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NOCTUIBiK. 



144G. Epia irregularis. 



jS'cctua irregularis, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 104. 

 Nocti/a echii, Bork. Eur. St-limett. iv. p. 166 (1792) ; Hiibn. Sauiml. Eur. 



Schraett., Kot-t. f. 90 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. m\. p. 308, pi. 92. f. 2. 

 Koctua hreccio'formis, Esp. Sc'hmett. iv. pi. 198. f. 5 (1790). 

 Noctiia syngcncsia, Scriba, Beltr. iii. pi. 13. f. 5 (1793). 



Head and thorax white and bright rufous mixed : teguloe with 

 rufous medial line ; patagia with dark line near upper edge ; tarsi 

 with white rings ; abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 ochreous white mostly suffused with rufous, the veins slightly 

 streaked with white ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, oblique, the 

 outer line more prominent ; claviform defined by rufous; orbicular 

 and reniform white, defined by rufous and with slight brownish 

 centres, the former round or somewhat elliptical ; a waved medial 

 line; postmedial line double, the inner line more prominent, 



Fig. 39. —Epia irregularis, ^j" . 



somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line white, irregular, defined by slight 

 dentate dark marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia chequered rufous and white. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area 

 darker ; cilia white ; the underside white mostly suffused with 

 pale brown, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal bands. 



Hah. BuiTAiN, Leech Coll.; France; Germanv, Zeller Coll.; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Austria; Hungary, D'Eramick Coll.; 

 Italy; Dalmatia; S.Russia; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Eccp. 34-36 millira. 



Larva. Mpyr. Brit. Lep. p. 78; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 226, pi. Ifil. f. 3. 



Pale brownish, with darker brown dorsal and lateral stripes, the 

 former composed of V-shaped marks most prominent on abdominal 

 somites ; subdorsal line indistinct, whitish, narrowly edged with 

 brown. Food-plauts : Silene otites an^ GypsopTiila ixiniculata. 8, 



