472 ITOCTTJID^, 



809. Episilia coppingeii. (Plate LXXII. fig. 15.) 

 TucJmoh'm cojpfmgcri, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 84. 



Head and thorax red-broAA'n ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 red-brown mixed with black. Fore wing deep red-brown, the 

 costal area rather paler rufous to the postmedial line ; the veins 

 with pale streaks ; indistinct waved subbasaJ and antemedial dark 

 lines, the former ending at submedian fold ; claviform small, 

 greyish ; orbicular and reniform pale, the former elliptical, the 

 latter small ; traces of an oblique medial shade from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line defined by dentate dark brown marks on its inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 dark points. Hi^id wing fuscous brown, with terminal series of 

 dark stri?e ; the underside whiter, with black discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagonia, Straits of Magellan, Puerto Pucno (Coj^j^hir/er), 

 1 (S type. Kvj}. 40 millim. 



810. Episilia frigida. 



Agrotis frigida, Mab. Bull. Sop. Pliiloni. 1885, p. 61 ; id. Miss. Sei. Cap 

 Horn, vi. Lep. p. 14, pi. ii. f. 2. 



S ' Head and thorax bright rufous; mid and hind legs fuscous 

 brown. Fore wing bright rufous, suffused with violaceous grey 

 except on medial area, the terminal area irrorated with a few dark 

 scales ; the subbasal line red-brown, waved from costa to submedian 

 fold ; the antemedial line slightly waved and strongly angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; the orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, the former 

 small, its iipper edge produced to a point on outer side ; the post- 

 medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique and incurved in submedian interspace ; the subterminal 

 liue oidy deh'ned by the area beyond it being rather more violaceous ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grcj'ish, suffused 

 with dark reddish brown ; cilia reddish ; the underside with dark 

 discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagonia, Mayne Harbour {J.J. Walker), 1 (S , Orange 

 Bay. L\v2^. 44 millim. Type t in Mus. Paris. 



811. Episilia hilaris. (Plate LXXII. fig. 16.) 



Agrotis hilaris, Grote, Can. Ent. sii. p. 153 (1880). 



Agrotis hollii, Grote, EuJi. Geol. Surv. Vi. p. IGO (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 ' N. Am. p. 67. 



(^ . Head and thorax clothed with grey awl dark brown hair, 

 tipped with white ; palpi black, tipped with whitish ; togula? with 

 blackish medial band; tarsi black, ringed with white; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with white ; the 

 antemedial lino whitish, oblique, slightly sinuous; claviform reprc- 



