<(• NOCrCID.l'. 



dark rufous; a sliplit brown stronk in Ruhmfdian fold to the ante- 

 mrdiiil lino, w)iicl> is double, liipbly anglid outwards in the inter- 

 Hpnros and inwards on tlie veins, indistinct except below vein 1 ; 

 the inner medial area sufluscd with rufous ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by some dark points on their edges; postniedial line 

 obsolete e'xcejit below vein U, where it forms two whitish lunules 

 defined on each side by red-brown ; an oblique series of rufous 

 etrenks from npex to vein (> and others from ternien below apex to 

 vein 4 : the terminal area towards toruus from vein 4 obliquely to 

 lumiles of post medial line red-brown with some slight whitish 

 streaks on it: cilia strongly crenulate and intersected with white, 

 with fine pale lino at base, then blackish and brown at tips. Hind 

 witig Yellowish tinged witli red-brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; in female dark reddish brown, the basal and 

 inner areas ])aler ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated or suffused with brown, a small discoidal lunule. 



J/ab. HiUTAix, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Geemant, 

 ZelJcr, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Swiizerland, 

 Frey Coll."; ? Algeria; S. Scandinavia; KrssiA, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Eithynia, Lydia ; Syria, 

 Eeyrout (Jcjisop), 1 r^ ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 48-54 millim. 



iMrra. :Moyr. Brit. Lep. p. 40 : Barrett. Lep. Brit. yi. p. G4, pi. 238. f. 1. 



lilue-white" with a yellow band on each segment ; double dorsal 

 series of bent black marks alternating with black spots ; a spiracular 

 series of yellow spots and black marks ; head yellow spotted with 

 black. Food-plants : Vtrhascum and Scrophularia. G-7. 



21 GS. Cucullia prenanthis. 



CticuUia prenanthis, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 154 (1840) ; Staud. Cat. 



Ivop. pal. p. 214. 

 I\oclua cetawfuitfiro, Frr. Neiie Beitr. v. pi. 432 (1852) ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. 



ticliinott., Nt)ct. ff. 18.^-(i. 

 ^'iMiiia hluttance, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 124. f. 5 (nee Esp.). 



Head rufous with some whitish on frontal tufts ; thorax grey 

 tinged with red-brown ; tegulse with two slight medial lines and 

 red-brown tips; dorsum of thorax red-brown; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with broAvn. the dorsal crests red-brown. Fore wing pale 

 rufous with some whitish above the dark marks on inner area ; the 

 costal area towards apex dark brown with some white points on it; 

 a faint lirown ."^treak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which 

 is highlv angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins, very indistinct except from submedian fold to vein 1, where 

 it is double ; an olilique dark brown fascia on medial ]>art of inner 

 margin : orbicular and reniform obsolete ; postmedial line o}>solete 

 exfei»t l)elow vein 2, where it forms two whitish lunules defined on 

 each side by brown ; a slipht brown streak above medial part of 

 vein 4 ; the terminal area towards tornus obliquely from vein 4 to 

 postmedial lunules dark brown with slight wliitisli streaks on it; cilia 

 brown at base intersected with white, greyish at tips. Hiud wing 



