II 



xorxriD.T:. 



I'dc.s. Cheligaiea scoparise. 



(:,.culUa .^-o/^ri.r. Dorfin. Veri). zool.-h.-l. Wion. 1S.>J p. 413; Ilcrr.- 

 .Sdiiifl". None Scliinott. p. 11, f. 7.-): Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p.2i(. 



Ifottd an.l thorax hrown and fxrcy ; tcgulfc with white medial 

 hnnd odpcd witJi black; ractathoracic crests tipped with black; 

 abdomen ochrcous, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface 



Fig. o. — Cheligaiea scoparia, S • {• 



wliitish. Ton^ "n'i"g P'llc bro\\n ; the basal costal area suffused 

 witli white : the subbasal line reproseuted by dark stria; from costa 

 and cell; antemedial Hue double, waved, strongly angled inwards 

 on vein 1 : the inner medial area suffused with white ; orbicular 

 and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter with the annulus indistinct ; 

 a ditt'used black medial shade from costa to median nervure, then 

 a slight waved line ; postmedial line waved, bent outwards below 

 costa and incurved below vein 4, with sliglit black streak beyond it 

 above vein 4 : subterminal line diti'used whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and middle with slight black streaks before it below 

 costa and beyond it below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black 

 Innules with" .some whitish before them. Hind wing yellowish, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown. 



//(///. Austria, Zeller, Prey and Leech Colls. ; HrxGAux : Styeia, 

 Ix?ech Coll.: S. llussi.v ; Armenia; "\V. Siberia?; E. SibePvIa, 

 Amurland, Crowley Coll. Exp. 82-40 millim. 



Larvfi. Kirby, Butt, and Moths Eur. p. 2.39. 



lleddish brown or brownish green ; dorsal line pale ; oblique 

 lateral pale red streaks ; a broad \.hite lateral fascia. Food-plant, 

 yirteuiisia scoparia. 



Genus CUCULLIA. 



Tvpe. 



Cufiillta, Schruuk. Imuiii. Hoica. ii. (2) p. 157 (1802) artcmisice. 



t'.uilrr(f<i. lliilm. V'eiz. p. 245 (1827) asteris. 



F.iicaliDiiii, Hiibii. Vt-rz. p. 245 (1827) f/naphalii. 



Vnllfrnia, Iliibn. Verz. p. 246 (1827) umhratica. 



Ari/i/rifiK, Hubn. Ver/,. p. 247 (1827) aricmisioe. 



It'aiDora, Smitli, Eiit. Kewa. iii. p. 25u (1892) ; id. Trans. Am. 



Knt. Soc. xxi. p. 83 (1894) strigaia. 



Trilionojihoni , llubii. Tent, ined timbratka. 



Prolwscis fully dcvolopcd ; palpi sliort, oblique, fringed with hair on both 

 •ides; frons with slight roundi-d )iromi«ience ; eyes large, rounded; antennje 

 ty)>icnll> ahnosl siuiple in both at-xes ; head and thorax clothed witli hair and 

 l.:iir-likf vc:ili«. the togula- produced beliind to a hood, the nietathorax with 



