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2165. Cucullia lychiiitis. 



Cucullia lychiUis, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 1833, p. 17, pi. 1. f. 3 ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 36. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 204 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 

 Cucullia rivulorum, Griien. Noct. ii. p. 129 (1862). 



Head pale rufous, the frons and vertex of head with dark rufous 

 bars ; teguloe violaceous grey tinged with rufous at middle, a black 

 line near base, traces of two medial lines and dark brown tips ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge which is rufous ; 

 dorsum of thorax dark brown ; mid and hind tibiae at extremity 

 and 1st joint of tarsus with black spots ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the crests dark. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale 

 rufous, the costal area dark, tinged with grey ; traces of a brown 

 streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is very in- 

 distinct, double, highly angled outwards in the interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins, its outer part forming an oblique black streak 

 above inner margin ; orbicular and reiiiform defined by slight black 

 points on their edges ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 obsolete to vein 2, then represented by two Avhitish lunules defined 

 on each side by brown ; an oblique series of slight brown streaks 

 from apex to vein 6 and another from termen below apex to vein 4 ; 

 a prominent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to postmedial 

 line in submedian fold, with slight white and brown streaks below 

 it ; cilia with blackish line through them intersected with white. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and termen suifused with 

 brown, especially in female ; cilia pale with a brown line through 

 them ; the uiiderside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. Britain {Leecli, Barrett) ; France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Zermatt {Murray); Spain, Bilbao, Castille ; Corsica; Sardinia; 

 Italy ; S. Russia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Lydia. Exp. 

 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Boisd. Embr. & Grasl. Chen. Ic. pi. 15. ff. 1-2 ; Meyr. Brit. Lep, 

 p. 49; Barrett, Lep. Brit. yi. p. 71, pi. 238. f. 3. 



Greenish white with a pale yellowish band on each segment ; a 

 dorsal series of curved black bars alternating with rows of four 

 black spots ; a spiracular series of black spots. Food-plants : Ver~ 

 bascum and Lychnis. 7-8. 



Var. rivulorum. More elongate than lychnitis, greener and 

 without the yellow variety, the black markings slighter and tending 

 to form a single band ; the incisions concolorous. Food-plant, 

 Scrophularia. 7. 



2166. Cucullia scropliularise. 



Isocfnxi scrophularice., Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Capienx, Naturf. 

 xxiv. p. 91, pi. 3. ff. 1-4 (1789) ; Esp. Sclimett. iv. pi. ISO. f. 4; Plubn. 

 Eur. Scbniett,,Noct. f. 267; Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 1833, p. 14.pl. 1. 

 f. 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Siippl. vii. pi. 124. f. 3 ; Slcph. 111. Brit. Eiit, Ilaust. 

 iii. p. 85 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



