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2 . Fore wing with slight white patch in suhmedian interspace 

 before postmedial line ; hind wing with the terminal area broadly 

 suffused with fuscous brown. 



JTab. S.E. France, Digne, in Coll. Piingeler. E^vj^. 40-46 millim. 



This may be a local form of C. dracunculi. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 256 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 128, pi. 34. 

 f. 4. 



Pale violet-grey ; dorsal and subdorsal lines double, edged 

 with black ; lateral line dull white. Food-plant, Aster acris. 

 9, 10. 



*2110. Cucullia linosyridis. 



CucuUia linosyridis, Fuchs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 83 (1903) ; Fuchs, jun., 

 Jahrb. Nass. Ver. 1904, p. 32, pi. ii. ff. 3, 4, 12. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 at middle and above and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulre 

 with black line near base, two slight medial brown lines and brown 

 tips; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; vertex of 

 thorax with blackish fascia ; tibia3 with slight black streaks ; 

 abdomen grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal 

 crests blackish ; male with protrusible tui'ts of long rufous hair 

 from lateral stigmata. Fore wing purplish grey, the costal area 

 suffused with fuscous brown except towards base, the end of cell 

 tinged with rufous, the veins with slight black streaks ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, verj^ strongly angled outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by slight dark points on their margins, the latter with slight 

 curved line below it ; postmedial line almost obsolete except below 

 vein 2, where it is indistinctly double, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold and excurved just above vein 1 ; a slight blackish streak 

 beyond the cell above vein 4 ; slight whitish and dark streaks in 

 the interspaces before termen and a slight oblique black streak 

 below extremity of vein 2 ; the termen with slight black lunules 

 towards apex and striae towards tornus ; cilia brownish grey with 

 slight dark line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins brown, the terminal area broadly suffused 

 with brown ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the veins 

 fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a slight discoidal 

 point. 



Hah. W. Germany, Wiesbaden, St. Goarschansen,in Coll. Piingeler; 

 S. Russia, Sarepta. Exi^. 46 millim. 



This may be a local form of C. dracunculi. 



Larva. Erownish grey, the sides pale ; dorsal stripe pale, sub- 

 dorsal stripes dark grey. Food-plant, Linosyris vulgaris. 8, 9. 



