-12 NocTiin.r,. 



Livonia, Zrllcr C'«.ll. ; W, Tikkkstan, Issyk Kul ; W. Sibkria, Altai ; 

 K. Ti KKf:,siAN, Hi. ICxj). ;}()-44 niilliin. 



J.iirvii. Movr. Hril. I^-p. ]>. 47 ; Unm-lt, U>p. Brit. vi. p. S2. pi. 239. f. 3. 



Talc yell«)\v-j:ri'cn dor.sally siifluscd with purple-grey except, at 

 incisiDns ; dorsal and subdorsal lines i)alc green ; liead and thoracic 

 shield ochreous grey. Food plant, Arlcniisiu ahsinthiam. 8*9. 



LM04. Cucullia clausa. (Plate XCVII. fig. 3.) 

 CuntUia clausa, Wlk. xi. Gj7 (18;')7). 



cf . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; tegula) 

 Avilh black line near base anil two sliglit medial lines. Fore wing 

 grey sutfu.sed with brown, leaving some whitish below base and 

 extremity of cell and slight streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; 

 fiubliasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; 

 nntemcdial lino ill-defined, dentate, interrupted; orbicular and 

 reniform wliitish defined by black points on tlieir edges and 

 •with a blackish patch between them from costa to median 

 niTvure ; post medial line obsolete except ot costa and below vein H, 

 wlierc it is obli(jue waved ; subtcrmiiial line obsolete, a terminal 

 series of small black spots, liind wing whitish, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Ignotus, 1 J , typo. Exp. 32 millim. Probably from 

 S. Africa. 



2105. Cucullia rufescens, n. sp. (Plato XCYII. fig. 4.) 



cJ . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown : tegula? with brown 

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

 with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous white 

 dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing grey, irroratcd and 

 pufi'iised with red-brown especially on basal and costal areas ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two oblique stria; from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, dentate, highly angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicuhir defined by 

 four brown points and with its centre incompletely defined by 

 brown ; reniform with some brown points on its inner edge, its 

 centre inrom])letely defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinct 

 and bent outwards below costa, below vein 4 re]>resentcd l>y doublo 

 points on the veins and below vein 2 by a double waved oblique 

 line, some pale jtoints beyond it on costa : the veins toAvards apex 

 Mreaked witli black: traces of an irregular subterminal line; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and a terminal line brown. 



Ihih. 15k. K. ArmcA, Fb Urru (Bction), 1 ^ type, E.vjy. 42 

 millim. 



21 or,. Cucullia pcrstriata, n. sp. (Plate XCVII. fig. 5.) 



H. a.l and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with blackish bar ; 

 tcgJiLc with their l)ases brown bounded by a black line, two slight 



