EPISILTA. 499 



Fore wing pale grey-brown, tinged with rufons below the cell on 

 medial area ; the subbasal line represented by black points below 

 costa and cell ; a wedge-shaped black mark above vein 1 before the 

 indistinct sinuous, oblique, grey antemedial line ; claviform elongate, 

 grey defined by black ; cell tilled in Avith black defining the grey 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata, the former open above and rather 

 V-shaped, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; the postmedial line minately dentate, oblitjue 

 from costa to vein 8 and at vein 3 inwardly obli(iue ; the subterminal 

 line indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with indistinct discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line. 



5 . Greyer, without the rufous tints. 



Hah. Cajjada, Labrador, 1 5 , Grote Coll. ; U.S.A., New Hamp- 

 shire, White Mts., 1 J iy^Q soropulana ; W. Tdrkestan, Ala Tau. 

 Ea'p., S 38, $ 40 millim. 



8G2. Episilia cuprea. 



Noctua cuprea,^A\\&. Wieii. Verz. p. 91 (1776); Hiibn. Sainml. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noot. f. Q'l; Godt. Lep. Fr. ii. p. 197, pi. 63; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 14:2. 



Noctua hcematitedea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 182. f. 4 (1786). 



Head and thorax red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen greyish brown, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing 

 red-brown; the veins finely streaked with white, the median 

 nervure most prominently so ; the subbasal line represented by 

 grey striae from costa and median nervure with some brown on 

 their inner sides ; the antemedial line grey, angled outwards below 

 costa, then incurved and obsolete below vein 1 ; claviform dark 

 brown defined by white, the cell and area just below and beyond 

 it dark red-bi'own ; the orbicular and reniform defined by white, 

 the former somewhat oblique, elliptical, the latter with white line 

 at centre and often angled inwards on median nervure ; the post- 

 medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; the subterminal 

 line defined by dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and somewhat dentate at'veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line and ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 with a reddish tinge ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous white, 

 irrorated with reddish brown. 



Bob. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Silesia ; Switzerland, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls. ; Hungary; jN'orway, Zeller Coll. ; Russia, St. Peters- 

 burg, Frey Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; Kamschaxka. E.cp. 36-40 

 milim. 



863. Episilia prascipna. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis prmcipua, Staud. Iris, v. p. 360, pi. 3. f. 5 (1892) ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 151. 



<3' . Head and thorax red-brown with a purplish tinge, the head 



