CUCULLIA. 69 



Fore wing palo purplish gre}' ; the costal area suffused with fuscous, 

 the cell aud area beyond it with rufous ; the veins with fine dark 

 streaks ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial 

 line, which is indistinctly double, very highly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniform represented by dark points on their edges, 

 the latter with curved streak below end of cell representing its lower 

 edge; postmedial line obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms 

 a whitish lunule defined on each side by fine black lines, then bent 

 inwards along inner margin to antemedial line, some rufous before 

 it in submedian interspace ; slight whitish streaks in interspaces of 

 terminal area towards apex and two oblique dark streaks in sub- 

 median interspace, some black strife on termen. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and termen tinged with fuscous, in female the whole 

 terminal area suff'used with fuscous. 



Hub. Canada {Norman)^ 1 c? ; U.S.A., E. States to Virginia and 

 Nebraska, Massachusetts, Buff'alo {Packard)^ 2 J ; New York, 

 6 d',2' $ type, Illinois, 1 $. Ea-p. 50-58 millim. 



Larva. Head rounded, green with paler reticulations. Body 

 cylindrical, uniform, green ; dorsal line moderate, yellow, black- 

 edged ; subdorsal and lateral lines yellow-green, black-edged ; supra- 

 stigmatal lino black-edged, its lower edge a row of dashes, below 

 which is the yellow substigmatal line margined beneath with 

 white. Eeet green. — H. G. D. 



2151. Cucullia postera. (Hate XCVIII. fig. 3.) 



Cnndliaposiera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 133 (1852) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 237. 



2 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 frons with black bar ; teguhe with black line near base, two slight 

 medial lines and brown tips ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; metathoracic crest tipped with black ; tibiae with black 

 streaks ; abdomen whitish dorsallv tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with brown, the crests black. Pore wing purplish grey 

 slightly tinged with brown, the costal area darker, the end of cell 

 and area beyond it suffused slightly with rufous ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight oblique striga from costa ; a slight black 

 streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinctly 

 double, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with slight rufous 

 centres and greyish annuli incompletely defined by black, both 

 somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line obsolete except 

 from vein 2 to inner margin, where it forms a whitish lunule 

 defined on each side by black lines and with some fuscous sufl'usion 

 before it, then bent inwards as black streaks along inner margin to 

 the antemedial line ; a blackish streak above medial part of vein 4 

 and an oblique streak below terminal part of vein 2 ; some whitish 

 streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; a terminal series of black 



