76 K0CTUID.T5, 



some black scales towards upper edge which is dark rufous, thorax 

 dorsally blackish ; mid and hind tibiae with black points at their 

 extremities ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the crests 

 dark. Fore wing grey-white, more or less suffused with rufous, 

 leaving the inner half paler ; the costal area darker ; subbasal line 

 represented by an oblique striga from costa ; antemedial line double 

 below submedian fold, angled strongly outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins, above inner margin angled outwards to 

 postmedial line, its outer part forming a black streak ; postmedial 

 line obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule 

 defined on each side by browB lines, and with a smaller lunule 

 below it above inner margin ; some whitish points on costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique series of slight rufous streaks between vein 6 and 

 apex, and another series from termen below apex to vein 4, a 

 prominent oblique streak below vein 2 with slight white and brown 

 streaks below it ; cilia blackish at base, grey at tips, and intersected 

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

 area suffused with brown, in female mostly suffused with brown ; 

 cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. W. rRANCE, Leech Coll. ; Germany ; Axjsteia, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls. ; Hxingaky, Leech Coll. ; Spaik ; Corsica, Leech Coll. ; 

 Dalmatia, Frey and Leech Colls. ; S. litrssiA, Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Lydia, Taurus, Mardin ; Stria, Beyrout 

 {Jessop), 1 5 ; Kashmir (Pikher), 1 $ . Mvj>. 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt. & Moths Eur. i. p. 256. 



Citron-yellow above with black spots often conjoined into the 

 form of a cross ; sides grey dotted with black ; head brown or 

 red. Food-plants : the flowers and seeds of different species of 

 Scrophidaria. 6-7. 



2163. Cncullia thapsipliaga. 



Cucullia thapsiphaqa, Treit. Scbmett. v. 3, p. 120 (1826) ; Euibr. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 22, pi. l.f. 2; Frr. Beitr. pi. fcO ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 214. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale rufous and violaceous; 

 frons with two dark brown bars, vertex of head with some brown ; 

 tegulae tinged with rufous at middle, a blackish line near base, two 

 slight medial lines and dark brown tips ; patagia with some blackish 

 scales towards upjjer edge which is red-brown ; thorax dorsally 

 dark brown ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown, the crests dark. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with rufous, especially in and beyond end of 

 cell, some whitish suffusion from medial area below cell to middle 

 of termen, the costal area rather darker ; a slight brown streak in 

 submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is pale brown, strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by some black points ; postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then 



