62 NOCTUIBiE. 



2139. CucuUia celsisB. 



Cucullia celsics, Hen-.-Schaff, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 311, Noct. f. 182 (1845) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



c5' . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tegulse with 

 blackish line near base, two brown medial lines and brown tips ; 

 abdomen ochreous whitish suffused with reddish brown, the dorsal 

 crests black and grey. Fore wing fuscous black suffused with 

 grey, leaving the base and terminal area except towards costa pale ; 

 antemedial line dentate, very strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1, 

 indistinct on costal half, defined by grey on inner side below 

 submedian fold ; stigmata obsolete ; postmedial line obsolete 

 towards costa, represented by a double series of points on the pale 

 area and by a whitish lunule in subraedian interspace and small 

 lunule above inner margin ; the veins towards terraen slightly 

 streaked with black ; slight oblique black streaks below extremities 

 of veins 6 and 2 ; cilia white at base, black at tips. Hind wing 

 pale, uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white at base, 

 fuscous at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, an 

 indistinct discoidal lunule and postmedial line. 



Hub. Hungary ; Bulgaria ; B. Turkey ; Palestine, 1 S ■ Exp. 

 32 millim. 



Larva. Rebel, Ann. Hofmns. Wien, xviii. p. 230 (1903). 



Green with fine whitish dorsal, subdorsal, and stigmatal lines ; 

 lateral line broad, the upper half formed by a dark green streak, the 

 lower half whitish. Food-plant, Hesperls desertorum. 



2140. CucuUia xeranthemi. 



CucuUia xeranthemi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 153 (1840); Herr.-Schaif. 

 Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 309, Noct. ff'. 195, 481 ; Frr. Beitr. v. pi. 412. 

 ff. 3-4 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 89. f. 7 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulse with black line near base and brown medial 

 line ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown except at base, the 

 dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veius with fine dark streaks, the interspaces with 

 diffused brown streaks ; the subbasal line represented by a slight 

 oblique striga from costa ; a slight dark streak below base of cell ; 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, double, highly angled outwards 

 in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reni- 

 form with reddish-brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, 

 the former rather figure-of-8-shaped, the latter more or less angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; the medial part of inner margin with 

 black streak ; postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold and to inner margin, some pale points on costa beyond it; the 

 interspaces of terminal area with whitish streaks and black streaks 

 above veins 6 and 4 and below 2 ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and 



