."iS xotrnn.r,. 



llah. l'At.f:»rixi:, Jerusjilom, Coll. riingeler ; W. Tcrkestax, 

 Ankalmd, 1 J , 1 9 . /^.'V*. A2 niillim. Type t J $ in Coll. 

 ruiigclcr. 



2132. Cucullia iuderiensis. 



CuruIUa indcrieims, Herr.-Scliaff. Eiir. Sclimelt. vi. p. 178, Noct. f. 634 

 (18.>2) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. iml. p. :JU>. 



Hoii.l, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with reddish brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides; Irons witli black bar: tegulie. with black 

 lino near base ; dorsum of thorax darker grey ; tibisD streaked with 

 black ; tirsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen with the dorsal crests 

 darker at tips. Fore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated with 

 grey-brown ; the veins streaked with black; a tine black streak on 

 vellow fascia below base of cell ; antemedial line highly angled out- 

 wards in the interspaces aud inwards on the veins ; two slight 

 brown streaks in end of cell ; postmedial line almost obsolete 

 except below vein 2, where it is strongly incurved in submedian 

 fold and excurved on vein 1 ; the terminal area with rufous streaks 

 in the interspaces defined on each side by pale yellow streaks ; some 

 white points on costa ; cilia intersected by black streaks at base. 

 Hind wing pale suffused with brown, the veins and termen deeper 

 brown ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them : the under- 

 side whitish thickly irrorated with brown. 



llnh. KissiA, Urals, 1 c5 ; \\ . Tlukestan, Kirghistan, Issyk Kul. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Cliristoph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 33. 



]{iuish green with whitish marblings and yellowish segmental 

 bands ; a slender yellow-green dorsal line ; lateral and ventral lines 

 white ; head pale green with dark points. Food-plant, Artemisia 

 dractoicuhis. 



2133. Cucullia praecana. 



CiiriiUia prcpraiia, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 3W (1844): id. Bull. Mosc. 

 18,^7, p. 62; Ilerr.-Scliaff. Eur. Scluuett., Noct. f. 509; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 21"). 



Head and thorax jiurplish grey mixed with fuscous; teguUr with 

 black line near base, brown medial line aud brown tips ; abdomen 

 grey dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous, some ochreous in and beyond end of cell ; 

 the veins with line black streaks; subbasal line represented by an 

 obliijue siriga from costa; a tine black streak in submedian inter- 

 space to the antemedial line, which is double, strongly angled 

 outwards in the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards 

 on the veins; orbicular and reniform represented by four black 

 points on their edges, a curved black streak below end of cell 

 representing lower edge of latter; postmedial line bent outwards 

 lielow costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then angled inwards in sub- 

 nieilian told and outwards on vein 1 ; a slight black streak above 

 middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 ; 

 Borne whiti-sh streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal 



