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brown subbasal line from costa to submcdian fold ; a double, some- 

 what waved olive-brown antemedial line, incurved from below costa to 

 vein 1, then stronglj' angled outwards : a brown and whitish medial 

 band, edged by brown lines in cell, angled outwards to lower angle 

 of cell, then with waved brown line on its inner side and the post- 

 medial line on outer represented by a brown mark below costa, a 

 point below vein 4 and a double irregularly-waved line tilled in with, 

 white from vein 3 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black points 

 and more prominent spot below vein 2. Hind wing white, with 

 some small dark lunules on termen from apex to vein 2. 



hah. Austria; S. ]Iussia, Barepta, Zcller and Leech Colls., Urals; 

 W. Ttjkkestan, Issyk Kul, Tarbagatai. Exj;). 44-48 millim. 



2076. Cucullia jancousci. 



GucuUia jankowskii, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 23, pi. 3. f. 2 (1884) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head brown mixed with some white ; thorax white tinged with 

 brown, the base of tegulaj and metathoracic crests at tips dark 

 brown ; abdomen white dorsallj^ tinged with ochreous, the crests 

 tipped with brown. Fore wing white, more or less completely 

 suttused with brown ; subbasal line represented by a blackish striga 

 below the cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown filled in 

 wdth white, irregularly w^aved and prominently defined by black on 

 outer side from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; a large silver}— white 

 patch in and below cell, defined on outer side in cell by two black 

 points ; reniform large, with brown centre and white annulu.s 

 defined by black, slightly angled inwards on median nervure and 

 with some blackish suffusion beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, the inner line prominent, bent outwards below costa, angled 

 inwards in discal fold, oblique and waved below vein 4, some white 

 points on costa beyond it ; a diffused oblique white subterminal 

 line, slightly angled inwards in discal and submedian folds; a 

 minutely waved white terminal band with series of small black 

 lunules on it. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged wath 

 brown. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 3 J , 1 5 ? Leech and Crowley Colls., 

 Ussuri, Ex]). 36-4IJ millim. 



2077. Cucullia spectabilis. 



Nocf,ua spectabilis, Hiibn. Eur. Scluuett., Noct. f. 557 (1827) ; Diip. Lep. 

 El-, vii. p. 413, pi. 125. t. .^ ; llerr.-Schaft'. Schiuelt. Eur. ii. p. 3u7, 

 Koet. f. 193 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax clothed with brown and grey hair ; tegulse with 

 blackish medial line ; abdomen brown and grej', the dorsal crests 

 darker. Fore wing ochreous, brown, and fuscous mixed, the inner 

 medial and postmedial areas grey suffused ■\vith white ; subbasal 



