476 



NOCTUID^. 



rcniform and inwards at lower angle of ciU, then oblii][Ue to 

 join the anteniedial line at inner margin, and with some black 

 suftnsion on its inner side; the subterminal line slightly sinuous 

 and formed of minute dentate black spots ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with dark terminal 

 line ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved 

 postmedial and subterminal lines. 



tiah. Mo.NGOLiA, Changhai Mts., Uliassutai, Urga, 1 J . Exp. 

 32 millim. 



817. Episilia vittata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 21.) 



Jgrotis vitfata. Stand. Iris, viii. p. 314, pi. 5. f. 15 (1695) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 137. 

 Agroiis agama, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 315 (1805). 



c5' . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi black at sides, grey 

 at tips; tegulse grey, with black medial line and the tips black; 

 abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing reddish brown, the costal 

 edge darker; the costal area whitish at base; the subcostal and 

 median nervures streaked with white, the latter with whitish 

 fascia below it, its lower edge defined by black and dentate at 

 middle ; the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete ; the cell filled in 

 with black ; the orbicular and reniform whitish, the former small, 

 oblicjup, elliptical, the latter ooniluent with the submedian fascia ; 

 the subterminal lino formed by a series of small maculate marks, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing pale brownish. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 34 millim. 



818. Episilia digna. 



Eaddea digna, Alph. Hor. Soc. Eiit. Ross. xxvi. p. 450 (1892) ; id. Eoiu. 

 Mem. ix. p. 35, pi. 3. f. 5 ; Scaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2U2. 



S . Head and tegulse rufous, antennae with the shaft whitish, the 

 tegula3 with some grey at base ; thorax purplish red, slightly mixed 

 with grey ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish grey, slightly irrorated 

 with rufous ; the costal edge rufous ; a w^aved rufous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, with a black streak from its lower 

 extremity to near antemedial line, with some whitish above it and 

 rufous below it ; the antemedial line rufous, very oblique from 

 costa to subcostal nervure, then oblique to submedian fold where 

 it is acutel}' angled, then very oblique inwardly to vein 1 and angled 

 outwards above inner margin; claviform small, rufous, slightly 

 defined by whitish above and at extremity ; the orbicular and 

 reniform with rufous centres and w^hite annuli defined by black, 

 the former small, oblique, somewhat wedge-shaped, the latter 

 angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between 

 them deep rufous, the interspaces just beyond the cell and below it 

 to submedian fold suffused with rufous ; the postmedial line rufous, 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, dentate to vein 2, angled inwards in 



