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obliquely from tei^men below apex to above vein 5, then subterminal, 

 a terminal series of small wedge-shaped black spots ; cilia palo 

 brown with fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia pure 

 white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



2 . Fore wing with the markings darker and stronger ; hind wing 

 browner. 



Ab. amoena. Darker ; fore wing brownish grey with the markings 

 less distinct. — Mongolia. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Saisan, Ala Tau ; E. Tukkestan-,. Kashgar,. 

 Thian Shfin, Korla ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; Tibet, Kuku-noor. 

 Exp., S 42, $ 46 millim. 



2096. Cucullia santonici, 



NocfAui sanfonici, Hiibn. Eui-. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 584, 585 (1827) ;■ Frr;. 



Neiie Beitr. iv. pi. 357 ; Dixp. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 407, pi. 125. f. 2 ; id. 



Suppl. iii. p. 398, pi. 3Ci. f. i. ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 

 Cucullia odorata, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 139 (1852). 



Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 with black bar above; tegulse with two black lines near base, two 

 slight medial lines and brown tips ; patagia with dark line near 

 upper edge; metathoracic crest black-tipped; tibi^ with black 

 streaks ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown towards extremity ,- 

 the dorsal crests dark. Pore wing violaceous white slightlv irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; a black 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; &ubbasal line represented by an' 

 oblique striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 strongly angled outwards in interspaces and very strongly inwards 

 on median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform defined above by a slight 

 dark streak, rarely completely defined ; orbicular and reniforni 

 defined hy black and with some brown in centres, the former rounds 

 or somewhat elongate elliptical and touching antemedial line ; 

 medial line represented by an oblique dark shade from costa to 

 reniform ; postmedial line irregularly waved, obsolescent except 

 towards costa and below vein 2, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 below vein 5 and strongly angled inwards in submedian fold, some- 

 white points beyond it on costa ; an oblique series of four dark 

 streaks from termen below apex, a short black streak above vein 4,. 

 and an oblique streak below vein 2 from termen to a black streak 

 in submedian fold beyond postmedian line ; a series of black striae 

 on termen. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with reddish brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated' 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. odorata. Larger, blue-grey ;: tegulse with one black line 

 at base. — Yalais. Alpes Maritimes. 



Hah. SwiTZERF and, Valais, Frey Coll. ; Italy, Alpes Maritimes; 

 Corsica, Leech Coll. ; S. RtrssiA.r ^feller, Frey, Leech, and Crowley 

 Colls. ; Armenia ; ? Asia Mixor^ Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul. 

 Exp. 44-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 258. 



