512 NOCTUID^. 



Agrotis signata, Stand. Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871). 

 Agrotis jotunensis, Auriv. Nord. .Fjaj-. p. 122 (1888). 



Head and thorax white to pale purplish brown, largely mixed 

 with grey ; palpi hrown except at tips ; abdomen white, tinged 

 with brown or ochreous. Fore wing gre3'-white, more or less tinged 

 with ochreous brown, and with some darker irroration and dark 

 spots on costa at the lines ; a waved dark subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a waved dai^k antemedial line angled outwards 

 below costa ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by brownish, 

 the former rounded ; a diffused curved medial line; the postmedial 

 line fairly prominent or almost obsolete, dentate and produced to 

 points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, slightly defined by 

 brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing white, suffused with ochreous brown especially 

 towards termen ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. jotunensis. Darker. 



Ab. 2, signata. Paler, the postmedial dentate line very prominent. 

 . Hah. Feance, Leech Coll. ; Germanv, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Aus- 

 tria ; SwrrzEKLANn ; Scandinavia; IIussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals ; Balkan States ; Bythinia ; AV. Tukkestan, Turcomania ; 

 Tibet, Amdo. Kvp. 44-46 millim. 



*890. Episilia castra. (Llate LXXYII. fig. 30.) 

 Leiicaiiia castra, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 233 (1894). 



^ . Head and thorax white tinged Avith ochreous ; sides of pal[)i 

 and frons black ; pro- and metathorax with black marks ; abdomen 

 ochreous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 white, sparsely irrorated with black ; a black fascia on median 

 nervure and vein 4 from base to near termen ; the orbicular and 

 reniform represented by small round black spots ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots. Hind wing yellowish white, with some black 

 points on termen. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraiia, type t S in Coll. Schaus. Exi^. 

 84 millim. 



*891. Episilia tiniloides. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 28.) 



Leucania tiniloides, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 244 (1897), J. 

 Leucania sagitta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 244 (1897), cf- 



5 . Head pale reddish brown ; palpi dark red-brown, pale at 

 tips ; tegulse grey at base, with white medial line followed by black, 

 brown at tips ; thorax pale grey-brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi whitish 

 above ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing 

 brownish grey ; the median nervure white, the other veins brown, 

 defined on each side by fine grey streaks ; the inner and terminal 

 areas tinged with rufous ; a black streak below basal half of cell ; 



