36 REVISION OF GENUS CUCULLIA—SMITH. 
The three eastern species are as closely related as are the western; 
but diverge in a somewhat different way, so that they are less nearly 
allied to each other than to some of the western forms. 
Asteroides is the eastern representative of montane without the dis- 
tinct maculation, and without the yellow coloring at base of primaries. 
It has the same costal shading and the same markings beyond the 
lunule in submedian interspace. The ordinary spots are much less 
prominent, and the contained dots are vague. The secondaries are 
whiter, the marginal shade better defined and narrower. 
Postera is much more intensely colored, much darker bluish gray, 
and the brown shading is much deeper. All the markings are much 
more distinct. The secondaries are smoky fuscous, only a little paler 
basally. Both sexes agree in these characters, and the species has no 
exact representative in the western series. It is nearest to obscurior, 
but is yet nearer in appearance to the European asteris. 
Florea averages smaller in expanse than the preceding species, and 
is more gray without the brown shadings. The ordinary spots are 
fairly distinct, the orbicular smaller and more irregular than in any 
other of the series. The secondaries are whitish fuscous at base, dark- 
ening to smoky outwardly, intermediate in this character between 
asteroides and florea; but differing from both in the primaries. This 
species stands nearest to similaris in the western series. There is no 
apparent difference between the sexes. 
The second series also contains six species, aS a whole as closely re- 
lated as those of the first. They have a type of sexual structure which, 
except in Listriga does not differ essentially from that of the preceding. 
The harpes are perhaps somewhat more parallel and the tip is not so 
acute superiorly. The clasper is rather longer, more slender, acute, 
and in letifica and speyeri, curved, hook-like. 
Four of the species have the secondaries white at base, with a fairly 
well- marked smoky or blackish outer margin. 
Leetifica is the palest of the species, the dusky margin of secondaries 
very narrow in the male, much more distinct and broader in the female. 
The t. p. line sends a rather narrow loop-like tooth, rounded at tip, 
into the submedian interspace, the black streak beyond it reaching 
into the sinus to the line itself. Preceding the sinus is an indefinite 
white patch (the claviform), always distinct in the males, but much 
less obvious and sometimes wanting in the females. The latter are 
also darker as a rule. These points are characteristic of the species 
and are found in none other known to me. Cita Grt. and hartmanni 
French, are synonyms. 
Speyer? is a larger and somewhat darker species, much the same in 
general type of marking. It lacks the white patch preceding the sinus — 
of the t. p. line, and the sinus itself is very different, being rather a broad 
tooth or angle, broken in its course by a small tooth in the line to the 
apex of the angle. The curved streak to outer margin does not extend 
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