494 NOCTIJIDiE. 



*S54. Episilia cinerasceiis. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 15.) 



Fachnobia cinerascens, Sniitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xA'iii. p. 103 (1891) ; 

 id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 64. 



(^ . Head and thorax fusoous grey; pal})! black at sides except 

 at tips ; tibioe and tarsi blackish ; abdomen grej'-brown. Pore wing- 

 fuscous grey sparsely irrorated with black ; a blackish subbasal line 

 from below costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique waved 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform black-brown with grey 

 annuli slightly defined by black, the former round ; tlie postmedial 

 lino minutely dentate, indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side especiall}^ towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, in Coll. J. B. Smith, Cali- 

 fornia, Alameda Co. E.vj). 34 millim. 



855. Episilia nyctymeriiia. 



Agrotis nyctymcrina, Stand. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. Qt; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 143. 

 Agrotis subdeeora, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 353, pi. 6. f. 1 (1895). 

 Agrotis decorans, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 247 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Head grey and fuscous ; palpi blackish except at tips ; thorax 

 clothed with ochreous and fuscous hair ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous, the disk tinged Avith orange ; a 

 double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined 

 by orange, a waved medial shade passing between them ; postmedial 

 line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area between it and the dentate ochreous sub- 

 terminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, more strongly suffused with fuscous ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, rather 

 paler towards base, the cilia ochreous, whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line, the termen 

 more or less strongly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, 2 d" , Alexander Mts., 1 cJ , 1 5 ; 

 E. TuEKESTAx, Hi. Edji. 42-48 millim. 



85 G. Episilia similis. 



Agrotis similis, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 412 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 144. 

 Agrotis folita, Alpli. Ilor. Soc. Eut. Boss. xvii. p. 51, pi, 2. f. 46 (1882). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous, patagia with flesh- 

 coloured patches, dorsum of thorax flesh-colour; palpi blackish at 



