693 NocTCiD^. 



2051. Leucania straminea. 



Leucania straminea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2, p. 297 (1825); Dup. Lep. 

 Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 346, pi. 32. f. 2; Frr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ii. f. 123; 

 Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 321-323 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 191. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae with two dark Hues 

 defined by grey ; abdomen ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales ; the veins defined 

 by tine brown-pink streaks, the interspaces also streaked with 

 brown-pink ; the median nervure defined below by diff'used brown- 

 pink ; a slight black point in lower angle of cell ; postmcdial black 

 points on veins 5 and 2 and sometimes traces of a complete series 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the disk more or less 

 sufi"used with fuscous and with some postmcdial dark streaks on the 

 veins ; the underside sparsely irrorated with black, a discoidal 

 lunuie and some points on termen. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Frey and Leech 

 Colls. ; Russia, Urals. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 144, pi. 202. f. 2. 



Brownish ochreous freckled with grey ; dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 lateral lines pale, edged with dark grey ; subspiracular line pale 

 ochreous ; head brownish ochreous. Food-plants : Phragmites and 

 Grasses. 9-5. 



2052. Leucania pallens. 



Noctua pallens, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 510 (1758) ; Clerck, Icon. pi. 4. f. 6 ; 



Esp. Schmett. pi. 90. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 234 ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 68, pi. 105. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



iii. p. 76 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 185. 

 Noctua ectypa, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 231 (1827). 

 Heliophila pertracta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 120 (1875) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. 

 Leucania melania, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 48. 

 Leucania infumata, Alph. Eom. Mem. \. p. 166 (1889). 

 Laucania luteopallens, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. ISO (1902) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 162. 



Head and thorax ochreous, slightly tinged with, brown on head 



Fig. 172. — Leucania pallens, J. \. 



and tegulae ; abdomen ochreous Avhite. Fore wing ochreous, the 

 veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks ; the interspaces with 

 fine brown streaks ; a black point in lower angle of cell, sometimes 



