EPILECTA. 



621 



aacl hind tibia; spiiied ; abdomen dorsally flattened. Fore wing narrow, the 

 apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from iqjper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ; 

 0, 7 from npper angle. 



A. Hind wing orange llnogrisea. 



B. Hind wing pale yellow ca-eipitey. 



1073. Epilecta liuogrisea. 



Noctua linognsm, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 79 (1775) ; Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., 

 Noct. ff. 101, 531 ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 108. f. 3 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. 

 p. 149, pi. 57. f. 5; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. 



Agrotis lutosa, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135 (1901). 



Head aud thorax pale rufous ; palpi ^vllitisll below and at 

 extremity ; frous with dark bar ; anteunce dark ; tegulas dark brown 

 at base, some white before the medial dark line, the terminal part 

 pale rnfous with dark tips ; patagia pale grey-brown ; legs blackish 

 irrorated with white, and the tibite and tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rnfous and fuscous brown. Fore wing white to the sub- 

 terminal line, irrorated and suffused with fuscous towards costa, and 

 the inner area from before medial line beyond the cell extending up 



Fig. 112. — Epilecta linogrisea, (^ . \. 



to veiu 6 strongly suffused with purple ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique double, waved, ante- 

 medial line, below the cell becoming treble and with a small black 

 spot on its outer edge representiiig the claviform ; orbicular aud 

 reniform outlined with black and with fuscous centres, the former 

 small, round, tbe latter well-developed and with dentate medial 

 shade from it to inner margin ; a minutely dentate postmedial 

 double line oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; an irregu- 

 larly waved subterminal line, with fuscous patcli with two white 

 point on it on its inner side at costa and produced to short streaks 

 on veins 5, 8 ; the terminal area bright rufous : a dark waved 

 terminal line ; cilia fuscous brown with a whitish line through them. 

 Hind wing orange, with black-brown terminal band with waved 

 inner edge, rather broad at costa, narrowing to a point at tornus ;, 

 cilia orange, with a fuscous line through them ; the underside with 

 the costal area purplish, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line indistinct except towards costa. 



Ab, 1. Jutosa. Fore wing more uniform, suffused with yellow- 

 grey instead of white. — Spain, Greece, Asia Minor, 85-ria. 



