432 NOCTCID^. 



Genus EPIGL^A. _, 



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Epiglaa, Grotp. Buil.U. S. Geog. Geol. Surv.Terr. iv. p. 181 (1878)... dcdiia. 



Proboscis full v developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond the large frontal 

 tuft, fringed witii long liiiir bolow, tlu> ',\n\ joint slmrt ; Irons smooth; eyes 

 large, rounded; antenna; somewhat laminate and ciliated; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only, the vertex of head witli large crest, the tegulae prttduced 

 to a sligiit dorsal ridge, the prothorax with large triangnlar crest ; pectus 

 with loni: hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and 

 lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the costa arched, 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen excurved at middle and oblique 

 towards tornus ; veins 3 and i\ from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing witii 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

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

 G. 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postniedial lines dark. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate and produced 



to dark points on the veins dccliva. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate apiata, 



B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines whitish contracta. 



263G. Epiglaea decliva. 



Orihosia dccUva, Grote. 0th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 222. 

 Glcea deleta, Grote, Psyche, ii. p. 80 (1877). 



S . Hear] and thorax bright rufous ; antennre with the shaft 

 Avhite towards base ; abdomen pale rufous, greyish at base. Fore 

 wing rufous suffused with greyisli and with slight dark irroration ; 

 an indistinct curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antcmedial line indistinct, obliquely curved, rather irregularly 

 waved ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly defined by whitish, 



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Fig. 150. — Epiglaa dccliva, <S . }. 



the former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter with its lower 

 part filled in with fuscous ; a medial shade oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then somewhat incurved ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and i)roduced to dark 

 points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined by 

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

 middle : a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing pale pink 



