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PREFACE.

Tur subject of Vol. VI. of the ‘Catalogue of Moths’ is the

classification of the Cuculliane, the third of the fifteen subfamilies

into which the Noctuide are divided, 692 species belonging to 111

genera being described in it. The subfamily is characterised by

its trifid neuration of the hind wing combined with spineless tibice

and smooth eyes surrounded by eye-lashes of bristle-like hairs, and

forms a group of genera very closely related to the Acronyctine,

the lowest of the subfamilies of the Nectuide Trifine.

Sir George Hampson has again to thank all those who have

helped him with the earlier Volumes of the Catalogue, for the loan

of specimens, and assistance with the present Volume, especially

Herr R. Piingeler of Aachen and Prof. J. B. Smith of New Bruns-

wick, the latter having not only presented to the British Museum

numerous species of Nearctic Noctuide hitherto unrepresented in

the Collection, but also given much useful criticism and advice

during his recent visit to London. In addition he has to thank

Dr. Fletcher of Ottawa and Mr. H. V. Hudson of Wellington, New

Zealand, for the gift of several species new to the Collection.

Plate CVIII. will appear with Vol. VII. of the Catalogue.

EK. RAY LANKESTER,

Derector.

British Museum (Natural History),

November Ist, 1906,

Ses TAT TCG TN DEX:

Fee NOCTUIDA.........

Neogalea, Hmpsn.

2058.

Subfam. CucuLLIANZz .

eeeero eee oe

braziliensis, Hmpsn.

Brachygalea, Hmpsn. ....... :

2059.

leucorhabda, Hmpsn. ..

Wopicucullia, Smtz .-.....:.-

2060.

2061.

2062.

2063.

2064.

2065.

9066.

2067.

antipoda (Streck.)

propingua (Smith) ....

eullepisi(Grote)s a. 1

astigma, Smith ......

alfarata (Streck.)......

syrtana (a@d.) ......

naruenensis (Staud.) ..

sublutea (Gres.)......

Cheligalea, Hmpsn. ..........

2068.

Cucullia, Schrank

2069.

2070.

2071.

2072.

2078.

2074.

2075.

2076. f

. spectabilis (Hiibn.) ....

2078.

2079.

2080.

2081.

2082.

2083.

2084.

2085.

2086.

2087.

2088.

2077

scoparize (Dorfm.) .

strigata (Smith) ......

serraticornis, Lintn.

lonii@en (Spe Welbsocbec

solidaginis, Behr. o

albicinerea (Smith) ....

cillondlers Smad oo vgeues

magnifica (f7r.)

jancousci, Oderth.

albipennis, Hmpsn.....

fuchetamaweHoe hans.

mandschurizw, Oderth. .

fraudatrix, Ev.

leucopis, Hempsn. 3

maculosa, Staud.......

reac. (WAP) s 66066006 2

consimilis, Feld. ......

brunnea, Hmpsn. :

TRS JEW bo dae doc

cineracea (£17.)

eec eee

2089.

2090.

2091.

9092,

2093.

2094.

2095.

2096.

2097.

2098.

2099,

2100.

2101.

2102,

2103.

2104,

2105.

2106,

2107.

2108,

2109.

2110,

OTL,

2112.

PING.

2114.

ales

2116.

DNs

2118.

2119.

2120.

2121.

9122.

QB

9124.

2125.

2126,

PilQy,,

2128.

maracandica, Staud.

artemisiz (ZZiifn.) ....

propinqua, Hv. ......

generosa, Stuud. ......

embolima, Piing.......

umbristiga, Alph.

duplicata, Staud.......

santonici (f7itibn.) ...

alpheraci, Staud.......

formosa, Rghfr. ......

hemidiaphana, Gres. ..

nigrifascia, Amps.

UAC JAM Bop eoo0 6

perforata, Brem. ......

absinthii (Linn.)

Clause Wille maces hens

rufescens, Hmpsn. ....

perstriata, Hmpsn. ....

umbratica (Linz.)

Claman, uchs eee

anthemidis, Geen,

linosyridis, Fuchs

extricata ( Wik.)

virgaurese, Boisd.

distinguenda, Staud. .

chamomillee (Schiff) ..

terrensis, Feld. ......

dentilinea (Smith) ...

boryphora, F’. de W “aldh.

achilleze, Gwen.

tanaceti (Schiff) awe 6

dorsalis, Smeth........

speyeri, Lintn.

letifica, Lintn.

buddhz (Wik.) ......

phocylides, Druce :

fraterna, Butl.........

lactucse (Schiff) ......

minuta, Moschi. ......

dracunculi (Hiibn.)....

eece

eiehelisitetie!

