06 NocTnn.r. 



Iilack bnr nbovo ; topuljr red-brown at base defined by a black line 

 and two brown lines near tips ; abdomen brown, pale at base aud 

 irroratcd witb prev towards extremity, the dorsal crests dark. 

 Fore wiuf? violaceous grey titi<^ed with red-brown especially on 

 mi'dial area ; the veins with tine dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 rcpresonfed by a 8lif!;ht stri^a from costa ; a black streak below 

 base of coll ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, hi}j;hly 

 unjrled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former elliptical, the latter sli<rhtly angled inwards 

 on mediiin nervure ; a black streak on medial part of inner margin ; 

 postraedial line bent outwards below costa, obsolete at middle, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and to inner margin, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with short black 

 streaks al)0ve veins 6 and -4 and below 2; a terminal series of 

 black striae. Hind wing reddish brown, the intersjjaces of basal 

 half paler : cilia white at tips ; the underside Avitli the interspaces 

 of bas:il half white, a discoidul point. 



Hnh. Britain; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, 

 Leech Coll. ; N. Italy ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Finland, 

 Odessa ; Armkxia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 42 raillim. 



iMi-va. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 47 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 79, pi. 239. f. 2. 



liright green ; dorsal stripe broad, purplish brown with dnrker 

 markings ; spiracles yellow on purple-reddish marks ; head bluish 

 green. Food-j)lants : Solidayo, Artemisia. 8-9. 



2146. CuculHa brevipennis. (Plate XCVII. fig. 21.) 



Cucullia brevipennis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 239 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; teguloe with black 

 line near base, two fine brown mtdial lines and brown tips; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen grey 

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

 a violaceous tinge and slight brown irroration ; the costal area 

 suffused with fu?cous ; subbasal hue represented by a very oblique 

 black striga from costa defined by grey on outer side ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, very strongly dentate 

 inwards on the veins and outwards in interspaces ; claviforra hardly 

 traceable; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black and with 

 slight brown centres, the former small, round, touching the ante- 

 medial line, the latter incompletely defined ; medial shade highly 

 curved, obsolete at middle, strong towards costa and inner maririn : 

 postmedial lino defined by whitish on outer side, indistinct except 

 on inner area, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblinue and incurved at submedian fold, some white 

 point^s beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with the veins sligiitly 

 fitreaked with blaek and with black streaks above veins 7, ti, 4, 1, 

 the Urd extending to lower angle of cell and the last extending to 

 ternicn and with some reddish brown below it ; a brown shade 

 from termcn below apex ; a terminal scries of black lunules and 



