NOCTttlDiE. — LEUCANIA. 7^ 



Not uncommon; frequenting the same haunts with the last; of 

 which I suspect it may be only a variety. 



Sp. 9. suffusa. AUs anticis rujescentibus cinereo-striatiSf puncto medio lineolisque 

 duahus obsoletis fuscescentibus ; posticis albidis nebula fusca. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 5 lin.) 



Leu. sufFusa mihi. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 101. No. 6341. 



Head and thorax immaculate, reddish-ochraceous : anterior wings rufescent, 

 with the nervures and two intermediate Hnes pale or whitish-ash; with a single 

 discoidal spot of a more or less deep fuscous, and two or three obscure longi- 

 tudinal fuscous streaks towards the hinder margin, which is immaculate; 

 cilia pale rufescent, slightly interrupted with pale at the base, the apex im- 

 maculate: posterior wings whitish, with a broad undefined fuscous cloud 

 towards the hinder margin, the latter immaculate ; cUia ochreous-white : ab- 

 domen the same, with the base paler. 



Of this species, which appears very distinct, several examples 

 have been taken by Mr. Stone, near Limehouse and in the Isle of 

 Dogs ; I met with a solitary specimen at Ripley, in June, 182T, and 

 possess one from the collection of the late Mr. Griffin, which was 

 captured in Norfolk. 



Sp. 10. ochracea. Alis anticis pallide ochraceis, immaadatis, obsoletissime fus- 

 cescente striatis, posticis albido cinereis margine saturatiore. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 1 lin.) 



Considerably smaller than either of the foregoing : head and thorax pale ochra- 

 ceous, immaculate ; anterior wings the same, with a shghtly rufescent tinge 

 in certain lights, and immaculate, obsciu-ely striated with pale fuscous between 

 the nervures, the striae at the base and on the inner margin being darkest, 

 as in Le. Comma ; cilia pale immaculate ochraceous : posterior wings whitish- 

 ash, with the margin shghtly darker ; cilia white. 



In size, this species resembles some of the following species, but may be readily 

 distinguished from them by the pubescence of its eyes, by the anterior wings 

 not being irrorated with fuscous or black, and by the paleness of its posterior 

 wings. 



I possess a pair of this species, which is very dissimilar to either 

 of the foregoing : one was taken at Darenth-wood at the end of 

 August, about ten years since ; the other on the borders of Whittle- 

 sea-mere, in September, 1824.. 



Sp. 11. fluxa. Alis anticis fusco-rufescentibus, atomis venisque nigricantibus, 

 posticis fuscescentibus ; oculis nudis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 



No. fluxa. mibner.—Le. fluxa. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 101. A^o. 6343. 



Head and thorax reddish- white or fulvous ; anterior wings the same, sparingly 

 irrorated with dusky or black ; with an undefined cloud on the costa, a more 



