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area sufTased witli fuscous especially in female ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 

 Hah. German S.W. Apktca, Damaraland, ty])e t $ africana, in 

 Muf. Stockholm ; Natal, Durban (Leigh), 1 2 ! Cape Colont, Cape- 

 town (Lightfoot), 1 c?, 1 o. Mvj). 44-49 millim. 



2116. CucuUia dentilinea. (Plate XCVII. fig. 8.) 



Xi/lina dentilinea, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. See. vii. p. 229 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 169. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and black ; 

 abdomen yellowish brown, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins streaked with 

 black ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by a dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, the outer line strong, dentate, very strongly angled outwards 

 in submedian fold ; orbicular dehned by two points above and a 

 short streak below, the reniform by short streaks above and below 

 and. points on outer side ; postmedial line indistinct from costa to 

 vein 2, then prominent, bent outwards below costa, obliquely waved 

 to vein 2, angled inwards in submedian fold and excurved at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line represented by some slight black marks ; short 

 streaks in interspaces of terminal area above and below vein 6, 

 above vein 3, and an oblique streak across extremity of vein 2 ; 

 some slight terminal lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal 

 and terminal areas more or less strongly suffused with fuscous; 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside whiter. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 1 5 , Arizona, Gila Co., Pinal Mts. 

 (Kunze), 1 $ • Exjd. 34-38 millim. 



2117. CucuUia boryphora. 



Curullia horyplwra, F. de Waldh. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1840, p. 85, pi. 3. f. 3 ; 



Herr.-Scbaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 508 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 216. 

 CucuUia lignafa, Guen. Ind. Meth. p. 246 (1841). 

 CucuUia rimula, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. p. 110, pi. 352. f. 1 (1842). 



S . Fore wing whitish mixed with grey ; frons with blackish 

 bar above ; tegulas with black line near base, slight medial line and 

 line near tips ; abdomen white irrorated with grey, the dorsal crests 

 dark. Fore wing white irrorated and suffused with grey-brown ; 

 a black streak in submedian fold becoming fine beyond middle ; a 

 slight black streak in cell forking towards extremity; traces of a 

 highly dentate antemedial line ; postmedial line only traceable 

 below vein 2, where it is defined by white on outer side, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; the veins of 

 terminal area blackish slightly defined by white ; slight black 

 streaks above veins 6, 5, 4, increasing in length inferiorly, and a 

 more prominent oblique streak below vein 2 ; a terminal series of 

 black marks. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged 

 with fuscous. 



