503 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



antemedial line acutely angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, 

 excurved below cost.a and ceil and angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform elongate, slightly defined by dark scales ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform slightly defined by dark scales, the cell between 



Fig. 87. — Episilia qiuulrangiola, cj. \. 



them blackish, the former round, the latter open above and below ; 

 a patch of blackish scales beyond the cell ; the postmedial line 

 highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 obli(]ue ; faint traces of a subterminal lino. Hind wing grey suf- 

 fused wiih fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous white; the underside 

 with discoidal spot and diffused waved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. Gkeenland ; Canada, Labrador, 1 J, Nova Scotia; Ice- 

 land {WalTcer), 1 d , 3 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



882. Episilia laetifica. 



Agrotis Icefifica, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 29 ; Alph. Eora. Mem. 

 ix. pi. 13. f. 10 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 



S • Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark brown hair ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing clothed 

 with white and black scales, the interspaces ochreous except towards 

 costa and inner margin ; a waved dark subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli, the former round ; 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a whitish subterminal line defined by fuscous 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with 

 fuscous especially towards termen ; the cilia white ; the underside 

 white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and 

 postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins. 



JIah. Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 1 (S , Changhai Mts., Hi. 

 46 millim. 



883. Episilia diplogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 20.) 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and ochreous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides; abdomen brownish grey; tarsi fuscous, with 

 ochreous rings. Fore wing grey, mixed with ochreous and irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, 



