33 NOCTLID.K. 



Wliite with n florsal series of dull green angulale marks open 

 Bbovo and adjoining faint red spots; lateral stripes dull green, 

 i'Dod-jiIanls : L'lianioniile, Arhm'uita. 7. 



•2097. CucuUia alplieraci. 



Oiru/lin nlphcrakyi, Slaud. Iris, ix. p. 371, pi. 4. f. 5 (189G) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 ]))il. p. 1217. 



Head and tliorax Llue-grey tinged with brown, the latter with 

 l.laik dorsal streak on metathorax ; abdomen with the crests 

 blacki>h. Fore wing bright blue-grey ; a brown shade before the 

 iintoniedial line from eostatovein 1 ; antemedial line double, oblique 

 and slightly waved from costa to submedian fold, where it is acutely 

 angled, then very oblique to inner margin ; a slight black streak on 

 middle of inner margin ; clavi form absent ; orbicular and renitorm 

 w itli brownish centres and slight pale annuli defined by black, the 

 former erect elliptical, rather narrow, the bitter somewhat angled 

 inwards on median ucrvnre and with pale lunule in centre ; a 

 medial shade from costa to median nervure and a brown shade before 

 the postmedial line, which is indistinct except below vein 2, bent 

 out\Nards below costa, and forming a double lunule with pale centre 

 in submedian interspace ; short dark streaks in the interspaces of 

 terminal area above veins 6 and 4 and below 2 ; a terminal series 

 of slight black Innules ; cilia greyish. Hind wing dark grey-brown, 

 tlie basal half jjaler; the underside whitish, the cost;il area irrorated 

 with brown, the veins and terminal area dark brown. 



Hah. Mongolia, Urga. Eaj). 38 millim. This species is unknown 

 to mc. 



2098. Cucullia formosa. 



Ciini/fia forihOfa, Pglifr. Terli. zool.-bot. Gcs. Wien, ISfiO. p. 775; Friv. 

 Jell. pi. 7. f. 4 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 98. f. ii. ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. L'17. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous; frons and 

 vertex of head M'ith black bars; tegnla^ with black line near base 

 and brown tips; metathoracic crests black; abdomen whitish 

 irrorated with brown towards extremity, the dor.>-al crests black. 

 Pore ving violaceous white slightly tinged in parts with brown; 

 the Bubbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; 

 a black streak below base of cell to the double irregular antemedial 

 line, which is angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish 

 annuli definid by black, the former rather small, round, the latter 

 incom])letely defined; a strong black medial shade; postmedial 

 line double, minutely waved, almost obsolete between veins 7 and 4, 

 bent outward.s below costa and incurved below vein 4, some grey 

 ]ioints on rosta beyond it : the veins of terminal area finely streaked 

 with black, the interspaces with irregular brown streaks below 



