216 



NOCTtriD^. 



Avhitish irrorated with brown, a dark terminal Hue ; the underside 

 with dark discoidal luiiule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. CAifADA, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 $ type, Exi). 

 40 millim. 



2361. Epidemas cinerea. 



Epidemas cinerea. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 41, pi. iv. ff. 10, 12 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 119. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; tegulaD with blackish 

 medial line and black tips ; patagia edged with black ; meta- 

 thoracic crest black at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 



Fig. 64. — Ejndemas cinerea, (^ . \. 



abdomen brownish grej'^ irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with black and tinged with brown in parts ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell : subbasal line represented 

 by a slight striga from costa ; antemedial line double, filled in with 

 whitish, the iiiner line indistinct, angled inwards on subcostal 

 nervure and vein 1 and strongly excurved in submedian interspace ; 

 claviform defined by black, acute at extremit}' and extending to 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reuiform with whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical, sometimes open above and 

 below, the latter indistioct^ly defined on outer side ; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with white, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being 

 slightly darker, dentate on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, then forming a white 

 line defined on each side by black ; cilia chequered grey and black 

 with a fine line through them. Hind wing white irrorated with 

 brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside with discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bah. U.S.A., "Washington, Pullman {Piper), 1 §, Colorado, 

 Glenwood Springs {Barnes), 1 J • Ex_p., ^ 36, 5 40 millim. 



2362. Epidemas obscura. (Plate CI. fig. 27.) 



Epidemas obscurun, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 2 (1903). 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; abdomen 

 pale suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing pale, almost uni- 

 formly suffused with reddish brown and with slight dark irroration ; 

 a curved black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line absent ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, indistinctly 



