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the antemedial line, which is very strongly angled outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular represented by a 

 slight dark streak on its lower edge, a cnrved streak below end of 

 cell representing the lower edge of reniform and slight traces of its 

 upper edge ; postmedial line almost obsolete except from vein 2 to 

 inner margin, angled inwards and more or less bidentate in sub- 

 median interspace, the lower tooth being long and acute, usually 

 with slight diffused white patch before it, then angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a slight black streak above medial part of vein 4 ; a slight 

 brown shade from termen below apex with faint white streaks on it, 

 a short black streak above terminal part of vein 3 and an oblique 

 streak below vein 2 connected with a streak in submedian fold 

 beyond the postmedial line. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 termen tinged with brown, especially in female ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (WoIJei/-Dod), 1$; U.S.A., 

 E. States to Pennsylvania and West to Montana, Massachusetts, 

 Euifalo, 1 2 , N. York, 3 J , Illinois, 1 J , Montana, Miles City, 1 d" . 

 E.vp. 4'6-50 millim. 



2122. GiicuUia lastifica. (Plate XCVII. fig. 13.) 



Cuctdlia latifica, Lintn. Grote's Check List Noct. p. 24 (1875); SmilJi, 



Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 237. 

 Cucullia cita, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 75 (1883). 

 C'UCulUa fiartmanni, French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 69 (1888). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegulae with black line near base, two slight medial 

 lines and dark tips ; dorsum of thorax dark brown ; tibiae streaked 

 with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the dorsal crests 

 dark. Fore wing grey-white thiclily irrorated with fuscous ; the 

 veins with fi.ne black streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 oblique striga from costa ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to 

 the antemedial line, which is very highly angled outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins, an oblique black striga before 

 it above inner margin ; a curved black streak below end of cell 

 representing th-e lower edge of reniform ; postmedial line almost 

 obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin, angled inwards in sub- 

 median interspace, the sinus being single and more or less rounded 

 at extremity and with a diffused whitish mark before it, then angled 

 outwards on vein 1 ; a black streak above middle of vein 4 ; a 

 slight dark shade from termen below apex with traces of white 

 streaks on it ; a black streak above extremity of vein 3 and an 

 obli(iuo streak below vein 2 connected with a slight streak in sub- 

 median fold beyond postmedial line. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and termen tinged with brown, especially in female. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Arizona, Nogales {Oslar),2 J, 2 $ , Prescott 

 (Kunze), 1 $ . E.vj-). 44-4(1 raillim. 



Larva. Head black and yelknv-grecn in vertical stripes, a narrow 

 black line edging clypeus. Body slightly enlarged at joint 12, 



