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2090. CucuUia artemisiae. 



Phdana artemisia, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 292 (1767); Knocli, Beitr. 



ii. p. 47, pi. 2. f. 10 ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 128. ff. 1-2; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 217. 

 Noctim ahrofani, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 166 (1787) ; Hiibn. Ear. Schmett., Noct. f. 257 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. yii. 



p. 416, pi. 12.5. f . 6 ; Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 320 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 83, 



pi. 239. f. 4. 

 CucuUia lindei, Heyne, Soc. Ent. xiv. p. 105 (1899). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with black 

 line near base followed by a grey band with fine dark line on it ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey, tinged with brown towards extremity, the 

 dorsal crests brown. Fore wing grey brown suffused in parts with 

 grey ; the veins and submedian fold with fine dark streaks 5 a small 



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Fig. 8. — CucuUia artemmcB, (j". 



whitish patch at base ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line highly waved, strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform represented by a dift'used white patch ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grej^ annuli defined 

 by black, the former erect elliptical, the latter very slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct medial line oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then dentate ; postmedial line dentate, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold 

 to reniform, oblique below vein 4 ; subfcerminal line represented by 

 diffused dentate brown marks, often with short black streaks on them 

 at middle, defined on inner side by diffused grey, and interrupted 

 by a diffused oblique grey fascia from apex ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. lindei. Much darker. — C. Russia. 



Hah. ? Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Spain, Aragon; 

 IS". LiALY ; Scandinavia; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; C. Russia, 

 Urals {Lederer) ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amur- 

 land, Ussuri. Exj). 36-44 millim. 

 Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 85. 



Green with darker segmental lines ; dorsal line slender, white ; 

 each somite with 8 red tubercles, except the anal somite which has 

 two ; the 2iid and 3rd somites with yellowish points ; lateral stripe 

 broad, yellow, interrupted ; spiracles white ringed with black ; head 



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