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NOCTUID^. 



Genus EPIGL^A. 



Type. 



Epiglsa, Grote, BuU.U. S. Geog. Geol. Surv.Terr. ir. p. 181 (1878)... clcdwa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porreet to just beyond the large frontal 

 tuft, fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth; eyes 

 laro-e, rounded ; antennae somewhat laminate and ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegnl^e produced 

 to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with large triangular crest ; pectus 

 with long hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and 

 lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the costa arched, 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen excurved at middle and oblique 

 towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines dark. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate and produced 



to dark points on the veins decliva. 



h. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate apiata. 



E. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines whitish contracta. 



2636. Epiglsea decliva. 



Orthosia decliva, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 222. 

 Glcea deleta, Grote, Psyche, ii. p. 80 (1877). 



(S . Head and thorax bright rufous; antennae with the shaft 

 "white towards base ; abdomen pale rufous, greyish at base. Eore 

 wing rufous suffused with greyish and with slight dark irroration ; 

 an indistinct curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, obliquely curved, rather irregularly 

 ^aved ; orbicular and reuiform large, slightly defined by whitish, 



Fig. 150. — EpiglcBa decliva, S . \. 



the former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter with its lower 

 part filled in with fuscous ; a medial shade oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then somewhat incurved ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to dark 

 points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined by 

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

 middle ; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing pale pink 



