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1. LEUCANIA DACTYLIDIS. 



/1 7 <2 antica pallide fusco rubricantes, atomis obscurioribus con- 

 sperscB, puncto medio albido strigaque arcuata obsoleta puncto- 

 rum fuscorum ; posticce nivece. 



Leucania dactylidis, Ramb. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 133, 1066. Dup. 

 Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. SuppL iv. 226, pi. 69; ii. 231, 147. 

 Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. 318; ii. Noct. pi. 63. Guen. 

 Noct. i. 76, 99. 



South France. 



2. Leucania Scirpi. 



Pallidissime cervina ; alee anticce guttis discalibus lineaque exte- 

 riore e punctis, necnon punctis marginalibus nigris, gutta dis- 

 cali alba, striga discali margineque exteriore subfuscescenti- 

 bus ; posticce albce. 



Leucauia Scirpi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 133, 1065. Dup. Hist. Nat. 



Lep. Fr. SuppL iii. 349, pi. 32. Guen. Noct. i. 76, 100. 

 Leucania Caricis, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 231, 148; ii. 



Noct. pi. 64, f. 324, 325. 



a, b. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



3. Leucania montium. 



L. Scirpi affinis at gracilior et angustior ; alee anticce pallide cine- 

 Ireo-rufescentes, atomis minimis obscuris adspersce, puncto 

 ( medio albido strigaque arcuata obsoleta fusca vix interrupta ; 

 posticce albido?, venis margineque obscurioribus. 



Leucania montium, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 133, 1067. Frey. Neu. 

 Beit. Schmett. v. pi. 395. Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 231, 

 149 ; ii. Noct. pi. 63, f. 317. Guen. Noct. i. 76, 101. 



Swiss Alps. 



Subgroup 2. 



Ala? antics vix acuminata?, non vittata?, puncto discali albo 

 punctisque exterioribus nigris. 



Fore wings hardly acuminated, not striped, with a white discal 

 point, and with exterior black points. 



