48 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular 

 represented by black points before and beyond it ; reniform with 

 very indistinct dark points on its edges ; postmedial line obsolete 

 on costal half, oblique, dentate below vein 4 ; sometimes connected 

 with antemedjal line in submedian fold ; the interspaces of terminal 

 area with pale streaks defined on each side by brown streaks, an 

 oblique black streak below vein 2 ; cilia grey intersected with black 

 at the veins. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal half 

 brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. chrysanthemi. Fore wing largely suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 2. calendulce. Fore wing greyer and less strongly marked. 



Ab. 3. lencaniJiemi. Fore wing with a slight yellowish tinge. — 

 Andalusia. 



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

 Colls. ; ArsTRiA, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain, Andalusia ; 

 Corsica ; Italy, Leech Coll. ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Morocco 

 (Meade- Waldo), 2 J ; Canaries ; Madeira ; Scandinavia ; Russia, 

 Zeller Coll., Livonia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Pontus, Lydia ; Syria ; 

 Egypt ; W. Turkestan, Turcomauia, Samarkand (ffaberhauer), 2 $ , 

 Sarawschan. Ea^p. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 88, pi. 240. f. 1. 



Pale yellow-green with a purplish-pink band on each segment ; 

 a subdorsal series of oblique olive-green marks ; lateral and 

 spiracular lines irregular, olive-green, interrupted ; head yellow- 

 green. Food-plants : Ptjrethram and Anthemls. 6-7. 



2115. Cucullia terrensis. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 21.) 



CuculUa terrensis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 53 (1874). 

 Cucullia, africana, Auriv. CEtV. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 59 (1879). 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with black 

 bar above ; tegulse with black line near base, two slight medial lines 

 and fuscous tips ; abdomen pale grey suffused with brown towards 

 extremity and with the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing blue-grey, 

 more or less irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; the veins 

 with fine dark streaks ; a slight black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa and 

 two slight streaks in base of cell ; antemedial line double, dentate, 

 very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner 

 margin and inwards on vein 1 ; elaviform represented by two slight 

 streaks ; orbicular defined by four black points ; reniform incom- 

 pletely defined by black points and stria? ; a more or less prominent 

 dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell and 

 obscuring part of the reniform ; postmedial line double at costa and 

 below vein 2, obsolescent between these points, waved, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight 

 somewhat dentate black marks in the interspaces ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunulcs. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 



