,'iO NOCTDID.r.. 



9. Abdotnon witli the mini sepmcnt cdfjed with red-browii 

 l.flow ; hind wiiifr with the tcrniiiml urea sufTuscd with fuscous. 



lloi>. S. Kvsma; Ahmkma: Asia MiKon, Konia ; Per'jta ; W. 

 Ti UKK-sTAK, Tunomaiiiii, Askahad, 1 d , 1 $ , Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; 

 K. TiuKJ>TA.N, Hi. t:.rp. 3(5 niillim. 



♦211s. CucuUia achilleae. 



Cucullia nchUlea, Out-n. Noct. ii. p. 130 (L^M); Rinbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. 

 pi. 1(». f. 1 ; Staml. Cat. Lop. pal. p. 21(5. 



Head and thorax p:rcy-wliitc ; tegulic -with fine black lines at 

 middle and tii>s; abdomen whitish. Fore winp; grey-white with a 

 faint bliiisli lirifre; the veins Avith dark streaks; a black streak 

 below base of cell ; antemedial line represented by a slight strif^a 

 from costa and two very oblique lines from vein 1 to inner margin ; 

 some dark suffusion on medial part of costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 absent ; a medial line from costa to the postmedial line at sub- 

 median fold, defined by grey on outer side at costa and slightly 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double and 

 aniiled outwards below costa, then obsolete to vein 4, then very 

 ol)li(iue and bent outwards at vein 1 ; an oblique series of dark 

 marks in the interspaces of terminal area from below apex to vein 4 

 and an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2; a terminal series 

 of dark stria' ; cilia with fine dark lines through them. Hind wing 

 Avhite, the veins and termen tinged Avith brown, a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white. 



Halt. Spain, Andalusia. Exp. 3G millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2110. Cucwllia tanaceti. 



h'dCliia tanaciti, Sol)iff. Wien. Vcrz. p. 7."5 (1776); Knocli, Uoitr. ii. p. 20. 

 pi. 2. ff. 1-9; Hubii. Eur. Scliiiiett., Noct. f. 26;"); Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 p. 429, pi. 126. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar : tegulff" Avitb black line near base and two slight 

 medial lines ; tibia^ Avith dark streaks ; abdomen wliitish dorsally 

 tinged with brown especially towards extremity, the crests dark ; 

 male with orange t\ifts protrusible from lateral stigmata. Fore 

 Aving puri»lish grey suffused Avith pale brown, the veins with fine 

 dark streaks: subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga 

 from eosta : a fine black streak in subinedian fold to the antemedial 

 line, which is stroiigly angled outAvards in the interspaces, cspeoiallv 

 tlie subnu'dian, and inwards on the veins; claviform sometimes 

 reiirescnted by a black streak on its upper edge ; a slightly curved 

 black streak from or from before origin of vein 2 to A'eiu 4 beyond 

 the cell; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to inner 

 margin, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards 

 on vein 1 ; a black streak abo\-o middle of vein 4; some slight dark 

 Blreaks from termen below apex. Hind wing white, the veins and 



