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darker streak ; and with a third rather darker longitudinal streak running between the two, bordering the 

 veins at the apical portion of the wing ; the disk is sometimes almost destitute of any dotting, but is generally 

 marked beyond the middle with three small dark dots, placed in an open triangle ; the apical margin is not marked 

 with a row of small dots at the tips of the longitudinal streaks, with the veins slightly streaked with dusky, and 

 the hind winfs are pale huffish white. This is a very abundant species, occurring throughout the kingdom in 

 July. Tlie caterpillar is dusky ; with pale dots and four white longitudinal lines. It feeds on the sorrel and 

 chickweed. We have followed the advice of Mr. H. Doubleday, in giving as varieties of L. pallens the three 

 following insects, although L. suffusa appears to us to have the fore wings more regularly truncate at the 

 extremity, and the apex more acute. 



NocTUA RDFESCENS, Ilaworth. Of a reddish colour, with the fore vyings veined and without dark dots ; 

 the hind wings, except along the costa, in certain positions pale brown. It varies in having three or four dusky 

 streaks on the fore wings, visible in certain positions ; the hind wings very dusky, with brown veins. — Considered 

 by Mr. Stephens as a probable variety of L. pallens. 



Leccani.v suffusa, Stephens ; and our p'ato 47, fig. 8 ; with the fore wings reddish, streaked with whitish 

 ashy between the veins ; with a single dusky dot at the apex of the discoidal cell ; and two or three obsolete 

 brownish streaks near the extremity ; hind wings whitish, with a broad subapical dusky stripe ; the apical 

 margin paler. Taken near Liraehonse, Eipley, and in Norfolk. 



Leucania ocnRACEA, Stephens ; measures only 13 lines in expanse of the fore wings, which are " pale 

 ochraccous, with a slight rufescent tinge in certain lights, and immaculate, obscurely striated with pale fuscous 

 between the nervures, the strife at the base and on the inner margin being the darkest, as in L. comma ; hind 

 wings whitish ash, with the margin slightly darker." 



The pubescent eyes, fiirc wings not irrorated with dusky scales, and pale hind wings, distinguish this from 

 the following small species of the genus. Taken at Darenth Wood and Whittlesea Merc, in tlie autumn ; 

 whence Mr. 11. Doubleday conjectures that this is the autumnal brood of L. pallens. 



SPECIES 7.— LEUCANIA PUDORINA. Plate XLVII., Fig. 1.3, 14. 



Synonymrs. — Noctna pndorina, Wicn Verz ; Hubner; Trcitschke ; Stepliens ; Wood, Iiid. Eat. pi. 15, fig. 374 (male). 



Noctua impudcns, Hubner, (female). 



This species measures nearly li inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale reddish brovyn 

 colour ; irrorated and longitudinally clouded with dusky scales ; with one or two more distinct dusky lines 

 towards the base of the wing, with others less distinct between the veins, which are bufF towards the apical 

 margin ; hind wings gray-brown, with a reddish tinge towards the apical margin. Taken in the New Forest, 

 and at Whittlesea Mere, in June. The caterpillar is pale dirty buflf, with a white longitudin.il dorsal stripe, 

 and a pale lateral one edged with dusky. 



[_Obs. — The following species are not strictly referriblc to the genus Leucania. Their naked eyes, acute 

 palpi, and the habits of such of the larvte as are known, prove them to be nearer in affinity to the genus 

 Nonagria.] 



SPECIES 8.— LEUCANIA ? PHRAGMATIDIS. Plate XLVIL, Fig. 16; and Plate XLVIIL, Fio. 1. 



Synonymfs — Noctua phragmalidis, Hiibncr ; but not Leucania 

 phragmatidis, Stepli. Catal. 



Simyra mvscvlosa, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Knt. pi. 15, fig. 375. 

 Noclua muscvlosa, of Uuhner ; Trcitschke; but not Duponchcl, 



This species measures about li inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are ochre-coloured, with a 



greenish brown tinge, very glossy and unspotted ; the veins pale-coloured and slightly greenish ; the apical 



from which last-named author we have copied a figure of the conti- 

 nental musculosa in our pi. 48, fig. 2., in order to show the distinctiou 

 between it and the English species supposed to be identical therewith. 



