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series of black striae. Hiud wing browu, the basal half rather paler ; 

 cilia whitish ; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown and the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot. 



Hah. S.E. Germany, Leech Coll. ; Denmark ; Russia, Livonia, 

 Leech Coll., Curland, Frey Coll., Urals. Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Rosenberg, Oorr. Nat. Ver. Riga, xx. p. 45 ; Kirby, Butt. & Moths 

 Eur. p. 206. 



Golden green with dark irroration and red-brown spots, the lines 

 interrupted, yellow. Food-plant, flowers and young seeds of 

 Artemisia vulgaris, 7-8. 



2134. Cucullia campanulas. 



Noctua carnpanulm , Freyer, Beitr. i. p. 'U, pi. 35 (1828) ; id. Stett. ent. 

 Zeit. 185!:), p. 423 ; Herr.-Scbafi'. JseueScbmett. f. 127 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 216. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with 

 black line near base and dark medial line ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the ventral surface paler. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and 

 suffused with brown ^ subbasal line represented by a dark striga from 

 costa ; a black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, 

 which is angled outwards below costa and very strongly in cell and 

 submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; claviform represented by a slight black streak 

 on its upper edge : traces of the orbicular and reniform, the former 

 rounded, the latter angled inwards on median nervure and Avith 

 curved black streak representing its lower edge ; postmedial line 

 somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, nearly obsolete to 

 vein 2, then angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a black streak above vein 4 connected with some short 

 diffused streaks from termen below apex ; a slight black streak above 

 terminal part of vein 3 and an oblique streak below vein 2 towards 

 termen ; some slight dark lunules on termen. Hind wing reddish 

 brown, the interspaces of basal half rather paler ; cilia white, 

 brownish at base ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. ?S.W. France; Germany; Austria; Switzerland, ZeUer, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; IIussia, ? Livonia, ? Urals ; Armenia. Exp. 

 50-54 millim. 



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



Pearly white with small white spots and dots, a maculate yellow 

 dorsal stripe and a narrower lateral stripe. Food-plant, Gam- 

 paniila. 8. 



2185. Cucullia lucifuga. 



Noctua lucijvga, Sciiiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Hlibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 262 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with dark brown ; teguUe 

 with black line near base and dark medial line ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing purple-grey suffused 



