66 NOCTUIDiE. 



black bar above ; teguliB red-brown at base defined by a black line 

 and two brown lines near tips ; abdomen brown, pale at base and 

 irrorated with grey towards extremity, the dorsal crests dark. 

 Pore wing violaceous grey tinged with red-brown especially on 

 medial area ; the veins with fine dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight striga from costa ; a black streak below 

 base of cell ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, highly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former elliptical, the latter slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; a black streak on medial part of inner margin ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, obsolete at middle, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and to inner margin, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with short black 

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

 black striiB. Hind wing reddish brown, the interspaces of basal 

 half paler ; cilia white at tips ; the underside with the interspaces 

 of basal half white, a discoidal point. 



Hah. Eeitain ; Feance ; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Switzerland, 

 Leecb Coll. ; N. Italy ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Finland, 

 Odessa ; Aemenia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 47 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 79, pi. 239. f. 2. 



Bright green ; dorsal stripe broad, purplish brown with darker 

 mai^kings ; spiracles yellow on purple-reddisb marks ; head bluish 

 green. Food-plants : SoUdago, Ai-temisia. 8-9. 



2146. Cucnllia brevipennis. (Plate XCYII. fig. 21.) 



Cucullia brevipemiis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 239 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulse with black 

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

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen grey 

 dorsally tinged with brown, the crests dark. Fore wing grey with 

 a violaceous tinge and slight brown irroration ; the costal area 

 sufiused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented bj^ a very oblique 

 black striga from costa defined by grey on outer side ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, very strongly dentate 

 inwards on the veins and outwards in interspaces ; claviform hardly 

 traceable ; orbicular and reniform grey cleHned by black and with 

 slight brown centres, the former small, round, touching the ante- 

 medial line, the latter incompletely defined ; medial shade highly 

 curved, obsolete at middle, strong towards costa and inner margin ; 

 postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, indistinct except 

 on inner area, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and incurved at submedian fold, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; the terminal area with the veins slightly 

 streaked with black and with black streaks above veins 7, 6, 4, 1, 

 the 3rd extending to lower angle of cell and the last extending to 

 termen and with some reddish brown below it ; a brown shade 

 from termen below apex ; a terminal series of black lunules and 



