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medial lines and dark tips ; tibife streaked with black ; abdomcu 

 grey irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged with 

 brown ; a more or less strongly developed black streak above median 

 nervure and vein 4 from base to near termen ; some very pale rufous 

 in and beyond end of cell ; traces of a black streak in base of 

 submedian fold and of an autemedial line below the cell, where it 

 is very strongly angled outwards ; orbicular represented by two 

 black points on its upper edge ; reniforni with two black points on 

 its upper edge and a curved black line representing its lower edge ; 

 postmedial line represented by a very oblique indistinct black line 

 in submedian interspace ; a slight fuscous shade from termen below 

 apex ; a subterminal black spot in submedian fold ; a tei'rainal series 

 of black striae. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and 

 termen brown. 



Hah. Uganda, Entebbe {MincMn),\ 5 ? Cape Colony, Biintingville 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 6 type, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 6 . Eap. 

 4G millim. 



2107. Cucullia umhratica. 



Noctua umhratica, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 515 (1758); Esp. Si?Lmett. iv. 



pi. 137. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 263 ; Fit. Beitr. Eur. Sfhmett. 



V. pi. 447 ; Sepp, Ins. iii. pi. 25. f. 7 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 421, pi. 2(5. f. 1 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. iii. p. 87 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 

 IS'octua lucifiiya, Et^p. iSclimett. iv. pi. 178. f. (i (nee Schiff.). 

 Kucfua lactuae, Ilubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 26i ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 88 (nee E.sp.). 

 Cucullia tanaccti. Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 88 (nee Schiff.). 

 Cucullia sonchi, Hein. Schmett. Deutsch. i. p. 400 (1851)). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegula) with black line near base and two brown 

 medial lines ; tibia3 with dark streaks ; abdomen ochreous greyish, 

 dorsally suffused with brown, especially towards extremity, the crests 

 dark. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brown, the veins 

 with dark slight streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight obliquo 

 striga from costa ; a line black streak in submedian fold to the 

 antemedial line, which is highly angled outwards in the interspaces, 

 especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and 

 reniform almost obsolete except for four more or less distinct points 

 at the angles of each and a curved line on lower edge of latter ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 

 2, then angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; 

 a black streak above medial part of vein 4 ; a slight dark shade from 

 termen below apex with traces of white streaks on it ; a black streak 

 above terminal part of vein 3 aiid slight oblique subterminal streak 

 below vein 2 ; some dark stria) on termen. Hind wing white, the 

 veins, termen, and inner margin tinged with brown, in female the 

 whole terminal half suffused with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. 



