EnsiTjA. 485 



836. Episilia serraticornis. (Plate LXXIl. fig. 31.) 



Agrotis serraticornis, Stand. Iris, x. p. 274 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 



S . Head and thorax sulphur-yellow ; abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing sulphur-yellow ; the subbasal 

 line represented by a rufous striga on costa, the autemedial line by 

 a rufous striga on costa, an excurved portion in submedian inter- 

 space and a very indistinct part angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform a small brown ocellus ; 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, rufous, excurved below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by an indis- 

 tinct series of dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of minute points; cilia brown at tips. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Spain, Castillo, Cuenca (Korh), 1 c? , 2 5 . E.vj). 42 millim. 



837. Episilia senescens. (Plate LXXII. fi.g. 32.) 



Agrotis senescens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. ISSl, p. 416 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 137. 

 Agrotis senilis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 1. 



Head and thorax grey, the hairs pencilled with brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Pore wing 

 brownish grey thickly irrorated with brown ; an indistinct oblujue 

 brown ante-medial line, with slight dark streaks on its inner side at 

 the veins ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, the former open 

 V-shaped ; the postmedial line indistinct and produced to points on 

 the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the sub- 

 terminal line ijidistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind 

 wing pale grey-brown. 



Ab. 1. senilis. Head, thorax, and fore wing whiter, the last with 

 the markings indistinct, the medial area tinged with ferruginous 

 red in and below cell, and some dentate ferruginous marks before 

 the subterminal line. 



Hab. VV. TiJBKESTAN, Fergana, Tura, 2 c? , 2 § ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai, 3d; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Amurland, 1 d , 

 1 $ . E^jy. 40 millim. 



838. Episilia cungessi. 



Agrotis Jcungcssi, Alpli. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. G2, pi. 1. f. 40 (1882) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. 



Head and thorax white, palpi and tegulee slightly mixed with 

 brown ; fore femora brownish above ; abdomen white, dorsally 

 tinged with ochreous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 white. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous, and with traces of 

 sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with fuscous except towards margins ; hind wing white. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Tura, 1 c? , 1 5 ; E. Tdrkestan, Kuldja, 

 1 J, 1 $. Exp. 40 millim. 



