. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EPISILIA. 471 *807. Episilia dissociata, (Plate LXXII. fig. 14.) Agrotis dissociata, Stand, Hamburg. Magalhaeus. iv. p. 58 (1899). (^ . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tegiilte with black medial line ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey mixed with dark brown, the costa, cell, and submedian fold to postmedial line rufous ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rather ill-defined, angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner marg


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EPISILIA. 471 *807. Episilia dissociata, (Plate LXXII. fig. 14.) Agrotis dissociata, Stand, Hamburg. Magalhaeus. iv. p. 58 (1899). (^ . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tegiilte with black medial line ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey mixed with dark brown, the costa, cell, and submedian fold to postmedial line rufous ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rather ill-defined, angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin ; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform small, with slight dark centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former somewhat elliptical; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line represented by a series of slight dentate dark marks. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous; cilia yellowish white ; the underside paler, with dark discoidal point and curved diffused postmedial line. Hah. Patagonia, Magellan, Punta Arenas (N'ordenskiold), type f (5 in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 34 miilim. 808. Episilia interclnsa. Psaphara intcrclusa, Wlk. xi. 607 (1857). S. Pale grey-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint tinged with fuscous at sides, thorax with fuscous mixed. Eore wing irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by black marks below costa and cell; the antemedial line angled inwards in cell and on. Fig. 8-1.—Episilia inferckisa, (^. \. vein 1, almost obsolete except for black spots below costa and cell and a short curved part from latter to submedian fold ; the stigmata obsolete, with a somewhat quadrate black mark in cell between orbicular and reniform, with a black point on costa above it; the postmedial line represented by a series of small black lunules, strongly bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; a diffused fuscous subterminal shade angled outwards at vein


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