36 NOCTUIDiE. 



the dorsal crests dark at tips. Fore wing wbitisTi suffused and 

 irrorated with reddish brown, the veins with slight dark streaks : 

 a black streak below basal half of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by two oblique striae from costa ; antemedial line double, formed by 

 short diffused streaks towards costa, strongly angled inwards on 

 median ncrvure and vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold, slightly 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform defined by black, 

 elongate and extending to postmedial line with slight dark streak 

 through centre ; orbicular and reniform with some red-brown 

 suffusion in centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical; postmedial line double towards costa, then 

 obsolescent, stronger below vein 2, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold, outwards above vein 1, then oblique to inner margin, some 

 whitish points bej^ond it on costa ; a series of black streaks in the 

 interspaces running obliquely from termen below apex to above 

 vein 4, slight streal^s from termen above veins 3 and 2 and an 

 oblique streak below vein 2 to a streak in submedian fold extending 

 to postmedial line ; a terminal series of black strife ; cilia brownish 

 white with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; 

 the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunulo. 



Hah. E, Turkestan, Kashgar ; Mongolia, Aksu ; W. China. 

 Exp. 44-46 millim. 



*2095. CuculUa duplicata. (Plate XCYI. fig. 31.) 



CucuUia duplicata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 47 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 216. 

 CucvXUa ammia, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 379, pi. 6. f. 17 (1899). 



cJ. Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with dark brown; frons 

 at middle and above and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae 

 with black line near base, two slight medial lines and black tips ; 

 metathoracic crest with black spots ; tibiae with slight black streaks ; 

 abdomen grey-white irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal crests 

 blackish. Fore wing bluish grey slightly irrorated with brown, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; a fine black streak below basal 

 half of cell ; subbasal line represented by two oblique stride from 

 costa, one in cell and one below cell ; antemedial line double, formed 

 by short rather diffused streaks from costa to median nervure, 

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

 then slightly angled outwards above inner ma,rgin ; claviform defined 

 by black, elongate, extending to postmedial line and with slight 

 dark streak through centre ; orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 annuli defined by black and some reddish-brown suff'usion in centres, 

 the former elongate elliptical ; postmedial line double at costa and 

 below vein 2, obsolescent between those points, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, angled outwards between veins 5, 4, inwards in 

 submedian fold and outwards just above vein 1, then oblique to 

 inner margin, some white and black striae beyond it on costa, and a 

 black streak in submedian fold from it to termen ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of rather diffused short brown streaks running 



