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terminal area brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot, the terminal area brown. 



Hah. S. Fkance ; S. Germany ; Austria ; Hungary, Frey Coll. ; 

 ? S. Italy ; Balkan States ; S. Russia, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Ivul ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Icones, ii. p. 373, pi. 89. f. 10. 



Pale green ; dorsal line pink ; subdorsal line pink forming a 

 chain of elliptical marks with greyish centres ; a pink lateral stripe 

 defined by white below. 



2141. Cucnllia montana. (Plate XCVII. fig. 19.) 



Cucullia montaiKB, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 237. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some fuscous and 

 tinged in parts with rufous, especially at base and inner side of 

 tegulse ; head darker with black bar on frons ; tegulse with black 

 line near base, two slight medial lines and black tips ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; dorsum of thorax mostly 

 black ; tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, 

 the crests black. Fore wing violaceous whitish ; the costal area 

 darker except at base ; the basal area, end of cell and area beyond 

 it suffused with rufous ; the veins with tine dark streaks ; a slight 

 streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinct, 

 double, angled outwards in the interspaces, very strongly below 

 cell and above inner margin and inwards on the veins ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish incompletely defined by black and with 

 brown points in centres, each rather constricted at middle and 

 forming figure-of-8-shaped marks ; postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, obsolete to vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule 

 defined on each side by black and with some blackish suffusion 

 before and beyond it, then bent inwards as a blackish fascia on 

 inner margin to antemedial line ; some irregular subterminal 

 rufous streaks in the interspaces and a more prominent oblique 

 streak below extremity of vein 2 ; a terminal series of black striae. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, 

 especiallj' in female ; cilia white, with fine brown line near base 

 except towards tornns. 



Hah. Canada, Calgary (Wolhy-Dod), 1 c? ; U.S.A., Montana, 

 Colorado (Bruce), 1 $ , Denver (Oslar), 4 c? , 1 $ , E.rjj. 48-54 

 millim. 



2142. Cucullia florea. (Plate XCVII. fig. 20.) 



Cucullia florea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 134 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 237. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 black bar; tegulse with black line near base, two medial lines and 

 brown tips ; abdomen pale brownish, the extremity greyer, the 

 dorsal crests dark. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and suffused 



