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Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with blackiah 

 bar above ; tegulae with black line near base, two fuscous medial 

 lines and fuscous tips ; vertex of thorax with dark streak ; abdomen 

 grey dorsally tinged with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore 

 wing brownish grey with fine black streaks on the veins and in sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line very highly dentate outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins ; two slight brown streaks in 

 end of cell ; a curved brown streak below end of cell representing 

 lower edge of reniform ; a slight oblique medial shade from costa to 

 lower angle of cell ; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 3 to 

 inner margin, where it is strongly angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; a tine black streak above vein 4 to before termen, with 

 a series of slight brown streaks above it to termen below apex ; an 

 oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2. Hind wing brown, 

 the interspaces rather paler except on terminal area ; cilia white 

 with fine brown line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins brown. 



Hub. S. France, Leech Coll. ; ? [Switzerland ; Spain, Andalusia ; 

 Corsica, Leech Coll.; Italy; Algeria; ? W. Turkestan; Turco- 

 mania ; ? Mongolia, Uliassutai. E.vp. 48-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 258 ; Hoffm. Raup. p. 128, pi. 34. 

 f. 2. 



Dull green or reddish with white spots on the back and black and 

 violet lines and streaks on sides. Food-plant, Artemisia. 4 &- 7. 



2131. Cucullia tecca. (Plate XCVII. fig. 10.) 

 Cucullia tecca, Piing. Iris, six. p. 'J6 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; frons and 

 vextex of head with blackish bars ; teguhe with black line near 

 base, two ill-defined medial lines and one near tips ; abdomen 

 Avhitish dorsally tinged with yeUow-brown, the dorsal crests black 

 at tips. Fore wing rather short, grey-white, largely irrorated and 

 Buft'used with fuscous brown ; the veins streaked with black ; a fine 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line represented by 

 a slight black striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins ; orbicular and reniform almost obsolete, the latter represented 

 by a curved black streak below end of cell; postmedial line obsolete 

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

 and ouiwards on vein 1 ; a black streak below middle of vein 7 ; a 

 series of slight streaks from teimen below apex to above middle of 

 vein 4 ; small subterminal spots sometimes present between veins 4 

 and 2 ; an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; bases of cilia 

 intersected by black streaks. Hind wing pale nearly uniformly 

 suHused with fuscous brown, the inner area rather paler ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, the veins brown. 



Ab, 1. i . Head, thorax, and fore wing bluer grey with much less 

 fuscous sufiusiou and irroration. $ typical. — Jerusalem. 



