CUCTTLLIA. o9 



costa, at middle, and below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing wbite, the veins and termen slightly streaked 

 with brown, more strongly in female. 



Hah. France, Ardeche ; Huxgaky, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Tibet, Kuku-noor, Amdo. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Resembles that of G. absinthii. Food-plant, Artemisia 

 camphorata. 



. 2099. CucuUia hemidiaphana. (Plate XCVI. fig. 32.) 



Cucullia hemidkijjfMna, Grigs. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 313; Staud. Cut. 

 Lep. pal. p. 21G. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with black-brown ; frons and 

 vertex of head with blackish bars ; tibife slightly streaked with 

 black ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown, the crests 

 blackish at tips. Fore wing whitish slightly tinged with brown and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; a fine black streak below base of 

 cell ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique black striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line angled outwards in the interspaces, very 

 strongly in submedian fold and inwai-ds on the veins ; orbicular 

 and reuiform small, with brownish centres and whitish annuli 

 slightly defined by black, the former round ; a blackish medial 

 shade ; postmodial line almost obsolete except below vein 2, where 

 it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1, 

 some whilish points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area 

 finely streaked with black ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen 

 below apex to lower angle of cell ; an oblique subterminal black 

 streak below vein 2 ; a terminal series of blnck striae. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown towards termen, in 

 female the terminal area tinged with brown. 



Hah. \V. Turkestan, Turcomania, Askabad, 1 $ , Alexander 

 Mts. 1 c? , Issyk Kul. Exp. 3G-40 millim. 



2100. Cucullia nigrifascia. (Plate XCYII. fig. 1.) 



Cucullia nigrifascia, Ilmp.sn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 239 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and dark brown ; 

 frons with black bar above ; tegula3 with black line near base and 

 two light brown medial lines ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 whitish, irrorated and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey irrorated and suft'used with fuscous and the area 

 from end of cell to termen tinged with reddish brown ; the veins 

 slightly streaked with black ; a fine black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, the outer line strong, waved, 

 strongly dentate inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 hardly defined white annuli, the cell before and between them black, 

 the former round ; a very strong black medial shade, obliquely waved 



