CUCULLIA. 57 



Head and thorax grey mixed with browu ; frons with blackiali 

 bar above ; teguloe with black line near base, two fuscous medial 

 lines and fuscous tips ; vertex of thorax with dark streak ; abdomen 

 grey dorsally tinged with browu, the dorsal crests dark. Pore 

 wing brownish grey with fine black streaks on the veins and in sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line very highly dentate outwards in tho 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins ; two slight brown streaks in 

 end of cell ; a curved brown streak below end of cell representing 

 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 ; a fine black streak above vein 4 to before termen, with 

 a series of slight brown streaks above it to termen below apex ; an 

 oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2, Hind wing brown, 

 the interspaces rather paler except on terminal area ; cilia white 

 with fine brown line at base ; tho underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins brown. 



Hab. S. France, Leech Coll. ; ? Switzerland ; Spain, Andalusia ; 

 CoEsiCA, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; A lgeeia ; ? W. Turkestan ; Turco- 

 mania ; ? Mongolia, Uliassutai. Exp. 48-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eutt. & Moths Eur. p. 268; Hoffm. Eaiip. p. 128, pi. 34. 

 f. 2. 



Hull green or reddish with white spots on the back and black and 

 violet lines and streaks on sides. Food-plant, Artemisia. 4 & 7. 



2131. Cucullia tecca. (Plate XCVII. fig. IG.) 

 Cucullia tecca, Pdng. Iris, sis. p. 96 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; frons and 

 vextex of head with blackish bars ; tegulaj with black line near 

 base, two ill-defined medial lines and one near tips ; abdomen 

 whitish dorsally tinged with yellow-brown, the dorsal crests black 

 at tips. Lore wing rather short, grey-white, largely irrorated and 

 suft'used with fuscous brown ; the veins streaked with black ; a fine 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line rei^resented by 

 a slight black striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 stroijgly angled outM'ards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins ; orbicular and reniform almost obsolete, the latter represented 

 by a curved black streak below end of cell ; postmedial line obsolete 

 except below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and outwards on vein 1 ; a black streak below middle of vein 7 ; a 

 series of slight streaks from teimen below apex to above middle of 

 vein 4 ; small subterminal spots sometimes present between veins 4 

 and 2 ; an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; bases of cilia 

 intersected by black streaks. Hind wing pale nearly uniformly 

 sufiused with fuscous brown, the inner area rather paler ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, the veins brown. 



Ab. 1. (S . Head, thorax, and fore wing bluer grey with much less 

 fuscous sufiusion and irroration. $ typical. — Jerusalem. 



