7*5 NOrTCID.15. 



Mime black scales towards tipper edge which is dark rufous, thorax 

 dorsally hliickis)i ; mid and hind i\\>\x with black points at their 

 extremities; ah lomcn whitish tinj,'ed with red-brown, the crests 

 diirk. Fore wing grey-white, more or less suffused with rufous, 

 leaving the inner half paler; the costal area darker ; subbasal line 

 represented by an obliijue striga from cnsta ; aniemedial line double 

 below submedian fold, angled strongly outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins, above inner margin angled outwards to 

 postmedial line, its outer part forming a black streak ; ])0stmedial 

 line obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms a -whitish luniiie 

 defined on each side by brown lines, and with a smaller luuule 

 below it above inner margin ; some whitish points on costa towards 

 apex : an oblique series of slight rufous streaks between vein 6 and 

 apex, and another series from ternien below apex to vein 4, a 

 prominent oblique streak below vein 2 with slight white and brown 

 streaks ftelow it ; cilia blackish at base, grey at tips, and intersected 

 with white. Hind wing tinged with brown, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with brown, in female mostly suffused with brown ; 

 cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 slight discoidal lunule. 



J/uli. W. Ehance, Leech Coll. ; Germany ; Austria, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Lfcech Coll. ; Spain ; Corsica, Leech Coll. ; 

 Dat.matia, Frey and Leech Colls. ; S. Hussta, Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, I'ontus, Lydia, Taurus, Mardin ; Syria, lieyrout 

 (Jessop), 1 2 ; Kashmir {I'ilchcr), 1 § , Ea'j:). 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & iloths Eur. i. p. 256. 



Citron-yellow above with black spots often conjoined into the 

 form of a cross; sides grey dotted with black; head brown or 

 red. Food-plants : the flowers and seeds of different species of 

 tScro2>hu(aria. 6-7. 



21 G3. Cucullia thapsiphaga. 



Cucullia thapaiphaga, Treit. Schmett. v. 3, p. 120(1826); Riitbr. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. l'833, p. 22, pi. l.f. 2; Frr. Beitr. pi. tO ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 214. 



Head and thorax Avhitish tinged with pale rufous and violaceous ; 

 frons with two dark brown bars, vertex of head with some brown ; 

 tegula' tinged with rufous at middle, a blackish line near base, two 

 slight medial lines and dark brown tips ; patagia with some blackish 

 Kcales towards upjier edge which is red-brown ; thorax dorsally 

 dark brown ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown, the crests dark. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with rufous, especially in and beyond end of 

 cell, some whitish suffusion from medial area below cell to middle 

 of termen, the costal area rather darker; a slight brown streak in 

 Bubmedian fold to the antemedial line, which is jiale brown, strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniforra defined by some black points ; postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then 



