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2051. Leucania straminea. 



Leuca7iia straminea, Treit. Sehinett. Eur. v. 2, p. 297 (1825) ; Dup. Lep. 

 Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 346, pi. 32. f. 2; Prr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ii. f. 123; 

 Herr.-Schafl'. Eur. Schmett., Noet. ff. 321-323; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 191. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulse with two dark lines 

 defined by grey ; abdomen ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales ; the veins defined 

 by fine brown-pink streaks, the interspaces also streaked with 

 brown-pink ; the median nervure defined below by diffused brown- 

 pink ; a slight black point in lower angle of cell ; postmodial black 

 points on veins 5 and 2 and sometimes traces of a complete series 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the disk more or less 

 sufi^'used with fuscous and with some postmedial dark streaks on the 

 veins ; the underside sparsely irrorated with black, a discoidal 

 lunule and some points on termen. 



Hub. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Feance ; Germany, Frey and Leech 

 Colls. ; EussiA, tlrals. JExp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 144, pi. 202. f. 2. 



Brownish ochreous freckled with grey ; dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 lateral lines pale, edged with dark grey ; subspiracular line pale 

 ochreous ; head brownish ochreous. Food-plants : Phragmites and 

 Grasses. 9-5. 



2052, Leucania pallens. 



Noctua pallens, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 510 (1758) ; Clerck, Icon. pi. 4. f. 6 ; 



Esp. Schmett. pi. 90. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 234 ; 



Dup. L6p. Fr. vii. p. 68, pi. 105. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



iii. p. 76; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 185. 

 Noctua ectypa, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 231 (1827). 

 HeliophUa pcrtracta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 120 (1875) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. 

 Leucania melania, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 48. 

 Leucania infumata, Alph. Rom. Mt§ra. v. p. 166 (1889). 

 Leucania luteopallens, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. .\xv. p. 180 (1902) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 162. 



Head and thorax ochreous, slightly tinged with brown on head 



Fig. 172. — Leucania pallens, ^. \. 



and tegulae ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, the 

 veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks ; the interspaces Avith 

 fine brown streaks ; a black point in lower angle of cell, sometimes 



