inner margin, where it forms a black streak connected with the 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former erect elliptical, the 

 latter with its outer side open above vein 5 ; postmedial line 

 represented by an oblique striga from costa, obsolete to vein 2, then 

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

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; an oblique series of black 

 streaks on a brown shade from termen below apex to lower angle 

 of cell, an oVdique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; a terminal 

 series of black striae ; cilia pale rufous with a fine white line 

 through them. Hind wing yellowish brown tinged with fuscous ; 

 cilia white; the underside whitish irrorated with brown; the veins 

 brown, those bounding the cell darker, a dark streak in cell. 

 Hah. E. Turkestan", Kashgar, Kizil, 1 cJ . Exp. 46 millim. 



*2093. Cucullia emholima. (Plate XCVI. fig. 30.) 



CucuUia embolima, Pling. Iris, xix. p. 96 (1906). 



Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; vertex of head with some 

 fuscous hair; tegulte with black line near base; tibiae with slight 

 dark streaks ; abdomen reddish brown, the base greyish, the dorsal 

 crests blackish at tips. Eore wing brownish grej^ suffused with 

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

 basal half of submedian fold ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, single, rather strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former 

 rather elongate elliptical, the latter somewhat angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, where it is angled outwards, then 

 inwardly oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a slight 

 dark streak above vein 4 beyond the cell ; a short oblique dark 

 streak below vein 4 towards termen ; a terminal series of minute 

 black lunules, the one above vein 3 sometimes forming a slight 

 streak ; cilia greyish with two slight brown lines through them. 

 Hind wing uniform rather pale reddish brown : cilia whitish with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside pale tinged and finely 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type t J', § in Coll. Piingeler. Exp., 

 S 42, $ 44 millim. 



*2094. Cucullia umbristiga. 



Cucullia umhristiga, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 452 (1892); id. 

 Rom. Mem. ix. p. 37, pi. 3. f. 7; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 



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

 middle and above and vertex of head with blackish bars ; tegulae 

 with two black lines near base and two brown lines near tips ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tibiae with blackish 

 streaks ; abdomen gi'ey-white suffused and irrorated with brown, 



