4G8 NocTCii)^. 



b^. Fore wing dark red-browu, the veins streaked with 



grey coppinqeri. 



Fore wing bright rufous Jiylda. 



c 



Fore wing with tiie hnes nou-dentate. 

 a\ Fore wing with bhxckish patch in cell between the 

 stigmata. 



a-. Fore wing grey, the h'nes white hilaris. 



b'^. Fore wing pale red, the lines dark funyorum. 



y^. Fore wing without blackish patch in cell, the reniforui 

 dark. 

 a?. Fore wing pale red ; hind wing whitish. 



a?. Fore wing with distinct subterniinal line mad'iOa. 



i'. Fore wing without subterniinal line iiuilcpa. 



b"^. Fore wing yellow ; hind wing black-brown strumiiiea. 



801. Episilia hyperborea. 



o 



Iladcna hijpcrhorca, Zett Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840) ; Gnen. Noet. i. p. 34 

 pi. 4. f. 10; Mill. Icon. Lep. pi. GU. iV. 3, 4; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 137. 



hudena aqidlonims, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 940 (1810). 



Hadena aljncola, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840). 



Jffrutis alpina. Humph. & Westw. Erit. Moths, i. p. 118, pi. 23. f. 13(1843). 



Aqrofia caniiea. Herring, Stett. e. Zeit. 184(), p. 1^36. 



OHho!<ia ylu('iali.% Herr.-Sch;lff: ydnnett. Eur., Noct. ff. 421-.5 (1849). 



Agrutis ivvni, Hliber, Hor. 8oc. Ent. Eoss. vi. p. 135, pi. 3. f. 6 (1869). 



Head and thorax grey mixed "with brown ; palpi bhickish at 

 sides except at extremity ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, 

 the anal tuft tinged with rutbus. l^'ore wing violaceous grey ; 

 a diffused black streak below base of cell ; a waved subbasai line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved below cell and above inner 

 margin ; claviform defined by black at extremity ; orbicular large, 

 whitish, defined by black, the former open above, the latter with 

 fuscous centre, the cell before and between them blackish ; an 

 oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; the 

 subterminal line defined by ditt'used somewhat dentate black marks 

 on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown; the cilia white; the underside white, irrorated with 

 brown; a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. carnica. Fore wing suffused with ferruginous, — Al2)s ; 

 Cariuthia. 



Ab. 2. alpina. Fore wing tinged wi(h pink and suffused with 

 rufous, the interspaces below and bejond cell with diffused black 

 streaks. — Shetland ; Scotland ; Ireland. 



Hah. Britain, Shetland, '6 6, 1 $ , Scotland, 1 S , Irelatid ; 

 Germany, Silesia ; Hungary ; Carinthia ; Switzerland, Eugadine, 

 1 c?, 3 5 ; Scandinavia, Lapland, 4 c? , 5 $ ; Russia, Amur, 

 Leech Coll., 1 d , 1 $. J^'-vj^'. 6-i-iO milhm. 



