CUCULLIA. 



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with black Hue uear base, two slight rufous medial lines and rufous 

 tips ; patagia with the upper edge rufous, dorsum of thorax rufous ; 

 tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the 

 dorsal crests very large aud thick, formed of rufous scales. Fore 

 wing violaceous grey, the area from middle of costa through end of 

 cell to near termen tinged with ochreous, the area beyond and 

 above it and the inner area towards tornus suffused with rufous ; 

 subbasal liue represented by a slight oblique striga from costa ; a 

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

 very indistinct, angled outwards in the interspaces, very strongly 

 below cell and above inner margin, and inwards on the veins, a 

 dark streak beyond it representing upper edge of claviform ; orbi- 

 cular represented by two dark points, the reuiform by traces of its 

 upper edge ; the veins of terminal half with dark streaks ; post- 

 medial line represented by two oblique brown strige from costa 

 with a white streak above latter from costa to termen at vein 7, 

 some whitish streaks in interspaces below costa towards apex, 

 below vein 2 the postmedial line forms a whitish lunule defined on 

 each side by brown, then bent inwards as a dark fascia on inner 

 margin to antemedial line ; a slight dark streak above middle of 

 vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak below extremity of vein 2 ; 

 the extremity of some of the veins defined by slight white streaks. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the veins aud terminal area suffased 

 with reddish brown, especially in female. 



Eab. Canada ; U.S.A., New York, Evans Centre, 2 c? , 3 2 , 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 1 $ , Delaware, Ohio. Exp. 46-52 

 millim. 



Larva. Head rounded, shining black ; sutures of clypeus and a 

 dot in its centre, a spot behiud and one above eyes pale yellow. 

 Body with a low dorsal hump on joint 12, which with joint 13 is 

 black ; forward of this a dorsal red line becoming yellow on joint 2 ; 

 four fine yellow subdorsal lines ; a broad yellow lateral line, verti- 

 cally cut with black into four spots on each segment, the most 

 anterior one partly divided on the lower side ; a dark red stripe 

 on a black ground subventrally ; nine yellow ventral lines, the 

 central ones wider than the marginal. Feet black. — H. G. D. 



2159. Cucullia stigmatophora. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 9.) 



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



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; tegulfe 

 with blackish line near base, three slight rufous medial lines and 

 dark rufous tips ; thorax with the scales of dorsal crest tipped with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous whitish mixed with brown and tinged 

 with rufous, the crests dark. Fore wiag whitish suffused with 

 rufous, the costal area suffused with fuscous ; antemedial line 

 angled outwards in cell, obsolete to submedian fold, then double, 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, pale, with two 



