EPISILIA. 469 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 231, pT. 215. f. 1 . 



Brown-red, striated with black ; a dor.sal series of rather V-shaped 

 patches composed o£ striations ; dorsal and subdorsal lines oehreoiis, 

 partly black-edged above ; spiracular line indistinct, pale ; head 

 brown. Pood-plants : Emietnmi, Arbutus, Vaccinium. 8-6. 



802. Episilia gravida. 



Agrotis gramcla, Mab. Bull. Soc. Pliilom. is. 1885, p. 59 ; id. Miss. Scieat. 

 Cap Horn, vi. Lep. p. 15, pi. ii. f. 4. 



Head and thorax olive-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint black at 

 sides; legs mostly fuscous; abdomen black, mixed with rufous. 

 Fore wing olive-browu ; a rufous and black fascia below basal half 

 of cell attenuate at extremities ; the subbasal line represented by 

 a striga from costa, the autemedial line hj strigte from costa and 

 median nervure ; the orbicular and reuiform coneolorous, defined 

 by black in the cell before and between them and a rufous patch 

 with blackish streaks bej^ond the latter ; some black points on 

 costa towards apex and a terminal series. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, with dark maculate terminal line ; the underside grey- 

 brown, with black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Patago^-ia. Straits of Magellan, Port Charrua (J. J. Walke)% 

 1 6 ; TiEKKA DEL FuEGo, type t 5 ill Mus. Paris. Exp. 44 millim. 



*803. Episilia perdita. (Plate LXXII. fig. 13.) 

 Agrotis per dita. Stand, Hamburg. Magalhaeos. iv. p. 55 (1899). 



S . Head and tegulaj pale rufous ; thorax dark rufous ; pectus, 

 logs, and abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 rufous ; the costal area greyish to the postmedial line ; the cell and 

 a patch below its base dark brown ; the subbasal and antemedial 

 lines represented by brown striae from costa ; median nervure 

 streaked with grey ; orbicular and reuiform grey and conjoined to 

 costal area, the former small, oblique, elliptical ; an oblique brown 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, defined by greyish on outer side, minutely waved, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; 

 subterrainal line represented by an indistinct series of dark points ; 

 a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing grey suti'used with 

 brown ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot. 



Hah. TiEKKA DEL FuEGo, Rip Grande (Ohliii), typef 6 in Mus. 

 Stockholm. Exp. 34 millim. 



804. Episilia bicolor 



Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. 

 p. 17, pl.ii. f. 1.. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, thorax with some 



Agrotis bicolor, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 59 (1885) ; id. Miss. Sci. 

 Cap Horn, vi. Lep. p. 17, pi. ii. f. 1.. 



