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ochre, slightly tinged with red ; a pale line running through the middle, from the base to the apical margin. 

 AH the veins are slender and white, with tlie space between the veins beyond the middle of the wing longitudinally 

 striated with pale and darker brown lineola;, three dark lines being placed between each pair of veins. At the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell is an exceedingly minute black speck ; and between this and the apical margin is 

 a curved row of minute blackish dots, two of which are larger than the rest; the hind wings are brownish-gray, 

 and shining with white cilire. The caterpillar is buff, with pale dorsal and lateral lines ; it feeds on various 

 species of Carex, and the moth appears in July, and is very abundant. 



NocTUA PUNCTINA, Haworth, has the wings striolated and entirely rufescent ; the fore wings, with the 

 apical margin, dotted with brown ; the hind wings pale, witli a broad ashy patch at the anal angle. It occurs 

 in company with the type of the species, as does also 



Ledcania ARcnATA, Stei)hens, which has the fore wings pale straw-coloured, with two black dots on the 

 disc ; apical margin immaculate ; the posterior wings white, shaded with ashy-brown, and with an arched row 

 of brown spots * beyond the middle of the wing, each spot placed upon a vein ; cilia white. This may possibly 

 be a variety of L. pallens. 



SPECIES 4.— LEUCANIA OBSOLETA. Plate XLVIL, Fig. 5. 



SvNONYMEs — Noctua obsoleta, Hubncr; Trcitschke ; Stephens; BoisJuTal ; Gue'nee ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, 6g. 361. 



Noclua fuliginosa, Hawortb, (teste Curtis.) 



This species measures about li inch in the expansion of tlie fore wings, which are of a dirty buff colour, 

 caused by numerous minute dusky irrorations ; the veins are pale, especially the great median one, with a 

 delicate dusky line on each side ; the discoidal cell bears two such lines, and between the veins in the apical 

 portion of the wings, there is a series of more distinct dusky longitudinal lines, which terminate in minute dark 

 dots ; at the branching off of the third branch of the median vein, there is a more distinct white dot, beyond 

 which is an oblong row of dusky dots, one being placed on each vein. The hind wings are white, with a dusky 

 margin and veins, and a small central dark dot. Taken by Mr. Samuel Stevens, in the Hammersmith marshes, in 

 June last. Mr. Douglas, we are also informed, has taken it in the Bermondsey marshes, and Mr. Chant, near 

 the City-road. 



SPECIES 5.— LEUCANIA LITORALIS. Plate XLVIL, Fig. 6. 



Synonymes. — Leucania Htoralis, Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 157. 

 Leucania littoralis, Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Eut. pi. 15, fig. 360. 



" Pale and dull ochraceous ; superior wings fuscous in the middle, with a white stripe down the centre, slightly 

 produced midway at the nervure, and furcate towards the extremity ; three small white stripes upon the 

 nervures at the apex ; and six fuscous lines between the nervures at the posterior margin ; cilia fuscous ; 

 inferior wings white tinged with yellow ; abdomen darkest towards the apex." Curtis op. cit. Varieties of a 

 brownish tinge occur; and the dusky streaks between the nervures are variable in intensity. Taken on the 

 coast near Christchurch, Hampshire, and on the coast in Cumberland. 



SPECIES 6.— LEUCANIA PALLENS. Plate XLVIL, Fig. 7, 8. 



Synonymes. — Noctua pallens, Linnajus; Hiibner; Ha^orlh ; 

 Treitsclike; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, fig. 305. 



Noctua rufescens, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Eut. pi. 15, 



Noclua suffusa, Stepliens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. IS, fig. 367 (a 

 probable variety.) 



Noctua ochrucea, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, fig. 368 (a 



fig. 366 (a probable variety.) probable variety.) 



This variable insect measures about, or rather less than, li inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are 

 of a reddish buff colour ; the veins rather paler than the disk of the wings ; bordered on each side with a rather 



* Wood's figure, from one of Mr. Stephen's specimens, does not ei'hibit this arclied row of dots. 



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