EPISILIA.. 511 



NocfiM mm-ina, Frey. Nen. Beitr. Schmett. iv. pi. 364. f. 1 (]842). 

 Agrotis latitaus, Guen. Noct. i. p. 308 (1852). 



Head and thorax grey and pale brown, the hairs tipped with 

 grev ; palpi fuscous at sides ; tibise and tarsi mostly fuscous ; 

 abdomen pale, thickly irrorated with fuscous brown. Pore wing 

 grey or pale brownish, thickly irrorated with black ; a double,waved, 

 subbasal line from costa to submediau fold ; a waved antemedial 

 line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct or hardly defined except by a quadrate fuscous 

 spot between them, sometimes forming part of a diffused medial 

 shade ; postraedial line highly dentate and produced to points on 

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

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suf- 

 fusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, often whitish except terminal area ; cilia 

 white ; the underside whitish more or less irrorated with brown, 

 a curved postmedial line and diffused terminal band. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Gebmany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; Hun- 

 gary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Norway, Leech Coll. 

 Kvi>. 34-40 millim. 



888. Episilia ashworthi. 



Jgrofis ashvorthii, Doubl. Zool. 1855, p. 4749 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. 

 Spcelotis valleduca, Staint. Ann. 1855, p. 41, t. 2 (nee Boisd.). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi black, grey afc 

 tip ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards below costa ; a minutely waved antemedial line angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 

 grey annuli, the former round ; a diffused sinuous medial shade ; 

 the postmedial line stronglj' dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

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

 wing pale, suffused with reddish brown, the cilia whitish; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, N. AVales {Salvage, DouUeday). Exjj. 35-40 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep p 97; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 183, pi. 136. f. 2. 



Dull dark grey-green, blackish grey, or fuscous ; a subdorsal series 

 of narrow rectang-ular black marks ; head red-brown. Food-plants : 

 Helianthemum, Hieracium, Salix, etc. 9-5. 



889. Episilia candelarum. 



Noctua candelisequa, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 397 (1827), nee Hiibn., 



Vog. & Sr.-hin. ; Dup Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 77. f. 2. 

 Agrof is candelarum, Stand. Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 139. 



