EPISILIA, 



479 



brown ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 luriule and curved postinedial line. 



Bah. Tibet, Kuku-noor in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. E.vj). 38 millim. 



823. Episilia faceta. 



Koctua faceta, Treit Schmett. Eur. x. 2, p. 35 (1835); Mill. Mem. Soe. 



Nat. Cannes, 187'J, pi. 7. f. 1 ; Stand. Oafc. Lep. pal. p. 154. 

 Noctua variicollis, Delahaje, Bull. Soc. Pr. 1886, p. 63 ; Obertb. Et. Eut. 



xii. p. 30, pi. 7. f. 53 a; Mab. Nov. Lep. p. 68, pi. 11. f. 6 (1892). 



(5 . Head and tegulce red-brown largely mixed with white ; 

 thorax deep chestnut-brown ; palpi chestnut, white at extremity ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing reddish 

 brown suffused with grey ; a waved black subbasal line from eosta 

 to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and with some 

 reddish marks beyond it ; an irregularly waved black antemedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former small, 

 round, the latter with black centre and placed on a brown line 

 which is bent inwards to costa and incurved in submedian fold ; 

 postmedial line fine, black, highly dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subtertninal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, grey, defined by a dark patch before it on costa, 

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

 series of black poiuts ; cilia rafous. Hind wing ochreous-white 

 suffused with fuseous-brown especially towards termeu ; cilia pale 

 rufous ; the underside ochreous-white irrorated with black-brown, 

 a discoidal bar, dentate postmedial line, and terminal lunulate 

 line. 



Hah. S.E. FiuNCE ; Corsica ; Spaik, Grenada {A. H. Jones), 

 1 cS ; Portugal ; S. Italy, Capri (S. Broivne), 1 S ; Algeria, 1 (S '-, 

 Morocco, Tangier {Meade-Waldo), 2 J. Exjp. 34 millim. 



824. Episilia salicarum. 



Hydroecia salicarum, Wlk. xi. 717 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ara. p. 63. 

 Agrotis claviformis, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874). 

 ■ Fachnobia oriUiana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. pp. 154 & 227 (1875). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey ; tegulse with a white 



Fig. 85. — Episilia salicarum, cJ. t- 



line at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown mixed with dark brown, 

 the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing rufous suffused with grey ; a 

 subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 



