coo NOCTUID^. 



half also with dark streaks ; a white point at lower an<i;le of cell ; 

 a postmedial series of black points on the veins, oblique below 

 vein 4 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with two brown 

 lines throuiih them. Hind wing white ; the veins brown ; the 

 terminal area siifl'used witli brown ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with black, a discoidal point, postmedial series of 

 short streaks on the veins, and terminal series of points. 



Ilah. Eritain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; GsEMANr, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls. ; Corsica ; Italy : Balkan States ; Scandinavia ; 

 Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; Tibet, 

 Kuku-noor. Exj). 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Moyr. Brit. Lcp. p. 70; Barrett, liep. Brit. v. p. 147, pi. 20.3. f. 1. 



Pale greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with reddish or 

 greenish ; dorsal line pale, edged with green ; subdorsal line pale 

 or whitish with dark edges ; lateral line whitish ; spiracular line 

 darker or green : head marked with brown. Food-plant, Phrag- 

 mites, the larva hiding in the stems by day. 8-9. 



2055. Leucania pudorina. 



Nodua jyudorina., Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 85 (1775); Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., 



Noct. if. 401, 495; Dup. L6p. Fr. vii. p. 75, pi. 1U5. f. 4; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 80 ; Herr.-ScbafF. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. 



ff. 329-331. 

 Noctua impudens, Hijbn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 229 (1827); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 191. 

 Leucania obscurata, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 474 (1892). 



Head and thorax grey, tinged with purplish pink and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; abdomen more or less tinged with rufous, especially 

 in male. Fore wing grey, tinged with purplish pink and thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the veins whitish ; a slight fuscous streak 

 above median nervure and vein 4 dilated into a wedge-shaped patch 

 towards tornus ; a wedge-shaped fuscous patch from upper angle of 

 cell to apex and diffused streaks in the interspaces of terminal area 

 between, vein 4 and tornus. Hind wing pinkish white uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous, the cilia pinkish. Underside of fore wing 

 fuscous, the veins, costal and terminal areas pinkish ; hind wing 

 pinkish irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. obscurata. Darker; fore wing with more and more 

 distinct dark streaks. — Ussuri, 



llah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; N. Italy ; Dalmatia ; Saveden ; Russia, Urals, Zeller 

 Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Mcyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 134, pi. 201. f. 1. 



Pale ochreous brown ; dorsal line pale edged with blackish, and 

 with a dark line below it ; subdorsal line pale or whitish edged 

 with blackish, most strongly above ; lateral line dark-edged ; 

 spiracular line fuscous ; head pale brown with darker markings. 

 Food-plants : Phragmites and Grasses. 9-4. 



