EPISIIIA. 509 



from costa to snbmcdian fold : anteraedlal line double, oblique, 

 waved; orbicular and reniform small, very indistinct, with fuscous 

 centres and ochreous annuli, the former oblique, elliptical: a dif- 

 fused curved medial shade ; postmedial line dentate, defined by 

 ochreous on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 7, exeurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 slight ochreous points, with an obscure series of dentate dark marks 

 before them. Hind wing fuscous with an ochreous tinge, the cilia 

 ochreous at base, whitish at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, traces of a postmedial 

 curved line most distinct on costal area. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Aschabad, 1 d" , 1 $ type. Exp. 32 millira. 



884. Episilia monogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIIT. fig. 27.) 



Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown, sometimes suffused 

 with fuscous ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey, 

 thickly irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform greyish, with pale annuli defined by blackish, the former 

 elliptical; a waved diffused medial shade angled outwards to lower 

 angle of cell ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct den- 

 tate subterminal line angled outAvards at vein 7 and exeurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; cilia whitish, sometimes with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Kashmir, Kuijar (McArthur), 2 c? , 1 $ type, Earra Larcha 

 (McArthia-), 1 $ , E:v^. 34-42 millim. 



885. Episilia ledereri. 



Agrotis ledereri, Ersch. Trudui Eiiss. Ent. Obsh. iv. p. 195 (1867) ; Eom, 



Mem. ii. p. 209, pi. Ki. f. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 14(j. 

 Agrotis mus, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 58, pi. 2. f. 50 (1882). 



Head and thorax yellow-brown ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 yellow-brown ; the subbasal line represented by small black spots 

 below costa and cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, waved, with 

 prominent black points at costa, median nervure, submedian fold, 

 and vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very faintly and incompletely 

 defined by black ; traces of a waved medial line exeurved to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate and produced to 

 a prominent series of black points at the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

 formed of small dentate black marks, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous, tinged with fuscous especially towards 

 termen ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside palei', with dark dis- 

 coidal point and curved postmedial line. 



