30 NOCTUIDiE. 



some whitish on discocellulars ; postmedial line obsolescent except 

 below vein 2, where it is defined by whitish on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then with some white and black points on 

 the veins, angled inwards in submediau fold and outwards on 

 vein 1, some pale points bej'ond it on costa; a series of slight 

 diffused brown streaks running obliquely from termen below apex 

 to above vein 4, and slight subterminal streaks from above vein 3 

 to a blackish spot above tornus ; a terminal series of minute black 

 lunules ; cilia pale brown with a fine white line through them. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged or suffused with reddish brown, the veins 

 and terminal area darker ; cilia white slightly tinged with brown 

 at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a more or less 

 distinct dark discoidal luuule. 



Hah. ?Htjngaky; S. IIussia, Sarepta, Ural Mts. ; W. Tcjrkestan', 

 Issyk Kul ; E. Tukkestajst, Hi. Exp. 42 millim. 



2085. CucuUia consimilis. 



Cundlia consimilis, Fekl. Reis. Not. pi. 108. f. 52 (1874). 

 CucuUia pusilla, Moschl. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 296, pi. xvi. 

 f. 10 (1884). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; tegulse 

 with black line near base and two dark medial lines ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with yellow- 

 brown, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing grey-white suffused 

 and irrorated with dark brown ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa and cell; a slight 

 dark streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the outer line strong, dentate, and strongly angled 

 inwards on the veins; claviform moderate, incompletely defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, their centres 

 suffused with red-brown, the former round ; postmedial line obsolete 

 except at costa and below vein 2, Avhere it is angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold and to inner margin ; costa towards apex black with 

 pale points on it ; subterminal line only defined by a series of short 

 black streaks before it below costa and beyond it below vein 6 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, 

 the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Orange 11. Colony, Bloerafontein (Eclerslei/), 1 § ; Cape 

 Colony, Annshaw (Allss F. BarreU), 1 $ , Grahamstown, 1 $ , 

 Knysna {Trimen), Jiosmead, 2 d , Concordia {Alston), 1 cf . Exj). 

 30-38 millim. 



2086. CucuUia brunnea. (Plate XCVI. fig. 27.) 



CucuUia brunnea, Hmpsvi. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p 277 (1902). 

 Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegulse with dark line 



