CUCTJLLIA. 55 



Hah. Prance, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; ? Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia; Armenia ; 

 ? Asia Minor, Bithynia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Amur. E.cp, 46-58 millira. 



Larva. Hiibti. Larv. Lep. iv. Nocfc. ii. Gen. v. h, c, f. 1, a, h, c ; Kirby, 

 Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257, pi. 41. f. 4. 



White with yellow dorsal and lateral maculate stripes ; a sub- 

 dorsal series of large oval segmental and oblong intersegmental 

 black spots. Food-plants : sow-thistle and lettuce, chiefly the 

 flowers. 7-8. 



2127. CucuUia miimla. (Plate XCVII. fig. 15.) 



CucuUia minuta, Mosclil. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 295, pi. x\i. 

 f. 9 (1884). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; 

 tegulae with black line near base and dark medial line and tips ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the veins with fine black 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; 

 a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which 

 is very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on 

 the veins ; a black streak in lower end of cell ; a curved black 

 streak below end of cell representing the lower edge of reniform ; 

 postmedial line represented by a very oblique black bar across sub- 

 median interspace ; a black streak above vein 4 to an oblique series 

 of short black streaks from termen below apex, and a short streak 

 above middle of vein G ; subterminal line represented by oblique 

 streaks above and below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small dentate 

 black marks. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half 

 fuscous brown ; cilia white. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 5 » Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 

 2 ? . Exj;>. 40-44 millim. 



2128. CucuUia dracunculi. 



Noctiui dracunculi, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 586 (1827) ; Dup. Lep 

 Fr. vii. p. 409, pi. 125. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



CucuUia incana, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 551 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur, 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 184. 



CucuUia amota, Alph. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1887, p. 171 ; id. Eoin. Mem. v. 

 p. 177, pi. 7. f. 11. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulaj with black line near base, two brown medial 

 lines and brown line near tips ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; abdomen pale dorsally tinged with brown, the crests 

 dark, the anal tuft greyish. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with 

 brown ; the costal area suffused with brown ; some pale rufous 

 suflf'usion in and beyond end of cell ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; a fine 



