38 NOCTtriDiE. 



White with a dorsal series of dull green angulate marks open 

 above and adjoining faint red spots ; lateral stripes dull green. 

 Food-plants : Chamomile, Artemisia. 7. 



*2097. Cucullia alpheraci. 



Cundlia alj^hcra/,.-?/}, SUiucl. Iris, ix. p. 371, pi. 4. f. 5 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax blue-grey tinged with brown, the latter with 

 black dorsal streak on metathorax ; abdomen with the crests 

 blackish. Pore wing bright blue-grey ; a brown shade before the 

 antemedial line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, oblique 

 and slightly waved from costa to submedian fold, where it is acutely 

 angled, then very oblique to inner margin ; a slight black streak on 

 middle of inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniforra 

 wath brownish centres and slight pale annuli defined by black, the 

 former erect elliptical, rather narrow, the latter somewhat angled 

 inwards on median nervure and with pale lunule in centre ; a 

 medial shade from costa to median nervure and a brown shade before 

 the postmedial line, which is indistinct except below vein 2, bent 

 outwards below costa, and forming a double lunule with pale centre 

 in submedian interspace ; short dark streaks in the interspaces of 

 terminal area above veins 6 and 4 and below 2 ; a terminal series 

 of slight black lunules ; cilia greyish. Hind wing dark grey-brown, 

 the basal half paler ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the veins and terminal area dark brown. 



Mab. Mongolia, Urga. Exj^. 38 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



2098. Cucullia formosa. 



Cucullia formoia, Eglifr. Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1860, p. 775; Friv. 

 .Jell. pi. 7. f. 4 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 98. f. ii. ; fcltaud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 217. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous; frons and 

 vertex of head with black bars ; tegula3 with black line near base 

 and brown tips; metathoracic crests black; abdomen whitish 

 irrorated with brown towards extremity, the dorsal crests black. 

 Fore wing violaceous white slightly tinged in parts with brown ; 

 the subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; 

 a black streak below base of cell to the double irregular antemedial 

 line, which is angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish 

 annuli defined by black, the former rather small, round, the latter 

 incompletely defined; a strong black medial shade; postmedial 

 line double, minutely waved, almost obsolete between veins 7 and 4, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some grey 

 points on costa beyond it : the veins of terminal area finely streaked 

 with black, the interspaces viith iri'cgular brown streaks below 