Vill

Cucullia (con.).

2129. pullata (Moore)

2130. santolinee, mdr.

AAS UAC SEO gina aoe

2132.

2133.

2134.

2135.

2136.

2137.

21388.

2159,

2140.

2141.

2142.

2148.

2144,

2140.

2146.

2147.

2148.

2149.

2150.

2151.

2152.

2153.

2154.

2165.

2156.

2157.

2158.

eee et ee

je JIOb) Sop booas

campanulee (Freyer)

lucifuga (Schiff.) ......

intermedia, Speyer ....

cinderella, Smith ......

erisescens, Leech ......

celsiz, Herr.-Schdff.

xeranthemi, Boisd.....

montana, Grote

Monet, CHL, sbogacee

elongata (Bul wou

asteris GSch7js)\ eee

enaphalii (Hiibn.) ...

brevipennis, Hinpsn.

lilacina, Schaus

agua, Barnes

bistriga, Smith

eoeeeoe

ceo ote oo

postera, Ge

ledereri, Staud.

indicta, Smith

similaris, Smith ......

arizona, Smith)... 2...

pers strigata, Limpsn.

convexipennis, Grote 5

EELUD eager oy etee iit:

stigmatophora, Himpsn.

scrophulariphaga, Rinbr.

2159.

2160,

2161.

2162.

2365.

2164.

2165.

2166,

2167.

blattarize (Zsp.) ......

thapsiphaga, Treit. ....

anceps, Sfaud. ........

Tychnitis\itmbi) a...

scrophularize (Schiff.) ..

verbasci (Linn.) ......

2168. prenanthis, Borsd. ....

AGO onibacs Baines Aen.

Argyrogalea, Hmpsn. ........

2170. argentea (Hiifn.)......

Argyromata, Hmpsn. ........

2171. splendida (Cram.)

Nycteropheeta, Smith

2172. luna (Morr.)

Opsigalea, Hmpsn. ..........

2173. ocellata (Wik.) ......

Empusada, Hmpsn...........

2174. argyrina (Guen.) ......

2175. argentina (£abr.)

2176. hutchinsoni (Hmpsn.)..

2177. argentivitta, Empsn.

2178. pyyostrota, Himpsn.....

oe oe eee ©

inderiensis, Herr.-Schaff.

scrophulariphila, Staud.

|

|

|

| 2187. fatua (Pling.)

| Callterges Saviors... ltteers

Cleophana, Boisd.

Metalopha, Staud.

Amephana, Hmpsn.

Oxicesta, Hiibn.

Pseudantheecia, Smeth

SYSTEMATIC INDEX,

2179.

2180.

2181.

2182.

2185.

2184.

2185.

ruficeps, Himpsn.......

chrysota (Himpsn.) ....

pallidistria (Feld.) ..

biornata (fiseh.) ......

balsamitee (Botsd.) ....

sabulosa (Staud.)......

lactea ( Fabr.)

| | Lophoterges, Emp sn.) ene

2186. millierei (Staud.)......

ec eee eee

2188. ramosa (Lsp.)

eee ee ee ©

Hypomecia, Staud:.. soem

2189. quadrivirgula (Mab.) ..

Copiphana, Hmpsn...........

2190. gassana (Bang-LHaas) ..

BilOW es olivia CStaids)\ es seers

2192. olivina (Herr Schay). ‘

chabordis, Oberth.

bietica, Enbr, ae

pectinicornis, Staud.

jubata, Obenthy eee

opposita, Led. .........

vaulogeri, Stand. :

diffluens, Staud.

yvani (Dip. eee

marocana, Staud.

2193.

2194.

2195,

2196.

2197.

2198.

2199.

2200.

2201.

eooee

CC a ry

2202. gloriosa, Staud.

2203. liturata ( Christ.)

2204. varionis ( Oberth.) ee

2205. anarrhini (Dup.)......

2206. dejeani (Dup.)........

Omphalophana, Hmpsn. ......

2207. antirrhini (Hiibn.) ....

2208. serrata (Z7eit.)5 0 eee

2209. serratula (Staud.)

2210. paul CStawd.) va. eee

2211. anatolica (Led.)

