510 N0CTUID,^3. 



Ab. 1. mns. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker brown. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi, Thian-Shan 

 Mts. ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts. ; S.E. Siberia, Kentei, Araurland, 

 1 d , 1 2 . ^^q^' 36 millim. 



886. Episilia simulaiis. 



Isocfua shHulans, Hvifn. Eerl. Mag. iii. p. 306 (1707) ; Stand. Cat. Lcp. 



pal. p. 143. 

 INoctua ])i/rophiIa, Scliiff. Wieu Verz. p. 71 (177()); Iliibn. Eur. Sehinett., 



Noct. f. 43 ; Hei-r.-ScliiifF. Sclimett. Em-., Noct. ^. 334; Stepli. 111. Erit. 



Eiit.. Haiist. ii. p. 130. 

 Nucfua irlgfis, Eabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 233 (1784). 

 Nocfua radicea, Esp. Sehmett. iv. pi. 143. ff. 1, 2 (1786). 

 Agi-otis ohscurata. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grej" or ochreons, mixed with brown 

 or fuscous ; ])alpi blackish at sides exce]jt at tips ; tarsi blackish, 

 with pale rings. Fore wing grej' or ochreous brown, thickly irro- 

 rated with dark brown : a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; orbicuhir and reniform with fuscous-irrorated 

 centres and ochreous annuli, sliglitly defined by black, a waved dark 

 medial shade passing between them, the former round; a highly 

 dentate postmedial line produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

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

 lino greyish, somewhat dentate and defined by a series of small 

 dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia yellowish white ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area yellowish irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. ohscurata. Darker ; fore wing blackish groj\ 



Hah. Ehitain, Scotland, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Ger- 

 many, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Dknmaek ; Finland ; Algeria ; Armenia ; Kurdistan ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-knl, 1 J , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. E.q^- -i^— ^8 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 377, pi. 13.5. f. 2. 



Fuscous brown ; dorsal line fine, indistinct, pale, with a darker 

 line on each side, and with a series of dorsal V-sbaped marks ; 

 subdorsal area brownish flesh-colour, with some dark irroration ; 

 a white lateral fascia interrupted at 2nd and 5th to teriuinal 

 somites by black marks. Food-plants : grasses, dandelion, dock, 

 knot-grass, groundsel, etc. 8-6. 



887. Episilia latens. 



Kucfiia lutcns, Hiibn. Sainiul. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 419 (1827) ; Diip. 

 Lep. Fr. vi. p. 29, pi. 73 ; Boisd. Icoues, pi. 80. f. 1 ; Herr.-Scharf. 

 Eur. Sclimett., Noct. p. 332 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 



