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2125. CucuUia fraterna. 



Cucullia fraterna, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 198 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 E. M. iii. p. 18, pi. xlv. f. 10. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with the basal 

 half whiter with a black line near base ; tibise with dark streaks ; 

 abdomen grey suffused with brown, the dorsal crests darker. Eore 

 wing grey tinged with brown ; the veins finely streaked with brown ; 

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

 very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on 

 the veins ; a curved streak below end of cell representing the lower 

 edge of reniform ; a slight oblique medial shade from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 3 to inner 

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

 outwards on vein 1 ; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen, 

 where it is connected with a triangular brown shade from termen 

 below apex ; an oblique brown streak below terminal part of vein 2 ; 

 a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins 

 and terminal area brown; cilia whitish; the underside w^hite, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate, 1 $ type, Tokio (Fenton), 1 c? , Yokohama 

 (Fryer), 1 c? , 3 $ ; E. CniKA, Haining (J. J. Walker), 1 $ . Kvp. 

 46-54 millim. 



2126. Cucullia lactucse. 



Nocfua lactuccB, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 74 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 137. 



ff. 4-6 (1788) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Koct. f. 264 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 424, pi. 126. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 

 CuniUia jmstulata , Ev. Eiill. Soc. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 551, pi. 5. f. 3 ; Herr.- 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Koct. f. 189. 

 CucuUia camj)anulce, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 316, vi. p. 58, Noct. 



f. 188 (nee Frr.). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; tegulse 

 with black line near base and two brown medial lines ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface 

 pale. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated and partly suffused with 

 brown ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; the submedian fold with 

 fine black streak to the antemedial line, which is very strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; reni- 

 form with very incomplete dark outline and curved streak repre- 

 senting its lower edge ; a slight oblique brown shade from costa 

 to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to 

 inner margin, where it is strongly angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and outwards on vein 1 ; a black streak above vein 4 connected with 

 a series of diffused brown streaks from termen below apex ; an 

 oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish 

 brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; cilia white ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



