rSEUDORTnOSlA. — ErrsiLIA. 



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the reniform a pale-edged, dark, bar-shaped raark ; the postmedial line 

 with pale outer edge, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a pale subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, and with 

 dark mark at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 



Fig. 83. — PseudM'ihosm variabiiis, (^ . \. 



middle ; a series of black terminal points. Hind wing ochrcous 

 white, often tinged with brown; a dark discoidal spot and more or 

 less distinct diffused subterminal band ; a terminal series of dark 

 points. 



Bab. Cai^ada, Vancouver I. (/. J. Walker), 1 c? , 1 $ ; U.8.A., 

 Colorado, California, Sanszalito, 3 J , 3 $ , type. Kvp, 44 millim. 



Genus EPISILIA. 



Type. 



E2n^ilia,'Ki\bn.Yerz.-Q. 210 (1827) latcJis. 



Pachnohia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 341 (1852) fecta-. 



Cyrebia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 195 (1852) luperinoides, 



Psaphara, Wlk. xi. 607 (1857) interclusa. 



Oxira, Wlk. xxxii. 656 (1865) ochracea. 



Choepkora, Grote, Trans. Am. Enfc. Soc. ii. p 199(1868) fungorum. 



Eaddca, Alpli. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 450 (1892) dlgna. 



Ammogrotis, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 358 (1895) suavis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, clothed with long hair; 

 frous smooth ; head and thorax clothed ^Y^th long hair ; fore tibitij spined at 

 sides ; mid and hind tibia; spined. Fore wing with 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; 

 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Psaphara), Antennae of male bipecliuate, with rather long branches 

 to apex. 



K. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular large, open above. 



a}. Fore wing with distinct subterminal line ,.. Ji^perhorea, 



h^. Fore wing with the subterminal line absent gravida. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular smnll, entire. 



a}. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical perdlta. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical hicolor. 



c. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifoinn absent typhlina,. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 



a. Foi"e wing with the lines dentate. 



a}. Fore wing with the ground-colour greyish brown. 

 «-. Fore wing with quadrate blackish patch in cell 



between the stigmata dblnngula. 



6-. Fore wing with rufous streak in cell and diseal fold, dissociaia, 

 c^. Fore wing with black spot in cell between the stigmata, mterclma. 



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