510 N00TTTID,^3. 



Ab. 1. mus. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker brown. 



Hah. W. Ttjkkestan, Issyk-kul ; E. Ttjekestan, Hi, Thian-Shan 

 Mts. ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts. ; S.E. Siberia, Kentei, Amiuiaud, 

 1 cJ , 1 $ . ^^^p. 36 millim. 



886. Episilia simulans, 



I\octua simickms, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 396 (17G7); Staud. Cat. Lcp. 



pal. p. 143. 

 JS'Octua pi/ro'phila, Sehiff. Wien Verz. p. 71 (1770); Iliibn. Eur. Schinett, 



Noet. f': 48 ; Herr.-Scbiiff. Schiuett. Eur., Noct. p. 334; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 130. 

 Nocf.ua tristis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 233 (1784). 

 Noctua radicea, Esp. Sclimett. iv. pi. 143. IF. 1, 2 (1786). 

 Agrotis ohscitrata, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey or ochreous, mixed with brown 

 or fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips ; tarsi blackish, 

 with pale rings. Fore wing grey or ochreous brown, thickly irro- 

 rated with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on median 

 nervure aud vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous-irrorated 

 centres and ochreous annuli, slightly defined by black, a waved dark 

 medial shade passing between them, the former round; a highly 

 dentate postmedial line produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line greyish, somewhat dentate and defined by a series of small 

 dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia yellowish white ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area yellowish irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. ohscitrata. Darker ; fore wing blackish grey. 



Hab. Bhitain, Scotland, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; Ger- 

 many, Zeller & Prey Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Swixzerland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Dknmark ; Finland ; Algeuia ; Armenia ; Kurdistan ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 1 J , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Krp. 44-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 377, pi. 135. f. 2. 



Fuscous brown ; dorsal line fine, indistinct, pale, with a darker 

 line on each side, and with a series of dorsal V-shaped marks ; 

 subdorsal area brownish flesh-colour, with some dark irroration ; 

 a white lateral fascia interrupted at 2nd and 5th to teriiiinal 

 somites by black marks. Food-plants : grasses, dandelion, dock, 

 knot-grass, groundsel, etc. 8-6. 



887. Episilia latens. 



Kocfua latcns, Unhn. Siin\w\. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 419 (1827); Dup. 

 Lep. Fr. vi. p. 29, pi. 73 ; Boisd. Icones, pi. 80. f. 1 ; Herr.-ScLutf. 

 Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 332; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 



