490 NOCTUIDiE. 



Hah. Patagonia, Sandj' Point (Cunninc/Jiam), 1 $ iypc magel- 

 lanica, Latitude Cove ( Coppiiiger), 1 $ , Cockle Cove, 1 § , Puerto 

 Bucno, 1 5 , Wolsey Sound, 1 $ . Eccj), 44-48 millim. Typo t in 

 Mus. Stockholm. 



846. Episilia fishi. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Affrotisfskii, Grote, EuU.Geol. Siirv. iv. p. 175 (1878); Smith, Cat.Noct. 



N. Am. p. 64. 



Head and thorax purplish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 aiitennfie wiih the shaft whitish at base; abdomen red- brown mixed 

 with white, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing jiurplish brown 

 sufliused with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; a waved dark sub- 

 basal line from costa to subraedian fold ; a waved dark antemedial 

 line ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular marked by a few grey and dark 

 scales ; reniform with a patch of greenish-grey scales in centre and 

 some dark scales on outline ; the medial shade oblifjue from costa 

 to lower angle of cell where it is angled, then inwardly oblique ; the 

 postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards bcloAv costa, cxcurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line represented by a 

 sinuous series of grey and dark points and a dark bar from costa to 

 vein ; a fine waved terminal line ; cilia rufous. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside greyish irrorated 

 thickly with rufous, and with indistinct discoidal spot and ciir\ed 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Oldtown; 1 d' , 2 $, type. E^vj). 40 

 millim. 



847. Episilia cinerea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 10.) 



Fachnohia cinerea, Stand. Cat. Lep. p. 114 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 138 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 64. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish brown. Fore wing 

 purplish brown, tinged with grey on basal and terminal areas ; the 

 antemedial line greyish, indistinct, oblique, waved ; the claviform 

 wedge-shaped, greyish with dark outline ; the cell filled in with 

 black-brown or dark red-brown defining the orbicular and reniform, 

 which have brown centres and greyish outlines, the former open 

 above and somewhat V- or U-shapcd, the latter moderate ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the eubterminal line defined by the greyer terminal 

 area, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; 

 a fine dark terminal line and grey points on extremity of veins. 

 Hind wing yellowish brown, with indistinct dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line ; a fine dark terminal line ; the cilia 

 pale. 



IJah. Canada, Labrador (Gerhard), Zeller, Frey, Grote, and Leech 

 Colls., Q S • Exp. 38 millim. 



