58 XOCTUIDJE. 



Hah. Pales'xine, Jerusalem, Coll. Plingeler ; W. Tuekestan, 

 Askabad, 1 d , 1 $ ■ Exp. 42 millim. Type f J $ in Coll. 

 Piingeler. 



2132. CucuUia inderiensis. 



Ciicullia inderiensis, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Solimett. yi. p. 178, Noct. f. 634 

 (1852) ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with reddish brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with black 

 line near base ; dorsum of thorax darker grey ; tibiae streaked with 

 black ; tarsi fuscous witb pale rings ; abdomen with the dorsal crests 

 darker at tips. Pore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated with 

 grey-brown ; the veins streaked with black ; a fine black streak on 

 yellow fascia below base of cell ; antemedial line highly angled out- 

 wards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; two slight 

 brown streaks in end of cell ; postmedial line almost obsolete 

 except below vein 2, where it is strongly incurved in submedian 

 fold and excurved on vein 1 ; the terminal area with rufous streaks 

 in the interspaces defined on each side by pale yellow streaks ; some 

 white points on costa ; cilia intersected by black streaks at base. 

 Hind wing pale suffused with brown, the veins and termen deeper 

 brown ; cilia whitish with a brown Hue through them : the under- 

 side whitish thickly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. llussiA, Urals, 1 cj" ; W. Turkestan, Kirghistan, Issyk Kul. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Christoph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 33. 



Bluish green with whitish marbliiigs and yellowish segmental 

 bands ; a slender yellow-green dorsal line ; lateral and ventral lines 

 white ; head pale green with dark points. Food-plant, Artemisia 

 draeunculus. 



2133. Cucullia prsecana. 



CucuUia pracana, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 304 (1844) ; id. Bull. Mosc. 

 1857, p. 62; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 509; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulse with 

 black line near base, brown medial line and brown tips ; abdomeu 

 grey dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous, some ochreous in and beyond end of cell ; 

 the veins with fine black streaks ; subbasal line represented by au 

 oblique striga from costa ; a fine black streak in submedian inter- 

 space to the antemedial line, which is double, strongly angled 

 outwards in the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform represented by four black 

 points on their edges, a curved black streak below end of cell 

 representing lower edge of latter ; postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold and outwards on vein 1 ; a slight black streak above 

 middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 ; 

 some whiti.sh streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal 



