498 NocTuii».5i:. 



and rcniform iiirlistinct, greyish, sometimes rather more prominent 

 and coimccted by a fascia on median nervure ; the postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 an indistinct minutely dentate subterminal line angled outwards at 

 vein 7. Hind wing orange, with moderately broad terminal black 

 band with slightly sinuous inner edge. tJnderside orange, with 

 some fuscous irroration on costa of fore wing and termen of each 

 wing, the fore wing sometimes with dark streak on median nervure 

 and patch beyond lower angle of cell. 



2 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing more rufous. 



Hah. Akmenta, Caucasus, 2 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 28 millim. 



Possibly a variety of E. anachoreta. 



860. Episilia stridula. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 16.) 



Agrotis stridula, Staucl. iiied. 



S . Head and thorax deep red-brown, the hairs tipped with 

 p;ile brown ; tcgulas with black medial band ; tibiie and tarsi 

 blackish ; abdomen fuscous brown, with greyish segmental lines. 

 Pore wing reddish brown thickly suffused with fuscous, the veins 

 streaked with greyish ; the subbasal line represented by black striae 

 from costa and cell, filled in with red-brown ; the antemedial line 

 black, defined by pale rufous on inner side, angled outwards below 

 costa, emitting an oblique streak to basal line from subcostal 

 nervure, angled inwards on median nervure and very strongly out- 

 wards above inner margin, Avith a black spot on its outer edge at 

 base of claviform, which is finely defined by whitish and black; 

 orbicular and reniform Avith greyish centres and pale reddish annuli 

 defined by black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter 

 strongly dentate in\\ards on median nervure, the cell before and 

 between them black ; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line bla k, defined by pale 

 reddish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the veins beyond it defined by 

 reddish dentate marks ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined 

 by a series of dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a dark terminal line and lino 

 through the cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a 

 brown line at base ; the underside pale, thickly irrorated and 

 suffused with fuscous ; an indistinct curved postmedial line. 

 Hah. AV. TuEKESTAN, Turcomauia, 1 (^ type. Exj). 36 millim. 



861. Episilia voccei. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 17.) 



AgrntiH woeJcei, Mosc-hl, Wien. cut. Men. vi. p. 130, pi. 1. ff'. 1, 2 (1862); 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. KJ'.'. 

 Aijrotis scroj-tdana, Mow. Pro(;. Bost. Sec. N. H. xvii. p. 165 (1874). 



S . Head and thorax chestnut, tegulse blackish at extremity and 

 with white lines through them and base of patagia ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, with the hair at sides and extremity fulvous. 



