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4707. Archanara sparganii. 



Nodua sparganii, Esp. Sehtnett. iv. pi. 148. ff. 2,3(1790); Hubn. Eur. 

 Sehmett., Noct. ff. 549-f)0 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 88 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 pt. i. p. 02, pi. 106. ff. 6, 7 ; Hei-r.-Schiilf. Eur. Sclmiett., Noct. if. 3:)2-3 ; 

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



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 slightly irrornted with black ; the median nervure and veins 

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

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

 point just above median nervure, the reniform 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 Aving ochreous 

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

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

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

 the costal ;irea 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. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Franck, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

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

 Frev Coll. ; Switzerl.and ; N. Italy; Sweden; S. Russia, Exp. 

 38-4(5 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. 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 jilatc pale brown. Food-plants, in stems or bases 

 of leaves of Iris j^seiidacorus, Sparr/anium, and Typha. 7-8. I'lqxc 

 \isually with head upwards. 



4708. Archanara aerata. (Plate CXLIIL fig. 7.) 



Leucania (Brata, Bull. A. M. N. IT. (5) i. p. 80 (1878). 



Nonaqria sO-if/osa, Staucl. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 4(i8 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. i87. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed Avith ochreous ; abdomen 

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

 with red-brown ; d;irk 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 scries 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 



