PPISILTA. 501 



ochreons white, the tips bright red-brown ; abdomen ochreous, 

 rufous towards extremitj^ and on ventral surface. Fore wing 

 purplish red; the costal area ochreous white to postmedial line, 

 extending to just below cell at base ; the median nervure with 

 whitish streak ; an olive-brown subbasal patch below the cell ; 

 the antemedial Hue obsolete above median nervure, excurved below 

 cell and above inner margin, angled inwards on vein 1 ; clavit'orm 

 small, indistinct, greyish, defined by brown above ; orbicular 

 ochreous white, triangular and confluent with costal area; reniform 

 with greyish centre and ochreous annulus : the cell before and 

 between the stigmata olive- brown ; the postmedial line very in- 

 distinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then, 

 oblique, the area beyond it paler ; the subterminal line indistinct, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 rufous. 



Hah. W. TuPvKESiAN, Ferghana, Turcomania, 1 J . Exi>. 40 

 millim. 



866. Episilia jiildussi. 



Agrotis jicldussl, Alpb. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 49, pi. 3. f. 59 (1882) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



(S . Head and thorax purplish red ; tegulse with whitish medial 

 line and dark brown tips ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing purplish 

 red, the disk suffused with red- brown ; the costal area ochreous to 

 the postmedial line, extending to just below cell at base ; a subbasal 

 red-brown patch below the cell ; the antemedial line very indistinct, 

 oblique from cell to inner margin, obsolete on costal area; orbicular 

 ochreous, V-shaped, confluent with costal area ; reniform with 

 greyish centre and ochreous annulus ; the cell before and between 

 the stigmata red-brown ; traces of an oblique medial line from cell 

 to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine 

 terminal dark line. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous ; 

 the underside pale ochreous brown, the costal area tinged with red^ 

 a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Tl'ekestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 4 cJ ; E. Tuekestan, 

 Kuldja, 1 (S • EiV_p. 34 millim. 



867. Episilia modesta. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 19.) 



Agrotis modesta, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 309 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 



S . Head and tegulse deep red-brown ; thorax pinkish rufous ; 

 legs rufous, the tarsi with ochreous rings ; abdomen ochreous, the 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pinkish rufous, irrorated with a 

 few white scales : subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to 

 submedian fold, filled in with white scales ; antemedial line double 

 at costa, then indistinct, single, and defined by whitish on outer 

 side ; orbicular and reniform small, with slight rufous centres and 



