/■i NOCTUTD.E. 



slight brown streaks between them in discal fold ; the inner margin 

 dark brown on medial area ; postmedial line obsolete except below 

 vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule defined on each side by brown 

 and with some brown suffnsion before it in submedian fold, and a 

 similar smaller lunule above inner margin ; an oblique series of 

 brown streaks between vein 6 and apex, a slight streak above 

 middle of vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak below vein 2, with 

 some fine white and brown streaks below it ; cilia white at base, 

 red-browD at tips. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with red- 

 brown ; cilia white at base, red-brown at tips ; the underside paler 

 with slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. E. TuRKESTAif, Kuldja, S in Coll. Piingeler. Punjab, 

 Simla {Harford), 1 5 type. Exi^. 44 millim. 



2160. Cucullia scroplmlaripliaga. 



CucuUia scrophulariphaga, Roibr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 20, pi. 1. 

 f. 4 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 409, pi. 36. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 2f5. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; frons with two brown 

 bars, back of head dark brown ; tegulse with blackish line near 

 base, two slight medial lines and dark brown tips ; patagia with 

 some black scales near npper edge which is brown ; dorsum of 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the dorsal 

 crests dark. Pore wing grey tinged with brown, the cell and area 

 beyond it with rufous, some whitish suffusion from m.edial area 

 below cell to middle of termen, the costal area rather darker 

 towards apex ; a slight brown streak in submedian fold to the 

 antemedial line, which is pale brown defined by white on inner 

 side, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards 

 on the veins ; orbicular and reniform defined by dark points on 

 their edges ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, very in- 

 distinct to vein 2, then forming a white lunule defined on each side 

 by brown, and a smaller lunule above inner margin ; an oblique 

 black streak above inner margin on medial area ; an oblique series 

 of slight brown streaks from vein 6 to apex, and some others from 

 termen below apex to vein 4 ; a prominent oblique streak from 

 termen above vein 3 to postmedial line in submedian fold, with 

 some slight brown and white streaks below it ; cilia blackish and 

 white at base, grey at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hab. CoiiSicA, Leech Coll. Eay. 42-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 2.55. 



Almost exactly like that of C. blattarice, with four black spots 

 on back of each segment arranged in a St. Andrew's cross, the 

 outer ones touching a vellow subdorsal line. 



