EPISILIA. 



507 



Hah. Alps of S. Fka^ice, Leech Coll.; Germany ; Austkia; 

 SwiiZBKLAND, Zeller & Erey Colls. ; jN". Italy ; Ariiexia. Exj). 50 

 luillim. 



870. Episilia plumhea. 



Agrotis j^lwnhca, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 1G3 ; id. Rura. Mei:i. v. 

 p. 136, pi. 6. f. 4; iStaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous black, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 legs brownish ; abdomen whitish, tinged with pale rufous towards 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing leaden-fuscous, 

 slightly irrorated Avith grey-white ; a whitish subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct diffused oblique waved ante- 

 medial whitish line ; claviform obscurely defined by whitish ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former small, round ; 

 postmedial line dentate, whitish, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dentate whitish 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal scries of blaeli points; cilia pale ochreous brown. Hind 

 wing white, slightly tinged with fuscous, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous ; cilia while ; the underside with discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line obsolete except towards costa. 



Hah. AV. Turkestan, Ferghana, Isss'k-kul ; E. Tpekestan, Hi; 

 Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 J . Exp. 44 miliim, 



880. Episilia suhplumbea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 25.) 



Agrotis siihijlumhea, Stand. Iris, viii. p. oIU (1895) ; Stand. Cat. I;ep. pal. 

 ■ p. 144. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown, the hairs slightly tipped wath 

 grey ; antennas rufous ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface 

 strongly irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing black-brown, 

 slightly irrorated with grey ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform blackish defined by greyish aunuli, the 

 former rather small, round ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 cilia rufous. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area broadly sntt'ased 

 with fuscous ; cilia ochreous ; trhe under&ide whiter, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved 

 pustmedial lino almost obsolete except towards costa. 



IJab. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 cT, Amdo. Exj). 44 miliim. 



881. Episilia qiiadrangula. 



Agrotis quadraiigida, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 935 (1840) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 14U. 

 Agrotis rava, Herr.-Schaff. Schiuett. Eur. vi. p. 59, Suppl. f. 544 (1850); 



Siuitli, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 73. 

 Agrotis umbratus, Pack. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 37 (1867). 



(5. Pale grey-brown . Fore wing with some dark irroration ; 

 traces of a dark streak below base of cell and subbasal line ; the 



