2S 



NOCTUlDiE. 



20S]. Cucullia fraudatrix. 



CuciiUla framlafrix, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, vi. ^. 43 ; Frr. Beitr. v. pi. 388. 



f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 

 CucuUia pontica, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 153 (1840). 

 Cuc'ullia jnjrethri, Ferr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 310, Noct.. f. 183 (1845). 



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

 dark medial line and tips; abdomen greyish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing grey-brown, the base of costal area suffused with whitisli : 

 a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line black defined 

 by whitish on inner side, oblique from costa to snbmedian fold, 

 then acutely angled inwards on vein 1, some white suffusion 

 beyond it running obliquely from costa to submedian fold and 

 embracing the orbicular which is oblique quadrate defined by black 

 at sides; an oblique blackish shade from costa before the reniform, 

 which is very large, whitish slightly defined by brown, its lower 

 extremity angled outwards : postmedial line indistinct, oblique, 

 Avaved, from reniform to submedian fold, obsolete towards costa ; 

 subterminal line diflJ'used whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 middle, with prominent black streaks before it below costa and 

 crossing it above vein 4 and below 2 ; a fine dark terminal line with 

 some whitish before it. Hird wing whitish, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; the underside white, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Ilah. GEF.MA]srY, ZelJer and Leech Colls.; Hukgary ; EirssiA, 

 Livonia, Ukraine {Doivler) ; Galitzia : Khmelja ; W. TupavESTAN, 

 Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, AHai; E. Tukeestan, Hi; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, Ussuri. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Greyish irrorated and striated with brown ; subdorsal 

 brown stripes : a lateral series of oblique brown stiipes on abdo- 

 minal somites ; a fine waved brown sublateral line; head with the 

 hemispheres marbled with red-brown. Food- plant, Artemisia. 



2082. Ciicullia leucopis, n. sp. (Plate XCVI. fig. 26.) 



5 . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ; frons 

 with black bar above ; tegu]a3 with black line near base and slight 

 medial line ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous, the dorsal crests black-tipped. Fore wing violaceous 

 grey slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line strong, double, 

 waved ; claviform defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform pale grey defined by black, the former with central dark 

 point, round, incompletely defined above and below, the latter with 

 two dark points in centre; a waved medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, waved, bent outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, grey, irregular, with small dentate black 

 marks before it below costa and beyond it above and below veins 5 



