EPISILIA. 505 



Hab. FrajsTCe, Centr. & S. East, 2 ^ ; Spain, Ceiitr. ; Dalmatia, 

 1 (S ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus. Exjj. 44 milliin. 



Larva. Bruand, Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. (2) ii. p. 192, pi. 6. f. C (1814). 



Black, greenish on lateral and veutral surfaces ; subdorsal stripe 

 bordered above by three white stria3 on each somite, rood-plant, 

 Festuca ovina, 4. 



875. Episilia viscotti. 



Agrotis tvisIwUi, Stnclf. Iris, i. p. 212, pi. 10. ff. 3. 4, & xi. f. 2 (1888) ; 

 Eebel, Verb, zool.-but. Ges. Wien, 1899, p. 1(54, pi. 4. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 145. 



S . Head, thorax, aud abdomen pale yellow mixed largely with 

 fuscous ; tarsi fuscous, with yellow rings. Fore wiug pale yellow, 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct from costa 

 to feubmedian fold, defined by yellowish on outer side ; antemedial 

 line fuscous, defined by yellow on inner side, highly waved, nearly 

 erect; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform a small fuscous 

 lunulo with greyish centre ; medial shade waved ; postmedial line 

 defined by yellowish on outer side, strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4 : 

 subterminal line yellowish, strongly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side, angled outw^ards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia 

 chequered fuscous and yellow. Hind wing yellowish white, tinged 

 with fuscous brown except towards base ; cilia pale yellow ; the 

 underside pale yellow, with some fuscous suff'usion on inner area, 

 a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



5 rather yellower. 



Hah. Switzkklaud, High Alps, 1 § , Zellcr Coll. Exi^., S 42, 

 $ 4G millim. 



876, Episilia lucernea. 



Nochm hwemea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 510 (1757); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal, 



p. 143. 

 Graphiphora rcnigera, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 129 (1827). 

 Noctua cataleuca, Boisd. Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 377, pi. 14. f . 2 ; id. 



Icones, pi. 82. ff. 5, 6 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. jjl. 19. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 574-5. 



Head and thorax brownish' grey, the hairs tipped with grey; 

 abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area darker ; the subbasal line 

 pale, waved from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 waved, angled outwards in submedian fold and defined by grey on 

 inner side ; orbicular and reniform small, with grey annuli, the 

 former round ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to ])oints 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, defined by grey on outer side ; the subterminal line in- 

 distinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area more or 

 less comj)lete]y suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point. 



