•40 KOCTCiD.r. 



21 1 1. Cucullia cxtricata. (rialc XCVII. fig. G.) 



Xylina txtricala, W Ik. xi. lUiU (1S.')7). 



cf . Hi-nd and thorax imlo reddish hrown sometimes more or less 

 mi.xod With I'li.scous ; froiis with blackish bar above; tegulte with 

 two bhu'k lines near base and two faint medial lines ; patagia witli 

 Bomo black scales near ujjper edge ; tibitc with black streaks ; 

 nbdomen whitish tinged with pale reddish brown and dorsally with 

 Home ochrcons. Tore wing very pale reddish brown ; a slight 

 black streak in submedian fold to the very indistinct antemedial 

 line, which is highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins; orbicular and reniforni each rej)resented by four 

 black points on their edges ; a slight oblique black bar from middle 

 of costa : postmedial line represented by some black jjoints on costa 

 and median nervules and by a whitish lunule in submedian inter- 

 sjiace, with dentate black mark before it and oblique fascia from 

 beyond it to termen below vein 3; slight black streaks above vein 4 

 towards termen and on extremity of veins ; some fuscous suffusion 

 and pale points on termen towards apex ; a terminal scries of black 

 stria?. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and terminal 

 area suiYused with brown. 



5 . Fore wing with the inner area from base to postmedial line 

 and to just above median nervure suffused with black. 



Hah. NiTAL {Giteinzii's), 1 c? , Durban {Leigh) 1 $ ; Cape Colony, 

 - c? . 1 2 type, Annshaw [MUs F. Barrett), 1 $ , Transkei {Miss F. 

 Barrett), 3 $ , Knysna, 1 $ . Kvp. 42-48 millim. 



2112. Cucullia virgaureae. 



CucnUia rirffaiirece, Boisd. Gen. ct liid. Metb. p. 154(1840); Ev. Bull. 



Mosc. lts.'>7, i. p. 6H; Stand. Cut. Lep. pal. p. IIL"). 

 Cucullia dracuiicuii, Ev. Faun. V(jlg. et Ur. p. a04 ; Ileir.-Schiife Eur 



Sebniett., KoL-t. f. l'J4 (ueu Hiibn.). 



Head and thorax purplish grey raised with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; teguhc with black line near base, two dark medial 

 lines and black tips ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen ocbreous brown, the dorsal crests dark, the anal 

 tull greyish. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with rufous especially 

 in and beyond cell, the costal and inner areas darker ; the veins 

 with tine dark streaks ; antemedial line almost obsolete except from 

 cell to inner inarj;in, where it is very strongly angled outwards in 

 bubmedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and rcniform 

 rcj.resented by four dark points on their edges, a curved streak 

 below end of cell representing lower edge of latter ; postmedial lino 

 ob.solete except from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; a blackish 

 streak above middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak 

 below vein 2 ; some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal art-a • 

 u terminal series of black striic. Hind wing whitish tinged witli 

 bn.wn the veins and terminal half darker ; cilia whitish; the 

 undiT.^ide with small (li>coidal spot. 



