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elongate, defined and almost filled in with black, a whitish patch 

 above it on base of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform large, defined 

 by black, the former whitish with small brown centre, rounded, the 

 latter with brown centre and slight white annulus ; postmedial line 

 defined by whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyoud it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by slight 

 dentate black marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 strongly dentate at veins 4, S^; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing whitish 

 suS"used with brown ; the terminal area brown ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule, the terminal area suff'used with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Agues Lake, in U.S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 U.S.A., Colorado, Gasfield Co. Exji. 34 millim. 



1451. Epia nisus. 



Nocttia nisus, Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 18 (1812); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Dianthcecia sancia, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 213. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and red-brown ; 

 tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 white mixed with brown. Fore wing grey, mostly suffused and 

 irrorated with reddish brown ; the subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved ; 

 claviform well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 whitish, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; some 

 Avhite points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line defined 

 by brown on inner side and by some dentate black marks at middle, 

 the line dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3; the apex suffused 

 with white ; a terminal series of minute dentate black marks. Hind 

 wing brown, the interspaces whitish towards base ; cilia white with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside white thickly irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. sancta. Darker, the fore wing greyer, orbicular and reni- 

 form with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the 

 former round. 



Bab. Spain, Andalusia, 1 S , Castille ; Sicily. Exp. 38 millim. 



* 



1452. Epia circumvadis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 19.) 



Mamestra circumvadis. Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 42 (1902) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; frons 

 with black bar ; tegulae with ill-defined black line ; two black spots 

 behind tegulas ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 abdomen pale reddish brown dorsally tinged with fuscous, the crest 



