60 jsrocTXJiD.^. 



2 . Abdomer) with the anal segment edged with red-brown 

 below ; hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. S, Russia ; Aemenia ; Asia Minok, Konia ; Peksia ; "W. 

 TuKKESTAN, Turcomauia, Askabad, 1 c? , 1 $ , Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; 

 E. TuEKESTAN, Hi. E'.rp. 36 millim. 



*2118. Cuciillia achillese. 



Cucullia achillece, Gruen. Noct. ii. p. 139 (1852); Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And. 

 pi. 10. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 



Head and thorax grey-white ; tegulse with fine black lines at 

 middle and tips ; abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey-white with a 

 faint bluish tinge ; the veins with dark streaks ; a black streak 

 below base of cell ; antemedial line represented by a slight striga 

 from costa and two very oblique lines from vein 1 to inner margin ; 

 some dark suffusion on medial part of costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 absent; a medial line from costa to the postmedial line at sub- 

 median fold, defined by grey on outer side at costa and slightly 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double and 

 angled outwards below costa, then obsolete to vein 4, then very 

 oblique and bent outwards at vein 1 ; an oblique series of dark 

 marks in the interspaces of terminal area from below apex to vein 4 

 and an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; a terminal series 

 of dark stria3 ; cilia with fine dark lines through them. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with brown, a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white. 



Ilab. Spain, Andalusia, Exp. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2119. Cucullia tanaceti. 



Nociua tanaceti, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776) ; Knoch, Beitr. ii. p. 29, 

 pi. 2. ff. 1-9 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 265 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 p. 429, pi. 126. f.4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegulse with black line near base and two slight 

 medial lines ; tibiae with dark streaks ; abdomen whitish dorsally 

 tinged with brown especially towards extremitj^ the crests dark ; 

 male with orange tufts protrusible from lateral stigmata. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffused with pale brown, the veins with fine 

 dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga 

 from costa ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial 

 line, which is strongly angled outwards in the interspaces, especially 

 the submedian, and inwards on the veins ; claviform sometimes 

 represented by a black streak on its upper edge ; a slightly curved 

 black streak from or from before origin of vein 2 to vein 4 beyond 

 the cell ; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to inner 

 margin, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards 

 oil vein 1 ; a black streak above middle of vein 4; some slight dark 

 streaks from termen below apex. Hind wing white, the veins and 



