474 KOCTUID^. 



with fuscous ; the antemedial line represented by blackish spots 

 on costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular 

 obsolete ; reniform very small, with blackish outline ; the post- 

 medial line represented by a series of small black spots on the 

 veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a series of 

 black points on costa towards apex and termen. Hind wing pure 

 white ; the underside with some brown irroration on costal area, 

 a discoidal point, and some points on termen towards apex. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type f cj" in Coll. Schaus. E,cj). 

 40 millim. 



815. Episilia straminea. (Plate LXXII. fig. 20.) 

 Heliothis straminea, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 24. 



c? • Head and thorax ochreous, slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 antennae dark red-brown ; abdomen ochreous, ventrally tinged 

 with pink towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous ; the costal 

 edge brown ; antemedial red-brown points on the veins ; reniform 

 prominent, brown, placed on an obsolescent oblique brown line 

 expanding into a patch on inner margin ; the postmedial line 

 represented by a very indistinct series of points on the veins, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, a more prominent 

 spot on inner margin ; the subterminal line represented by an 

 oblique bar from costa, then b}' a series of obsolescent spots in the 

 interspaces ; a fine terminal brown line ; cilia pinkish at tips. 

 Hind wing dark red-brown ; cilia yellowish at base, pinkish at 

 tips. Underside of fore wing sufi'used with broAvn and with Avaved 

 postmedial and subterminal lines ; hind wing ochreous, with slightly 

 waved pinkish medial and postmedial lines. 



Hah. W. China, Hou-kou, 1 S type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical 

 part serrate. 



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



a. Fore wing with the orbicular large, V-shaped, herrich sch(Bffcri. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular narrow, oblique. 

 a^. Fore wing with grey fascia on median 



nervure vlttata. 



h^. Fore wing without grey fascia on median 



nervure digna. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base 



of cell. 

 a. Fore wing with the cell black between the 

 stigmata. 

 a}. Fore wing with large black patch beyond 



the cell poslfusca. 



b^. Fore wing without black patch beyond 

 the cell, 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular V-thaped, 



open above tibetana. 



IP'. Fore wing with the orbicular round. 

 a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line 



indistinct kmsitans. 



b^. Fore wing with distinct pale sub- 

 terminal line ochracea ab. rujitisfriga. 



