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ferruginous suffusion be_yond it, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled iawards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform ferruginous defined by grey, tbe former small, 

 very oblique, triangular, the latter indistinct and strongly angled 

 inwards on median uervure, the cell before, below orbicular, and 

 between the stigmata suffused with blackish ; the postmedial lino 

 rather ill-defined, strongly dentate, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; the subterrainal line only defined by the ferruginous suffusion 

 before it, obliquely incurved from costa to veia 3, then angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal seiies of ferruginous points. 

 Hind wing pale brown ; the underside pale, with the costal area 

 suffused with rufous. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 S type. E.vj[>. 34 millim. 



*840. Episilia bistrigata. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 5.) 

 Jgrotis bistngaia, Mssn. Stilbel's Eeise, p. 142, pi. 6. f. 13 (1890). 



5 . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi with, the 2nd joint 

 blackish at sides ; tegulne with black medial line ; abdomen greyish 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown tinged with purplish red ; a black 

 fascia below the cell to middle of wing ; the subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines obsolete ; the cell filled in with black ; orbicular 

 purplish brown, small, elliptical ; reniform small, open above and 

 below, defined on outer side by black ; postmedial line very indis- 

 tinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal 

 line only indicated by the area beyond it being blackish, angled 

 outwards to near termen at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 

 4, 3, 2 and at tornus. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with 

 brown, the veins brown; cilia whitish : underside whitish. 



Hah. Colombia ; Ecuador, Loja, in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 36 millim. 



841. Episilia terrifica. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Setagrotis terrifica, Smith, Ent. News. Pbilad. 1893, p. 98, pi. 6. f. 2 ; id. 

 Traus. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 42, pi. 2. f. 2. 



(S . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons blackish ; tegulae with blackish medial line ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous and the ventral surface with black. 

 Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown and fuscous ; a slight 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; claviform elongate, whitish 

 slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform white defined by 

 black, the former elliptical, open above, the cell before and between 

 them suffused with black ; the postmedial line somewhat dentate, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved ; the subterminal line represented by a somewhat diffused 

 brownish shade, slightly curved towards costa, then oblique ; a 

 terminal series of black points; cilia white, with a fuscous line 

 through them. Hind wing white ; the costal area slightly tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 



