cucuLLi.vl CARADRINIDAE 47 



with fore wings more elongate than usual; usually imitating 

 dead wood or fungus, the hood serving to conceal the bead, 

 Larva rather brightly coloured, feeding exposed on low 

 plants. 



1. Forewings with broad dark costal streak . . 2. 



without such streak . . .5. 



2. Forewings with cilia distinctly toothed . . 3. 



slightly waved . ~>. <isteris. 



3. Expanse 41 mm. or less, costal streak whitish- 



sprinkled . . .8. Jychnitis. 



,, 42 mm. or more, costal streak not 



whitish-sprinkled . . .4. 



4. Forewings with whitish subdorsal posterior suf- 



fusion, cilia more toothed . 7. verbasci. 

 without such suffusion, cilia less 



toothed . . 6. scrophulariae. 



5. Lines thickly blackish-edged . .1. almnthii. 



hardly marked . . . .6. 



6. Orbicular and reniform distinct . . 2. gnaphalii. 



obsolete . . .7. 



7. Forewings with fine dark bars in cilia on 



veins . . .3. chamominae. 



,, without such burs . . 4. unibratica. 



1. C. absinthii, L. 37-40 mm. Forewings pale brown, 

 clouded with whitish ; subb;isal line blackish-edged on costa ; 

 first and second lines irregular, thickly blackish-edged, second 

 obsolete in disc, median blackish on upper half; orbicular and 

 reniform indicated by several black dots; a terminal row of 

 black dots. Hindwings fuscous-whitish ; a suffused rather 

 dark fuscous terminal band. 



SW. Kn^Luid, Suffolk, Merioneth, E. Ireland, local; C. 

 Europe, NW. Asia; 6, 7. Larva pale yellow-green, dorsal ly 

 suffused w r ith purple-grey except at incisions ; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines pale green ; head and plate of 2 ochreous-grey : on 

 Artemisia absinthium ; 8, 9. 



[C. artemisiae, Hufn., has been recorded as British, but 

 apparently on doubtful grounds.] 



2. C. gnaphalii, IH>. .37-40 mm. Forewings fuscous, purple- 

 tinged, partially finely whitish -irrora ted ; base mixed with 

 light ochreous; veins finely dark fuscous; dorsum slenderly 

 blackish; first and second lines dentate, almost obsolete; 

 orbicular and reniform pale-edged, outlined with dark fuscous ; 

 one or two dark fuscous interneural streaks beyond reniform ; 



