CUCULLIA. to 



*2161. CacuUia scrophulariphila. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 10.) 



Citcullia scropludariphUa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 215 ; id. Cat, 

 Lep. pal. p. 214. 



c? . Palpi rufous with blackish streak and the 3rd joint blackish ; 

 head red-brown, the vertex with semicircular white mark in front ; 

 tegulaj and patagia brownish grey, the former with white band 

 before the tips which are dark brown, the latter with white fascia 

 near upper edge which is dark brown, and some black scales below 

 it ; vertex of thorax black-brown ; pectus clothed with pale yellow 

 and rufous hair ; the mid and hind tibiae brown above, yellowish 

 below, with black points near extremity and at base of spurs ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with pale reddish brown, the crests 

 blackish. Fore wing pale grey-brown, the costal area rather 

 darker and suffused with grey, the basal inner area whitish ; a 

 slight dark streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line in- 

 distinct, double, very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins, the tooth above inner margin forming a 

 blackish streak to postraedial line, a white patch beyond the tooth 

 in submedian fold before the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 only defined by dark points on their margins ; postmedial line 

 almost obsolete except below vein 2, where it is double, forming 

 oblique lunules filled in with white in submedian interspace and 

 above inner margin ; indistinct wedge-shaped brown streaks from 

 termen above veins 7, 6, 5 ; an oblique wedge-shaped black-brown 

 fascia from termen just above vein 3 to postmedial line at sub- 

 median fold, with ditt'used white fascia above it and slight white 

 streak below it ; cilia grey-brown with a dark line near base. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the cell and inner area yellowish white, 

 the veins dark brown ; cilia brownish white with a dark line 

 through them except towards tornus ; the underside white, tho 

 costal and terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule. 



§ . Hind wing brown, the inner area only yellowish white. 



Hah. Spain, Andalusia, Chiclana, in Coll. Piingeler; ? Algeria. 

 E.vp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 255 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 126. 



Like C. verhasci, head broader, spots more confiuent. Food- 

 plant, Scro^ihularia samhucifolia. 3-5. 



21G2. Cucullia blattariae. 



Nochia Uafiari(B, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 154. f. 4 (1786) ; Fn-. Beitr. pi. 81 ; 



Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 202-3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 

 Cucullia canhKB, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 19, pi. 1. f. 5 ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 415, pi. 37. f. 2. 

 Cucullia scroj^hularivora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 130 (1852). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; palpi, two bars on 

 frons, and back of head dark rufous ; teguhc with blackish line near 

 base, traces of a medial line and dark rufous tips ; patagia with 



