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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW NOCTUIBAE IN THE 

 TRING MUSEU:k[. 



By W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Subfamily CUCULLIANAE. 



1. Cucullia cellulata spec. nov. 



Fore wing : Mtiisli gi-py, finely dusted with darker and tinj^ed towards tcrmon 

 with pale olive-brown ; lines snbobsolete, indicated only on eosta and inner margin ; 

 a faint olive-brown subterminal shade ; veins dotted dark and pale ; the stigmata 

 jiale blnish grey, snlxpiadrate, the cell on each side of the orbicnlar olive fnscons ; 

 the reniform with a pair of largo olive-fnscous spots at top and bottom ; fringe grey, 

 with a bright pale basal line. 



Hindu'inff : uniform brownish fuscous. 



Underside olive-brown, paler in the hind wing. 



Head and thorax bluish grey ; abdomen brownish ; the anal tufts ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 4i_i mm. 



1 (J from Spili in the Himalayas, from the Felder collection. 



The apex of forcwing is not produced, and the npper half of termen is les.s 

 oblique than usual. 



-■ Cucullia mediogrisea spec. nov. 



Fofeii-iiig : pale grey, tinged with brownish above the median vein and vein 4, 

 and at anal angle below the thick black streak below vein 2 ; lines marked on costa 

 by ]iairs of obli(jue black streaks ; the inner lino strongly and acutely angled out- 

 wards above and below vein 1 ; the outer lunnlate-dentate, the teeth marked dark 

 on the veins, and forming two oblique black Innules edged externally with white 

 above inner margin, preceded by a thick oblique black streak from before middle 

 of inner margin ; stigmata pale brown, detined only by dark dots above and below ; 

 a long black streak above vein 4, not reaching terraeu, and two shorter and thicker 

 above veins .j and G, both touching termen ; costa towards apex fuscous lilack, with 

 black streaks above veins 7 and 8 ; fringe grey-brown, with a bright pale basal line 

 beyond a series of fine black terminal lunules. 



Ihadwtitg : whitish, the termen narrowly fuscous and the veins blackish ; the 

 terminal border broader and more difl'nse in the ? . 



Underside of forewing bronzy lirownish, of hindwing whitish with brownish 

 border. 



Head and thorax dark and light grey ; abdomen browner, grey towards anns : 

 frontal tufts and collar brownish. 



Expanse of wings : 45 mm. 



5 (?c?, 2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



Distinguished from utiymatopimm Hmps. by the much whiter hindwing in both 

 sexes. 