2212. geographica (Fubr.) Di

2213. chameenices (Herr.-

SChGGi) 2). ous. semester

2214. tumida (Grote)

Harpagophana, Hmpsn. ....-.

2215, hilaris (Stazd.)

Metopoceras, Gwen. ....,.....

2216.

2217.

2218.

2219.

2220,

2221

beata,)Stauds eyo. as

canteneri (Dup.)

felicina (Donz.)

gaucleri, Ping.

chalildja, Oberth, :

Soman (O0Gi#G/7)) mentee ie

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

Ammetopa, Hmpsn. ......-- 120

2299. codeti (Oberth.) ...... 120

Protophana, Hmpsn. .......- 121

29223. cervina (H. Edw.) .... 121

Criophasia, Hmpsn..........- 122

2294, ulbolineata(Bang-Haas) 122

2995 cauquenensis (Butl.) .. 128

Calophasia, Steph. ....-..+.- 123

2226. adamantina, Blachier .. 124

DI. exons (WH) ge cdo neo 125

2228. strigata, Smith ...... 125

oo iunula (L2aafin.)-..2... 126

2930. craussi (Rebel) .......- 127

9231. almoravida, Grasl. .... 127

9932. hamifera, Staud....... 128

2233. platyptera (Lsp.) 128

DIBME ineeyCial (UAO) aaa a nee 129

DOP CASta (DONA) 0... -- 150

Rhodochlena, Hmpsn. ...... 131

2236. botonga (Feld.) ...... 31

Leucochlena, Hmpsn......... 132

DoS Temiallaxa(iSLAUd.)\\e 1. . = + 132

2238. hispida (Geyer) ...... 133

2939, hirsuta (Staud.) ...... 184

9940. orana (Lucas) ........ 185

2541. hipparis (Druce) ...... 135

2242, leucocera (Hmpsn.) .. 136 |

2243. leucogonia (Hmpsn.) .. 136

Whienkema, Ja, Gobsoeobonoe 137

2244. superba, Alph......... 137

DNS. lenis (C2 Gi) De oee oO 38

DIAG. scillee (Chrét.)........ oe)

2247. fumea (Ampsn.) ...... 140

Chharmclen, (Gnas obosccccuoe. 140

2248. elegantissima, Guen, .. 141

/Ninclesney, 16 GK a een BO OE 142

2249. cenistis, Hmmpsn. ...... 142

Wepipolys Gwen. Wi.s. ss ys 145

2250. behrensi (Givote) ...... 148

2251. perscripta, Guen. .... 144

@neoenemis; Leds... 3 2... 145

2952. mirificalis, Grote 148

DNs, Cbwaly E7Ra| peo onecoee 149

Do sAnmhayesiy, Grote) aes. ss. 150

2255. regina, Smith ........ 150

DUAR, Cli, SOAS senonoooee 11

2257. corusca, Smith ........ 151

2258. exemplaris, Smith 151

2259. albifasciata, Hmpsn. .. 152

2260. melantho, Smith ...... 168

2261. pudorata, Smeth . 155

2262. tenuifascia, Smith 154

OO Gamexacta Christan. 154

2264. balteata, Smuth........ 155

2265. terminalis, Smeth...... 155

DPX, waco, STOO. Sanooe kao

Page

DAVg Icey CHO 5665060000 157

2968, simplex, Smith ...... 157

2269, saundersiana, Girote.... 158

2270. pernotata, Grote ...... 159

2271. campicola, Led. ...... 159

2272. polingi, Barnes ...... 160

2273. fasciata (H. Edw.) .... 160

PPE (oraunvees (Sar) ag ono BAe 161

9975. meadiana, Morr. ...... 162

Q7Ge miericulayGLO:)ieeite 6 162

DPT, (eres, (ERO) co o5500 5 162

2278. strioligera, Led. ...... 163

2279, viriditincta, Smith .... 164

2280. laticosta, Dyar ...... 164

2281. augusta (Harv.) ...... 165

2282. flagrantis, Smuth ...... 165

2283. glennyi, Grote........ 166

2284. riparia, Morr. .......° 166

2285. cibalis, Grote ........ 167

2286. melalutea, Smith...... 168

2987. extremis, Smith ...... 168

2988. chorda (Grote) ...... 169

OPN), THOR ISOCHO Gan goeoe 169

2290. simplicia, Smith ...... 170

2291. punctilinea, Hmpsn. 170

PPMP Neral, JOP 5505600000 wat

2293. homogena, Grote..,... 171

2294. pohono, Smith ........ 172

2295. umbrifascia, Smith .... 172

2296. atrifascia (Morr.) 2

2297. barnesi, Smith ........ 173

2298. figurata (Harv.) ...... 173

2299 maj Ory Golem eriercias 74

23005 ciliata, Smithy tel 174:

