EPISILIA. 



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seiitod bj' a small black spot ; orbicular and reniform small, black, 

 defined by white, the former confluent with the antemedial line, 

 the latter quadrate ; the postmediai line whitish, slightly curved, 

 the area beyond it darker. Hind wing grey-brown, paler and 

 tinged with ochreous towards base ; the cilia white, brown at base. 

 Underside of both wings brown, irrorated with white, an indistinct 

 postmediai line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



812. Episilia fungorum. (Plate LXXII. fig. 17.) 



CJioephora fungorum, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 200, pi. 3. f. 74 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. 



S . Head and thorax purple-red mixed with grey ; antennce and 

 abdomen bright ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with pale 

 I)urp]ish red ; a fine blackish antemedial line oblique from costa to 

 below cell, where it is obtusely angled ; a quadrate blackish spot 

 ill end of cell ; postmediai line oblique from costa to vein 6, where 

 it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with purplish red, especially on terminal half; a curved 

 fuscous postmediai line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States (Leivis), 1 c? . 

 Ea:p. 48 millim. 



*813. Episilia madida. (Plate LXXII. fig. 18.) 



Mcsogona madida, Guei). Noct. i. p. -104, pi. 7, f. 3 (1852). 

 Agrotis perotensis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 107 (1898). 



5 . Head and thorax rufous, the hair tipped with ochreous ; 

 antennae whitish, sides of palpi except at tips and frons black ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Pore wing pale rufous, 

 M ith slight dark irroration ; an indistinct straight oblique subbasal 

 line from costa to median nervure ; an indistinct straight oblique 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform yellow-brown with pale 

 annuli, the former oblique, oblong, the latter moderate, rather con- 

 stricted at middle ; postmediai line indistinct, pale, with series of 

 dark points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subtermiual line pale, defined by brown on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of minute dark lunules and two fine brown lines throtigh the 

 cilia. Hind wing semihyaliue white, the veins brownish ; the cilia 

 rufous ; the underside with small discoidal spot, the costal area 

 irz-orated with rufous. 



Bob. Mexico, type f $ in Mus. Paris, Las Vegas, type t 5 

 jperotensis in Coll. Schaus. Exjy. 46 millim. 



*814. Episilia molepa. (Plate LXXII. fig. 19.j) 

 Agrotis molepa, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales greyish at tips ; 

 abdomen whitish^ Fore wing bright rufous, slightly irrorated 



