lo noctvid.t:. 



21 60. Cucullia lychuitis. 



Cunt/lla lychnith, Rinbr. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. l&W, p. 17, pi. 1. f. 3; 7)np. 



L<5p. Fr. Siippl. iii. nl. .HO. f. 3 ; Ilcrr.-Schair. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. 2()4 ; 



Stand. Cat. I>'p. j);il. p. 214. 

 CucuUia rivulorum, Gnon. Noct. ii. p. 129 (1852). 



llt-ad palo rufous, the frons ami vcrtox of head with dark rufous 

 bars ; te^jula? violaceous grey tiupod with rufous at middle, a black 

 line near base, traces of two medial lines and dark brown tips ; 

 jiatapia with some black scales near upper edj;e which is rufous; 

 (lor-*um of thorax dark brown ; mid and hind tibiae at extremity 

 ami 1st joint of tarsus with V)lack spots ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the crests dark. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale 

 rufous, the costal area dark, tinged with grey ; traces of a brown 

 streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is very in- 

 distinct, double, highly angled outwards in the interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins, its outer part forming an oblique black streak 

 above inner margin : orbicular and reniform defined by slight black 

 point.s on their edges; postmeilial line bent outwards btlow costa, 

 obsolete to vein 2, then represented by two whitish lunules defined 

 on each side by brown ; an oblique series of slight brown streaks 

 from apex to vein 6 and another from tormen below apex to vein 4 ; 

 a prominent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to postmedial 

 line in submedian fold, with slight wliite and brown streaks below 

 it ; cilia with blackish line through them intersected with white. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and termen suffused with 

 brown, especially in female; cilia pale with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irroratcd 

 with brown. 



Hah. Britain {Leech, Barrett) ; Fr.\nce, Leech Coll. ; Germ.\nt, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atstkia, Leech Coll. ; Switzerlaxd, 

 Zermatt (Murmi/) ; Spain, Bilbao, Castille ; Corsica; Sardixia; 

 Italy; S. llcssu ; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Lydia. A'.r/>. 

 42-48 raillim. 



Larra. E,,i,<(l. Rnibr. & Grasl. Chen. Tc. pi. 15. ff. 1-2; Mevr. Brit. Lep, 

 p. 4tt; Barrett. Lep. Brit. vi. p. 71, pi. 238. f. 3. 



GrcenLsh white with a pale yellowish band on each segment ; a 

 dorsal series of curved black bars alternating with rows of four 

 black spots ; a spiracular series of black spots. Food-plants : Vcr- 

 basrum and Lyclniis. 7-S. 



Var. rivulorum. More elongate than hichuitix, greener and 

 without the yellow variety, the black markings slighter and tending 

 to form a single band ; the incisions concolorous. Food-plant, 

 Scrophnluria. 7. 



2106. Cucullia scrophiilariae. 



yWiin ivrn/ihiihritr, MulY. VVi.-n. Vprz. ji. .".12 (177G): Capienx. Nsilurl'. 

 xxir. p. '.»1. pi. :<. ff. 1-4 (17S'.»): Ksp. Sclimeti. iv. pi. IH". f. 1; llubn. 

 Kiir. Si-hniPlt .NVK.t. f. -67; Rrnbr. Ai>n. .*-"op. Kul Fr. IK?:!, p. H.pl. 1. 

 f. 1 ; Diip. I-<jp. Fr., J^impl. vii. pi. 1l'4. f. 3 ; Slepli. 111. Brit. Eiit., lluust. 

 iii. p. 85 ; Stand. Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 214. 



