CUCULLIA. 139 



costa, at middle, and below vein 2; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly streaked 

 with brown, more strongly in female. 



Hah. France, Ardeche ; HuNGAiiY,Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Tibet, Ivuku-noor, Amdo. Ea:p. 34-44 millim. 



Larva, llesembles that of 0. absinthli. Food-plant, Artemisia 

 camphorata. 



2099. CucuUia hemidiaphana. (Plate XCVI. fig. 32.) 



CiKullia hemidicvpliana, Grses. Beul. eut. Zeit. 1892, p. 313; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 216. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with black-brown; frons and 

 vertex of head with blackish bars ; tibiae slightly streaked with 

 black ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown, the crests 

 blackish at tips. Fore wing whitish slightly tinged with brown and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; a fine black streak below base of 

 cell ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique black striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line angled outwards in the interspaces, very . 

 strongly in submedian fold and inwards on the veins ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, with brownish centres and whitish annuli 

 slightly defined by black, the former round ; a blackish medial 

 shade ; postmedial line almost obsolete except below vein 2, where 

 it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area 

 finely streaked with black ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen 

 below apex to lower angle of cell ; an oblique subterminal black 

 streak below vein 2 ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown towards termen, in 

 female the terminal area tinged with brown. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Turcomania, Askabad, 1 $ , Alexander 

 Mts. 1 (5 , Issyk liul. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2100. Cucullia nigrifascia. (Plate XCVII. fig. 1.) 

 Ciwullia nigrifascia, Hmpsn. Motbs lud. ii. p. 239 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and dark brown ; 

 frons with black bar above ; tegulse with black line near base and 

 two light brown medial lines ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 whitish, irrorated and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous and the area 

 from end of cell to termen tinged with reddish brown ; the veins 

 slightly streaked with black ; a fine black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, the outer line strong, waved, 

 strongly dentate inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 hardly defined white annuli, the cell before and between them black, 

 the former round ; a very strong black medial shade, obliquely waved 



