. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 228 NOCTUIBiK. 144G. Epia irregularis. jS'cctua irregularis, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 104. Nocti/a echii, Bork. Eur. St-limett. iv. p. 166 (1792); Hiibn. Sauiml. Eur. Schraett., Kot-t. f. 90 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. m\. p. 308, pi. 92. f. 2. Koctua hreccio'formis, Esp. Sc'hmett. iv. pi. 198. f. 5 (1790). Noctiia syngcncsia, Scriba, Beltr. iii. pi. 13. f. 5 (1793). Head and thorax white and bright rufous mixed : teguloe with rufous medial line ; patagia with dark line near upper edge; tarsi with wh
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 228 NOCTUIBiK. 144G. Epia irregularis. jS'cctua irregularis, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 104. Nocti/a echii, Bork. Eur. St-limett. iv. p. 166 (1792); Hiibn. Sauiml. Eur. Schraett., Kot-t. f. 90 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. m\. p. 308, pi. 92. f. 2. Koctua hreccio'formis, Esp. Sc'hmett. iv. pi. 198. f. 5 (1790). Noctiia syngcncsia, Scriba, Beltr. iii. pi. 13. f. 5 (1793). Head and thorax white and bright rufous mixed : teguloe with rufous medial line ; patagia with dark line near upper edge; tarsi with white rings ; abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white mostly suffused with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with white; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, oblique, the outer line more prominent; claviform defined by rufous; orbicular and reniform white, defined by rufous and with slight brownish centres, the former round or somewhat elliptical; a waved medial line; postmedial line double, the inner line more prominent,. Fig. 39. —Epia irregularis, ^j". somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line white, irregular, defined by slight dentate dark marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia chequered rufous and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area darker; cilia white; the underside white mostly suffused with pale brown, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial and sub- terminal bands. Hah. BuiTAiN, Leech Coll.; France; Germanv, Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Austria; Hungary, D'Eramick Coll.; Italy; Dalmatia; ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, Hi. Eccp. 34-36 millira. Larva. Mpyr. Brit. Lep. p. 78; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 226, pi. Ifil. f. 3. Pale brownish,
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