ARCHANARA. 295 



base. Fore wing ochreous greyish with a diffused red-brown shade 

 between median nervure and vein 4 and submedian fold from base 

 to termen, the median nervure and veins beyond the cell slightly 

 streaked with dark brown ; antemedial line represented by slight 

 dark points on the veins ; orbicular represented by a slight elongate 

 mark below subcostal nervure defined by dark brown except to- 

 wards base : reniform a narrow funule,its upper part faintly defined 

 by brown, its lower with brown spot in centre and white annulus 

 defined by brown, constricted at middle and with curved brown 

 mark before its upper part ; postmedial line represented by a series 

 of minute dark streaks on the veins with slight white marks 

 beyond them on veins 6-3, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia with a 

 slight dark line through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 tinged with brown especially on terminal area ; a faint brown 

 discoidal lunule ; indistinct pale curved postmedial line defined by 

 brown suffusion on inner side and terminal series of slight dark 

 lunules ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more rufous. 



Ab. 2. dissoluta. Head, thorax, and fore wing purplish red- 

 brown, the last with the markings almost obsolete, the reniform 

 represented by a 3-shaped white mark defining it except on inner 

 side, the postmedial Hue by a series of faint whitish points on the 

 veins, tbe terminal lunules hardly traceable. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Holland ; 

 Denmark ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland ; 

 S. Russia ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomauia. Exp. 26-34 

 rnillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit.. Lep. p. 110 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 91, pi. 196. f. 1. 



Pale pinkish ochreous; spiracular line pale, slender, indistinct; 

 head reddish brown. Food-plant, in stems of Phragmites. 4-6. 



4704. Archanara neurica. 



Noctua neurica, llub.i. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 3S1 (180S); Stand, Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 188. 

 Nonagria edelsieni, Tutt, Eat. Eeu. xx. p. 1(54 (1008). 



c? . Head and thorax pale greyish olive, the prothoracic crest 

 tipped with white ; abdomen pale greyish olive irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing greyish olive slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a diffused fascia of blackish irroration along median nervure from 

 base to beyond angle of cell where it is more prominent, the veins 

 of inner half irrorated with white ; antemedial line represented by 

 slight black points on the veins ; two slight black points in upper 

 part of cell towards extremity ; reniform with its upper part 

 slightly defined by black points, its lower with white points before 

 and beyond it ; a postmedial series of black points, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of small black 



