40 jfocnin.i. 



from costa to al)Ovp vein 1, then angled inwards; post mfdial line 

 almost obsolete «'xcei)t at costa and inner margin, where it is defined 

 by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; a black streak 

 above vein and short sul)terniinal streaks above 4 and below 2 ; 

 a torniinal series of sliglit black lunules. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and tenniniil area suffused with brown. 



Ilah. rrvJAH, :Murree {Jlorne), 2 d type, Simla (PilcJier), 1 $. 

 KrjK 44-50 niillim. 



2101. Cucullia retecta. (Plate XCVII. fig. 2.) 



CHCHllia retecta, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 187, pi. ii. f. 10 (1901). 



Head and thorax pale purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 frons and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae with prominent 

 black line near base, two slight medial lines and dark tips ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upi)cr edge which is brown ; dorsum of 

 thorax dark ; metathoracic crest black ; tarsi brown ; abdomen 

 oehraccous white, the dorsal crests black, the anal tuft grey. Fore 

 wing pale purplish grey irrorated with brown, the veins with fine 

 black streaks ; a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 double, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian 

 fold, where it is angled, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 round with brown centre and whitish annulus defined by black ; a 

 })rominent black medial shade, oblique from costa to vein 2, then 

 approximated to the postraedial line ; reniform rather indistinctly 

 defined and with brownish lunulo in centre ; postmedial line obsolete 

 except below vein 2, angled outwards on vein 1 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; a fine black streak above vein 4 from reni- 

 form to middle, where it is met by a slight dark shade from termen 

 below apex ; a prominent oblique black streak below extremity of 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia pale brown 

 with a fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with ochrcous especially on inner area, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; cilia white with brownish line at base ; the underside 

 whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal ])oint. 



JJah. TiiiKT, Kuku-noor, 1 (^,1 $. Exp. 44 millim. Typo f 

 <J , $ in Coll. I'iingeler. 



2102. Cucullia perforata. 



CvniUia perforata, Broin. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. iA, pi. o. f. 14(1864) ; Obeiih. 

 Et. Ent. X. p. 24, pi. 3. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons with 

 black bar; teguhe with black line near base and two fine medial 

 brown lines ; abdomen yellowish grey irrorated with brown, the 

 dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated and suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by two oblique black strite 

 from cost 11 ; a black streak below the cell to the double black ante- 



