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VII. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF CUCULLIA. 



Cucullia Speyeri nov. sjp. 



Palpi gray beneath, brown above. Front, with three transverse 

 rows of projecting scales, gray at tips and black at base. Collar 

 edged below with a sharply defined black line, pale gray in front, 

 with a paler band just before its middle, bordered with lines of brown 

 of which the posterior is the broader ; when elevated, the apex and 

 hinder part show brown hairs. Thoracic hairs brown. Tegulae 

 light gray, paler than the primaries, with a few scattered black scales 

 near their superior margin as in C. asteroides Guenee. Abdomen 



^^®- 13- acutely pointed in the male (Fig. 13), 



with long terminal hairs, and in the 

 female (Fig. 14) ending with a long 

 flattened tuft; whitish shading into 

 gray terminally, more inclined to 

 gray in the female, and in this sex 

 interspersed with brown scales be 

 neath ; four brown dorsal tufts of about the size of those of C. inter- 

 media Speyer ; on the sides of the terminal segment of the female is 

 a small spot of dull ochrey-yellow hairs, and a few projected from 

 the incisure beneath. Tibiae concolorous with the tegulae, with a 

 slender black line superiorly. 



Primaries straight on costal margin, rounding to the apex as in 

 the European Ixicifuga W.-V., and more curved than in inter^media / 

 posterior margin slightly dentate, regularly sloping to the internal 

 angle ; interior margin nearly straight; breadth about equal to inter- 

 media^ exceeding asteroides ; narrower and more acuminate in the 

 male than in the female, as in all species of this genus; of a pale 



^^«- 14- gray color, somewhat darker on 



the costal and internal margin and 

 with a silvery reflection interme- 

 diately. Demi-line indicated by a 

 short, very oblique black streak 

 resting on the costa, bordered be- 

 hind with white and a black dot 

 nearer the base, above the subcostal nervure. Median transverse 



