50 REVISION OF GENUS CUCULLIA—SMITH. 
Expands 41 millimetres =1.64 inches. 
HABITat: Colorado (Bruce). 
This is a close ally of intermedia, than which it is smaller, all the 
maculation of primaries obsolete, the dorsum of thorax not dusky, 
The characters are obscure and would not be considered of specific — 
value, were it not that none of the species thus far known inhabit both 
sides of the continent and that slight differences have proved perma- 
nent. 
The sexual characters are very much as in the preceding; but the | 
clasper is decidedly shorter and there is some difference in the form of _ 
the harpe, better seen in the figure than described. 
I have only a single male for examination. ; 
Cucullia serraticornis Lintn. 
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1874. Lintn., Ent. Cont., 111, 174, Cucullia. 
1875. Lintn., in Grote’s Check List, pl. f. 10, Cucullia. 
1883. Grt., Pr. Am. Phil. Soc., xxi, 161, Cucullia. 
matricaria Behr. 
1874. Behr., in Strck., Lep. Rhop. et Het., 94, Cucullia. 
1875. Grt., Buff. Bull., 11, 218 pr. syn. 
“Antenne biserrated; the serratures, which are less conspicuous at 
the base and tip, as Seen from above, cousist apparently of a row on 
each side beneath of conical projections, bearing rows of curved | 
whitish cilia on their lateral margins beneath, which increase in length ~ 
from the base to the apex. Palpi nearly horizontal, gray, with brown : 
scales, third joint short and rounded. Front gray, with some black 
scales. Collar yellowish brown below the prominent black trausverse 
line; above gray, with the usual paler line bordered with darker — 
scales, and still darker ones on the upper margin of the collar. Tegule 
concolorous with the wings. Thorax fuscous; an abdominal series of © 
similar colored tufts on the first four segments. Abdomen gray, paler 
basally. Primaries straight costally or slightly concave from the fold- 
ing over of the marginal nervure, gently curving to the apex, which is 
obtuse; outer margin entire, sloping moderately to the inner margin, 
which is long and nearly straight. Color pale ash-gray, darker on the 
inner margin. Anterior median line blackish, teeth acute, preceded 
by a white shade, beyond which some blackish lines almost geminate 
it. Posterior median line obsolete, except in cell 1 b, where it is biden- 
tate; the teeth preceded by an elongate oval, brown bordered, white 
spot on the submedian fold, extending to the anterior median line; 
followed by a white angulate line (the “tooth” of the internal angle), 
from the concavity of which a black streak (the usual interspaceal — 
streak of the internal angle) runs obliquely to the first median nervule 
(vein 2). Costal margin over the p!ace of the orbicular, with a diffuse — 
brown shade and two oblique brown streaks at the inception of the 
posterior median. Basilar line black, fine; a slender black line on the 
internal margin. Reniform indicated by a row of black dots anterior 
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