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2079. Cucullia fuclisiana. 



CucuUia fuchdana, Ev. Bull. Moso. 1842, iii. p. 552, pi. 5. f. 6 ; Dup. Lep. 

 Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 229. pi. 70. f. 2; Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmet.t. ii. 

 p. 308, Noct. f. 192 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; teguife with dark 

 medial line ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with brown ; a white fascia below basal half 

 of cell with a black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black point below costa ; aiitemedial line diffused, 

 dentate ; claviform large, defined by black, a white patch beyond 

 its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white 

 annuli defined by black, the former rather irregularly rounded, the 

 latter with its lower extremity produced ; postmcdial line obsolete 

 on costal area, obli(]ue, Avaved from i^eniform to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line diffused, white with slight black streaks before it 

 below costa and beyoiid it above vein 4 and below 2, running 

 obliquely to apex and interrupted at vein 5 by an oblique brown 

 shade from termen below apex; a terminal black line towards 

 tornus preceded by some white. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside with slight 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. Russia, Urals, 1 J , Zeller Coll.; W. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, 

 Kuku-noor : E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 34 millim. 



2080. Cucullia mandschuriae. 



Cucidlia inandschuri(B, Obertb. Et. Ent. x. p. 23, pi. 3. f. 4 (1884) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown ; teguliie 

 with indistinct brown lines near base and at middle ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- 

 brown, the end of cell and postmedial area suffused with red-brown ; 

 a prominent black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular represented by a brown mark with curved 

 M'hite mark forming its upper edge and a white streak below it 

 connected with the reniform, which has a dark brown centre and 

 very incomplete whitish annulus slightly defined by brown ; an 

 oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, whitish, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa and at veins 5 and 1 ; subterminal line whitish, defined on 

 costal area by a dark shade on its inner side with pale points on 

 costa and slightly by brown on outer side, slightly angled outwards 

 at veins 7 and 5, with short Waek streaks before it above vein 6 and 

 beyond it above 4 and below 2 ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 brown. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white ; the underside with the basal half whiter, a 

 small discoidal spot. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Sidemi, 1 c? , 1 5 . Exp. 42 millim. 



