsely irrorated with black ; a black fascia on median 

 nervure and vein 4 from base to near termen ; the orbicular and 

 reniform represented by small round black spots ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots. Hind wing yellowish white, with some black 

 points on termen. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t J in Coll. Schaus. E:q). 

 34 millim. 



*891. Episilia tiiiiloides. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 28.) 



Leucania tiniloidcs, Dogniii, Aun. Soc. Ent. Eelg. xli. p. 244 (1897), '^ . 

 Leucania sagitta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 244 (1S97), d- 



5 . Head pale reddish brown ; palpi dark red-brown, pale at 

 tips ; tegulfe grey at base, with white medial line followed by black, 

 brown at tips ; thorax pale grey-brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi whitish 

 above ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing 

 brownish grey ; the median nervure white, the other veins brown, 

 defined on each side by fine grey streaks ; the inner ajid terminal 

 areas tinged with rufous; a black streak below basal half of cell ; 



