CUCTJLLIA. 79 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale rufous ; frons and 

 vertex of head with rufous bars ; tegulse with slight line near base, 

 traces of medial line and rufous tips ; patagia with some brown 

 scales towards 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 whitish tinged with brown, the crests 

 dark. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale rufous ; the costal 

 area dark irrorated with grey ; a slight brown streak in submedian 

 fold to the antemedial line, which is very indistinct, double, highly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins, its 

 outer edge forming an oblique black streak above medial part of 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform represented by some brown 

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

 obsolete to vein 2, then forming two pale luuules 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 pro- 

 minent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to postmedial line 

 in submedian fold with slight brown and white streaks below it ; 

 cilia with blackish line through them intersected with white. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

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

 with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Britain ; Prance ; Germany, Zeller, Frejr, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey 

 Coll. ; Corsica ; N. Li'aly ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Scandinavia ; 

 Finland, Leech Coll. ; Etjssia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; S. Russia, 

 Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; ? Asia Minor, Pontus ; ? Syria. Exp. 

 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. V\. p, 68, pi. 238. f. 2. 



Bluish white with a yellow band on each segment ; a dorsal series 

 of black bars alternating with pairs of black spots : a spiracular 

 series of yellow spots and black marks ; head yellow spotted with 

 black. Food-plants : Scrophularia, especially S. nodosa, and Ver- 

 hascum. 6-7. 



2167. Cucullia verbasci. 



Noctua verhasci, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 515 (1768) ; Eap. Schmett. iv. pi. 139. 

 ff. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 266 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 392, 

 pi. 124. ff. 1, 2; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 85; Rmbr. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. p. 9, pi. 1. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; frons and vertex 

 of head with red-brown bars ; tegulse with slight line near base, 

 two faint medial lines and red-brown tips ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge which is whitish tipped with red- 

 brown ; dorsum of thorax dark brown ; pectus and legs clothed 

 with yellow hair, the mid and hind tibiae fringed with rufous hair 

 on outer side and with brown spots at extremity ; abdomen 

 yellowish suffused with red-brown, especially in female, the crests 

 dark. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the costal area 



