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NOCTUID-E 



2088. CucuUia ciiieracea. 



Nodua civeracea, Frr. Neue Eeitf. iv. p. 110, pi. 852. f. 2 (1811); Herr.- 

 Sc'luiff. Eur. Schuiett., Noct. f. 196 ; Mill. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 119, 

 pi. 2. f. 1 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Cumdlia mixta, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 307 (nee Frr.). 



CucuUia defeda, Staud. Iris, x. p. 338, pi. 9. f. 27 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged 

 with pale red-brown ; tegulse with black medial line ; abdomen 

 yellow-brown, the anal tuft greyish, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Pore wing grey irrorated with black and tinged wilh pale red- 

 brown, the veins with fine black streaks ; a slight black streak in 

 subraedian fold to the antemedial line ; subbasal line represented by 

 double strise from costa ; antemedial line double, excurved in inter- 

 spaces and strongly dentate inwards on the veins ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black, elongate and extending to postmedial line; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black and with some black points in 

 centres, the former irregularly rounded ; postmedial line dentate, 

 obsolescent except below vein 2, where it is double and strongly 

 angled inwai-ds in subinediaii fold ; subterminal line represented 

 by an o])scure series of small dentate dark marks ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing white, tinged with reddish brown, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white. 



Ab. 1. defi'cta. Fore wing darker grey, the markings less dis- 

 tinct, — S.E. Siberia. 



Hah. France, Alpes Maritimes ; 11itssi.\, Urals, 1 ^ ; W. Tcfekes- 

 TAN, Issyk Kul ; E. Tukkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, Exp. 

 44 millim. 



2089. CucuUia maracandica. 



CucuUia maracandica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 39 ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 215. 

 CucuUia her^i, Alph. Iris, tI. p. 347 (1893) ; id. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 217, 



pi. 7. f. 7. 



S . Head and thorax dark blue-grey irrorated with white ; the 

 palpi, sides of frons, back of head, base of tegulte, and greater part 

 of pectus and legs ochreous, the tegulte with fine dark line before 

 middle ; the tarai bluish grey with fine ochreous rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with fuscous on dorsum. Fore wing deep blue- 

 grey irrorated with ochreous, the base suffused with ochreous ; the 

 antemedial line ochreous, angled inwards on the veins and outwards 

 in the interspaces ; orbicular and reniform moderate, defined by 

 ochreous, the former oblique elliptical : postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, then waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 subterminal line represented by traces of ochreous streaks ; cilia 

 ochreous with a dark line at base intersected by ochreous points. 

 Hind wing ochreous suft'uscd with fuscous, especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia whitish at base ; the underside whitish, slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, especially on terminal area, a slight discoidal lunule. 



JrJah. W. TuEKESTAN, Sarawschan ; Mongolia, Aksu, 2 6. Exp. 

 50-58 millim. 



