238 



NOCTUID^E. 



the postmedial line. Hind wing white ; the veins of outer area 

 and margin suffused with brown. 



2 with the hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas ; Nilgiris. Exp. 57 millim. 



G-enus CUCULIA. 



Cuculia, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2. p. 157 (1802). 

 Callamia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 246(1818). 



Type, C. verhasci, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. ~N. America ; Europe ; S. Africa ; Japan ; Himalayas ; 

 INagas. 



Eyes naked and with or without lashes ; proboscis fully formed ; 

 palpi obliquely porrect, with rather long hair below ; frons ridged ; 

 antennae almost simple. Collar running up to a peak at centre ; 

 thorax almost without tufts ; abdomen long and tapering to a 

 point, the proximal segments of abdomen with dorsal tufts. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex which is 

 acute ; both wings with the outer margin slightly angled in the 



middle and the cilia more or less crenulate. 



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1807. Cucnlia albescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 357; C. $ S. 



no. 2336. 

 Calleenia elongata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 67 ; id. III. Het. 



vi, pi. 103, fig. 7 ; C.8f S. no. 1528. 

 Cucullia atkinsoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 131 ; C. 8? S. no. 2337. 



Head and thorax grey and brown ; abdomen brown, with the 

 dorsal tufts dark. Fore wing grey, suffused with brown especially 

 on costal and inner areas ; an indistinct irregular exceedingly 

 dentate double antemedial line and traces of a similar postmedial 



Fig. 133. — Cuculia albescens, S- \- 



line ; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, with pale outlines ; a 

 dark streak on inner margin, and another above outer angle. Hind 

 wing pale, the outer area suffused with brownish fuscous. 

 Hah. JNVW. Himalayas ; Sikhim. Exp. 50-58 millim. 



