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red, and the corselet (thoracic crest) of the same colour, with the 

 anterior part cut by two lines and a bluish-grey band. The antennse 

 are yellowish and filiform " (' Histoire naturelle ' etc., vol. vii., pp. 

 81-82). 



Mons. Duponchel then goes on to say : " I believe this species 

 is unknown. It has been sent to me from Provence, by M. le Cornte 

 de Saporta, with the following notice : ' It is double- brooded, that is 

 to say, it appears in the spring and in the autumn. The larva is grey, 

 with many broad longitudinal lines of a darker tint. It lives on grass, 

 pupates in the earth, and emerges 15 days after, at least this is so in 

 the case of the autumn emergence. I have named the species after 

 Dr. Lorey of Dijon ' " (I.e.). 



Of the fact that loreyi was identical with caricis, Staudinger 

 writes : " Leucania caricis of Treitschke = L. loreyi of Duponchel. 

 I can scarcely understand how the true Leucania caricis has been so 

 long misunderstood. To begin with, Herrich-Schaffer has figured 

 quite another species, namely, L. scirpi of Duponchel, sub.-fig. 324, 

 325, as caricis of Treitschke, and described it at p. 231 ; but this error 

 he has subsequently corrected. Guenee also does not know what to do 

 with L. caricis of Treitschke, and refers it (i., p. 80), with a query, to 

 L. putrescens of Hiibner, 730-731. In most collections, as well as in 

 my own, a small paler coloured punctosa of Treitschke has hitherto 

 been standing as the caricis of that author, because they were sent to 

 us with this name, especially from Montpellier. I have never been 

 able to find a difference between this and punctosa, which, indeed, does 

 not exist. In Herr Lederer's collection I found as caricis the 

 Leucania zece of Duponchel, and indeed there everywhere appeared the 

 greatest confusion concerning the Leucania caricis of Treitschke. Now, 

 in Treitschke's collection there are four splendid specimens of L. 

 loreyi of Duponchel, as Treitschke's caricis, and everybody possessing 

 the true loreyi of Duponchel will find, when reading the Treitschkian 

 description (vol x., pt. 2, p. 91), that it applies to it extremely well, 

 and that therefore it must now be loreyi, Dup., vii., 1, p. 81, pi. 1,057, 

 (1827), caricis, Tr., x., 2, p. 91 (1835). This species occurs every- 

 where in the most southern part of Europe; I possess it from 

 Montpellier, Sardinia, Granada, Malaga and the Canaries. Dahl 

 found it in Sicily, and E. v. Frivaldszky has obtained it from Crete as 

 the caricis of Treitschke " (Miiller, from ' The Stettiner Ent. Zeitung,' 

 1869, vide, ' Entomologist,' vol. v., p. 46). 



Leucania, Och., brevilinea, Fenn. 



Vol. i., p. 37. Leucania brevilinea. The original description and 

 notes made by Mr. Fenn of this almost entirely British species is as 

 follows : " Nonagria brevilinea. Alis anticis brunneo-ochraceis, 

 basi medio linea longitudinali brevi nigra, punctis pone medium in 

 serie transversa nigris, margine apicali immaculata ; posticis griseis, 

 punctis transversis vix obsoletis nigris. Exp. alar. 1" 4'"." 



" Fore wings rather sharply angulated at the junction of the costal 

 and hind (apical) margins ; brownish ochreous, with numerous scat- 

 tered black scales ; a sharply defined short black dash irom the 

 middle of the base ; a curved row of small black dots reaches from the 

 costa to the inner margin beyond the middle ; apical veins 

 conspicuously paler than the ground colour ; apical margin unspotted. 



