EPISILIA. 



491 



848. Episilia f estiva. 



mctua festiva, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (1776) ; Hiibn. Em-. Schniett., 



Noct. ff. 114, 467; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 18B, pi. 61. ff. 5, 6. 

 Noctua ■primulm, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. lo6. ff. 5, 6 (1786) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 140. 

 Nochoa mendica, Fabr. Ent. Sjst. iii. 2, p. 93 (1793). 

 Noctua subrusa. Haw. Lej). Brit. p. 227 (1809). 

 Noctua congener. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Ndct. f. 618 (1827). 

 Noctua coiiflua, Treit. Schmett. Eur. vi. 1, p. 405 (1827); Kup. Lep. Fr. 



Mu. pi. 109. f. 7 ; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 154 ; Weir, Entoui. 



1884, p. 2, pi. i. ff. 8-10. 

 Haclcna horealis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 941 (1840). 

 Cerastis diducta, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 946 (1840). 

 Agrotis ignicola, Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 455 (1845). 

 Agrotis ihulci, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). 

 Agrotis lamentandcc, Alph. Eom. Meui. ix. p. 330, pi. 14. f. 6 (1897). 



Head and thorax pale olive-brown to red-brown ; palpi dark red- 

 brown, pale at tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen red-brown, the last 

 dorsally greyish tinged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous 

 tinged with rufous ; a fine waved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold, with a dark point usually present beyond it in cell ; 

 a fine waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards on vein 1, then bent outwards above inner margin, a rufous 

 shade on its inner side ; claviform with its extremity defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform more or less strongly defined by 

 brown or blackish, the former somewhat quadrangular and open 

 above and below, the latter with its centre brownish, constricted at 

 middle and often angled inwards on median nervurc, the space 

 between them suffused with rufous or dark brown ; an oblique 

 slightly waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly 

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

 area beyond it suffused with rufous to the subterminal line, which is 

 pale and excurved between veins 7 and 2 ; a terminal series of 

 small dark lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown 

 especially towards termen ; a terminal series of dark strise ; cilia 

 ochreous or pinkish ; the underside cchreous, the costal area 

 suffused with pink, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line produced to slight streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. lamenianda. Paler and more uniformly ochreous. — Urga, 

 Kamschatka. 



Ab. 2. coriflua. Rather smaller, greyer and duller in tone, the 

 markings less distinct. — IST. Europe. 



Ab. 3. tJudei. Darker, with the cell before and between the 

 stigmata wholly or with its lower part blackish. — Shetland Is. 



Mah. Britain, Shetland Is.(Salvar/e), Scotland, England, N. Wales, 

 Leech Coll.; Eeance ; Geemany, Silesia, Zeller & Erey Colls.; 

 Atisteia ; Switzerland ; Italy, Piedmont ; Iceland, Zeller Coll. ; 

 JSToRWAY, Erey & Leech Colls. ; Einland, Leech Coll. ; Russia, St. 

 Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 W. Ture;estan, Issyk-kul ; E. Tueeestan, Hi ; Tibet, Kuku-noor, 

 Amdo. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



