CUCULLIA. 



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with, brown ; cilia white ; the underside grey strongly irrorated 

 with brown, a black streak in cell connected wilh a black diseoidal 

 lunnle. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 $. Exp. 52 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male minutely serrate. 



A. Fore wing grey siifFusecl with brown solidaginis. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey alhicinerea. 



C. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish white alhida. 



2072. Cucullia solidaginis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 23.) 



CiKnllia solidarjinis, Behr. Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 91 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 239. 



Head and thorax purplish grey largely mixed with dark brown ; 

 frons with blackish bar ; tegulae with black line near base, two 

 slight medial lines and dark tips ; doi'sum of thorax dark brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown slightly irrorated with grey. Fore wing 

 purple-grey thickly irrorated and suffused with dark broAvn ; the 

 veins streaked with black ; a black streak in submedian fold, promi- 

 nent to the antemedial line which is strongly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ; 

 two slight streaks in end of cell; postmedial line obsolete to vein 2, 

 then oblique and angled outwards on vein I ; a black streak above 

 vein 4, with slight streaks between its extremity and termen below 

 apex ; slight streaks above extremities of veins 3 and 2 and an 

 oblique streak below vein 2. Hind wing pale, almost wholly 

 suffused with brown, the cilia white with slight brown line at base; 

 the underside whitish irrorated wdth brown, a black streak in cell 

 and slight diseoidal lunule. 



Hob. Canad.!, Br. Columbia, Osoyoos, 1 S ; U.S.A., S. California, 

 1 5 . Exj). 50 millim. 



2073. Cucullia albicinerea. 



Eancora alhicinerea, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 137 (1903). 



Head and thorax bluish white mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegute with black line near base, traces of two medial 



Fig. 7. — Cucullia alhicinerea, r?. \. 



lines and blackish tips ; dorsum of thorax blackish ; abdomen dark 

 brown irrorated with grey, or bluish white irrorated with brown, 



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