48 CARADRININA [CUCULLIA 



a dark fuscous terminal dash above torous. Hindwings fus- 

 cous, darker posteriorly. 



Kent, Sussex, scarce and local ; C. Europe, NW. Asia ; 6. 

 Larva bright green ; dorsal stripe broad, purplish-brown, darker- 

 marked ; spiracles yellow, placed in purple-reddish marks ; 

 head bluish-green : on Solidago and Artemisia ; 8, 9. 



3. 0. chamomillae, Schiff. 42-45 mm. Forewings pale ashy- 

 brownish, with obscure paler or whitish interneural streaks 

 posteriorly ; veins marked by fine blackish lines ; fine black 

 interneural streaks in middle posteriorly and towards tornus ; 

 cilia cut by fine dark bars on veins. Hindwings light fuscous, 

 in $ whitish-tinged anteriorly. 



Britain to Fife, Ireland, local ; C. and S. Europe, Asia 

 Minor, Syria; 4, 5. Larva pale yellow-green, with purplish- 

 rosy band on each segment ; subdorsal series of oblique olive- 

 green marks ; lateral and spiracular lines irregular, olive-green, 

 interrupted ; head yellow-green : on Pyrethrum and Anthemis ; 

 6,7. 



4. 0. umbratica, L. 40-52 mm. Differs from C. chamomillae 

 as follows : forewings without dark bars in cilia ; hindwings in 



$ more or less wholly, in $ anteriorly whitish-suffused. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; N., C., and SE. Europe, 

 Asia Minor ; 6. Larva ochreous-yellow or grey, with numerous 

 fine irregular raised blackish markings ; head black ; plate of 2 

 black-brown : on Sonchus arid Lactuca ; 8, 9. 



5. C. asteris, Schiff. 42-45 mm. Forewings pale brown, 

 whitish-sprinkled ; costa broadly suffused with reddish-fuscous ; 

 a narrow dorsal streak and tornal blotch reddish-fuscous streaked 

 with blackish, blotch including a whitish crescentic mark near 

 anterior edge ; orbicular and reniform partly outlined with dark 

 fuscous ; cilia slightly waved. Hindwings whitish-fuscous ; a 

 fuscous terminal band. 



5. England to Hereford and Norfolk, Lancashire, Westmore- 

 land, local ; C. Europe, NW. Asia ; 6. Larva pale yellow-green 

 or purplish- rosy ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines yellow, 

 black-edged, subdorsal sometimes greenish ; head pale yellow or 

 rosy, black-speckled : on Solidago and Aster ; 8, 9. 



6. C. scrophulariae, Gap. 42-46 mm. Forewings pale 

 ochreous or ochreous-brownish ; a rather broad dark fuscous 

 costal streak, suffused with reddish-brown beneath, with two 

 whitish costal dots posteriorly; a reddish-brown gradually 

 dilated dorsal streak from near base, streaked with dark 

 fuscous and on tornus with whitish -ochreous, cut by waved 



