204 N0CTUID.E. 



double postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 the veins with faint dark streaks towards termen. Hind wing 

 pale rufous. Underside of fore wing brown, the costal and terminal 

 areas whitish tinged with rufous; hind wing whitish tinged with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, traces of a dark discoidal 

 lunuie. 



Ab. 1. nigricans. Wholly suffused with blackish ; fore wing 

 with the reniform usually obsolescent. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. : Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; 

 Spain, Andalusia ; N. Italy; Sweden; Russia, Livonia, Sarepta. 

 Exp. 26-36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. Ill ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 88, pi. 195. f. 2. 



Pinkish ochreous ; spiracular line paler ; head dark browu. 

 Food-plant, in stems of Phragmites. 5-6. 



4702. Archanara resoluta, n. sp. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 25.) 



J. Head and thorax red-brown; antennae whitish; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with 

 red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown; a brownish 

 shade below median nervure and between veins 4 and submedian 

 fold to near termen ; the costal edge dark brown ; a faint curved 

 brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 

 rather indistinct, oblique, brown, dentate, angled inwards to short 

 dark streaks on the veins, with a brown point before it in cell ; a 

 whitish streak on terminal part of median nervure, its extremities 

 slightly bent upwards and with a short dark streak between them ; 

 postmedial line blackish, oblique from costa to vein 7, then dentate 

 and inwardly oblique ; subterminal line formed by a series of small 

 diffused dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown ; the underside whitish suffused with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal bar and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Bab. Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 d type. Exp. 30 millim. 



4703. Archanara dissolrtta. 



■Roctua neurica, Iliibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 659-661 (1818), nee f. 381 ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vii pi. 1, p. 85, pi. 106. f. 2 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. ff'. 3+7-8. 

 Bocttia dissolnta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 319(1825); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 188. 

 Nonagria hessei, Beisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 134 (1840). 

 Nonagnu arundineta, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1858, p. 369. 



(arundineta.) Head and thorax ochreous greyish tinged with 

 red-brown, the tegula? edged with red-brown; palpi irrorated with 

 brown ; Irons brown at sides ; legs brown, the tarsi with slight pale 

 riDgs ; abdomen ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown except at 



