ARCHANARA. 299 



underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, 

 postmedial dark points on veins 8 (o (J. 



llah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle),l $; U.S.A., Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Wisconsin, 1 $, Illinois, S.Dakota, Volga, 1 §. 

 Krj). 30-44 millim. 



4711. Archanara alameda. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 30.) 

 Nonagria alameda, Smith, Proe. Ent. Soc. Wash. v. p. 318 (1903). 



d 1 . Head and thorax dull red-brown with a fuscous tinge ; 

 abdomen more ochreous. Fore wing dull red-brown suffused with 

 dark brown, the veins slightly streaked with black ; antemedial 

 lino obsolete ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform scarcely traceable ; 

 postmedial line represented by a series of black points ; a slight 

 dark terminal line and and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous tinged with fuscous ; the underside ochreous tinged 

 and irrorated with fuscous, a dark postmedial line. 



$ . More ochreous, fore wing with the antemedial line sometimes 

 traceable, erect, waved; postmedial points large and defined by 

 some white scales ; the reniform w T ith ochreous centre, indistinctly 

 defined : hind wing yellowish with an indistinct postmedial line. 



JJab. U.S.A., California, Alameda Co., 1 $. Exp. J 32-37, 

 2 37-39 millim. 



4712. Archanara algas. 



Noctua alga, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 140. ff. 1, 2 (1789). 



Noctua arundinis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 386-7 (1808), pec Fabr. 



Nonagria cannm, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 82 (1816); Dap. Lep. Fr. vii. 



pt. 1, p. 87, pi. 106. f. 3, and Suppl. iii. p. 301, pi. 33. t. 2 ; Herr.-Scliaff. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 354-5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 

 Nonagria russa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 79. 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; fore legs browner above ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. Fore wing bright rufous 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins with slight dark streaks, 

 the median nervure with stronger fuscous streak ; a dark poiut at 

 lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points ou the 

 veins excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line faintly defined by fuscous suffusion beyond it, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a strigiform black terminal line. Hind 

 wing rufous suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the 

 underside pale rufous suffused and irrorated with brown, traces of 

 a curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Pale brownish ochreous slightly tinged with rufous. 



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

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

 N.Italy; Sweden; Hussia, Livonia, Sarepta. E.vp. 30-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. Ill ; Barrett, Lep. Brit, v. p. 79, pi. 194. f. 1. 



Greenish ; tubercles black ; head brownish ; thoracic plato 

 greenish white. Food-plant, in stems of Typha latifolia. 5-6. 

 Pupa. Usually with head upwards. 



