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NOCTTTID^., 



the latter rather quadrate and with dark patch on its lower part ; 

 postinedial line dctincd by white on outer side, dentate and pro- 

 duced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, diffused, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and dentate on 

 veins 4, 3, angled inwards and forming a white patch in submedian 



Fig. 38. — Aglossestra desert icola, c?. \. 



fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous intersected 

 Avith white. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with 

 rufous ; the underside with discoidal point and sinuous postmedial 

 line showing through to upperside. 



Hah. Egypt, Suez {J. J. WalJcer), 1 J type. E.iip. 36 millim. 



Genus EPIA. 



Type. 



JSpm, Hiibn, Verz. p. 214 (1827) ii-reffularis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 hair in front ; frons with truncate conical prominence on lower part with 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male ciliated ; liead 

 and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; fore tibia with long curved claw-like spines on outer side of proximal 

 joints ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing rather short 

 and broad, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below 



costa to near subterminal line, then obliquely curved picturata. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not bent outwards 



below costa to near postmedial line. 

 a. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly incurved 

 below vein 2. 



a}. Fore wing largely suffused with rufous irregularis. 



b^. Fore wing with hardly any rufous tinge. 



a^. Fore wing with the basal area whitish aherrans. 



h^. Fore wing with the basal area not whitish. 



a^. Fore wing with black streaks on terminal area 

 below veins 5, 4, 3. 

 a*. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate on 

 veins 4, 3, and forming a distinct ^-mark, and 

 with prominent dentate black marks before it . capsularis. 

 b*. Fore wing witli the subterminal line slightly 

 angled at veins 4, 3, and with slight dentate 

 black marks before it minorata. 



