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with fuscous, the costal area darker ; a black streak on medial part 

 of inner margin ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by an oblique striga from costa ; a fine black streak in 

 submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is double, highly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces, especially the submedian, and 

 inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform moderate, with 

 brown centres and grey annuli incompletely defined by black, each 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line 

 obsolete except in submedian interspace, where it forms a whitish 

 lunule defined on each side by black and with some diff'used black 

 before it ; a black streak above middle of vein 4 and an oblique 

 streak below vein 2 ; some slight whitish streaks in interspaces of 

 terminal area and a terminal series of black strife. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot. 



Hab. Canada. Hudson's Eay (Barnston), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary 

 (Wolley-Dod), 2 J, 2 2; U.S.A., New Hampshire, New York, 

 Trenton Falls (Douhleday), 4 $ type, New Jersey. Exp. 50 

 millim. 



2143. Cucullia elongata. 



Callania elongata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) Vi. p. 67 (1880) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. vi. p. 11, pi. 103. f. 7. 

 Cucullia albescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 357 ; Hinpsn. Moths Inrl. ii. 



p. 238; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 

 Cucullia atJcinsoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 131 (1882). 

 Cucullia postera, Staud. Eom. Mein. vi. p. 521- (1892). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous ; head 

 blacker ; tegula3 with black line near base, two slight medial lines 

 and fuscous tips ; patagia with their upper edges fuscous, dorsum 

 of thorax mostly fuscous ; tibiae with fuscous streaks ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with brown, the crests dark. Pore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with brown, the costal area suffused with fuscous, 

 the end of. cell and area beyond it with rufous ; the veins with fine 

 black streaks ; a slight black streak in submedian fold to the 

 antemedial line, which is usually indistinct, double, angled outwards 

 iji the interspaces, very strongly below cell and above inner margin 

 and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform moderate with 

 rufous centres and grey annuli defined by black, each rather 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 obsolete to vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule defined by black 

 lines and with some fuscous suH'usion before it, then retracted as a 

 blackish streak along inner margin to antemedial line ; a slight 

 black streak above middle of vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak 

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

 wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suff'i sed with brown, especially in female. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Tibet, 

 Amdo ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley {Leech), 2 S ; Tukjab, Kulu 



