THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 641 



1808. CUCULLIA NIGRIFASCIA. 

 1812. CUCULLIA PULLATA. 



1807. Cucullia elongata, Butl ; A. M. N. H. (5) vi., p. 67 (1880); id. 



111. Het. B. M. vi., p 11, pi. 103, f. 7. 

 „ albescens, Moore., P. Z. S., 1881, p. 357, Staud. Cat. Lep. 



Pal., p. 215. 

 „ atkinsoni, Moore., Lep. Atk., p. 131 (1882). 



„ postera, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi., p. 524 (1892). 



Habitat. — W. Siberia; E. Siberia; Tibet ; Kashmir ; Punjab; Sikhim. 



1810. CUCULLIA BREVIPENNIS. 



1811. CUCITLLIA STIGMATOPHORA. 

 1811 a. CUCULLIA BLATTARL3E. 



Noctua blattarice. Esp. Schmett. iv., pi. 154, f . 4 (1786) ; Frr. Brrit., 

 pi. 81. Herr. Schaff. Eur. Schmett. Noct., pp. 

 202-3. Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 215. 

 Cucullia canines. Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883., p. 19, pi. 1, f . 5 ; 

 Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii., p. 415, pi. 37, f. 2. 

 ,, scrophularivora Guen. Noct. ii, p. 130 (1852). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; palpi, two bars on frons 

 and back of head dark rufous ; tegulse with blackish line near base, traces of a 

 medial line and dark rufous tips ; patagia with some black scales 

 towards upper edge which is dark rufous ; thorax dorsally blackish ; 

 mid and hind tibise with black points at their extremities ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with red-brown, the crests dark. Forewing grey-white, more or 

 less suffused with rufous, leaving the inner half paler ; the costal area 

 darker ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double below submedian fold, angled strongly outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins, above inner margin angled out- 

 wards to the postmedial line, its outer part forming a black streak ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by some black points ; postmedial line 

 obsolescent, except below vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule defined 

 on each side by brown lines, and with a smaller lunule 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 termen below apex to vein 4, a prominent oblique streak below vein 2 

 with slight white and brown streaks below it; cilia blackish at base, 

 grey at tips and intersected with white. Hindwing white 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. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; Asia Minor Syria ; Kashmir. Exp. 

 44-52 mill. 

 Larva. — Kirby, Butt, and Moths, Eur. p. 255. 



