. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 503 NOCTTJIDiE. antemedial line acutely angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, excurved below 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
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 503 NOCTTJIDiE. antemedial line acutely angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, excurved below 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.
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