COPICUCULLTA. CHELIGALEA. 13 



interspaces and inwards on the veins ; reniform represented bj' 

 slight brownish outHnes to centre and circumference, with an 

 ill-defined oblique striga from costa above it ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, then obsolete to submedian fold and angled 

 outwards on vein 1 and forming a black streak on middle of inner 

 margin ; some black striae on costa towards apex; an oblique series 

 of short black streaks from termen below apex to above middle of 

 vein 4 and another series from termen above vein 3, with a more 

 prominent streak below vein 2 connected with the streak in 

 submedian fold ; a terminal series of slight black stnai ; cilia 

 whitish with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing ochreous 

 whitish, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia 

 white ; the underside white with sliglit discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. dimorpha. Fore wing with more distinct dark markings. 

 — Uliassutai. 



Ab. 2. eumorpha. More ochreous white. — Kaschgar, Aksu. 



Hah. S.E. llcssiA, Nariin ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; E.Tl'rke- 

 STAN, Kaschgar, Hi, Lob Nor, 1 $ ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, Aksu, 

 2 (S . E'-cp., S 42, 2 44 millim. 



20G7. Copicuciillia sublutea. (Plate XCVI. fig. 20.) 



Cucullia aithltdea, Grrxs. Berl. ent. Zeit. 18*J2, p. 312 ; Piing. Iris, xiv. 

 pi. ii. f. 7 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 21(5. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow ; frons, vertex 

 of head, tegulie, and mcsothorax wilh rufous bars ; metathoracic 

 crest tipped wilh rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow ; a 

 rufous streak below base of cell ; a rufous streak on inner margin 

 from before middle to tornus ; an oblique scries of short rufous 

 streaks from termen below apex to lower angle of cell and another 

 series from termen below vein 4 to vein 1 beyond middle. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with rufous ; the 

 underside whiter. 



Hah. E. Ttjrkesian, Kaschgar, type f 5 in Coll. Piingcler ; Mon- 

 golia, W. Gobi Desert, 1 S • Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus CHELIGALEA, nov. 



Type, C. scopttrice. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with 

 long hair; Irons wit li slight rouiulod pruiiiiueuce with coruoous plate below 

 it ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna' almost sinijjle ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales; tegnlaj produced behind into a hood; uieta- 

 thorax with crest ; tibiaj fringed witii long hair, the fore tibiaj with small 

 medial terminal claw covered by a tuft of hair; abdomen dorsally crested on 

 basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the ajjex ratiier produced and 

 the termen oblique , veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; (i from upper 

 angle ; 9 from lU anastomosing wit!) 8 to form the areolc; 11 from cell, llmd 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle 

 ■of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



