EPISILIA. 



4iJl 



848. Episilia f estiva. 



Noctua frstiva, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (177fi) ; Hiibu. Eur. Srhmclt, 



Nort. ff. 114, 4fi7; G..clt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 18(i, pi. 61. ft'. 5, 6. 

 Kocfiia ■prhiulce, Esp. Sdimeit. iv. pi. 136. ff. 5, 6 (1786) ; StiUid. Cat. Lcp. 



pnl. p. 140. 

 Noctua mcndica, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. 03 (1703). 

 Kociua siifirum, Haw. Lep. Brii:. p. 227 (1800). 

 Noctua coiigemr, Hiibn. Eur. Sehiiiett., Noct. f. 618 (1827). 

 Nucl'ua covflua, Tieit. Schinett. Eur. vi. 1, p. 40.') (1827) ; Dup. Lcp. Fr. 



V\\. pi. 100. f. 7 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Suhmett., Noct. f. 164 ; Weir, Entoui. 



1884, p. 2, pi. i. ff. 8-10. 

 Hadcna h<,rca/i.-<, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 041 (1840). 

 Cera.-^fis dhlnda, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 04(1 (1840). 

 Acjrofu iynicola, Herr.-Scbaff. Eur. Scbiiiett., Xoct. f. 455 (1845). 

 Ap-otis ihulei, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1801). 

 Ayrofis lumciiianda, Alph. Eoiu. Meui. ix. p. 330, pi. 14. f. 6 (1807). 



Head and thorax pale olive-hrown to red-brown ; palpi dark red- 

 brown, pale at ti])s ; pectus, legs, and abdomen red-brown, the la.st 

 dorsallj- greyish tirged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish oclireous 

 tinged with rufous ; a fine waved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold, with a dark ])oint usually present beyond it in cell ; 

 a fine waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards on vein 1, then bent outwards above inner margin, a rufous 

 shade on its inner side ; claviform with its extremity defined by 

 black ; orl)icular and renilbrm more or less strongly defined by 

 l)rown or blackish, the former somewhat quadrangular and open 

 above and below, the latter with its centre brownish, constricted at 

 middle and often angled inwards on median nervurc, the space 

 between them suffused with rufous or dark brown ; an oblique 

 slightly waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the 

 area beyond it suffused with rufous to the subterminal line, which is 

 pale and excurved between veins 7 and 2 ; a terminal series of 

 small dark lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with tuscous brown 

 especially towards termen ; a terminal series of dark strise ; cilia 

 ochreous or pinkish ; the underside cchreous, the costal area 

 suffused with ])ink, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line produced to slight streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. lamenlanda. Paler and more uniformly ochreous. — Urga, 

 Kanischatka. 



Ab. 2. cojijiiia. llather smaller, greyer and duller in tone, the 

 markings less distinct. — N. Europe. 



Ab. 3. thuJei. Darker, with the cell before and between the 

 stigmata wholly or with its lower part blackish. — Shetland Ts. 



Hah. JiiiiTAiN, Shetland ls.{lS(ilvct(/e), Scotland, England, N. Wales, 

 Leech Coll.; France; Gekmany, Silesia, Zeller cfc Frcy Colls.; 

 Austria ; SwiTZEHi.ANi) ; Italy, Piedmont; Icki.ani), Zeller Coll.; 

 Norway, Frey & Leech Colls. ; FiiNland, Leech Coll. ; IvussiA, St. 

 Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals; Armenia; W. Siberia, Altai; 

 W. Turkestan. Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Tihet, Kuku-noor, 

 Amdo. Kiy. o0-3(j millim. 



