INSECUTOR INSCITI.55 MKNSTRUUS 77 



Cucullia syggnomon. new species. 



Fore wing purplish gray, rather dark ; whitish obhque 

 streaks along the costa ; inner line black, produced outward on 

 submedian fold, the ends of the point widely open ; a rufous 

 shading in end of cell and beyond on inner margin at base and 

 above the black streak at vein 2 ; stigmata enlarged, dull rufous 

 filled, edged on the sides with black dots, the reniform with a 

 curved black line below ; two blackish dots in upper half of 

 reniform ; outer line whitish, continuous, oblique at costa, 

 angled at vein 7, and again at vein 4, incurved a little at sub- 

 median fold and angled at vein 1 ; veins outwardly black-lined ; 

 a terminal black line, cut at the veins. Hind wing brownish 

 on the disk, the veins, costa, and outer margin very broadly 

 blackish ; fringe brown at base, white outwardly. Expanse, 

 53 mm. 



Type, female, No. 22013, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Orizaba, Mexico, 

 November, 1908 ( R. Miiller). 



Cucullia eccissica, new species. 



Smooth dark gray, lines and stigmata obsolete ; veins 3, 4, 

 6, 7, and 8 black-lined terminally ; a black line below median 

 vein from 2 to base of 4 ; a long black line from base along 

 submedian to outer fifth, where it leaves the fold and runs 

 obliquely to end of vein 2 ; faint blackish lines below, forming 

 outlines of the angle of inner line open at the tip and outer 

 line, angled on submedian and vein 1. Hind wing white, the 

 veins dark, the termen narrowly dark gray above. Expanse, 

 40 mm. 



Type, male, No. 22014, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Tehuacan, Mexico, 

 June, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



Cucullia edificans, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, shaded faintly with rufous in end of 

 cell and beyond, giving a darker tone to the costal area; inner 

 line angled outward on submedian fold and below vein 1, the 

 ends of the upper angle open ; stigmata absent ; three black 

 dots along discal fold in cell ; two blackish shades on the costa. 



