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{Hoclcing\ 2 cJ , 2 § , type albescens, Simla (SwinJioe, Harford), 

 1 J, 2 5, Murree (Harford), 1 J, DalhousLe, 1 (S ; Sikhim 

 (Lidderdale), 1 $ type. i/.i?^j. 44-56 millim. 



2144. Cucullia asteris, 



Noctua asteris, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Esp. Schraett. iv. pi. 151. 

 if. 2, 3; Hiibii. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 260 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 125. 

 f. 1 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 45 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. iii. p. 86 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



Head dark red-brown mixed with grey ; frons with black bar ; 

 thorax pale violaceous grey tinged with rufous; teguloB with fine 

 black line near base, two slight medial lines and dark brown tips ; 

 patagia edged with dark brown above and with some black scales ; 

 dorsum of thorax dark brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, 

 the crests blackish. Fore wing pale violaceous grey tinged with 

 rufous, the costal area dark rufous ; the veins with fine dark 

 streaks; traces of a dark streak in submedian fold to the ante- 

 medial line, which is very indistinct, double, augled outwards in the 

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

 inwards on the veins ; a slight dark streak representing upper edge 

 of claviform ; orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by red- 

 brown and each somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line 

 obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms a white lunule defined 

 on each side by brown lines and with some rufous suffusion before 

 and beyond it, then retracted as a dark streak along inner margin 

 to antemedial line ; a slight dark streak above middle of vein 4 and 

 a prominent oblique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; some slight 

 pale streaks in interspaces of terminal area ; a terminal series 

 of black striae. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous at base, white at tips ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germakt, Zeller, Erey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Hungary, D'Emmich Coll. ; N. Italy; Scandinavia ; 

 EussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi, Korla ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, 

 Dahuria, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama (Pri/er), 1 S , 1 $ ; W. China, 

 Pu-tsu-fang, 1 $ . Exj}. 48-50 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. '48 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit, vi, p. 75, pi. 239. f. 1. 



Pale yellow-green or purplish pink ; dorsal, subdorsal and spira- 

 cular lines yellow, black-edged, the subdorsal line sometimes 

 greenish ; head pale yellow or pink speckled with black. Eood- 

 plants : Solidayo and Aster. 8-9: 



2145. Cucullia gnaphalii. 



Noctua gnaphalii, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 582-3 (1827) ; Meig. 

 Syst. Besch. iii. p. 196, pi. cxi. f. 11 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 125. f. 4 ; 

 Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., jSfoct. ff. 200-1 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown ; frons with 



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