'68 NocTuiDj':. 



brown, incompletely on inner side ; a diffused medial shade from 

 costa to median nervure, then indistinct; postmedial line obsolete 

 except for a pale lunula in submedian interspace interrupting a 

 dark streak ending on termen below vein 2 ; the end of cell and 

 costal area from it to apex suffused with reddish brown, leaving the 

 costa narrowlj- grey with some white points on it with oblique dark 

 striae between them ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia pale at 

 base. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous; cilia white; the underside dirty white, 

 the costal and terminal areas darker. 



5 . Fore wing darker and more suffused with black-brown ; 

 the medial shade darker, the orbicular and reniform darker with 

 brown centres ; hind wing darker. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts, Exp., S 44, 5 46 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; it may be the same as S. lilacina, 

 Schaus. 



*2149. Cucullia Mstriga. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 20.) 



CucuUia Usiriqa, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 48 (1892) ; id. Cat. 



JSfoct. N. Am. p. 238. 



c? . Bluish grey ; frons with some black scales ; tegulae with a black 

 line near base and brownish line near tips ; patagia with dusky line 

 near margin ; metathoracic crest brown. Uore wing with slight 

 dark streaks on the veins, the costal tirea with dark suffusion, the 

 terminal area with short black streaks in the interspaces ; ante- 

 medial line single, dark, strongly angled outwards in and below cell 

 and above inner margin ; a black streak on inner margin from base 

 to postmedial line, another in submedian fold from antemedial 

 line to beyond middle, then bent upwards to termen below vein 3 ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform moderate, indistinct, dusky ; postmedial 

 line single, blackish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; a slight oblique shade from termen below apex. Hind 

 wing whitish with dark suffusion on terminal area ; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey-white with darker irroration. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 35 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



2150. Cucullia asteroides. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 2.) 



Cucullia asteroides, Guen. 'Noct. ii. p. 133 (1852); Smith, Cat, Noot. N. 

 Am. p. 237. 



Head fuscous brown mixed with some grey, thorax purplish grey ; 

 the teguhe with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown 

 tips ; patagia with some black scales near up[)er edge ; dorsum of 

 thorax dark brown with the metathoracic crest black ; tibiae with dark 

 streaks ; abdomen whitish at base, greyish at extremity, dorsally 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, the crests dark. 



