232 NOCTUID^, 



at base white. Fore wing white, suffused in parts with fuscous 

 brown ; three obliquely placed black spots at base and an oblique 

 streak above base of inner margin ; antemodial line double, the 

 inner line less distinct, oblique, waved : claviform large, filled in 

 with blackish and indistinctly defined by black, a dentate white 

 mark beyond it on base of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform white 

 defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former round ; 

 an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line double, the outer 

 indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, more strongly below vein 2, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line difi'used, white, defined on 

 inner side by slight dentate black marks below costa and at middle 

 and with a slight black mark beyond it in discal fold, excurved at 

 vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 chequered brown and white. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous 

 brown especially on terminal area ; cilia white and fuscous ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas iirorated with 

 fuscous, a black streak in cell, discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary, in Coll. Wolley-Dod. Exjy. 

 36 millim. 



1453. Epia mendax. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 20.) 



Hadena menda.r, Staud. Ilor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 383 (1878) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. IGU. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tegulae with 

 black medial line and black tips, patagia edged with black; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused with pale reddish brown. Fore 

 wing rufous slightly suffused and irrorated with black ; a double, 

 waved subbasal line ending on the black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; claviform rather small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with prominent 

 white annuli defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct 

 irregular medial line ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer, 

 side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented 

 by somewhat dentate white marks defined on inner side by small 

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

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 brown intersected with ochreous. Hind wing pale sufiused with 

 brown, especially in female ; the veins and terminal area brown ; 

 cilia ochreous at base, with brown medial line and white tips ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial lino, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. Asia Minx»e, Pontus, 1 c? , 1 $ , Bithynia, Taurus. Ea.'p. 

 34 millim. 



