G2 Nocri'iD.K. 



LM:50, CucuUia celsis. 



Cu^Hl/ia ceUia; ircrr-Schjiff. Eur. Solimett. ii. p. 311, Noct. f. 182 (184.')) ; 

 SUud. Cat. Li'p. pill. p. 214. 



cJ . Head niul thorax prey iiii.xofl with rlark brown ; tegulae with 

 blackish line near base, two l)rown medial lines and brown tips ; 

 abdomen ochreous whitish suffused with reddish brown, the dorsal 

 crests black and grey. Fore wing fuscous black suffused with 

 grey, leaving the base and terminal area except towards costa pale; 

 antemedial line dentate, \ery strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1, 

 indistinct on costal half, defined by grey on inner side below 

 submedian fold ; stigmata obsolete ; postmedial line obsolete 

 towards costa, represented by a double series of points on the pale 

 area and by a whitish lunule in submedian interspace and small 

 lunule above inner margin ; the veins towards terraen slightly 

 streaked with black ; slight oblique black streaks below extremities 

 of veins G and 2 ; cilia white at base, black at tips. Hind wing 

 ]uile, uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white at base, 

 fuscous at tijis ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, an 

 indistinct discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



ll(th. HuxGAKT ; Bulgaria; S. TuKKEr; Palestine, 1 cJ . Kvp. 

 32 millim. 



Larva. Rebel. Ann. Hofinns. Wien, xviii. p. 230 (1903). 



Green with fine whitish dorsal, subdorsal, and stigmata! lines; 

 lateral line broad, the upper half formed by a dark green streak, the 

 lower half whitish. Food-plant, Ihajjeris desertorum. 



2140. Cucullia xeranthemi. 



Cucullia xernnlhcmi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. ir)3 (1840); Herr.-Scliiiff. 

 .^chiiiett. Eiir. ii. p. 3U9, Noct. tf. 105, 481 ; Fit. Jieitr. v. pi. 412. 

 fT. 3-4 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 89. f. 7 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax browni mixed with purpli-^h grey ; frons with 

 black bar; teguUe wilh black line near base and brown medial 

 line ; abdomen whitish mix"d with brown except at base, the 

 dorsal crest.H dark. Fore wing violaceous whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins with fine dark streaks, the interspaces with 

 difl'u>ed brown streaks; the subbasal line represented by a slight 

 oblique striga from costa ; a slight dark streak below base of cell ; 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, double, highly angled outwards 

 in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reni- 

 form w-ith reddish-brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, 

 the former rather figure-of-8-shaped, t)ie latter more or less angled 

 inwards on median nervnro; the nu>dial ]iart of inner margin with 

 bhuk streak; iio.sfmedial lino sli-^htly defined by whitish on outer 

 eide, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold and to inner margin, some i)ale points on costa beyond it; the 

 interspaces of terminal area with whitish streaks and black streaks 

 above veins <i and 4 and below 2 ; a terminal scries of slight black 

 lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and 



