EPIITECIA.— FERGANA. 



2S9 



Noctita ustulata, Geycr, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 857(1841); Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 395, pi. 35. f. 7; Boisd. Ratubr. & Grasl. Coll. Icon, 

 Chen., Noct. pi. 22. ff. 1-4. 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown; palpi and 

 irons more rufous ; fcegrdae with two brown lines near base and one 

 at middle; pectus and legs white, the pectus in front and fore legs 

 tinged with rufouB ; abdomen. white with rufous dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing white tinged with brown and with rufous on terminal area and 

 slightly irrorated with black especially on the veins ; a white fascia 

 in base of cell met by an oblique pale shade from apex throngh 

 upper part of cell ; antemedial line represented by slight double 

 fuscous strise from costa and points on median ncrvure and vein 1 ; 

 slight white marks in cell above origin of vein 2 and at lower angle ; 

 postinedial line represented by a slight fuscous striga from costa, 



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Fig. 84. — Epimccia icsfula, rf. 



then by black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some white spots beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of small rufous marks in t he 

 interspaces defined on inner side by slight white marks and oblique 

 from apex to veiu 2, then by some whitish suffusion in submedian 

 interspace; cilia rufous at base with slight brownish medial line 

 and rufous and whitish tips. Hind wing white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia with faint 

 rufous line near base ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hub. France, Sand Coll.; Austria, Tyrol, Leech Coll.; Hungary; 

 Spain, Catalonia, Frey Coll. ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Bulgaria ; 

 S. Russia, Sarepta (Christoph) ; ? W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 28-32 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 252 ; Hffmn. Raup. p. 124, pi. 33. f. 4. 



Green with yellowish-white stripes on the back and sides. Food- 

 plant : Scabiosa leucaniha. 5-6 and 8 ; forming a thick cocoon like 

 parchment. 



Genus FEKGANA. 



Type. 



Fergana, Stand. Iris, v. p. 166(1892) oreophila. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond frons 

 which is smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna' of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metat.horax with spreading 

 crest; build very slender; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved 

 ami not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 



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