468 N0CTCID.T1:. 



IP. Fore wing dark red-browu, the veins strenked with 



grey coppingeri. 



c^. Fore wing bright rufous fnyida. 



h. Fore wing with the lines nou-dentate. 



a^. Fore wing with blackish patch in cell between the 

 stigmata. 



a^. Fore wing grey, the lines white hilaris. 



6'. Fore wing pale red, the lines dark fungorum. 



b^. Fore wing without blackish patch in cell, the renifonu 

 dark. 

 a-. Foi'e wing pale red ; hind wing whitish. 



a^. Fore wing with distinct subterniinal line wodida. 



b^. Fore wing without subterininal line molepa. 



5^. Foi'e wing yellow ; hind wing black-brown struminea. 



801. Episilia hypertorea. 



Hadena hyperhorca, Zett Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840) ; Gnen. Noct. i. p. 342, 

 pi. 4. f. 10; Mill. Icon. Lep. pi. 6U. ff. 3, 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 137. 



Hadena aquilonaris, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 940 (1810). 



Hadena al-picola, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840). 



Agrotis alpina, Humph. & Westw. Brit. Moths, i. p. 118, pi. 23. f. 13 (18-13). 



AgrottR carnica. Herring, Stett. e. Zeit. 1846, p. 236. 



Orfhosia glacialis, Herr.-SchivfF. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 421-.5 (1849). 



Agrotis iveni, Hilber, Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. vi. p. 135, pi. 3. f. 6 (1869). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides except at extremity ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, 

 the anal tuft tinged with rufous. i'ore wing violaceous grej' ; 

 a diffused black streak below base of cell ; a waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and escurved below cell and above inner 

 margin ; claviform detined by black at extremity ; orbicular large, 

 whitish, defined by black, the former open above, the latter with 

 fuscous centre, the cell before and between them blackish ; an 

 oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; the 

 subterminal line defined by diffused somewhat dentate black marks 

 on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein. 7 and excurved at 

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

 brown; the cilia white; the underside white, irrorated with 

 brown ; a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. carnica. Tore wing suffused with ferruginous. — Alps; 

 Carinthia. 



Ab. 2. (Jjnna. Fore wing tinged wiih pink and suffused with 

 rufous, the interspaces below and beyond cell witli ditt'used black 

 streaks. — Shetland ; Scotland ; Ireland. 



Hah. Britain, Shetland, '3 S , 1 ?, Scotland, 1 c?, .Ireland; 

 GKiiMANY, Silesia ; Hungary; Carinthia; Switzerland, Eugadine, 

 1 c? , 3 2 ; Scandinavia, Lapland, 4 cJ , 5 5 ; Kussia, Amur, 

 Leech Coll., 1 J , 1 ? . L\vp. 34-40 miUim, 



