504 KOCTUIP^. 



the cilia whitish ; underside white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Tureomania, Kuruk Tag, 1 cJ , 1 $ , 

 Tarbagatai Mts,, Issyk-kul, 1 J. Exp. 48 millim, 



873, Episilia suavis. 



Ammngrotis snavis, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 358, pi. 6. f. 11 (1895); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 178, 



S . Head and thorax clothed with ochreous white mixed with 

 black liair ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing white, tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black ; 

 a blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards below costa ; an oblique waved blackish antemedial 

 line arising from a small black spot on costa ; the claviform 

 difFuscdly defined by blackish ; orbicular represented by a small 

 blackish spot; reniform diffused blackish, with diffused spot above 

 it on costa and another on its outer edge ; postmedial line'indistinct, 

 dentate, with more prominent points at the veins, arising from a 

 black spot on costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, escurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; tfie subterminal line dentate, irregularly 

 diffused on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 aud excurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of black strife. Hind wing ochreous 

 white, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; slight spots on the veins 

 bey^ond lower angle of cell ; a diffused subterminal band. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. 



JIab. Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 cj' , Korla. Ea'j^. 46 millim. 



874. Episilia simulatrix. 



Woofna simulatrix, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 712 (1827) ; 



Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 712. 

 Jgrotis nic-tymera. Boisd. Icones, pi. 78. ff. 1, 2 (1832) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. 



Suppl. ill. p. G04, pi. 50. f. 3 ; Herr.-Scbaff. ScLmett. Eur., INoet. f. 171 ; 



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

 Agrotis dalmata, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 (1901). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing 

 brownish white ; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line angled 

 inwards on median norvure and vein 1 ; a waved medial shade 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; reniform very indistinctly 

 defined with brownish ; a strongly dentate postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line defined by a fuscous shade on its inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia whitish, with a 

 brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the 

 terminal half suffused with brown ; the cilia white ; the underside 

 Avhite, irrorated with pale brown and suffused with fuscous towards 

 termen, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. dalmata. Ground-colour rather more ochreous. 



