506 NOCTUID^E. 



Ab. 1. rcnlgera. Much darker. — Scotland and mountains of 

 England. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Erance, Sand Coll., PjTenees ; SwixzERLiND, Engadine, Erej' Coll. ; 

 Scandinavia; Eussia, Einland, Zeller Coll. Exid. 38-4U millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 97 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 390, pi. 136. f. 3. 



Fuscous, with subdorsal series of dark fuscous dentate marks 

 with pale spots behind them ; head fuscous, with black markings. 

 Eood-plants : Sedum, Stellaria, Campanula, 9-4. 



*S77. Episilia ignobilis. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 24.) 



Agroiis ignobilis. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 7 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 145. 



S . Head and thorax grey, the hair tipped with dark brown, the 

 teguloe tinged with rufous ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. 

 Eore wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous and with a slight 

 fulvous tinge in discal and submedian folds ; a double, waved, sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, oblique 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale fulvous annuli 

 defined by fuscous, the former rather small, round, the latter narrow 

 and with fuscous centre ; medial shade black, prominent, angled at 

 median nervure ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent out- 

 Avards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurv^ed ; subterminai 

 line pale, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale with a rufous tinge ; 

 the terminal area broadly fuscous from costa to submedian fold ; 

 cilia white, yellowish at base ; the underside grey, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, a sinuous postmedial line, the area beyond it suft'used 

 with fuscous. 



Hab. W. Tuekesta:^-, Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts,, in Coll. Piingclcr. 

 Exj). 42 millim. 



878. Episilia helvetiiia. 



I\octua birivia, Hiibn. Saratiil. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 42 (nee Schiff.). 



Noctua helvetwa, Boisd. Ann. ISoc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 37*'), pi. 14. f. 3 ; id. 

 Icoues, pi 82. f. 4 ; Dup. Lep. Ft., Suppl. iii. p. 207, pi. 19. f. 4 ; Herr.- 

 Schatf. 8chmett. Eur. ii. p. 334, pi. 3. If. 12-14; titaud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 144. 



I\octua llvia, Frey. Beitr. iii. pi. 201 (1836). 



Head and thorax brown, the hairs tipped with grey-white ; 

 abdomen brown, with an ochreous tinge towards extremity in male. 

 Eore wing ochreous brown, sutt'used with smooth leaden-grey ; an 

 indistinct antemedial line excurved from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and renform slightly 

 defined with whitish, the former small, elliptical ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; hardly a trace of the subterminai line. 

 Hind wing dull brown suffused with grey, the cilia ochreous at 

 base, grey at tips ; the underside whitish, irrorated with yellow- 

 brown, a carved postmedial line. 



