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Hah. Fkance, Leech Coll. ; Gekmany, Zeller, Frey, and Leecli Colls. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungaex, Leech Coll, ; Switzerland, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; ? Italy ; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia : Armenia ; 

 ? Asia Minor, Bithynia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Amur. Exp. 46-58 millim. 



Larva. Hiibn. Larv. Lep. iv. Noct. ii. Gen. v. b, c, f. 1, a, h, c ; Kirby, 

 Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257, pi. 41. f. 4. 



White with yellow dorsal and lateral maculate stripes ; a sub- 

 dorsal series of large oval segmental and oblong intersegmental 

 black spots. Food-plants : sow-thistle and lettuce, chiefly the 

 flowers. 7-8, 



2127. CucuUia minuta. (Plate XCVII. fig. 15.) 



Cucullia minuta, Moschl. Verb. z.-b. G-es. Wien, xsxiii. p. 295, pi. xvi, 

 f. 9 (1884). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed wit,h brown and fuscous ; 

 tegulae with black line near base and dark medial line and tips ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the veins with fine black 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; 

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

 is very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on 

 the veins ; a black streak in lower end of cell ; a curved black 

 streak below end of cell representing the lower edge of reniform ; 

 postmedial line represented by a very oblique black bar across sub- 

 median interspace ; a black streak above vein 4 to an oblique series 

 of short black streaks from termen below apex, and a short streak 

 above middle of vein 6 ; subterminal line represented by oblique 

 streaks above and below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small dentate 

 black marks. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half 

 fuscous brown ; cilia white. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $ , Annshaw {Miss F.Barrett), 

 2 ? . Exp. 40-44 millim, 



2128. Cucullia dracunculi. 



^ Nodiw, dracunculi, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 586 (1827) ; Dup. Lep 

 Fr. vii. p. 409, pi. 125. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Cucullia incana, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 551 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 184. 



Cucullia amota, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 171 ; id. Eora. Mem. v. 

 p. 177, pi. 7. f. 11. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulae with black line near base, two brown medial 

 lines and brown line near tips ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; abdomen pale dorsally tinged with brown, the crests 

 dark, the anal tuft greyish. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with 

 brown ; the costal area suffused with brown ; some pale rufous 

 suffusion in and beyond end of cell ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; a fine 



