CUCULLIA. 



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with brown ; cilia white ; the underside grey strongly irrorated 

 with brown, a black streak in cell connected wilh a black discoidal 

 luiiule. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 5 • Exp. 52 millim. 



Sect. TI. Antenna of male minutely serrate. 



A. Fore wing grey suffused with brown sniiilagims. 



B. Fore wing witii the ground-colour bhie-grey alhicinerea. 



C. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish white alhkla. 



2072. Cucullia solidaginis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 23.) 



CiiculUa solidaijinis, Behr. Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 94 (187-4); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 239. 



Head and thorax purplish grey largely mixed with dark brown ; 

 frons with blackish bar; teguUe with black line near base, two 

 slight medial lines and dark tips ; dorsum of thorax dark brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown slightly irrorated with grey. Fore Aving 

 purple-grey thickly irrorated and suffused with dark brown ; the 

 veins streaked with black ; a black streak in subraedian fold, promi- 

 nent to the auteraedial line which is strongly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces, especially the subraedian, and inwards on the veins ; 

 two slight streaks in end of cell ; postmedial line obsolete to vein 2, 

 then oblique and angled outwards on vein 1 ; a black streak above 

 vein 4, with slight streaks between its extremity and termen below 

 apex ; slight streaks above extremities of veins 3 and 2 and an 

 oblique streak below vein 2. Hind wing pale, abnost wholly 

 suffused with brown, the cilia white with slight brown line at base; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black streak in cell 

 and alight discoidal lunule. 



Jiab. Canada, Br. Columbia, Osoyoos, 1 c5' ; U.S.A., S. California, 

 1 $ . J^xp. 50 millim. 



2073. Cucullia albicinerea. 



Bancora alhicinerea, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. V.il (1903). 



Head and thorax bluish white mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; teguUe with black line near base, traces of two medial 



Fig. 7. — Cactdlia albicinerea, rf. }. 



lines and blackish tips; dorsum of thorax blackish; abdomen dark 

 brown irrorated with grey, or bluish white irrorated with blown, 



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