70 NociriD^, 



striae. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Hampshire, New York {Doubleday, W. W. Hill), 

 3 5 type, NeAv Jersey. Exp. 46-54 millim. 



*2152. CucuUia ledereri. 



Cucullia ledereri, Staud. Eom. Mem. yi. p. 525 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 215. 



Differs from C. postera in the costa of fore wing being slightly 

 instead of strongly suffused with brown ; the streak on inner margin 

 blacker; the orbicular defined by two dark points, the reniform by 

 three minute striae in centre ; the black-edged white lunule on 

 postmedial line in submedian interspace further from the oblique 

 black streak below extremity of vein 2. 



Hab. Kamtschatka. Exp. ? This species is unknown to me. 



*2153. Cucullia indicta. 



Cucullia indicta, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 154 (1904). 



Bluish grey ; head smoky brown ; tegulse fuscous at base and 

 with blackish medial line ; dorsum of thorax fuscous ; abdomen 

 with the crests fuscous. Fore wing almost uniform in colour ; ante- 

 medial line hardly traceable, highly dentate ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined with slight brownish centres and greyish annuli incompletely 

 defined by black, both somewhat constricted at middle; a black 

 streak on inner margin before the postmedial line, which is obsolete 

 except for a double curved line in submedian interspace, followed 

 by a pale line with a black-brown streak from it to termen below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of black striae, Hind wing dull yellowish 

 white, the terminal area suflused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas sufiused with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Bod). Exp., S 45, 

 $ 52 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



2154. Cucullia obscuricr. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 4.) 



Cucullia ohscurior. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 41 (1892) ; id. Cat. 

 JSfoct. N. Am. p. 237. 



5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed wilh dark brown ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulae with black line near base, two slight 

 medial lines and brown tips ; patagia with some black scales netir 

 upper edge ; metathorax with the crest tipped with black; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, the crests 

 dark. Pore wing purplish grey irrorated with fuscous ; a slight 

 black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is 

 indistinct, double, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 



