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double crest ; tibite fringecT with long liair on outer side ; abdoineu with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, tlie apex joroduced, the 

 termen oblique ; veins 3 & 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Eancora). Antennre of n^ale strongly serrate, of female minutely 

 serrate. 



A. Thorax dorsally blackish ; patagia broadly edged with 



black above strigata. 



B. Thorax dorsally dark brown ; patagia narrowly edged 



with brown above serraticornis.- 



C. Thorax dorsally grey brucei. 



2069. CucuUia strigata. (Plate XCVI. fig. 21.) 



Rancora strigaia, Smith, Ent. News, iii. p. 253, pi. x. f. 1 (1892) ; id. 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 83 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 173. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with grey-brown ; tegul£e with 

 black line near base, traces of a medial line and blackish tips ; 

 upper edge of patagia and dorsum of thorax blackish ; abdomen 

 dark brown slightly mixed with grey, the dorsal crests blackish. 

 Fore wing dark purplish grey slightly snifused with fuscous; a 

 black streak in snbmediau fold to the antemedial line which is 

 indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform very small, indistinctly and 

 incompletely defined by black, the former rather elongate elliptical 

 and connected with the antemedial line by slight streaks, the latter 

 with minute black lunule beyond it ; postmedial line represented 

 by a series of indistinct, minute, dentate blackish marks connected 

 by traces of a waved line, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; a black streak above basal part of vein 4 with oblique 

 series of streaks from its extremity to termen below apex ; a streak 

 above extremity of vein 3 and oblique streak below vein 2, with 

 traces of shorter streaks above and below it ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 veins and terminal area suft'used with fuscous ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a black streak in 

 cell and small discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Canaba, Br. Columbia, Victoria ; U.S.A., Washington,. 

 Almota {Pvper), 1 S . Exp. 52 millim. 



2070. Cucullia serraticornis. 



CiicuUla serraticorms, Lintn. Ent. Gout. iii. p. 174 (1874) ; Grote, Check- 

 List, pi. i. f. 10 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N . Am. p. 238. 

 CucuUia matricaricB, Behr. Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 94 (1874). 



(S . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 frons with black bar; teguke with black line near base, two dark 

 medial lines and dark tips ; dorsum of thorax and upper edge of 



