OS NOCTCID.K. 



brown, inrompk'tcly on inner sidi- ; a difl'uscd medial shade from 

 oosta to median nervnrc, tlu-n indistinct; jjostniedial line obsolete 

 except for a pale Innule in sul.mi dian inter.si)ace interrupting a 

 dark streak en.ling on termen below vein 2; the end of cell and 

 cn.stal area from it to apex sutfnsed with reddish brown, leavinf^the 

 costA narrowly proy with some white points on it with oldiijue dark 

 strijo between them; a terminal si'ries of dark stritii ; cilia pale at 

 base. Hind winp; white tinged with fuscous, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous; cilia white; the underside dirty white, 

 the costal and terminal areas darker. 



2 . i'ore wing darker and more suffused with black-brown ; 

 the medial shade darker, the orbicular and reiiiform darker with 

 brown centres ; hind wing darker. 



Hah. U.S.:V., AriKona, lluachuea ^rts, E.rp., d i-^, $ 40 millim. 

 ■ This species is unknown to me ; it may be the same as S. lilacina, 

 Schaus, 



♦2149. Cucullia bistriga. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 20.) 



Cucullia hUtriqa, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 48 (1892) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Alii. p. 2^8. 



cJ . Bluish grey ; frons with some black scales ; teguhc with a black 

 line near base and brownisli line near tips ; patagia with dusky line 

 near margin ; metathoracic crest brown. Fore wing with slight 

 dark streaks on the veins, the costal area with dark suffusion, the 

 terminal area with short black streaks in the interspaces; ante- 

 medial line single, dark, strongly angled outwards in and below cell 

 and above inner margin ; a black streak on inner margin from base 

 to postmedial line, another in submedian fold from antemedial 

 line to beyond middle, then bent upwards to termen below vein 8 ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform moderate, indistinct, dusky ; postmedial 

 line single, blackisli, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then obli(jue ; a sliglit oblique shade from termen below npex. Hind 

 wing whitish with dark suflf'usion on terminal area ; cilia whitish ; 

 the (inderside grey-white with darker irroration. 



liah. U.S.A., Colorado. Kvp. 85 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



2150. Cucullia asteroides. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 2.) 



CVi////(7 n.f/w)»V/«, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 133 (1852); Smith, Cat, Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 237. 



Rend fuscous brown mixed with some grey, thorax purplish grev ; 

 the tCRuhe with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown 

 tips; patagia WMtli some black scales near upper edge; dorsum of 

 thorax dark brown with the metathoracic crest black; tibi.T with dark 

 breaks; abdomen whitish at ba.'*c, greyish at extremity, dorsally 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with luowii, the crests dark. 