2301. poliochroa, Hmpsn..... 179

2302. colorado, Smith ...... 175

2303. chandleri, Grote ...... 176

2304, extranea, Smith ...... 176

2305. tetrops, Dyar ........ 177

2306. griseicollis, Grote 178

2307. nigrocaput, Smith 178

2308. atricollaris (Harv.) .... 178

Eetochela, Honpsn. 5... 6... - 179

2309. canina (Feld.) ........ 179

Homoncocnemis, Hmpsn. .... 180

QailOg tortisn(Gi:0ce) ie cessor) ler. 180

Werapod an Smteirincte seni: 131

Q3i lolitas (G0te)i ees. lt- 181

QB Darsuylavan Sievtvem versa oe 182

@opitarsia, Hmpsn. .......... 183

2318. humilis (Blanch.)...... 183

9345 consueta (WU), sane 183

9315. turbata (Herr.-Schdff.) . 184

9316. neeniodes (Butl.) ...... 185

2317. patagonica, Hmpsn. 185

2318. purilinea (Mad.)...... 186

x SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

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Homohadena, Grote ....... . 186 2363. curvifascia (Smith) .... 217

2319. badistriga (Grote) 187 2364. elda (French) ........ 218

ZN), WI, IDRGP Sscubnoobue 188 2365, onychina (Guen.)...... 219

2321. retroversa, Morr....... 188 2366. viminalis (fabr.)...... 219

DSA eT (MAU) ersveiee veers 189 | Brachylomia, Aonpsny =.) seen. 220

PSZOsMMCMtA MEL ATD. apie a ss 189 2367. populi (Streck.) ...... 221

2324. loculosa (Grote) ...... 190 2368. rectifascia (Smith) .... 221

9325. deserta, Smith ........ 191 2369. discolor (Smith) ...... 222,

2326. epipaschia, Grote...... 191 | Litholomia, Grote. snare

Q32aCoclel,, yarns nee 191 2370. napeea (Morr.)...... .. 223

9328. incomitata, Harv. 192 237). dunbari (Harv) eee 223

O32 Questa ssaS720t/emeni nia eee UP I ahulbieh GHRowa sa acdhaccodooooc 204

2330, inconstans, G'rote 193 | 2872. discinigra ( Wik.) .....224

Pseudanarta, Grote .........% 195 231. aloens i((Gr:0te)h meant 225

Desai. Hawa! (Grote irate 198 23 (AS Is (Zen) aca eee 226

2332. crocea (H. Edw.) 194 Cattristis;: Aampsn. ane 227

2333. singula (Grote) ...... 195 2375. ferrogrisea (ZZmpsn.) .. 227

2334. flavidens (Grote)...... 195. | Dryotype,-Hanpsn <i 228

2335. falcata, Newm......... 196") 52376; opima) (Grote) seeeeiar 228

Heraliasn Goce my eet e lar 196 | iDerthisa, Wilk... ee ee 229

2336. columbiana, Smith .... 197 2377. sareptana (Alph.) 229

2337. jocosa (Guen.)) ss... ... 197 2378. trimacula (Schiff) .... 280

2338, major, Snvth wc. Se. 199") 23879, ledenii(Ch72st5) eee 231

MomaphanarGioce mica sen 199 2380. amasina (Bang-Haas).. 232

2339. comstocci (Grote) .... 199 | 2381. antherici (Christ.) .... 282

2340. februalis (Grote) ...... 200 2382... scoriacea (Zisp.) .....- 28

2341. brillians (Barnes) .... 201 2383. corsacovi (Christ.) .... 283

Brachionycha, Hiibn. ........ 202) | Aporophyla, Guen) Wo: eee 284

2342. sphinx (HMiifn.) ...... 202 2384. mioleuca (Tveit.)...... 254

2343. nubeculosa (L£sp.) .... 208 2385. lutulenta (Schiff) .... 285

2344. borealis (Smith) ...... 204 | 2386. australis (Boisd.)...... 23

WathoseamGrotel ae enysieaers t 205 2387. nigra (Haw:)) oe eee 238

23457) pulllay Grote, shies: 205),) 2888 haasi,Staud. aa nenee 239

Copity pean pst: wien tes er: 206 | Cloantha, Gwen) Weas. seneeee 239

2346. pagode (Alph.) ...... 206 | 2889. solidaginis (Hiibn.).... 23%

Psaphida mi iaminece 207 2390. pulla (Schiff) .....:0. 240

2347. resumens, Wik. ...... 207 |) Wuscotia, Butls 0. di eee 241

2348. grote: (Morr.) ........ 208 2391. inextricata (Moore).... 242

2349. thaxteriana (Grote).... 209 392. sagal(Butl.)n3 eee 243

2350. electilis (Morr.) . 209°) ithophane, sions. eee 245

utolype, Grote wer enews ence 210 2393. semibrunnea (fZaw.) .. 244

2351. bombyciformis, Smith. . 210 Qa94. sOcia (Ott) eee 245

2352. depilis (Grote) ...... oor 2395. ledereri (Staud.) ...... 246

2353. grandis, Smith........ 21 |EGraptolitha, pHuG7 a: eee 246

2354. rolandi, Grote ........ 212 | 2896. semiusta (Grote) ...... 249

2355. damalis (Grote) ...... 212 | 2897. bethunei (Grote &

CopipanolissGrotem ye 2138 U1) BRERA Dy 4.5 ty 00, 250

2356. cubilis, Grote 2.1.2... 2138 2398. patefacta (Wik.) ...... 2950

2301. borealis, Smith... 0... .. 214 2399. innominata (Smith) .. 251

2358. fasciata, Smith........ 214 2400. rosinee (Piing.)........ 252

2309. stigma, Sintth ........ 214 2401. hemina (Grote) ...... 252

Epidemas Smizhmearce cinta 215 2402. disposita (Morr.) ..,. 258

2360, melanographa, Hmpsn.. 215 2405, oriunda (Grote) ...... 254

2361. cinerea, Smith........ 216 2404. ferrealis (Grote) ...... 254.

