46 NocTtrrD.53. 



2111. Cuciillia extricata. (riato XCVIT. fig. 6.) 



Xylina extricata, Wlk. xi. 630 (1857). 



(S . Head and thorax pale reddish brown sometimes more or less 

 mixed with fuscous ; frons with blackish bar above ; tegulae with 

 two black lines near base and two faint medial lines ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; tibia3 with black streaks ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with pale reddish brown and dorsally with 

 some ochreous. Fore wing very pale reddish brown ; a slight 

 black streak in submedian fold to the very indistinct antemedial 

 line, which is highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform each represented by four 

 black points on their edges ; a slight oblique black bar from middle 

 of costa ; postmedial line represented by some black points on costa 

 and median nervules and by a whitish lunule in submedian inter- 

 space, with dentate black mark before it and oblique fascia from 

 beyond it to termen below vein 3 ; slight black streaks above vein -4 

 towards termen and on extremity of veins ; some fuscous suffusion 

 and pale points on termen towards apex ; a terminal series of black 

 striae. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



5 . Fore wing with the inner area from base to postmedial line 

 and to just above median nervure suffused with black. 



Hah. Natal {Gueinzius), 1 S , Durban [Leigh) 1 § ; Cape Colony, 

 2^,1$ type, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ , Transkei {Miss F. 

 Barrett), 3 $ , Knysna, 1 $ . Exp. 42-48 millim. 



2112. Cucullia virgaureae. 



Cumllia virgaitrem, Boiscl. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 154 (1840); Ev. Eull. 



Mosc. 1857, i. p. 66; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. •J,\b. 

 Cucullia dracunculi, Ev. Faun. Volg. et Ur. p. 304 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 194 (nee Hiibn.). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegula? with black line near base, two dark medial 

 lines and black tips ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen ochreous brown, the dorsal crests dark, the anal 

 tuft greyish. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with rufous especially 

 in and beyond cell, the costal and inner areas darker ; the veins 

 with fine dark streaks ; antemedial line almost obsolete except from 

 cell to inner margin, where it is very strongly angled outwards in 

 submedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 represented by four dark points on their edges, a curved streak 

 below end of cell representing lower edge of latter ; postmedial line 

 obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; a blackish 

 streak above middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak 

 below vein 2 ; some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; 

 a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal half darker; cilia whitish; the 

 underside with small discoidal spot. 



