CUCTLLIA. 51 



terraen sufFused with brown, especially in female ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. 



Hah. France : Germany, Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria ; HuNGARy ; Switzerland ; Sweben ; Russia, Livonia 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia ; VV. Turkestan, Ferghana, 

 Sarawschan ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Kvp. 46-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257. 



Pale pearly grey with yellow dorsal and lateral stripes and 

 numerous black dots and spots. Food-plants : Tanacetum vulyare 

 and Artemisia vulgaris. 7-8. 



2120. Cuciillia dorsalis. (Plate XCVII. fig. 9.) 



Cundlia dorsalis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 47 (1892); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 238. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegulaj with black line near base, two slight medial 

 lines and slight line at tips : tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen 

 grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the dorsal crests dark. Fore 

 wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins with fine 

 black streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga 

 from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the autemedial 

 line, which is very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins, an oblique striga before it above inner 

 margin ; a curved black streak below end of cell representing the 

 lower edge of reniform ; postmedial line almost obsolete except 

 from vein 2 to inner margin, angled inwards and more or less 

 bidentate in submedian interspace, the lower tooth longer and 

 acute, then angled outwards on vein 1 ; blackish streaks above 

 middle of veins 6 and 4, a slight shade from termen below apex 

 with faint white streaks on it, a short black streak above termination 

 of vein 3, and an oblique streak below vein 2 connected with a slight 

 streak in submedian fold beyond postmedial line. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and terraen suff'used with brown, especiall}' in 

 female ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {CocJcerell, Bruce), 2 cj" , 1 $ , Glenwood 

 Springs, 1 c? , Denver {Oslar), 4 (^ , 1 $ , Durango (Oslar), 1 c? , 1 $ . 

 Exp. 50-52 millim. 



2121. Cucullia speyeri. (Plate XCVII. fig. 10.) 



Cucullia speyeri, Lintn. Kew York State Cab. Ann. Eep. 26, p. 168, 

 ff. 13, 14 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 238. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; fi-ons with 

 blackish bar ; tegulae with black line near base, two slight medial 

 lines and brown tips ; thorax dorsally dark brown ; tibiae with dark 

 streaks : abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the dorsal 

 crests darker. Fore Aving pale grey thickly irrorated with brown ; 

 the veins with fine dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique striga from costa ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to 



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