CUCCLLIA. 27 



2079. Cucullia fuchsiana. 



Cucullia fuchsiana, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 552, pi. 5. f. (i ; Dup. Lep. 

 Fr., Sappl. iv. p. 221), pi. 70. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sclnnet.t. ii. 

 p. 308, iS'oct. f. 192 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Hend and thorax white mixed with brown ; tegulse with dark 

 medial line; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with ochreoiis. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with brown ; a white fascia below basal half 

 of cell with a black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black point below costa ; antemcdial line diffused, 

 dentate ; claviform large, defined by black, a white patch beyond 

 its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and "white 

 annuli defined by black, the former rather irregularly rounded, the 

 latter with its lower extremity ])roduced ; postmedial line obsolete 

 on costal area, ol)li()ue, waved from reniform to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line diffused, white with slight black streaks before it 

 below costa and beyoiid it above vein 4 and below 2, running 

 obliquely to apex and interrupted at vein 5 by an oblicjue brown 

 shade from termen below^ ai)ex ; a terminal black line towards 

 tornus preceded by some white. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside with sliglifc 

 discoidal spot. 



Ilah. EussiA, Urals, 1 J , Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, 

 Kuku-noor : E. Siberia, Ussuri. i:,'.r_^>. 34 millim. 



2080. Cucullia mandschurige. 



Cucullia onandschnrite, Obertli. Et. Ent. x. p. 23, pi. 3. f. 4 (1884); Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. p<il. p. 217. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown ; teguknc 

 with indistinct brown lines near base and at middle ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irroratcd with red- 

 brown, the end of cell and postmedial area suffused with rod-brown ; 

 a prominent black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular represented by a brown mark with curved 

 white mark forming its upper edge and a white streak below it 

 connected with the reniform, which has a dark brown centre and 

 very incomplete whitish annulus slightly defined by brown; an 

 oblique brown line from low er angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, whitish, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa and at veuis 5 and 1 ; subterminal line whitish, defined on 

 costal area by a dark shade on its inner side with pale points on 

 costa and slightly by brown on outer side, slightly angled outwards 

 at veins 7 and 5, with short b^ack streaks before it above vein G and 

 beyond it above 4 and below 2 ; a tine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 brown. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white ; the underside with the basal half whiter, a 

 small discoidal spot. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Sidemi, 1 J , 1 $ . Ed-p. 42 millim. 



