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4707. Archanara sparganii. 



Noctua sparganii, Esp. Schmett, iv. pi. 148. if. 2,3(1790); Hiibn. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. ff. 549-60 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 88 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 pt. i. p. 92, pi. 106. ff. 6, 7 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct, ff. 352-3 ; 

 Stand. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 187. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with black; the median nervure and veins 

 arising from it and vein 1 with faint pale streaks ; a faint dark 

 streak at base of median nervure ; orbicular represented by a black 

 point just above median nervure, the rcniform by a small crescentic 

 mark at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of indistinct dark 

 points on the veins excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 traces of a subterminal line defined by slight dark suffusion beyond 

 it, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 prominent black points ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous ; some fuscous suffusion on the veins at and 

 beyond angles of cell ; a terminal series of dark points from apex 

 to vein 2 ; cilia whitish ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous, 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Paler greyish ochreous without rufous tinge. 



Ab. 2. Much more strongly suffused with rufous ; hind wing 

 suffused with black except terminal area. 



Hub. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

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

 Frey Coll. ; Switzerland; N. Italy; Sweden; S. Russia. Exp. 

 33-46 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Lep. Brit, p. Ill ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. v. p. 82, pi. 194. f. 2. 



Slender ; pale yellow-green ; subdorsal and lateral lines darker ; 

 head and thoracic plate pale brown. Food-plants, in stems or bases 

 of leaves of Iris piseudacorus, Sparganium, and Typlia. 7-8. Pupa 

 usually with head upwards. 



4708. Archanara serata. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 7.) 



Leucania cerata, But!. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 80 (1878). 



Nonagria strigosa, Staud. Bom. Mem. vi. p. 468 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with red-brown. Fore wing brassy yellow irrorated 

 with red-brown ; dark brown streaks on base of subcostal nervure, 

 on median nervure to end of cell, and on base of vein 1 ; orbicular 

 represented by a dark brown point, the reniform slightly defined by 

 brown scales; postmedial line represented by a series of black 

 points excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, met at discal 

 fold by an oblique dark shade from termen below apex; a 

 terminal series of small black-brown spots. Hind wing ochreous 



