470 KOCTTJIDiE. 



grej' hairs. Fore wing deep rcd-browu, the costal area to post- 

 medial line and veins rather paler ; some diffused black below base 

 of cell ; orbicular and reniform small, pale, the former elongate, 

 elliptical, the cell before and between them black ; traces of a 

 postmedial lino bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 exeurved at middle, defined by the area beyond it being greyer ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 cilia ochreous. Underside fuscous brown. 



5 . Fore wing with the costal area much greyer to the postmedial 

 line, the orbicular larger and confluent with costal area. 



Hal). Patagonia, 8ts. of Magellan, Port Charrua (J. J. Walker), 



1 cJ ; TiKKKA DEL FuEGo, type t in Mus. Paris. Kvj). 38 millim. 



805. Episilia typhlina, 



Agrotis typhlina, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. ix. 1885, p. 58; id. Miss. Sclent. 

 Cap Horn, vi. Lep. p. 12, pi. ii. f. 5. 



S . Head and thoray olive-brown to red-brown ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tegulge whitish in front, with medial black band ; abdomeu 

 rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing olive-brown -, a rufous 

 and black fascia below base of cell, attenuate at extremities ; a fascia 

 in lower part of cell fi om before middle to lower angle : a fascia 

 above inner margin from near base to beyond middle, with another 

 above vein 1 from before middle to termen ; slight dark marks 

 above bases of veins 2 to 4, and a series of dentate black marks 

 just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown. Underside olive- 

 brown tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Patagonia, Straits of Magellan, Puerto Pucno (^Coppinger), 



2 (S . Exj). 40 millim. Type f in Mus. Paris. 



*806. Episilia oblongiila. 



Jsoctua quadrangula, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1844, iii. p. 592, pi. 14. f. 2 (nee 



Zett. 1840) ; Hen-.-Scbtiff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 4U(). 

 Agrotis ublongula, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137 (1901). 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark 

 irroration ; the antemcdial line very indistinct, wdth dark spot on 

 costa, oblique to median ncrvure, where it is angled ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform only defined by a rectangular 

 black-brown patch between them in cell ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, with dark spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale poijits beyond it on 

 costa; faint traces of a subterminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hind 

 wing pale grey-brown. 



Hab. IlussiA, Urals ; ? Armenia ; W. Tuekestan, Ala Tan ; 

 MoNGoxiA, Urga, in Coll. Obcrthur. Ej-p. 42 millim. 



