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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 Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. 
SPECIES 9.—LEUCANIA? GEMINIPUNCTA. Purare XLVII., Fie. 11 anp 12. 
Synonyme.—Wociua geminipuncta, Haworth; Stephens ; Wood, Nonagria paludicola, Hiibner; Treitschke ; Boisduval (teste H. 
Ind. Ent. pl. 15, fig. 373. Doubleday in litt., by whom the species is omitted in his list of British 
Noctua geminipunctata, Hatchett in Trans. Ent. Soc. Old Series, | Noctuz), 
p. 327, pl. 9, f. 2. (not 1, as cited in the description). 
This species measures rather less than ] inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which 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 antenne red. Taken on Hackney Marshes, by Mr. J. Hatchett, in August 1796. 
Mr. 8. Stevens took about a dozen specimens in the Hammersmith Marshes through the same month of last year, 
the female being rarest. The caterpillar is pale, minutely tuberculated, and setigerous, with a brown head and anal 
scale ; thus differing considerably from the larve of Nonagria. It is an internal feeder ; the larva feeding within 
the stems of Arundo Phragmites, as we learn from M. Guénée’s excellent memoir, in the Annales de la Societé 
Entomologique de France ; and who gives the following summary of the differences between the habits of this larva 
and that of Nonagria Typha. Ist. 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 ina 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? PYGMINA. Puare XLVIIL., Fie. 9. 
Synonymes.—Woctua pygmina, Haworth; Stephens: Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 15, fig. 370. 
Leucania Phragmaitidis, Steph. ; Catal. 
This species measures from ~ 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. 
Lrvcanta PALLIDA, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 15, f. 371; and our pl. 47, fig. 10, is given by Mr. 
Stephens as a probable variety of this species. It measures 7 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.— Obs. That Wood’s figure represents the fore wings 
very much broader than those of the allied insects. 
Levcanta FLUxA, Hiibner ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 15, £. 369. (LL. fulva, Hubner) may 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 Hubner 
(and Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 15, f. 372), are about ¢ of an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are ochreous, 
or brownish red, with a curved row of minute dusky dots beyond the middle of the wing; the apical veins 
slightly brownish, and the hind wings pale whitish ash. Taken, but very rarely, in the marshes near Lea Bridge 
and at Whittlesea-mere. 
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