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NOCTUiDin:. 



144G. Epia irregularis. 



I>'ocfiia irreqularis, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 1(14. 

 Nvrtiia echii, Bork. Evir. Scliraett. iv. p. IGG (1702); Iliibn. Sauiml. Eur. 



Schmett., Koct. f. 90 ; Diip. L6p. Fr. vi. p. 308, ])1. 92. f. 2. 

 Noctua hrecciceformis, Esp. Sfhnictt,. iv. pi. 198. f. 5 (1790). 

 Koctua syvgcnesicB, Scriba, Beitr. iii. pi. 13. f. 5 (1793). 



Head and thorax white and bright rufous mixed : tegulte with 

 rufous medial line ; patagia with dark line near upper edge ; tarsi 

 with white rings ; abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 ochrcous white mostly suffused with rufous, the veins slightly 

 streaked with white ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, oVilique, the 

 outer line more prominent ; claviforra defined by rufous ; orbicular 

 and reniform white, defined by rufous and with slight brownish 

 centres, the former round or somewhat elliptical ; a waved medial 

 line; postmedial line double, the inner line more prominent, 



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Fig. 39.— Ej)ia irregularis, (^ . \. 



some\^hat dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subtcrminal line white, irregular, defined by slight 

 dentate dark marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia chequered rufous and white. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the tei'minal area 

 darker ; cilia white ; the underside white mostly suffused with 

 pale brown, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal bands. 



Bab. Bkitain, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Austria ; Hungary, D'Eramick Coll. ; 

 Italy ; Dalmatia ; S. Russia ; Asia Minor, Pontus : W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Ea-p. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. M^yr. Brit. Lep. p. 78 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 226, pi. 161. f. 3. 



Pale brownish, with darker brown dorsal and lateral stripes, the 

 former composed of V-shaped marks most prominent on abdominal 

 somites ; subdorsal line indistinct, whitish, narrowly edged with 

 brown. Food-plauts : Silene otites Sin^ Grjpsophila paniculata. 8. 



