502 KOCTTJIDiE. 



ochroons-wliite annuli, the former round ; a slight medial shade ; 

 postmcdial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, somewhat incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; 

 snbterminal line indistinct, pale, somewhat dentate, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined at costa on inner 

 side by a blackish patch with pale points on it; a terminal series 

 of dark points. Hind wing ochrcous ; cilia pale rufous, the under- 

 side with the costal area tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 32 millim. 



868. Episilia isochroma, n. sp. (riate LXXIII. fig. 20.) 



Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen greyish ochreous, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ferruginous red, with 

 a few silvery-blue scales on inner and terminal areas; orbiculur 

 represented by an obscure dark point, the reniform by a slight 

 lunule ; faint traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; traces of a subterminal 

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

 ochreous white ; the costal area slightly tinged with fuscous and 

 the terminal area in female ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside with 

 slight discoidal j)oint and traces of postmcdial line. 



IJab. TiiJET, Yatung {Ilobsou), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp., J 28, 

 2 30 millim. 



8G9. Episilia argillacea. (riate LXXIII. fig. 21.) 



Eicomorjjha argillucm, Alph. Ilor. Soc. Ent. Eobs. xxvi. p. 445 (1892); 



iSlaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 

 Agrotis decolor, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 307 (1895). 



(5. Head and thorax pale grey - brown ; abdomen ochreous. 

 Tore wing pale grey-brown, irrorated with a few dark scales ; 

 traces of waved brown subbasal and antemcdial lines ; orbicular 

 a small elliptical white annulus ; reniform indistinct, with a white 

 bar on its inner edge ; faint traces of a postmedial line ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white with a brownish 

 tinge ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 i^ , Amdo. Exp. 34 millim. 



870. Episilia violetta. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 22.) 



, Agrotis violetta, Stuud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 3 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



Head and thorax grey, suffused with purplish pijik ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen whitish. I'ore wing grey, suffused with purpli.'5li 

 pink and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to subraedian fold ; an indistinct double waved 

 antemcdial line ; claviform an indistinct pale dash ; orbicular and 

 reniform with fuscous centres and wliitish annuli, tlie former small, 

 rounded ; postmcdial line dciitate and produced to white points oji 



