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y. var. saccharivora, Butler, < Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1882, p. 115. 

 "Smaller than the typical form and of a brighter reddish colour; 

 the white spot obsolete. From China, India, and New Zealand" 

 ('Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1890, p. 661). 



8. var. antica, Walker, <Lep. Het.,' ix., p. 100, n. 52, 1852." About 

 the same size as the preceding variety, but much paler, the primaries being 

 pale testaceous, with ill-defined dusky markings, and the secondaries 

 almost white, with more or less defined dusky border, darkest towards 

 apex. The Indian examples show the dusky border distinctly as a 

 broad subapical patch, varying in intensity in different individuals ; 

 one of the examples from Venezuela has a similar though less pro- 

 minent patch. From the western coast of America, Venezuela, 

 Darjiling " ( Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1890, pp. 661-662). 



e. var. trifolii, Butler, ' Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1882, p. 114. 

 "Altogether a greyer form, with prominent pale discoidal spots, well- 

 defined dark oblique apical streak, and dusky secondaries. From Sao 

 Paulo, Chili, Canada, Japan, Java, N.W. India, New Zealand and 

 Flores " (' Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1890, p. 662). 



J. var. convecta, Walker, <Lep., Het.,' xi., p. 711. " The primaries 

 almost uniformly greyish, with testaceous reflections ; the white dot 

 almost lost in a blackish spot at the end of the cell ; the secondaries 

 whitish, with dusky veins and border, somewhat as in the darkest form 

 of var. antica. From Moreton Bay " (< Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1890, 

 662). 



->?. var. separata, Walker, Lep. Het.,' Suppl. IT., p. 626. " Scarcely 

 separable from the preceding ; the specimens have a washed out, faded 

 appearance ; the primaries pale testaceous, with indistinct markings ; 

 secondaries greyish white, with dusky veins and borders. Japan, 

 Shanghai, N.W. India, Goya, Chili, Kansas " (< Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 

 1890, pp. 662-663). 



Of these last five vars. Mr. Butler writes : " I have not the least 

 doubt that the whole of the above forms are mere variations of one 

 widely-distributed species ; at the same time it is doubtful whether 

 the whole of the forms occur together, as, in a long series, Mr. 

 Edmonds only had the two varieties, L. trifolii and saccharivora, whilst 

 the typical form, received subsequently from Talcahuano, is only like 

 a duller, darker specimen of the latter variety. Most of the varieties 

 occur in N. Western India, but I have not seen typical L. unipuncta, 

 var. antica, or var. convecta from there " (' Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 

 1890, p. 663). 



Leucania, Och., loreyi, Dup. 



Of the variation in this widely-distributed species, Guene'e 

 writes : " I find no essential difference between our European loreyi and 

 those which I have received from M. Horsfield, who bred them in 

 Java. On the other hand, I have a female specimen from Brazil 

 slightly smaller and clearer. It varies in ground colour " (' Noctuelles,' 

 vol. v., p. 84). 



Leucania, Och., impudens, Hb. 



Hubner's fig. 229 (by error 329) is the type of this species, which 

 may be described as follows : Anterior wings of a pale greyish colour, 



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