EPISILIA, 489 



brown, with, a fiue brown terminal line ; the cilia pale ; the nuder- 

 side with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Antennse of male very minutely serrate. 



Hah. ScAJ^DiNAViA ; Russia, Livonia, 1 c? , 2 5 . Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1861, p'. 367; Sandberg, Berl. ent. Zeit. 

 xxix. p. 2.oS (1385). 



Head chestnut-brown, with dark reticulations and dark margins 

 on inner side of hemispheres ; body reddish brown thickly striated 

 with black ; dorsal line fine, white, on abdominal segments edged 

 with black ; segmental incisions almost black ; subdorsal lines indis- 

 tinct ; lateral area darkest ; spiracles black with white centres ; 

 subbasal area flesh-coloured with black warts. Food-plants : Vac- 

 cinium myrtilhis and uUr/inosum, AlcliemiUa, Beiuhi. 



Pupa dark brown, with the cremaster black, 



*844. Episilia retracta, n. sp. (riate LXXIIL fig. 7.) 



S . Head and tegulge rufous, the latter with some grey near base 

 and grey tips ; thorax olive-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 rufous. Fore wing dark olive-brown, thickly irrorated with blue- 

 grey ; the costal area pale rufous irrorated with grey ; the cell 

 black-brown ; traces of an antemedial line from submedian fold to 

 inner margin ; claviform a narrow pale rufous streak ; orbicular 

 and reniform pale rufous defined by whitish and confluent with 

 costal area, the former very narrow and oblique, the latter narrow 

 and angled inwards on median nervure to middle of cell; the post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, filled in with grey, bent out- 

 wards below costa to long beyond cell, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incui'ved ; a curved dark subterminal line ; cilia brown. Hind 

 wing brown, tinged with fuscous on costal and terminal areas ; cilia 

 pale brown. 



Hah. SiEHiM (MoUer), type t 6 iu Coll. Elwes, ^.tp. 30 

 millim. 



845. Episilia flavicosta. (Plate LXXIIL fig. 8.) 



Noctua flavicosta, Wllgrn. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). 

 Ochrofleura magellanica, Biitl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 83. 



§ . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi and frons more 

 ochreous ; legs and abdome]i dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing dark red-brown, sometimes with some dark irroration ; 

 the costal area ochreous to beyond middle ; the lines obsolete, some- 

 times represented by dark points on costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 ochreous, confluent with the costal area, the former elliptical ; the 

 postmedial line sometimes traceable, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal scries of 

 blackish points sometimes present. Hind wing pale suffused with 

 reddish brown ; cilia ochreous ; the underside pale, the costal area 

 suffused with reddish brown ; a discoidal lunule and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



