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terminal area brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot, the terminal area brown. 



Hah. S. France ; S. Germany : Austria ; Hungary, Frey Coll. ; 

 ? S. Italy ; Balkan States ; S. Russia, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Icones, ii. p. 373, pi. 89. f. 10. 



Pale green ; dorsal line pink ; subdorsal line pink forming a 

 chain of elliptical marks with greyish centres ; a pink lateral stripe 

 defined by white below. 



2141. Cucullia montana. (Plate XCVII. fig. 19.) 



Citcullia montancB, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 237. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some fuscous and 

 tinged in parts with rufous, especially at base and inner side of 

 teguloe ; head darker with black bar on frons ; tegulse with black 

 line near base, two slight medial lines and black tips ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; dorsum of thorax mostly 

 black ; tibiiB with black streaks ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, 

 the crests black. Fore wing violaceous whitish ; the costal area 

 darker except at base ; the basal area, end of cell and area beyond 

 it suffused with rufous ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; a slight 

 streak in sul/median fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinct, 

 double, angled outwards in the interspaces, very strongly below 

 cell and above inner margin and inwards on the veins ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish incompletely defined by black and with 

 brown points in centres, each rather constricted at middle and 

 forming figure-of-8-shaped marks ; postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, obsolete to vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule 

 defined on each side by black and with some blackish suffusion 

 before and beyond it, then bent inwards as a blackish fascia on 

 inner margin to antemedial line ; some irregular subtermiual 

 rufous streaks in the interspaces and a more prominent oblique 

 streak below extremity of vein 2 ; a terminal series of black striae. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, 

 especially in female ; cilia white, with fine brown line near base 

 except towards torn us. 



Hah. Canada, Calgary (Wolhy-Dod), 1 J; U.S.A., Montana, 

 Colorado (Bruce), 1 ?, Denver (Oslar), 4 c^ , 1 $ . Ei^i. 48-54 

 millim. 



2142. Cucullia florea. (Plate XCVII. fig. 20.) 



Ciicullia florea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 134 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 237. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 black bar; tegulre with black line near base, two medial lines and 

 brown tips ; abdomen pale brownish, the extremity greyer, the 

 dorsal crests dark. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and suffused 



