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near base ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale red-brown. Fore 

 wing red-brown suffused with grey ; subbasal line represented by 

 some dark scales below costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, dentate, very strongly angled outwards in subraedian fold 

 and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform small, approximated, 

 with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former 

 round ; postmedial line hardly traceable except in submedian inter- 

 space, where it is represented by a dark angulate mark with a 

 diffused pale patch before it; subterrainal line represented by some 

 obscure pale and brown streaks in the interspaces and by a curved 

 blackish mark in submedian interspace defined by whitish on inner 

 side ; some blackish striae on terraen. Hind wing with the basal 

 half pale tinged with yellow-brown, the terminal half deep red- 

 brown ; ciiia white with a brown line at base. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Bedford (Mansel Weale), 1 (^ , Deelfontein 

 (Slojfjett), 1 5 . E.vj). 36 millim. Type t in Coll. Urace. 



2087. Cucullia grseseri. (Plate XCYE. fig. 28.) 



Cucullia grms^eri, Pi'mg. Iris, xiv. p. 186, pi. iii. f. 9 (1901). 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown ; frons with 

 blackish bars at middle and above ; teguUe with blackish medial 

 line and slight line near tips ; metathorax with four small 

 blackish spots ; tibise with slight blackish streaks ; abdomen whitish 

 surt'used with red-brown, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the veins with slight dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line double, oblique and forming diffused black 

 spots towards costa, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, 

 outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin, obsolescent 

 below subraedian fold ; claviform slightly defined by brown, elon- 

 gate and extending to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with 

 reddish-brown centres and yellowish-white annuli defined by black, 

 the former irregularly rounded, open above ; postmedial line double 

 and forming diffused black spots towards costa and inner margin, 

 obsolescent between those points, oblique below vein 5, slightly 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1, some 

 whitish and black spots beyond it on costa ; a series of slight diffused 

 brown streaks running obliquely from termen below apex to above 

 vein 4 and slight diffused brown marks before termen above and 

 below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small somewhat dentate black 

 spots ; cilia whitish at base, pale brown at tips. Hind wing pale, 

 nearly uniformly suffused with reddish brown, the inner area rather 

 paler ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside white tinged with 

 brown, traces of a discoidal luuule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. MoNGOLrA, Aksu, 1 c? , type f cJ , $ in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Exp., J 42, $ 4f millim. 