2362, obscura, Smth........ 216 | 2405. gausapata (Grote) .... 255

BOM Y Cla WOLe pis emer teen a: 217 | 2406: petuleal(Grote)) iivaane 255

SYSTEMATIC INDEX. . x1

Page Page

2407. sionosa (Wik:)...0..+.: 266) | Dichonia ube. ose «= SO

2408. amanda (Snuth) ...... 256 2459. lubrica (Butl.)........ 293

2409. pruinosa (Butl.) ...... 257 2460. obliquisigna (AZmpsn.).. 294

2410. brachyptera (Staud.) .. 258 AGI areola (CEsps)) 23. 294

ZAI ornithopus) (ott: se 208.)| Pleroma,Smzths sci... ie). - « 295

2412. lamda (Fabr.) ........ 259 2462. conserta (Grote) ...... 296

PANS. lepida; (U6,)) -.0. «cl, ve. 260 | 2463. bonuscula, Smith...... 296

2414. furcifera (Hifn.)...... 261 2464. cinerea, Smith........ 297

2415. ingrica (Herr.-Schiff.).. 262 2465. obliquata, Smith ...... 297

2416. pexata (Grote) ........ 263 | Neumichtis, Hmpsn. ........ 298

2417. ustulata (Butl.) ...... 2638 2466. trijuncta (Wik.) ...... 298

2418. dilatocula (Smith) .... 264 | Nyctycia, Hmpsn. .......... 299

2419. cinerosa (Grote) ...... 264 2467. plagiogramma, Hmpsn.. 299

2420, laticinerea (Grote) .... 265 | 2468. persimilis (Ampsn.) .. 800

2421. antennata (Wik.) .... 266 | Thecophora, Led............. 301

2A22. torrida (Smith)........ 26M P2169 ovens (lierts i aaaerie P01

2423, atincta (Smith) ...... ZO Dnvo bored atric rnnetn et 302

DADA. tepida, (Grote)........ 268 DAT. Os funeviay (S795) ene aoe 302

2425. baileyi (Grrote)........ 268 | Daseuplexia, Hmpsn. ........ 303

2426. querquera (Grote) ..., 269 2471. lageniformis (Hmpsn.).. 503

2427. viridipallens (Grote) .. 270 2472. lagenifera (Moore) .... 504

2428. lapidea (Hiibn.) ...... 270, | Meganephria, Htibn. ........ 305

2429. longior (Smith) ...... 271 QAGaa tamerel (Gi:@5)))rtats lt 305

2430. contenta (Grote) ...... 272 2474. oxyacanthze (Linn.) .. 306

2431. puella (Smith)........ 272 2475. extensa (Butl.) ...... 308

2452. merceda (Smith) ...... 273 2476. bimaculosa (Zann.) .... 3809

2433. unimoda (Lint.) ...... 273 2477. sabulosa (Gre@s.) ...... 310

2434, vertina (Smith) ...... 274 2478. funesta (Leech)........ 310

2435 ancilla (Smith) ...... 2TAGN PachypoliarG rote. nv 511

2456, holocinerea (Smith) .. 275 2479, atricornis, Grote ...... 311

2457. fletcheri (Smth) ...... 276 2480. himalayensis, Hmpsn... 312

2438. georgi (Grote) ........ 276) || Lamprosticta, Aion. 2 lea. 315

