NOCTUin.E. 



Btriir. Hind wing wliito tinged MiLh brown, the veins and terminal 

 area sufl'usod with hrown. 



Huh. U.S.A., New Uunil>shiro, New York (Doubledcnj,W. IT. //;//), 

 3 2 <yi)C, New Jersey. K.vp. 4V>-i>4 mi Dim. 



*2\ryJ. Cucullia ledereri. 



Cwul/ia ledereri, Staud. Rom. Mtiii. vi. p. 625 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 2 If). 



DilTers from C. postern in the costa of fore wing being slightly 

 instead of strongly sufFustd witli brown ; the streak on inner margin 

 blacker; tlie orbicular defined by two dark points, the reniforra by 

 three minute stria; in centre ; the black-edged white lunule on 

 ]i()stmodial line in submediaii interspace further from the oblique 

 black streak below extroniity of vein 2. 



Bab. Kamtschatka. E.vp. ? This species is unknown to me. 



*2153. Cucullia indicta. 

 Cucullia indicia, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 154 (1904). 



Bluish grey ; head smoky brown ; tegulae fuscous at base and 

 with bhickish medial line ; dorsum of thorax luscous ; abdomen 

 with the crests fuscous. Tore wing almost uniform in colour ; ante- 

 medial line hardly traceable, highly dentate; orbicular and reniform 

 defined with slight brownish centres and greyish aunuli incompletely 

 defined by black, both somewhat constricted at middle; a black 

 streak on inner margin before the postmedial line, which is obsolete 

 except for a double curred line in submcdian interspace, followed 

 by a pale line with a black-brown streak from it to termen below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of black stria^. Hind wing dull yellowish 

 white, the terminal area sufluscd with fuscous; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas sufluscd with 

 fuscous. 



J/ab. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wolhy-Bod). Eay., J 45, 

 2 52 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



2154. Cucullia obscurior. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 4.) 



Oietillia o/isriirior, iiinhh, Vr. I'.S. ^'at. Mus. xv. p. 41 (1892); id. 

 Koct. N. Am. p. li^T. 



Cat. 



$. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed A\ilh dark brown; 

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

 nu'diiil lines and brow n ti]is ; jiatagiavith some black scales near 

 upper edge; metalhorax A\ ith the crest tipj)td with black ; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, the crests 

 daik. Fore wing i)urplish grey irrorated with fuscous; a slight 

 bhiik streak in hubmcdian fold to the antemedial line, vhich is 

 indistinct, double, very biglily angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 



