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and 2 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and terminal area fuscous ; cilia while. 



Hah. Cape Coloj^jv, Grahamstowu {Tuck), 1 5 type. E,i'p. 

 36 millim. 



2083, CucuUia maculosa. 



Cwullia maculosa. Stand. Stett. eat. Zeit. 1888, p. 2.59 ; id. Eom. Mem. 

 ■vi. ]}. 526, pi. 10. f. 4; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons 

 with blackish bar ; tegulas with blackish line near base and two 

 slight medial lines ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with brown. Pore wing purplish grey ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by an oblique striga from costa ; a fine dark streak in sub- 

 Imedian fold to the antemedial line, which is diffused towards costa 

 and slightly angled outwai'ds below costa and in cell, then fine and 

 very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards on 

 vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and in- 

 distinct grey annuli defined by fuscous, the former rounded, the 

 latter with two dark points in its lower part ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, with some fuscous before it below costa and a prominent 

 black spot in submedian fold, then angled outwards on vein 1, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area slightly 

 streaked with black ; a slight subterminal black streak above vein 4 

 and streak below vein 2 extending to termen, on brownish spots ; a 

 terminal series of black striae. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins 

 and terminal third suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the 

 costal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Raddefka, 1 5 . Exp. 44 millim. 



*2084. Cucullia mixta. 



Noctua viixta, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. "652. f. 3 (1812) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 2L5. 

 CucuUia consors, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1846, iii. p. 88, pi. 2. f. 4, & 1857 i 



p. 64. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white, the vertex of thorax suffused 

 with dark brown ; frons at middle and above and vertex of head 

 with blackish bars ; tegula3 with black line near base, two slight 

 brown medial lines and dark brown tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edge and edged with brown ; abdomen grey mixed 

 with brown, the dorsal crests dark at tips. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused with brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; a tine black 

 streak in submedian fold to below origin of vein 2 traversino- a 

 whitish fascia ; subbasal line represented by two minute black 

 streaks below costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 claviform very faintly defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform 

 rather small, with rufous centres and whitish annuli incompletely 

 defined by black, the former irregularly rounded, the latter 'with 