2439, emarginata (Smith).... 277 2481. niphopasta, Oberth..,... 315

2440. oregonensis (Harv.) .. 277 2482. gemmea (Treit.) ...... 314 -

DHA MMenciy (Ami) eo. a 278 2483; culltay (Schifrin oe) 315

2449. itata (Snuth) ........ 278 2484, munda (Leech)........ 316

2443. fagina (Morr.)........ DTS) || (Neaekoyong, IHS obo p56 6686000 317

Sy lhinty, WORE eee Aenean S 280 2485, aprilina (Linn.) ...... 318

2444, nupera (Lint.) ........ 280 | 2486. eruginea (Hiibn.) .... 319

2445. vetusta (Hiibn.) ...... 281 2487. convergens (Schiff.).... 320

2446, curvimacula (Morr.) .. 282 2488. pryeri (Leech) ........ 321

2447. brillians ( Ottolengut) .. 283 | Fumichtis, Hiibn............. 321

2448, cineritia (Grote) ...... 284 2489. lichenea (Hiibn.)...... 321

2449. brucei (Smith) ........ 284 2490. muscosa (Staud.)...... 322

2450. exoleta (Zinn.) ...... 285 2491. trisignata (Mén.)...... 323

DAS Wy tumosa (Butt)... 4... 286 2492. albostigmata (Beth. -

2452. formosa (Butl.)........ 286 VO er Se ee eiclD Oe 324

Selhrensia Grote) ). aaa cse 287 2498. magnirena (Alph.) .... 325

2455, conchiformis, Grote.... 287 2494. tenerifica, Himpsn. . 326

DXGyotype Pea OSIy Reliant «): 288 2495. melanodonta, Hmpsn... 327

2454, capax (Grote) ........ 288 2496. satura (Schiff.)........ 327

IMUMOMN UG} Je OSn chaaoudese 289 2497. adjuncta (Moore)...... 328

2455, acutissima (Grote) .... 290 2498s adusta, (Hsp) \ie chee 329

2456. medialis (Grote) ...... 290 2498 a. lama (Staud.) ...... 516

2457. confragosa (Morr.).... 291 | 2499. solieri (Botsd.)........ 33

2458. contadina (Smith) .... 292 2500. sommeri (Lef.)........ 382

X11 SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Eumichtis (con.). Page Page

2501. sepultrix (Guen.)...... 3838 2552.- jodea (Geen) arent 375

2502. venusta (Leech) ..... 384 2553, remota (Piing.) ...... 376

2503. ducta (Grote) ........ 835 | 2554. poliorhiza (Hmpsn.) .. 376

2504. versuta (Smith) ...... 336 2555. mongolica (Staud.) .... 377

2505. accipitrina (Lsp.)...... 337 | 2556. subdetersa (Staud.).... 377

2506. monochroma (£sp.).... 337 2557. curva (Staud.)........ 378

2506 a. concinna (Leech) .... 516 | Sydiva, Moore .............. 378

2607. leucosticta (Moore) .... 33 2558. nigrogrisea, Moore .... 379

2508. protea (Schiff.)........ 339 | Athaumasta, Hmpsn. ..... oe asl)

