176 TWENTT-SIXTH ReFORT ON THE StATE MuSBVM. 



The species can at once be separated from all other described 

 Cucullias, bj its serrated antennae (in the $> ), it being the only spe- 

 cies known in which this form exists. Conforming in other respects 

 to the typical forms of the genus, the simple difference of antennal 

 structure does not seem to warrant its separation, but simply a modi- 

 fication of the generic diagnosis as given by Guenee ; '' to antennae 

 [usually] cylindrical and entirely smooth in both sexes." It may be 

 recognized by the double interspaceal brown ciliary cuttings, the 

 prominent cellular spot and the brown cellular line of the secondaries 

 beneath, extending from the base to the discal cross- vein. The latter 

 feature will probably be found to be less conspicuous in the $ ; it is 

 feebly represented in one ^ example of C. intermedia in my posses- 

 sion, and still more indistinctly in a ^ of G. lucifuga. 



In the presence of the '"tooth" of the internal angle of the prima- 

 ries, the hyalescence of the secondaries and general coloration, the 

 species seems allied to asteroides and florea. I regret that I am 

 unable to give a comparison of shape of wings, owing to the variation, 

 as above stated, in the examples before me. 



