596 KocTuiDj:. 



terminal scries of black points. Hind wing pale, uniformly 

 BufTuscd with fuscous ; the cilia white. Underside of fore Aving 

 fuscous, except marginal areas which are yellowish white irrorated 

 with broAATi, as also the hind wing; both wings with terminal 

 series of black points, 



Ihih. CA.rADA, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (Cockle), 1 $; -U.S.A., 

 Colorado, Gleuwood Springs, 1 J . Ex^). 34 millim. 



2047. Leucania fuliginosa. 



Koctita fuliginosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1809). 



Noctua punctina. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 75 ; Wood, Ind. Eat. f. 363. 

 Focttia impura, Iliibn. Saniml. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. 396 (1827) ; Dup. 



L6p. Fr. vii. p. 73, pi. 105. f. 3; Stejjh. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 7.5 ; 



Herr.-Schafr. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 319-20; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 191. 

 Leiicavia dungana, Alpli. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvii. p. 83, pi. 3. f. 5l3 



(1883). 

 Leucania transhai/iafen.<is. Staud. Iris, v. p. 367 (1892). 

 Leucania amurenfis, Staud. Iris, v. p. 367 (1892). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; antennae whitish at base ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing ochreous ; the veins whiter, the median nervure more 

 prominently so, defined by fine red-brown streaks, the interspaces 

 also streaked with red-brown ; slight black irroration on costal and 

 inner areas ; a brown shade below median nervure with some black 

 irroration on it ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial black points on veins 5 and 2. Hind wing yellowish white 

 nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; the costal area 

 paler ; the cilia white ; the underside irrorated with dark brown, 

 some black points on apical part of termen. 



Ab. ]. transhaiJccdensis. Fore wing irrorated with red-brown, 

 the dark streaks almost obsolete. — Dauria. 



Ab. 2. dungana. Much browner or more fuscous ; fore wing 

 with the dark streaks indistinct ; hind wing nearly uniform 

 fuscous. — W. and E. Turkestan, Tibet. 



Ab. 3. amurensis. Darker ; fore wing with the whitish veins 

 and dark streaks more distinct. — Amur. 



Hub. Bkitain-, England, Ireland, Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmauk ; 

 GKRMANY,Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; X. LrALT; Sweden; Russia, 

 Urals ; Asia Minor, Bythinia ; Syria ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 J , 1 $ , Kashgar ; Tibet, Kuku-noor ; 

 E. Siberia, Dauria, Airiur ; Japan. Exjy. 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 137, pi. 201. f. 2. 



Pale greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with reddish ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and lateral lines whitish, edged with dark brown, the 

 subdorsal more strongly above ; 8])iracular line brown or dark 

 brown ; head pale brownish with darker markings. Food-plants, 

 Grasses. 9-5. 