2509. roboris (Hiibn.) ...... 340 | 2559. expressa (Led.) ...... 380

2510. contermina (Gres.).... 340 | 2560. siderigera (Christ.) .... 381

2511. intermissa (Butl.) .... 841 | 2561. cortex (Alph.) ...... fo elk

2512. saliaris (Guen.) ...... 342) | Bryotype, imps.) seems 382

2513. mesopheea, Turner .... 348 2562. flavipicta (Zmpsn.).... 382

2614. extima(WiIk.)........ 343 | 2563. mesomelana (Hmpsn.). 383

2515. maida (Dyar)........ 344 | Hypotype, Hmpsn. .......... 384

QbiIlG. hita (Dogue seeene 345 | 2564. plumbea (Staud.).,.. . 384

2517. photophila (Butl.) .... 346 | 2565. nieridentata (Hmpsn.) . 385

2518. adducta (Feld.) ...... 346 | 2566. scotomista (Hmpsn.) .. 3886

2519. rubrimixta, Hmpsn. .. 347 | Bryomima, Staud. .......... 386

Valeria Stepneeene neces 347 2567. johanna (Stawd.)...... 387

2520. oleagina (Schiff) ...... 348 |. 2568, fallax, Hmpsn......... 388

2521. heterocampa (Moore).. 349 | 2569. centralasive (Staud.) .. 388

2522. viridinigra (Hmpsn.) .. 350 2570. extrita (Staud.) ...... 389

2523. viridimacula (Gres.) .. 351 2571. tenuicornis (Alph.).... 2890

2524. icamba (Swinh.) ...... 352 | 2572. chameleon (Alph.).... 890

2526. sauberi, Gres. .......- 353 | 2573. virescens (Hmpsn.).... 391

2526. jaspidea (Vill.)........ 358 | 2574. speciosa (Morr.) ...... 391

2527. pardaria (Moore)...... 354 | 2575. muscosa, Hmpsn....... 392

Xylinissa, Hmpsn. .......... 3O5 2576. pulverulenta (Smith) .. 392

2528. lignitis, Schaus ...... 855 | 2577, carducha, Staud. ...... 393

2529. oniroe (Dogn.)........ 356 | 2578. chryselectra (Grote) .. 394

2580. cossoides (Butl.)’...... 306 | Blepharidia, Pung... 00.020 ne 304

ANNBNG Ne Pais Anoluadbes Gen 357 2579. amicina (Stuud.) ...... B04

2531. serpentina (Treit.) .... 357 2580. grumi (Alph.) ........ 395

2532. rebecca (Staud.) ...... 308 2581. costalis (Butl.) ...... 396

2533. jpolymita (Zenn.)...... 360 | 2582. anachoretoides (Alph.) . 397

2534, manisadjiani (Staud.).. 861 | 2583. paspa, Piing........... 397

2535. flavicincta (Schiff.) .... 861 | 2584. lama (Piing.) ..../... 398

2536. rufocincta (Hiibn.) .... 862 | 2585. diantheecina (Stawd.) .. 898

2587. azrgillaceago (Hiibn.) .. 863 | 2586. conspicua (Leech)...... 399

2538. subvenusta, Piing. .... 364 2587. eviseirufa (Hmpsn.).... 400

2539. miltina (Piing.) ...... 364 | Trichoridia, Hmpsn........... 400

2540. calamistis, Hmpsr. .... 365 2588. fulminea (Leerh)...... 401

2541. dubia (Dup.) ........ 366 | 2589. junctura (Hmpsn.) .... 401

2542. apora (Staud.)........ 866 2590. endroma (Swinh.) .... 402

25438. canescens (Dup.)...... 367 | 2591. hampsoni (Leech) .... 408

2544. illecebrosa, Ping. .... 368 | 2592. dentata (Himpsn.) .... 403

2545. nigrocincta (Treit.) .... 869 2593. canosparsa (Hmpsn.) .. 404

2546. -hostilis, Piing......... 370 | 2594. albiluna, Hmpsn....... 404

2547. calchbergi (Staud.).... 3870 | 2595. cuprescens, Hmpsn..... 405

Aiken novels (JEIb)) 5 a ob dnc4o 571 | 2596. sichimensis (Moore) .. 405

2549. suda (Geyer) .:...... 371 | 2597. herchatra (Swinh.) .... 406

Zoo0, Chin Agr) enen ew ela 372 | Dasysternum, Staud. ........ 407

Rhizotype, Hmpsn. 1. 0...... 878 || 2598; leal(Stawd:) eee 407

2551. flammea (Lsp.) ...... 373 | 2599. juditha (Staud.) ...... 408

SYSTEMATIC INDEX. xlil

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2600. bacheri (Piing.) ...... 408 | Psectraglea, Hmpsn. ........ 439

