ErisiLiA.. 5H 



Nodna mnrbm, Frey. Neii. Beitr. Pcbmett. iv. pi. 3fi4. f, 1 (1842). 

 Atjrotis latitauf, Griien. Noct. i. p. 308 (1852). 



Hear! and thorax grey and pale brown, the hairs tipped with 

 grev ; paljn fuscons at sides ; tibite and tarsi mostly fuscous ; 

 abdomen jmle, thicklj- irrorated with fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 grey or pale brownish, thickly irrorated with black ; a double, waved, 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial 

 line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform iiidisfiiict or hardly defined except, by a quadrate fuscous 

 spot between them, sometimes forming part of a diffused medial 

 shade ; postmedial line highly dentate and produced to points on 

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

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suf- 

 fusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, often whitish except terminal area ; cilia 

 wliite ; the underside whitish more or less irrorated with brown, 

 a curved postmedial line and diffused terminal band. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller Coll.: Austria ; Hun- 

 gary ; SwnzERLANi), Frey Coll.; Italy; Norway, Leech Coll. 

 Exp. 34-40 millim. 



888. Episilia ashworthi. 



Agrntis (ishcorfkii, ])oubl. Zool. 1855, p. 4749 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. 

 Spalotis valleduca, Staint. Ann. 1855, p. 41, f. 2 (nee Boisd.). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi black, grey at 

 tip ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 •waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards below costa ; a minutely waved antemedial line angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 

 grey annuli, the former round ; a diffused sinuous medial shade ; 

 the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

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

 wing pale, suffused with reddish brown, the cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. 



Ifnh. Britain, jS'. Wales (SaJvaf/e, DouhJedaij). Kq). 35-40 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep p 97; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 183. pi. VM\. f. 2. 



Dull dark grey-green, blackish grey, or fuscous ; a subdorsul series 

 of narrow rectangular black marks; head rod-brown. Food-plants: 

 Ilcllanthciiiuiii, lUcruchun, ISali.r, etc. U-5. 



889. Episilia candelarum. 



Kcrtnn candeliser/iia. Hiibn. I'ur. Scbniett., Noel. f. ."^97 (1827), nee irubn., 



Vog. & Sebin. ; Dup Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 77. f. 2. 

 Arfrnfin (■anilrlartuii, Stand. Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 ■p. 139. 



