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portion of the wing darker coloured than the base ; the hind wings brownish, with the base and veins paler. 

 The palpi are very acute. Taken in the fens of Iluntingdonsliire and CambridCTeshire. 



SPECIES 0.— LEUCANIA? GEMINIPUNCTA. Pl.^te XLVII., Fig. 11 and 12. 



Nonayria paludicola, Mithner; Trcitsclike ; Boisduval (teste H. 

 Doubleday in litt., by wbom the species is omitted iu his Ust of British 

 NoctUcc). 



SvNoNvME. — Nociua geminipuncta, Ilaworlh; Stephens ; Wood, 

 Ind. Knt. pi. l.'i, fi-. :i7;i. 



Noclua (jeminipunctala, Hatchett in Trans. Ent. Soc. Ohl Scries, 

 p. 327, pi. 9, f. 2. (not l,as eitcd in the description). ( 



This species measures rather less than 1 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, whicli are of a reddish brown, 



with a broad red vitta along the hinder margin, extending nearly to the anal angle ; and two small white dots at 



the extremity of the discoidal cell, in the place of the posterior stigma. The hind wings are brown ; the abdomen 



long and whitish, and the antenna) red. Taken on Hackney Marshes, by Mr. J. Hatehett, in August 179(5. 



Mr. S. Stevens took about a dozen specimens in the Hammersmith Marshes through the same month of last year, 



the female being rarest. The caterpillar is jiale, minutely tuberculated, and setigerous, with a brown head and anal 



scale ; thus differing considerably from the larvas of Nonagria. It is an internal feeder ; the larva feeding within 



the stems of Arundo Phragmites, as we learn from M. Guenee's excellent memoir, in the Annales de la Societe 



Entomologique de France ; and who gives the following summary of the differences between the habits of this larva 



and that of Nonagria Typha;. 1st. This larva confines itself to a single reed, which is sufficient for its entire food. 



■2nd. It does not spin a web like that caterpillar, merely fastening the loose particles of the reed with threads 



together. 3rd. The chrysalis has the head directed upwards. 4th. It is not enclosed in a cocoon. 5th. The 



aperture by which the moth escapes is oval, and not circular. 6th. It forms a sort of trap-door over this 



aperture. 



SPECIES 10.— LEUCANIA? PVGiMINA. Pl.^te XLVII., Fig. 9. 



Synonymes. — Nociua pygmina, Ilaworlh; Stephens: Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, fig. 370. 

 Lcncania Fhragmatidis, Steph. ; Catal. 



This species measures from f to 1 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are reddish and unspotted, 

 with very slight rudiments of dusky clouds on the costa, disk, and apical veins ; the hind wings are brownish, 

 with the costa paler, and ochre-coloured cilia, and the abdomen white, with the apex ochreous. 



Leucania pallida, Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 15, f. 371 ; and our pi. 47, fig. 10, is given by Mr. 

 Stephens as a probable variety of this species. It measures f of an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which 

 are ochreous, whitish, and without any traces of spots or markings ; the veins alone in the apical part of the wing 

 irrorated with dusky scales, and the hind wings whitish. Taken in the marshes near West Ham, Essex ; also 

 at Camberwell, on the 15th September, by Mr. Douglas.— OJs. That Wood's figure represents the fore wings 

 very much broader than those of the allied insects. 



Leccania fluxa, Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, f. 3G9. (L. fulva, Hiibner) m.ay possibly 

 be another variety of the same species ; measuring an inch or rather more in the expanse of the fore wings, which 

 are of a reddish brown colour, slightly irrorated with dusky scales ; the veins dusky, as well as several more or less 

 distinct longitudinal lines. The apical margin with an indistinct row of minute dots ; the hind wings brown, 

 with the base and costa ashy. Taken at Whittlesea-mere, at the end of July, and by Mr. Douglas, on Clapham 

 Common, on the 15th September. 



Other individuals which have been doubtingly regarded by Mr. Stephens as the Noctua neurica of Hiibner 

 (and Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 15, f. 372), are about # of an inch in the expanse of tlie fore wings, which are ochreous, 

 or brownish red, with a curved row of minute dusky dots beyond the middle of the wing ; the apical vems 

 slightly brownish, and the hind wings pal? whitish ash. Taken, but very rarely, in the marshes near Lea Bridge 



and at Whittlesea-mere. 



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