44 NocTtriD^. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France : Germany, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Trey and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Swit- 

 zerland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Spain, Bilbao ; N. Italy ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Bithynia ; 

 Persia ; W, Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai; 

 E. Turkestan, Kashgar, Hi ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. Exp. 54-60 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lej). p. 48 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi.p. 92, pi. 240. f. 2. 



Ochreous yellow or grey with numerous fine irregular raised 

 hlack markings ; head black ; thoracic shield black-brown. Food- 

 plants : SoncJms and Lactuca.. 8'9. 



*2108. CucuUia clarior. 



CucuUia clarior, Fuchs, Jalirb. Nass. Ver. Ivii. p. 31, pi. ii. f. 2 (1904). 



Differs from 0. umbratica in the foie wing being broader, bright 

 ash-grey with a bluish tinge thickly irrorated with white, the 

 streak below base of cell very faint. Hind wing dark grey, paler 

 in male, yellowish at base ; cilia of fore wing bright grey, of hind 

 wing pure white. Anteunse grey, whitish at base. 



Hab. S. llussiA, Sarepta ; C. Asia. E.V2^. 54 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



*2109. CucuUia anthemidis. 



CucuUia anthemidis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 140 (1852) ; Mill. Icoues, iii. pi. 145. 

 ff. 6-8 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; 

 frons and vertex of head with blackish bars ; tegulge with black 

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

 patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; vertex of thorax 

 suffused with brown, the metathorax with black spot ; abdomen 

 grey-white slightly tinged wdth brown, the dorsal crests blackish. 

 Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with brown especially on costal 

 area, the veins with slight dark streaks ; a slight dark streak in 

 submedian fold to below origin of vein 2 ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight oblique striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, very strongly angled outw^ards in the interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform only defined by faint 

 dark points on their margins ; postraedial line almost obsolete except 

 below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and 

 excurved above vein 1 ; slight black streaks above veins 4, 3 

 beyond angle of cell ; slight brown and white streaks before termen 

 above veins 6, 5, 4 ; a slight oblique black streak below extremity 

 of vein 2 ; some slight black lunules on termen towards apex and 

 strise towards tornus ; cilia brownish white. Hind wing white 

 slightly tinged with brown, the veins brown ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown except towards tornus ; cilia white with slight 

 brow^n line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white 

 with the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown. 



