44 NocTriP.B. 



Ilah. HiiiTviN. T,occh Coll. ; Fkakck : (Jkumany, Zcllor and Leech 

 Colls. : .Xcsrui \, Frey imtl l-cotli Colls. ; HiMiAUY, Leeeh Coll. ; Swrr- 

 ZKKi.AND.Zoller and" Frey Colls. ; Spain, Bilbao ; N. Italv ; Kussiv, 

 Livonia, Z.-llcr Coll.; Ak.mhxia ; Asia Minok, Tontiis, Bithynia ; 

 I*KR»IA : W. 1 iHKKSTAN, Tureomania, Issyk Kul ; W. Sihkria, Altai ; 

 K. TruKusTA.N, Kashgur, Hi ; Mongolia, "Changrai Mts. Exp.bA-Vi^) 

 ludlim. 



Larvn. SUyr. Brit. T^p. p. 48; Barrett. Lep. Erit. vi.p. 92, pi. 240. f. 2. 



Oclireous yellow or grey witli iiiimeroiis fine irrejriilar rained 

 lilaek markings ; head bl.iok ; thoracic shield black-brown. Food- 

 plunUi : Sonchus and Lactuca. 8'9. 



*210S. Cucullia clarior. 



Ciiciiifia clarior, Fuchs, Juhrb. Nass. Ycr. Ivii. p. 31, pi. ii. f. 2(1904). 



Differs from C. vmhratlca in the fore wing being broader, bright 

 a^h-grt-y with a bluish tinge tiiickly irroratcd with white, tbe 

 streak below base of cell very faint. Hind wing dark grey, paler 

 in male, yellowish at base ; cilia of fore wing bright grey, of hind 

 wing pure white, Antenme grey, whitish at base. 



Hull. S. Russia, Sarepta ; C. Asia. Exp, 54 niillim. This 

 species is uuknown to me. 



*2109. Cucullia anthemidis. 



CiiciiUia anthemidis Guen. Noct. ii. p. 140 (1852) ; Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 1 15. 

 ff. G-8 ; Staud. Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 215. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; 

 frons and vertex of head with blackish bars ; tegulaj Avith bl.uk 

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

 patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; vertex of thorax 

 huffii>cd with brown, the inetathorax with black spot; abdomen 

 grey-white slightly tinged with brown, the dorsal crests blackish. 

 Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with brown especially on costal 

 area, the veins with slight dark streaks ; a slight dark streak in 

 Biibmcdian fold to below origin of vein 2 ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight oblicjue striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, very strongly angled outwards in tlie interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform only defined by faint 

 dark point.s Kn\ their margins ; i»ostniedial line almost obsolete except 

 below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and 

 excurved above vein 1 ; slight black streaks above veins 4, 3 

 beyond angle of cell ; slight brown and white streaks before termeu 

 above veins (3, o, 4 ; a slight obli<pie black streak below extremity 

 of vein 2 ; some slight black lunules on termen towards ajjcx anil 

 8tri;r towards tornus ; cilia brownish white. Hind wing white 

 Hliglilly tinged with brown, the veins brown; the terminal area 

 siiH'used with brown except towards tornus ; cilia white with slight 

 brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white 

 with the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown. 



