CUCULLIA, 53 



yellow-green with more or less distinct shaded red dorsal and sub- 

 stigmatal bands. Surface marked irregularly with black forming a 

 series of broken dorsal rings, broad subdorsal band, erect lines on 

 the sides and irregular subventral marks. Feet ringed with black. 

 Food-plants : low Compositas. — H. G. D. 



2123. Cucullia buddhsB. (Plate XCVII. fig. 14.) 



Lithomia budclhcB, Wlk. xv. 1731 (1858). 



Cucullia phocijlides, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 488 (nee i. p. 298 )•. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; teguhe with 

 slight medial dark line. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; antemedial 

 line double and irregular towards costa, then single, very strongly 

 angled outwards in submediau fold and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; two slight dark streaks below middle of costa.; 

 reniform represented by a slight curved mark on its lower edge ; the 

 postmedial line represented by an oblique striga from, costa, 

 obsolete to vein 2, then indistinct, strongly angled inwards in. subr 

 median fold and outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of slight dentate dark marks, oblique below vein. 4,.witli 

 an oblique mark beyond it on vein 2 and round spot before it below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black lanules. Hind wing white 

 tinged with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; cilia 

 brown, white at tips. 



Hah. Costa. Kica, Candelaria Mts. {Underwood), 1 c5' , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela, typo in Mus. 0-xon. Exp. 4U-4L) 

 millim. 



2124. Cucullia pliocylides, 



Cucullia phocylidcs, Druce, Biol. Contr.-Am., Het. i. p. 298, pi. 23. f. 3 

 (1889). 



5 . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; tegula3 grey except at tips, 

 with black medial line ; abdomen grey suft\ised with reddish brown. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with red- brown especially on medial area ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga from, costa ; a 

 fine black streak in submedian fold to- the antemedial line, which is 

 indistinct, irregular towards costa, then very strongly angled out- 

 wards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; postmedial line 

 represented by an oblique black striga from costa, obsolete to vein 

 2, then strongly angled inwards in sabmedian fold and outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen ; a series of 

 short rufous streaks in interspaces of terminal area, a more elongated, 

 streak above vein 7, and a subterminal spot in submedian interspace ;, 

 a black streak on inner margin towards tornus ;. some black striae 

 on termen. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on the- 

 veins and terminal area ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero (//. H. Smith), 1 5 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Kqj. 52 millim.. 



