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fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal half suffused with brown, most 

 strongly in female ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. Punjab, Sabathu {Harford), 1 d", 2 $ type; SiKaiM, 

 1 S ; Assam, Kagas. Exi). 33-46 millim. 



*2147. CucuUia lilacina. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 1.) 



Cucullia lilacina, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. See. vi. p. 116 (1898). 



S . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown ; frons 

 and vertex of head with blackish bars ; tegulae with black line near 

 base, brown medial line and brown tips ; patagia edged with black ; 

 dorsum of thorax black ; tibiae striped with black, the pectus 

 clothed with pale rufous hair ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, 

 greyish at extremity, the crests large and black. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey irrorated with brown ; the base suffused with 

 red-brown ; a black streak on inner margin from near base to 

 postraedial line ; the area beyond the cell suffused with rufous ; 

 the antemedial line represented by an extremely long tooth in 

 submedian interspace ; an oblique black striga in cell before the 

 orbicular, which is small, round, tinged with rufous and defined by 

 black, incompletely below; reniform incompletely defined by brown ; 

 a black shade between the stigmata from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line represented by double oblique striae filled in with 

 white from costa and by a white lunule defined by brown lines 

 and with some fuscous suffusion before it in submedian interspace, 

 then retracted to inner margin ; the veins of terminal area with 

 dark streaks ; costa towards apex black with some white points on 

 it ; an oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, type f (5^ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



*2148. Cucullia agua. 



Cucullia agua, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 203 (1904). 



J . Clear, bluish grey ; head dark, black and grey mixed ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegulae pale brown largely mixed with grey, black- 

 brown at base and with black-brown medial streak, a medial brown 

 line edged with white in front ; patagia grey edged with blackish ; 

 abdomen fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen pale yellow-brown ; legs greyish on outer side, 

 the tarsi darker. Fore wing with the markings pale reddish to 

 dark brown and black, the base dark brown with a small white spot 

 below costa, the inner margin with a black-brown fascia ; ante- 

 medial line with blackish spot below costa, then almost obsolete, 

 strongly angled outwards in submedian interspace ; orbicular small, 

 round, brown slightly defined by black ; reniform defined by dark 



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