596 KOCTUIDJ.. 



terminal scries of black points. Hind ■wing pale, uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous ; the cilia white. Underside of fore Aving 

 fuscous, except marginal areas which are yellowish white irrorated 

 with bro'wn, as also the hiud wing ; both wings with terminal 

 series of black points. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (CocHe), 1 5; U.S.A., 

 Colorado, Gleuwood Springs, 1 J . fcy. 34 millim. 



2047. Leucania fuliginosa. 



Noctua f'uliginosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1809). 



Noctua 'punciina. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., 



Haust. iii. p. 75 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. f. 363. 

 Noctua impura, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Sclimetfc., Noct. f. 396 (1827) ; Bup. 



Lep. Fr. \\\. p. 73, pi. 105. f. 3; SteiDh. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 75 ; 



Herr.-SchiifF. Eur. ScLiuett., Noct. ff. 319-20 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 191. 

 Leucania duiujana, Alpli. Hor. See. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 83, i4. 3. f. 56 



(1883). 

 Leucania transhaikaJensis. Stand. Iris, v. p. 367 (1^92). 

 LetKania amurenns, Staud. Iris, v. p. 367 (1892). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; antennae whitish at base ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing ochreous ; the veins whiter, the median nervure more 

 prominently so, defined by fine red-brown streaks, the interspaces 

 also streaked with red-brown ; slight black irroration on costal and 

 inner areas ; a brown shade below median nervure with some black 

 irroration on it ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial black points on veins 5 and 2. Hind wing yellowish white 

 nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; the costal area 

 paler ; the cilia white ; the underside irrorated with dark brown, 

 some black points on apical part of termen. 



Ab. 1. transhnikalensis. Pore wing irrorated with red-brown, 

 the dark streaks almost obsolete. — Dauria. 



Ab. 2. dungana. Much browner or more fuscous ; fore wing 

 with the dark streaks indistinct; hind wing nearly uniform 

 fuscous. — W. and E. Turkestan, Tibet. 



Ab. 3. amurensis. Darker ; fore wing Avith the \Ahitish veins 

 and dark streaks more distinct. — Amur. 



Hah. Britain', England, Ireland, Leech Coll. ; Fkance ; Denmahk ; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; jST. Lialy; Swkden; Russia, 

 TJrals ; Asia Minor, Bythinia ; Syria ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Xul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 J , 1 $ , Kashgar ; Tibet, Kuku-noor ; 

 E. Siberia, Dauria, Amur ; Japan. Eorp. 3(5 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71 ; Barrett, Lop. Brit. v. p. 137, pi. 201. f. 2. 



Pale greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with reddish ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and lateral lines whitish, edged with dark brown, the 

 subdorsal more strongly above ; spiracular line brown or dark 

 brown ; head pale brownish with darker markings. Food-plants, 

 Grasses. 9-5. 



