24 N0CTUID.15. 



b*. Abclomen with the dorsal crests large, 



thick, rufous convexipennis. 



h". Fore wing with the postmedial line fonniug 

 a pale liinule defined on each side by 

 I'uscoiis in siibniedian interspace, then a 

 smaller lunule above inner margin. 

 a^. Fore wing with grey sufFiision on the dark 

 costal area. 

 «■*. Hind wing nearly evenly suffused with 

 brown. 

 aJ\ Fore wing with slight dark streaks 



between orbicidar and reniforni stigmatophora. 



!>■'. Fore wing without dark streaks be- 

 tween orbicular and reniform. 

 fcA Fore wing with white suffusion in 

 subniedian interspace before post- 

 medial line scro2jhidarqjhaga. 



I/'. Fore wing with white patch in sub- 

 median interspace before postmedial 



line scrophularipMla. 



6*. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 

 area suffiised with brown. 

 o5. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey 



slightly tinged with ochreous hlaftarice. 



h^. Fore wing with the ground-colour 



ochreous suffused with whitish thapsiphaga. 



(.a Poj-e wing with tlie ground-colour white 

 slightly tinged with ochreous in and 



beyond cell anceps. 



dP. Fore wing with the ground-colour 

 ochreous with hardly any whitish 

 suffusion. 



' a^. Fore wing rather browner lychnitis. 



Ifi. Fore wing more ochreous scrophularicB. 



I?. Fore wing without grey suffusion on the 

 dark costal area. 

 «■*. Fore wing with the cilia strongly dentate, 

 the postmedial line with the lunule 



above inner uiai-gin shallow verhasci, 



h'*. Fore wing with the cilia slightly dentate, 

 the jjostmedial line with the lunule 



above inner margin deeper pirenanthis. 



ci. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 



absent orihac. 



2075, Cucullia magnifica. 



Koctua mac/nifca, Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 304. f. 3 (1839); Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. ii'i, p. 430, pi. 38. f. 2 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., INoct. ii, 

 p. 308, f. 191 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Cucullia scoptda, F. de Waldheim, Bull. Mosc. 1839, i. p. 115, pi. 4. f. 1. 



Head brown mixed with some white ; thorax pure white, tegulae 

 brown at base, the hood and metathoracic crests tipped with brown ; 

 legs tinged with brown ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous or 

 brown, the dorsal crests tipped with brown. Fore wing silvery 

 white, the base, inner margin, and costa from antemedial line to 

 near apex white, more or less tinged with brown ; a double waved 



