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A very common species in our country, and one that varies slightly in the colour of 
the secondaries. L. unipuncta is also stated to occur in India, Australia, Java, and 
New Zealand; but it is rather doubtful if the examples from all these widely 
distant localities are really conspecific with it. Mr. Butler has recorded (rans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 32) Z. eatranea from the Hawaiian Islands. The larva of LZ. un- 
puncta is known to North-American Lepidopterists as the “ army-worm,” and its life- 
history has been very fully described by Prof. Riley and others. 
2. Leucania multipunctata, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 11.) 
Primaries pale fawn-colour, with two black spots in the cell and two below it near the inner margin, a curved 
row of black dots crossing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin, and a marginal 
row of minute black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle ; secondaries silky-white shaded with 
very pale fawn-colour at the apex and along the outer margin, with a marginal row of minute black dots 
extending from the apex to about the middle of the outer margin; the underside uniformly pale silky 
fawn-colour, with the black dots as above but very indistinct: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs of the 
same colour as the primaries; antenne dark fawn-colour. Expanse 1} inch. 
Had. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridbe, mus. Staudinger). 
Two specimens of this species are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. ZL. multi- 
punctata is not closely allied to any other species known to me, and I am compelled 
therefore to describe it as new. The primaries are coloured very much as in L. wni- 
puncta, but they are more dusky along the costal margin. 
3. Leucania extincta. 
Leucania extincta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 79°. 
Heliophila extincta, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 30 (1882). 
Leucania insueta, Guén. loc. cit. p. 81°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 95°. 
Leucania linita, Guén. loc. cit. p. 81°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 95 °. 
Leucania scirpicola, Guén. loc. cit. p. 84°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 96°. 
Leucania antica, Walk. Cat. ix. p.100°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 20"; Druce, P. Z. 8. 
1884, p. 322”. 
Hab. Norta America 2, New York 3, Florida 14567 §,—Ma_xico, near the city (Hége) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Balheu in Vera Paz, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—SovtH-zast BRazIt ; 
Amazons 10; AntILLES, Dominica}. | 
This common and variable species is found over a very extended range of country. 
In the large series of specimens before me from the above-mentioned localities scarcely 
any two are exactly alike, and after careful comparison with others in the National 
Collection I do not see any reason for separating them in the way Guénée has done. 
‘Three of this author’s supposed species came from the same locality in Florida; and I 
have no doubt they are somewhat differently-coloured specimens of one and the same 
species. Z. antica is included by Walker in his South-American group of species, and 
is stated to be from the “ West Coast ” ¥. 
