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incompletely defined by black and with black points round their 

 centres, both somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line 

 double and bent outwards below costa, obsolete to vein 2, then 

 represented by a grey lunule defined on each side by black lines and 

 with slight fuscous suffusion before it, then bent inwards as a black 

 streak on inner margin to the antemedial line ; a slight black streak 

 above medial pai't of vein 4, and a strong oblique streak below 

 extremity of vein 2 : a series of slight black terminal lunules. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal 

 area suflfused with brown ; cilia white ; the underside white, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 3 $ . Exji. 48-50 

 millim. 



2155. CucuUia similaris. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 5.) 



CucMia similaris, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 41 (1892) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 237. 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with some fuscous ; frons 

 with black bar ; tegulse with black line near base, two slight medial 

 lines and dark tips; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; dorsum of ttiorax mostly black ; tegula3 streaked with black ; 

 abdomen brownish grey, the crests black. Fore wing blue-grey 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal area rather darker towards apex, 

 the veins with fine black streaks ; 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 and very 

 strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins ; orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by black and 

 with black points round centres, the former somewhat constricted 

 at middle, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line double and hent outwards below costa, obsolete to 

 vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule defined on each side by black 

 lines and with some fuscous suffusion before it, then bent inwards 

 as a black fascia on inner margin to antemedial line ; slight black 

 streaks above middle of veins 6, 5, 4, and a prominent oUique streak 

 below extremity of vein 2, with a short streak below its origin iii 

 submedian fold; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind 

 wing white slightly tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suH'used with brown, especially in female. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 1 (S , Durango (Oslar), 1 d" , 2 $ , 

 Exp., S 46, $ 52 miUim. 



*2156. CucuUia arizona. (riate XCYIII. fig. 0.) 



Cucidliaarizomi, Smith, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. xiii. p. 206 (1905). 



5 . Dark bluish grey, the markings fuscous black, distinct; head 

 }»lack-brown with transverse black and grey lines; teguhi? grey wit li 

 three blackish and two white lines ; thorax dorsully irrorated with 



