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Forewings pale bluish ashy grey, mottled with pale grey-brown. The veins are darker at their extremities and 
there is a fine black longitudinal central line from base to midway of the mediana and below same. Posteriorly 
a denser oblicpie black band which is crossed at the base by a black streak. A black line subterminally above 
vein 4. Hindwings semi-transparently white, veins and a marginal band ashy grey. Wing expanse: 39 mm. 
Described from I $ from Sebdou; captured in September. 
C. dracunculi Him. (Vol. 3, p. 106, pi. 27 b). The following forms that were described by Warren as 
species should be placed here anthemidis Guen. and linosyridis Fuchs. We are illustrating both (16 b) as the anlhcmidis. 
illustration of the former in the Main Volume (27 b) is much too large and unrecognisable; linosyridis is on an ll,ll, .' r 
average somewhat larger and slightly darker than anthemidis. Costal area somewhat browner. It has recently ' yri11 
been discovered in S. Baden (Kaiserstuhl). 
C. cemenelensis Bours. (16 b). A new species that very closely resembles the forms mentioned under cemvuc- 
the preceding species. It is to be distinguished from them, firstly, by the long yellowish hairing of the 1st and lensis - 
2nd segments of the palpi; in anthemidis the palpi have uniform short grey-white hairs from base to the point. 
cemenelensis generally is somewhat duskier grey, forewings being decidedly wider at outer margin. The black 
row of dots at margin is distinctly heavier. The marking of the stigmata is not so pronounced and the black 
subanal streak is absent, in place of same there is only a faint brownish shade. Hindwings paler, outer margin 
relatively somewhat darker with a faintly indicated discocellular spot. The imagines emerge earlier. End of 
May to middle of June. Described from Nice and also found in Spain. 
C. amota Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 106). In the MainVolume this was included as a form of dracunculi but accord- amota. 
ing to Filipjev’s investigations, it is a genuine species that certainly closely resembles dracunculi. It makes 
however a rather sleeker impression, the wings are narrower and it is larger and rather paler in the discal area. 
Hindwings are somewhat darker at the margin and paler at the base, the marginal band therefore appears 
rather more prominent than in the more uniformly brownish dracunculi. We are illustrating the species here 
(16 b). Hitherto it has only been recorded from Minussinsk and the Altai (Ongodai). 
C. tecca Pglr. (Vol. 3, p. 107, pi. 27 b). — judaeorum Strd. (16 c), the form from Palestine has according judaeorum. 
to the original description of Strand (a translation of Hampson’s diagnosis of his “ab. 1.'’) head, thorax and 
forewings a more greyish blue and much less mottled with dark brown. I have before me specimens bred by 
Paulus from Jerusalem, according to which, it seems to have slightly wider wings and to be somewhat paler 
and more bluish grey, basal streak is slightly more prominent. Under no circumstances can this short and 
wide winged species be classified with wredowi as Sohn-Rethel suggests; if it is not conspecific with tecca, 
it is a genuine species. The larvae, of which I have a specimen preserved in spirit, is earthy brown with blackish 
markings, there is a dorsal band of the ground colour and attached to same a mottled blackish band with an 
undulate line below, laterally there is a band of slightly curved flat crescents, the area above and below same 
is faintly mottled; head pale brown, dotted with brown and striped. 
C. tosca A. B.-H. (16 c) is very close to inderiensis (Vol. 3, p. 107, pi. 27 c). Forewings pale ashy grey, tosca. 
partially somewhat darker, the fine black basal streak on almost white ground extending to centre of wing; 
there are white longitudinal streaks between the delicately black marginal veins. At end of cell a round white 
spot. Hindwings pale grey, faintly darker at margin. Much paler than inderiensis , almost like tanaceti, without 
the rusty brown admixture of the former. Wing expanse: 42— 43 mm. From Karagai-tao and Issyk-Kul. 
C. biskrana Obth. resembles C. syrtana in size but the forewings are much less narrow and long, grey- biskrana. 
white, almost devoid of markings only shaded slightly darker than the ground colour, towards the outer margin 
there is a row of small black internerval streaks extending oblicpiely downwards from the apex. Near the anal 
angle there is a small black divided mark; marginal line white. Hindwings impure white, grey at margin, ab¬ 
domen yellowish. The $ rather darker. Biskra; Blidet Amar, from September to January. Perhaps it would 
be better classified nearest to syrtana under Copicucullia. I have not seen a specimen. 
C. lucifuga Hbn. (Vol. 3, p. 107, pi. 27 d). — obscura Lenz denotes a very dusky $ specimen from Bavaria, obscura. 
The black shading extends along the inner margin, in outer marginal area and on the abdomen. 
G. xeranthemi Bscl. (Vol. 3, p. 108, pi. 27 d). — atrocaerulea Tshetv. was described as a subspecies with atro- 
much darker wings, forewings marked with blue-black. From Minussinsk. caerulea. 
C. fuchsiana Ev. (Vol. 3, p. Ill) is wrongly classified by Warren with Cheligalea scopariae Dorfm. The fuchsiana. 
characteristic spur of the foretibiae for Cheligalea is absent in fuchsiana, which is a genuine Cucullia closely 
related to xeranthemi. Apart from the anatomical distinctions it is differentiable from scopariae by the purer 
white of the surrounds of the stigmata. A further characteristic is the pointed triangular claviform stigma 
with a pure white patch immediately posterior to same extending to the subterminal line. The posterior trans¬ 
verse line is cpiite extinct and hindwings are much paler than in scopariae. Urals, Altai, Kuku-Nor, Amur and 
Ussuri. We are illustrating this small species (16 c). 
