epia; 229 



1447. Epia aberrans. 



Diaufhoecia aberrans, Ev. EuU. Mosc. 1856, iii. p. 104 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 164. 

 Dianthixcia admiranda, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 77, pi. 7- f. U (1880). 

 Epia claripennis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 134. 



Head and thorax white, tinged with reddish brown on palpi, 

 frons, and tegulse ; pectus and legs tinged with fuscous, the tarsi 

 with pale rings ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 white, the area from just before the antemedial line to just beyond 

 the postmedial tinged with red-brown and more or less suffused 

 with black ; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with its lower part suffused with black ; an indistinct waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, the outer indistinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white defined by pale reddish brown on each side and with two or 

 three small dentate black marks on inner side at middle, slightly 

 excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of slight 

 lunules. Hind wing white, more or less tinged with fuscous brown, 

 especially on terminal area ; the underside white slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. E. SiBEKiA, Ussuri, Amurland, 1 c? ; Japax {Pryev), 1 $, 

 Nikko {Fryer), 1 S type clariinnnis. Exp. 34 millim. 



1448. Epia capsularis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 16.) 



Dianthcecia capsularis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 22, pi. 8. f. 3 (1852) ; Smitb, Cut. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 117. 

 Eaphia propulsa, Wlk. xi. 529 (1857). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; frons above and 

 vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae with black medial line ; 

 patagia edged by black and white scales above ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen pale ochreous, more or less tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing lilacine grey suffused and irrorated with pale 

 brown ; a double, waved, black subbasal line bent inwards to base 

 above vein 1 ; a double sinuous antemedial line ; claviform small 

 or moderate, acute at extremity, defined by black and often filled 

 with black ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the 

 former round, with white annulus incompletely defined above and 

 below, the latter with its centre defined by brown and some white 

 on inner side of annulus; an indistinct irregular medial line in- 

 curved below cell ; postmedial line double, the inner strong, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved and 

 waved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; post- 

 medial area suffused with white, bent outwards below costa to 

 apex ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate 



