. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 698 NocxciDJi. 2051. Leucania straminea. Leucania straminea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2, p. 297 (1825); Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 34f), pi. 32. f. 2; Fit. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ii. f. 123; Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 321-323; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191. Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae with two dark lines defined by grey ; abdomen ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales ; the veins defined by fine brown-pink streaks, the interspaces also streaked
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 698 NocxciDJi. 2051. Leucania straminea. Leucania straminea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2, p. 297 (1825); Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 34f), pi. 32. f. 2; Fit. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ii. f. 123; Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 321-323; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191. Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae with two dark lines defined by grey ; abdomen ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales ; the veins defined by fine brown-pink streaks, the interspaces also streaked with brown-pink ; the median nerviire defined below by diffused brown- pink ; a slight black point in lower angle of cell; postmcdial black points on veins 5 and 2 and sometimes traces of a complete series bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the disk more or less suffused with fuscous and with some postmedial dark streaks on the veins; the underside sparsely irrorated with black, a discoidal lunule and some points on termen. Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; Fkasce ; Germant, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Russia, Urals. Exp. 34-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 71; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 144, pi. 202. f. 2. Brownish ochreous freckled with grey; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines pale, edged with dark grey ; subspiracular line pale ochreous ; head brownish ochreous. Food-plants : Phragmites and Grasses. 9-5. 2052. Leucania pallens. Noctua pallens, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 510 (1758); Clerck, Icon. pi. 4. f. 6; Esp. Schmett. pi. 90. f. 1 ; Hiiba. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 234; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 68, pi. 105. f. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 7b; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 191 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 185. Noctua ectypa, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett,, Noct. f. 231 (1827). Heliophila pertracta, Morr. Proc. Best. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 120 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. Leucania melania, Staud.
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