CUCULLIA. 15 



double crest ; tibiie fringed vrilh long bail- on outer side : abdomen with dorsal 

 crests ou basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced, the 

 ternien oblique ; veins 8 & 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6. 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Banrora). Antenna' of male strongly serrate, of female minutely 

 serrate. 



A. Thorax dorsally blackish ; patagia broadly edged with 



black above stnr/a/cf. 



B. Thorax dorsally dark brown ; patagia narrowly edged 



with brown above ... serra/iconn'tf. 



C. Thorax dorsally grey bnicci. 



20G9. Cucullia strigata. (Plate XCVI. fig. 21.) 



Itmicora strigata, Smith, Ent. News. iii. p. 253, pi. x. f. 1 (1892) ; id. 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. j). 83 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 173. 



S . Head and tliorax grey mixed Avitli grey-brown ; tegulte with 

 black line near base, traces of a medial line and blackish tips : 

 upper edge of patagia and dorsum of thorax blackish ; abdomen 

 dark brown slightly mixed with grey, the dorsal crests blackish. 

 Fore wing dark purplish grey slightly suffused with fuscous ; a 

 black streak in submodian fold to tlie antcmedial line whicli is 

 indistinct, strongly angled outwards in tbe interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform very small, indistinctly and 

 incompletely defined by black, the former rather elongate elliptical 

 and connected with the aiitemcdial line by slight streaks, the latter 

 with minute black lunule beyond it ; postmedial lino represented 

 by a series of indistinct, minute, dentate blackish marks connected 

 by traces of a waved line, bent outwards beloAV costa and ol)liquc 

 below vein 4 ; a black streak above basal part of vein 4 witli oblique- 

 series of streaks from its extremity to termen below apex ; a strealv 

 above extremity of vein 3 and obli(|ue streak l)e]ow vein 2, with 

 traces of shorter streaks above and below it ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing wliite slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated witli fuscous, a black streak in 

 cell and small discoidal lunule. 



Uah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Victoria ; U.S.A., "Washington, 

 Almota (Piper), 1 ^ • ^^'V^i. 52 millim. 



2070. Cucullia serraticornis. 



Cwvllia serraticornis, Lintn. JOnt. Cont. iii. p. 174 (1874) ; Grote, Clieck- 



List, pi. i. f. 10; Smith, Cat. Noct. JS'. Am. p. '2liS. 

 CucuUiu matricarice, Behr. Sti'eck. Lep. Khop. & Ilet. p. 94 (1874). 



cJ . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brow]i ; 

 frons with black bar ; teguUe with black line near liase, two dark 

 medial lines and dark tips ; dorsum of thorax and upper edge of 



