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NOCTUIDvE. 



2068. Cheligalea scopariae. 



Cucullia scojxiritp, Dorfm. Verb, zool.-bot. Wien, 1853, p. 413 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Neue Schmett. p. 11, f. 75 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax brown and grey ; tegulse with white medial 

 band edged with black ; metathoracic crests tipped with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface 





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Fig. 5. — Cheligalca scoparlm, S • \- 



whitish. Fore wing pale brown ; the basal costal area suffused 

 with white ; the subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; the inner medial area suffused with white ; orbicular 

 and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter with the annulus indistinct ; 

 a diffused black medial shade from costa to median nervure, then 

 a slight waved line ; postmedial line M'aved, bent outwards below 

 costa and incurved below vein 4, with slight black streak beyond it 

 above vein 4 ; subterminal line diflused whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and middle with slight black streaks before it below 

 costa and beyond it below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules with some whitish before them. Hind wing yellowish, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. AusTEiA, Zeller, Prey and Leech Colls. ; Hijngaey ; Styeia, 

 Leech Coll.; S. Russia; Aemenia ; W. Siberia?; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, Crowley Coll. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Bntt. and Moths Enr. p. 259. 



lleddish brown or brownish green ; dorsal line pale ; oblique 

 lateral pale red streaks ; a broad white lateral fascia. Food-plant, 

 Artemisia sco^jaria. 



Genus CUCULLIA. 



Type. 



Cucullia, Scbi-ank, Faun. Boica, ii. (2) p. 157 (1802) artcmisim. 



Eudercea, Iliibn. Verz. p. 245 (1827) aster is. 



Evcalimia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 245 ( 1 827) gnaphaUi. 



(JcMcenia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 246 (1827) uonhratica. 



Arqyrifis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 (1827) artemisix. 



Ilancora, Smith, Ent. News. iii. p. 253 (1892) ; id. Trans. Am. 



Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 83 (1894) strigata. 



Trihoiiophora, Hiibn. Tent, ined , , umbratica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair on both 

 sides; frons with slight rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded; antenna? 

 typically almost simple in both sexes; head and thorax clothed witli hair and 

 hair-like scales, the tegulae produced behind to a hood, the metathorax with 



