CtJCCLLIA. 



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2090. Cucullia artemisiae. 



VhilcBna artcmhim, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 292 (1767); Knocli, Beitr. 



ii. p. 47, pi. 2. f. 10 ; Esp. Sdimett. iy. pi. 128. flP. 1-2; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 217. 

 Koctua. ahrotani, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 166 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 257; Dup. Lep. Fr. rii. 



p. 415, pi. 125. f. 6 ; Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 320 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 83, 



pi. 239. f. 4. 

 Cucullia liiidei, Heyne, Soc. Ent. xiv. p. 105 (1899). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grej' ; tegulae with blaok 

 line near base followed by a grey band with line dark line on it ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey, tinged with brown towards extremity, the 

 dorsal crests brown. Fore wing grey brown sufiused in parts with 

 grey ; the veins and submedian fold with fine dark streaks ; a small 



Fig. 8. — Cucullia artcmi^ifs, cJ. |. 



whitish patch at base ; siibbasal line indistinct, waved, from ccsta 

 to subracdian fold ; anteraeJial line highly waved, strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviforin represented by a diffused white patch ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grej' annuli defined 

 by black, the former erect elliptical, the latter very slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct medial line oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then dentate ; postmedial line dentate, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold 

 to reniform, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by 

 difl'used dentate brown marks, often with short black streaks on them 

 at middle, defined on inner side by diffused grey, and interrupted 

 by a diffused oblique grey fascia from apex ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. lindei. Much darker. — C. Russia. 



Jfab. ? Britain; France; Germany, Zeller, Frej-, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Spain, Aragon; 

 N. Italy; Scandinavia; IIussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; C. Russia, 

 Urals (Lederer) ; Armenia; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Amur- 

 land, Ussuri. E.vjy. 36-44 millira. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 85. 



Green with darker segmental lines ; dorsal line slender, white ; 

 each somite with 8 red tubercles, except the anal somite which has 

 two ; the 2nd and 3rd somites with yellowish points : lateral strijie 

 broad, yellow, interrupted; spiracles white ringed with black ; head 



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