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CUCULLIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
margin with irregular, small, blackish nebulous spots; behind the whitish undulate line black dots. Hindwing 
of a pure white, Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Described from New Mexico *). 
pliocylides. C. phocylides Drc. (25 i). The grey forewing is very much dusted with red-brown, with rather indistinct 
transverse lines, a fine black basal ray and small red-brown interneival spots in the marginal area and a larger 
subanal one, as well as a black streak at the end of the proximal margin. The brownish hindwing is on the 
veins and margin darker. Mexico. 
intermedia. C. intermedia Speyer (25 h) is very similar to the palearctic lucifuga (vol. Ill, t. 27 d) from which 
it chiefly differs by the entirely white fringes of the hindwings. Forewings purple grey, dusted with browrish, 
with finely dark-striped veins and basal ray, very strongly dentate transverse lines and single internerval rays 
in the marginal area. Findwing brown, at the margin somewhat darker. Canada to the Central States. 
—- The larva likewise resembles that of lucifuga and is black with orange lateral spots. 
Cinderella. C. Cinderella Sm. (25 i) is very similar to intermedia, but the lower bordering of the maculae is 
marked by fine black arcuate streaks the hindwing is somewhat lighter, and the mesothorax is grey in intermedia 
brown. Canada, Colorado. 
montanae. C. montanae Grt. (25 i) already forms the transition to the following species by the forewing being 
intensely hued with ferruginous reddish in the costal part and at the anal angle; at the proximal margin there 
is a dark longitudinal stripe the ring-macula is of an elliptic shape, both the maculae are large and distinct, 
in the centre strangulated, the posterior transverse line forms analwards a small whitish crescent on both sides 
bordered with blackish-brown; subterminally there are brownish-red internerval stripes, at the anal angle 
a much stronger one. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. Canada to Colorado. 
florea. C, florea Guen. (— indicta Sm.) (25 g) is marked similarly to montanae, but on the whole very much 
darker and blacker, without or with but very little reddish-brown tints in the costal half, particularly the basal 
area is much darker, the anterior transverse line is more distinct, dentate and double. The hindwing is likewise 
obscurior. much darker, greyish-brown, at the margin darker. Canada to New York and New Jersey. — obscurior Sm. 
(25 h) is a still darker form from Colorado, in which the maculae are only marked by black borders round dots. 
lilacir.a. C. lilacitia Sells. (= agua Barnes ) (25 h) is presumably the most variegated species, the forewing of 
a clear and light bluish-grey with a lilac tinge, in the apical half of the costal-marginal part inclusive of the 
reniform macula of a light ferruginous red, before the latter a blackish-brown nebulous spot; at the proximal 
margin there is a thick black stripe, above the anal angle a similar one. Hindwing quite light brownish, on 
the margin and veins darker. Arizona and Mexico. 
omissa. C. omissa Dod. is very closely allied to the two following, still darker than asteroides (25 k); with 
darker hindwings in both sexes, the violet tint in the grey colour being entirely absent, the maculae being much 
more indistinct and almost quite extinct in the ferruginous cellular shade; the dark proximal-marginal stripe 
is mostly more distinctly pronounced. The hindwing is throughout dark blackish brown. The species resembles 
the most the palearctic asteris (vol. Ill, t. 27 e) which it also approximates the most in the sexual organ which 
differs from postera and asteroides. From Canada (Alberta). 
post era. C. postera Gn. (25 i) has purple grey forewings being darker at the costal margin, with a red-brown 
tinge in and behind the cell; the anterior transverse line is double, the maculae pupilled brownish, in the centre 
somewhat strangulated, their bordering more or less broken up into dots, otherwise rather much like florea, 
the black anal streak extends to the posterior transverse line. The brownish hindwing is darker on the veins 
and margin. United States, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey. 
asteroides. C. asteroides Gn. (25 k) is very similar to montanae (25 i), but it is lighter and the maculae are 
in their surroundings only marked by dots, below the reniform macula there is a fine black arcuate streak. 
Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish, in the $ darker. Canada, United States to New York 
and Illinois. — The green larva with yellow longitudinal lines bordered with black probably lives on aster- 
like compositae. 
similar is. C. similaris Sm. (25 k) is likewise similar, but in the discal area scarcely tinted yellowish, more 
bluish-grey, with fine black veins, easily recognizable by black dots also in the maculae outside their punctiform 
bordering. The white hindwing is dusted with brownish, on the margin and veins darker. Colorado. Durango. 
com-exipen- C. convexiperaiis Grt. d- R. (25 k) and the two following species are extraordinarily much alike. 
nis. yp e forewing is in all three violettish-grey, in the discal area from the centre of the costal margin through 
the cell as far as the margin ochreous-yellowish, in the apical half of the costal margin and at the 
proximal margin analwards more tinted ferruginous-brownish, the fine, strongly dentate transverse lines rather 
indistinct, the posterior line at the costal margin double and filled up by a long vdiitish patch which extends 
to the margin; the maculae are marked by single black dots. In convexipennis the abdominal tufts are extremely 
*) This species ( nanuscula ) is to be eliminated, as it lias proved to be a synonym of Catabcna pronuba B. <£’ McD , 
which will be dealt with later on, 
