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oliliquel)' from termen below apex to above vein 5, then subterminal, 

 a terminal series of small wedge-shaped black spots ; cilia palo 

 brown with fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia pure 

 white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irroratcd 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



$ . Fore wing with the markings darker and stronger ; hind wing 

 browner. 



Ab. amcena. Darker ; fore wing brownish grey with the markings 

 less distinct. — Mongolia. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Saisan, Ala Tau ; E. Turkestan, Kashgar^ 

 Thian 8han, Korla ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; Tibet, Kuku-noor.. 

 Exp., S -12, $ 46 millim. 



2096. Cucullia santonici. 



Noctua santonici, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 584, 585 (1827) ; Fit. 



Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 357 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 407, pi. 125. f. 2 ; id. 



Suppl. iii. p. 398, pi. 3r>. f. i. ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 21(). 

 Cucullia odorata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 139 (1852). 



Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown ; froiis 

 with black bar above; tcguloe with two black lines near base, two 

 slight medial lines and brown tips ; patagia with dark line near 

 upper edge ; metathoracic crest black-tipped ; tibise with black 

 streaks ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown towards extremity,, 

 the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous white slightly irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; a black 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctl)- double, 

 strongly angled outwards in interspaces and very strongly inwards 

 on median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform defined above by a slight 

 dark streak, rarely completely defined ; orbicular and reniforni 

 defined by black and with some brown in centres, the former round 

 or somewhat elongate elliptical and touching antemedial line ; 

 medial line represented by an oblique dark shade from costa to 

 reniform ; ^wstmedial line irregularly waved, obsolescent except 

 towards costa and below vein 2, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 below vein 5 and strongly angled inwards in submedian fold, some 

 white points beyand it on costa ; an oblique series of four dark 

 streaks from termen below apex, a short black sti'eak above vein 4^ 

 and an obliciue streak below vein 2 from termen to a black streak 

 in submedian fold beyond postmedian line : a series of black stria& 

 on termen. Hind wiug white, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with reddish brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. odorata. Larger, blue-grey ; tegulse with one black line 

 at base. — Valais. Alpes Maritimes. 



Hah. SwiTZERr AND,. Vakis, Frey Coll. ; Italy, Alpes Maritimes ; 

 Corsica, Leech Coll. ; S. Russia, Zeller, Froy., Leech, and Crowley 

 Colls. ; Armenia ; ? Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul. 

 EA'p. 44-o0 millim. 



Larva. Kirbj, Butt, it Moths Eur. p. 258, 



