42 ifocTuiD.Ti:. 



Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Tssyk Kul ; W. Sibekia, Altai ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 36-44 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 47 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 82, pi. 239. f. 3. 



Pale yellow-green dorsally suffused with purple-grey except at 

 incisions ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale green ; head and thoracic 

 shield ochreous grey. Food plant, Artemisia absinthium. 8*9. 



2104. Cuciillia clausa. (Plate XCVII. fig. 3.) 



Cticullia clausa, Wlk. xi. 657 (1857). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; tegulte 

 with black line near base and two slight medial lines. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with brown, leaving some whitish below base and 

 extremity of cell and slight streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; 

 subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line ill-defined, dentate, interrupted ; orbicular and 

 reniform whitish defined by black points on their edges and 

 with a blackish patch between them from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line obsolete except at costa and below vein 2, 

 where it is oblique waved ; subterminal line obsolete, a terminal 

 series of small black spots. Hind wing whitish, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Ignotus, 1 S , type. Exp. 32 millim. Probably from 

 S. Africa. 



2105. CucuUia rufescens, n. sp. (Plate XCYII. fig. 4.) 



(5 . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; tegulse with brown 

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

 with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous white 

 dorsally suffused with red-brown. Pore wing grey, irrorated and 

 suffused with red-brown especially on basal and costal areas ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two oblique strife from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, dentate, highly angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular defined by 

 lour brown points and with its centre' incompletely defined by 

 brown ; reniform with some brown points on its inner edge, its 

 centre incompletely defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinct 

 and bent outwards below costa, below vein 4 represented by double 

 points on the veins and below vein 2 by a double Avaved oblique 

 line, some pale points beyond it on costa : the veins towards apex 

 streaked with black ; traces of an irregular subterminal line ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and a terminal line brown. 



Hah. Er. E. Aeeica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 cT type. Ex2J. 42 

 millim. 



2106. Cucullia perstriata, n. sp, (Plate XCVII. fig. 5.) 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with blackish bar ; 

 tegulse with their bases brown bounded by a black line, two slight 



