34 NOCTUIDiE. 



brown, blackish bebind and with pale-edged frontal triangle ; 

 ventral surface pale green with two slender green lines which are 

 red-brown on 3rd and 4th somites. Food-plants : Artemisia cam- 

 pestris, ahrotanum, and absynthium. 



Pupa. Yellowish with the front greenish. 



2091. Cucullia propinqua. 



Cucullia fropinqioa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, p, 553, pi. 5. f . 7 ; Frr. Beitr. 

 Ti. pi. 508. f. 2 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 307, Noct. f. 187 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some black ; frons 

 and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae with black medial line 

 and rufoias tips ; metath-oraeic crest tipped with rufous ; abdomen 

 grey, the dorsal crests tipped with black, the ventral surface 

 whitish, irrorated with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 Avith fuscous and tinged in parts with rufous ; the basal area 

 whitish down to the slight dark streak in submedian fold ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two black points on costa and one below 

 costa ; antemedia;l line double, strongly angled outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins, a violaceous-white patch 

 beyond it between submedian fold and inner margin ; orbicular 

 with rufous centre with dark points on it and white annulus defined 

 by black, erect elliptical : reniform reddish brown with ill-defined 

 grey annulus ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, indistinct to vein 2, then prominent and white ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by violaceous- white suffusion on its inner 

 side and by short black streaks beyond it below veins 5 and 2 ; the 

 veins slightly streaked with black towards termen ; a terminal series 

 of black striae. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 terminal area darker ; cilia white ; the underside paler with dark 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. EussiA, Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Sjbeeia, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 d , 1 $ , Ussuri. Exp., c? 36, $ 40 

 millim. 



2092. Cucullia generosa. (Plate XCVI. fig. 29.) 



Cucullia generosa, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 51 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 216. 



c? . Head and thorax grey- white ; palpi at sides and lower part 

 of frons red-brown ; frons and vertex of head with blackish bars ; 

 tegular with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown 

 line near tips ; patagia edged with red-brown, dorsum of thorax 

 red-brown ; tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 red-brown. Fore wing pale greyish with a violaceous tinge, the 

 costal area, cell, and an oblique shade from termen below apex to 

 below end of cell reddish brown ; a prominent black streak below 

 base of cell ; the veins finely streaked with black ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins, very highly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 



