40 KOCTUID.!;, 



from costa to above vein 1, then angled inwards ; postmedial line 

 almost obsolete except at costa and inner margin, where it is defined 

 by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; a black streak 

 above vein 6 and short subterminal streaks above 4 and below 2 ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Punjab, Murree {Home), 2 (^ type, Simla (PilcJiei-), 1 $ . 

 Exj). 44-50 millim. 



2101. CncuUia retecta. (Plate XCVII. fig. 2.) 



Cucullia retecta, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 187, pi. ii. f. 10 (1901). 



Head and thorax pale purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 frons and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulse with prominent 

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

 with some black scales near upper edge which is brown ; dorsum of 

 thorax dark ; metathoraoic crest black ; tarsi brown ; abdomen 

 ochraceous white, the dorsal crests black, the anal tuft grey. Fore 

 wing pale purplish grey irrorated wilh brown, the veins with fine 

 black streaks ; a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 double, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian 

 fold, where it is angled, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 round with brown centre and whitish annulus defined by black ; a 

 prominent black medial 'shade, oblique from costa to vein 2, then 

 approximated to the postmedial line ; reniform rather indistinctly 

 defined and with brownish lunule in centre ; postmedial line obsolete 

 except belo'sv vein 2, angled outwards on vein 1 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; a fine black streak above vein 4 from reni- 

 form to middle, where it is met by a slight dark shade from termen 

 below apex ; a prominent oblique black streak below extremity of 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia pale brown 

 with a fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with ochreous especially on inner area, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; cilia white with brownish line at base ; the underside 

 whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal point. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 c^ , 1 § . Exp. 44 millim. Type f 

 S , 2 ill Coll. Piingeler. 



2102. Cucullia perforata. 



Cucullia perforata, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 54, pi. fi. f. 14 (1864) ; Oberth. 

 £t. Ent. X, p. 24, pi. 3. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulse with black line near base and two fine medial 

 brown lines ; abdomen yellowish grey irrorated with brown, the 

 dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated and suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by two oblique black striae 

 from costa : a black streak below the cell to the double black ante- 



