- EPISJLIA, 495 



sides, white at tips ; tarsi fuscous, Avitli pale rings to the joints ; 

 abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wing ochreous thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous; a diffused flesh-coloured fascia in basal half of submedian 

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

 antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform 

 with fuscous centres and flesh-coloured annuli, the former round ; 

 a waved medial shade ; postmedial line double, the inner dentate, 

 the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to veia 

 4, then incurved ; subterminal line ochreous, dentate, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by 

 "a dark shade, the area beyond it sometimes darker ; cilia ochreous 

 with two fu'^cous lines through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 paler towards base ; the cilia ochreous at base, with fuscous medial 

 line and whitish tips ; the underside ochreous whitish with slio-ht 

 dark irroration, a diffused postmedial line and terminal band. 



Hah. W. TuiiKESiAN, Alexander Mts., 1 c? , 1 ?. Exiy. 4i 

 millim. 



857. Episilia psammoda. 



Agrotis psammoda, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 355, pi. 6. f. 5 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep 

 pal. p. 148. 



Head and thorax white mixed with yellow ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen white, the last tinged with ochreous at extremity. Fore 

 wing ochreous yellow, the veins whitish ; slight streaks of rufous 

 in and below cell, above vein 4, and shorter subterminal streaks 

 from below vein 2 to above 5; reniform obscurely defined by rufous 

 and with fuscous centre ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing white, the veins slightly tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 cj' , 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. IV. {Episilia). Antenuce of male ciliated. 



A. Hind wiug yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the stigmata prominent anachoreta. 



b. Fore wiug with the stigmata obsolescent luperinoidcs. 



B. -Hind wiug not yellow. 



a, Fore wing with the cell blackish between the stigmata. 

 a}-. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on 

 median nervure. 

 a}. Fore wing with dentate grey marks on the veins 



beyond postmedial line stridiila. 



b"^. Fore wing without dentate grey marks on the veins 

 beyond postmedial line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular whitish, open 



above voccei. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular defined by whitish, cuprea. 

 b^. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on 

 median norvure. 



a-. Fore wing pui'plish brown prcecipua. 



b"-. Fore wing pale olive-brown muscida. 



b. Fore wing with the cell not blackish between the 

 stigmata. 

 (c^. Fore wing with the costal area whitish to the post- 

 medial line; the orbicular V shaped, open above. 



or. Hind wing white lasciva. 



b'^. Hind wing suffused with I'uscous juldussi. 



