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CUCULLIA. By W. Warren. 
albipennis. 
nigri fascia. 
pullata . 
elongate. 
Subfamily: Cucullianae. 
The distinguishing characteristic of this Subfamily is that the rounded eyes of the imago are 
fringed, more or less completely, with long curved overhanging lashes. When the insect is in fresh con¬ 
dition, these are easy of observation; but otherwise they are often only to be detected with difficulty 
and liable to be overlooked. The legs are without spines and the eyes without hairs; so that the insects 
comprised indt are at once separable from the two preceding subfamilies; in a few genera the fore tibiae 
are armed with claws, or the fore tarsi with short spines, a development which is found also, to an equally 
limited extent, in the Hadeninae. In the structure of the palpi, frons, and antennae the usual variation 
is met with; the neuration alone remains unchanged. In the genus Cucullia, — which gives its name to the 
subfamily, — and its nearest allies the tegulae are enlarged and produced backwards so as to form a 
kind of hood; in these genera the wings are narrow and elongate, and the abdomen is also long; their 
larvae and those of the following genera are usually brightly coloured, and feed on the flowers of their 
food plants, generally by night, hiding by day under the lower leaves; but in the majority of cases the 
wings of the imago are broader, and the larvae subsist on the leaves of low plants, shrubs^ and trees. The 
larvae all possess 8 pairs of feet; and pupation takes place either in the ground or among leaves 
and rubbish on its surface. 
1. Genus: C'licisllift Schrank. 
Tongue well-developed; fore tibiae without claws; frons with slight rounded prominence; tegulae 
produced behind to fornS a hood; antennae of $ simple; forewing long and narrow with produced 
apex; abdomen elongate, especially in the $, with lengthened anal tufts. Larva cylindrical, plump, generally 
brightly coloured, sometimes feeding exposed, more often hiding by day and feeding by night on the flow¬ 
ers of the food plant. Pupa in a strong earthen cocoon, the antennal sheath bluntly produced. The 
larvae feed up in autumn, and pass the winter in the pupal state, the imago emerging in early sum¬ 
mer. Type C. artemisicie Hiifn. 
This genus is represented by comparatively few species in tropical regions. 
C. albipennis Hm.ps. (14 a). Forewing whitish with partial brownish grey suffusion; the lines 
black; inner line bluntly angled outwards on submedian fold and acutely inwards on vein 1, preceded 
by a parallel brownish grey line and followed by similar suffusion; outer line oblique outwards to vein 
4, then inwards, straight, preceded by brownish grey suffusion, and followed by a white band with 
grey line at centre, forked towards costa; submarginal line ill-defined, followed by irregular brownish 
grey suffusion, containing some black dashes to termen, which is marked by black lunules; orbicular and 
reniform stigmata large, subquadrate, white with brown grey centres and black edges; a black streak 
from base below cell; fringe brown grey; hindwing greyish luteous, darker grey along termen. A North 
Indian species found in the Punjab and Sikkim. A small insect, with better defined markings than 
usual in the genus, the wings broader and shorter. 
C. nigrifascia Hmps. (14 a). Forewing grey tinged with darker grey, beyond the cell washed 
with olive brownish; inner line black, sharply angled inwards on the veins and outwards below vein 1, 
outcurved above and below median vein, preceded by a dark grey parallel shade; a fine black streak 
from base below cell; outer line marked only on costa; a thick black median shade from costa separat¬ 
ing the two stigmata, and continued nearly to inner margin, before which it is narrowed and curved 
basewards; orbicular stigma distinct, round and whitish with grey centre; reniform large, diffuse, with 
a brown lunule; some black dashes before termen below costa, beyond cell, and below vein 2; fringe 
grey; hindwing whitish in basal half, becoming dark fuscous towards termen; the fringe paler. Found 
only in the Punjab, N. India. - ‘ 
C. pullata Moore (Vol. 3, pi. 27'b). Forewing brownish grey with some darker irroration; the 
lines indistinct; the inner dentate, as usual; the outer visible only in the lower half; stigmata likewise in¬ 
distinct; the orbicular incompletely outlined with black, the,reniform marked above by a slight dark line 
and below by a curved streak; a black streak above vein 4, with a series of oblique brown streaks 
above ity hindwing- white; a broad terminal black band, the inner edge of which is waved and bent 
outwards at anal angle; a large black lunule on discocellular connected with a black costal streak; fringe 
pure white. Punjab, N. India: the species also occurs in W. China. 
C. elongata Btlr. ( — albescens Moore, atkinsoni Moore, postera Stgr.). (Vol. III. pi. 28 a). Fore¬ 
wing pale grey ; the costa broadly fuscous blackish; the inner margin black;; veins finely dark; area beyond 
cell slightly brownish; lines hardly marked, except at inner margin, where the outer line forms a blackish 
double curve; the inner line sharply angled on submedian fold; stigmata large with brownish centres 
