50G NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 1. ren'iqera. Much darker. — Scotland and mountains of 

 England. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Fkance, Sand Coll., Pyrenees ; Swjtzeki, \nd, Engadine, Erey Coll. ; 

 Scandinavia ; Eussia, Einland, Zeller Coll. E.vp. 3S-4i) millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 97 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 390, pi. 136. f. 3. 



Fuscous, with subdorsal series of dark fuscous dentate marks 

 with pale spots behind them ; head fuscous, with black markings. 

 Eood-plants : Sediun, Stellaria, Canipamda. 9-4. 



*877. Episilia ignohilis. (Plate LXXIIL fig. 24.) 



Ayroiis iffiiobllig, Stand. Stett. eiit. Zeit. 1888, p. 7 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 145. 



(^ . Head and thorax grey, the hair tipped with dark brown, tlic 

 teguke tinged with rufous ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous and with a slight 

 fulvous tinge in discal and submedian folds ; a double, waved, sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, oblicjue 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale fulvous annuli 

 defined by fuscous, the former rather small, round, the latter narrow 

 and with fuscous centre; medial shade black, prominent, angled at 

 median nervure ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line pale, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing jjale with a rufous tinge; 

 the terminal area broadly fuscous from costa to submedian fold ; 

 cilia white, yellowish at base ; the underside grey, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, a sinuous postmedial line, the area beyond it suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hub. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts., in Coll. Pilngelcr. 

 £.12^. 4:2 millim. 



878. Episilia helvetina. 



2\octua birivia, Hubn. Saiuinl. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 42 (iiec SchifT.). 



Noctua hclveti7Ki, Boisd. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 37l>, pi. 14. f. 3 ; id. 

 Icones, pi 82. f. 4 ; Dnp. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 207, pi. 19. f. 4 ; Ilerr.- 

 Sehatt'. fjchmett. Eur. ii. p. 334, pi. 3. ti'. 12-14; tJtaud. Cat. Lep. p.vl. 

 p. 14+. 



Noctua livia, Frey. Beitr. iii. pi. 20l (1836). 



Head and thorax brown, the hairs tipped with grey-white ; 

 abdomen brown, with an ochreous tinge towards extremity in male. 

 Fore wing ochreous brown, suffused with smooth leaden-grey ; an 

 indistinct antemedial line excurved from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and renform slightly 

 defined with w^hitish, the former small, elliptical ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved : hardly a trace of the subterminal line. 

 Hind wing dull Vn-own suffused with grey, the cilia ochreous at 

 base, grey at tips ; the underside whitish, irrorated with yellow- 

 brown, a curved postmedial line. 



