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C. astigma Sm. (25 d) is a large species with greyish-white forewings strewn with brown, the veins astigma. 
finely striped black, a long black streak on the submedian fold from the base to the margin and a black stripe 
at the proximal margin from before the middle to the proximal angle; transverse lines and maculae are entirely 
absent. Hindwing light brownish. Colorado. 
C. jemezensis Dyar is similar to astigma (25 d), smaller, much darker grey, the fine black veins jemezemis. 
on both sides bordered with a lighter grey; the proximal-marginal line is finer, the anal-angular streak thicker. 
Hindwing dark grey with darker veins. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. New Mexico, taken in May. 
C. luteodisca Sm. (25 d) is easily recognizable by the light yellowish tinge below the cell between luteodisca. 
the transverse lines, which contrasts with the otherwise bluish-grey forewing. Similarly marked as antipoda 
which it resembles particularly in the distinctly defined maculae, which are sometimes pupilled yellowish. 
Hindwing white with a broad brownish-grey margin. Expanse of wings: 41 mm. New Mexico. 
C. basipuncta B. & McD. (25 e) is a small, sharply marked species, bluish-grey with black-striped basipundd. 
veins, a distinct black basal dot at the costal margin; the large maculae are situate in a dark costal-marginal 
shade, with a white square stripe on the submedian fold below it; the interrupted transverse lines are dentate, 
above the anal angle a triangular spot. Hindwing white. California. 
3. Genus: Cticullia Schrk. 
The Cucullia form a large, well-known genus of very similarly looking insects with long, narrow 
forewings and a distinct hood at the collar, which may be erected and put down at will. The frons exhibits 
a slight, rough projection, the thorax is clad with hair-like scales intermixed with hair, the metathorax exhibits 
a double tuft, the abdomen on the first rings distinct small tufts. Of late the genera Lathosea Grt. and 
Rancora Sm. have yet been included as subordinate genera: in the former the eyes are ciliated to a very 
extreme degree and the hairing is very rough, in the latter the eyes are less strongly ciliated, and invariably 
there is a thick black spot on the transverse vein of the hindwing beneath, being connected with the base 
by a thick black streak; also in Lathosea this spot, recalling secondary sexual characters in the Phycitinae, 
is more or less developed. Rancora has besides strongly serrate antennae in the male sex, the thoracal hairing 
is smoother. Quite recently another genus: Supralathosea B. & Benj. has been established, chiefly distinguished 
by the G showing the antennae long-combed as far as the tips, the thorax being only covered with scales, 
and by exhibiting only one small tuft on the first abdominal ring. 
The Cucullia mostly inhabit the temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere, particularly Europe, 
North Asia, and North America. In India they are rather scarce, mostly in the northern parts bordering on 
the palearctic region (cf. Vol. XI, p. 106). From Australia there are no species known to us, but some species 
occur in South Africa. —- A peculiar fact is the monophagy of the larvae of many species living only on 
a quite certain species of plants to which their exterior may then be adapted to a marvellous degree. The other 
arvae are often very variegated with motley markings. Cf. Vol. Ill, p. 102. 
Sect. I. S antennae long-combed (Supralathosea B. <£• Benj.) 
C. baboquivariensis B. <0 Benj. is of a monotonous dull grey, dusted and strewn with wdiite, all bdboquiva- 
the markings almost extinct, the fringes feebly speckled blackish. Hindwing of a pure white with a faint discal riensis. 
spot and darker strewing in the costal-marginal area on the veins and at the distal margin. Expanse of wings: 
31 to 34 mm. Arizona. 
Sect. II. G antennae short-combed, at the base and end serrate (Lathosea Grt.). 
C. pulla Grt. (= pullata Grt.) (25 f). Forewing blackish-brown, thickly strewn with whitish, with p U lla. 
black veins and a black basal ray finely bordered with white, with sharply dentate transverse lines edged with 
whitish, and a narrow reniform macula being produced on the median towards the base. Hindwing blackish- 
brown with white fringes. Oregon. 
C. spauldingi B. db Benj. is very closely allied to the preceding and has the same size and shape, spauldingi. 
but it is darker, without any brownish admixture, the hindwings being also blackish-grey. The marking is 
altogether more distinct. Utah, in April. 
Sect. III. G antennae serrate. (Rancora Sm.). 
C. ketchikana B. & Benj., owing to the almost combed antennae and the very strong transverse ketchikana. 
lines, forms a transition in the exterior to Lathosea, but the softer thoracal covering and the intense discal spot 
with the basal stripe on the hinclwing beneath assign it to Rancora. Exterior most similar to hrucei (25 c). 
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