2601. heeretica (Piing.)...... 409 | 2645. carnosa (Grote) ...... 439

2602. anceps (Staud.) ...... 409 2646. olivata (Harv.) ...... 439

2603. eristica, Pling......... 410 2647. pilifera (Wik.) ...... 440

2604. tibetana, Staud. ...... 410 | Xantholeuca, Steph........... 44]

Hypnotype, Hmpsn........... 411 | 2648. croceago (Schiff) ...... 441

2605. placens (WIk.)........ All 2649. sericea (Butl.) ........ 449

SSIVMMPISEIS, ALU BM i252 le ele © « s AU) | Conistra, E707: ails ee else 443

2606. pessota (Meyr.) ...... 412 2650. evelina (Butl.) ...... 445

2607. iota (Hudson) ........ 415 2651. castaneofasciata( Motsch.) 444

2608. fortis (Butl.) ........ 413 | 2652. eriophora (Piing.) .... 445

2609. melaleuca (Thnbg.).... 414 | 2653. ciliata (Stawd.)...... . 445

2610. celloggi (H. Edw.) .... 415 | 2654. fragarie (Esp.) ...... 448

2611. lapponica (Thnbg.).... 416 | 2655. erythrocephala (Schiff.). 449

2612. zetterstedti (Staud.) .. 416 2656. gallica (Zed.) ........ 459

2613. nigrita (Bowd.) ...... 417 2657. silene (Schiff:) ........ 450

2614, funesta (Payk.) ...... 418 2653. acutula (Staud.) ...... 451

Hypsophila, Staud. .......... 418 2659. canicostata (Grr@s,) .... 452

2615, tamerlana, Staud. .... 418 2660, politina (Staud.)...... 452

2616. jugorum (Ersch.)...... 419 2661. veronice (Hiibn.) .... 453

AGy. excising ZW Nis Sooonges 420 2662. vaccinii (Linn.) ...... 454

C@emoliay StOuUd. Ve. wlecre ts o1a- «1 42] 26638. ardescens (Butl.)...... 455

2618. sacelli, Staud......... 42] 2664. ligula (Zsp.)..........-. 455

2619. acrophila, Hmpsn. .... 421 2665. albipuncta (Leech) .... 456

MDS WPOLIAsNGUCI 0 ais <6 esses cle 422 | 2666. torrida (Zed.) ........ 457

GOZO MMItIS, UG. 52. 5-6 0s 422 | 2667. rubiginea (Schiff.) .... 457

2621. informis (Wik.) ...... 423 | 2668. staudingeri (Grasl.).... 459

2622. ferdinandi, Ruhl ...... 424 | 2669. daubei (Dup.) ........ 460

2623. templi (Thnby.) ...... 424 | 2670. inulta (Grote) ........ 460

aD ANON S LOU oot) cere + oie 425 2671. viatica (Grote) ...... 461

2625. gerbillus, Alph. ...... 426 2672. signata (French) ...... 462

Wasyihoraxs StaUd. 5. .6 1,1. 496 2673. tristigmata (Grote) RAG?

2626. poliana, Staud......... 426 | 2674. valceri (Grote)........ 463

2627. anartina, Piing. ...... 427 2675; sidus\(Guen.)\ 2. scene 464

2628. hirsutula (Alph.) .... 427 2676. colorado (Smith) ...... 464

2629. hirsuta (Staud.) ...... 428 | 2677. morrisoni (Grote) .... 465

SYSs\0), seacilbiss (C2070) gape coor 428 2678. devia (Grote) ........ 465

2631. glebicolor (Zrsch.) .... 429 2679. indirecta (WIk.) ...... 466

2632. daishi (Alph.) ........ 429 2680. moffatiana (Grote) .... 466

Harpaglea, Hmpsn........... 429 2681. pettiti (Grote) .....,.. 467

2633. sericea (Morr.) ...... 430 2682. ceromatica (Grote) .... 468

2634, tremula (Harv.) ...... 430 | Grammoscelis, Himpsn. ...... 468

2635. pastillicans (Morr.).... 431 2683. leuconeura, Hmpsn. .. 468

Isjnedes, CiRouenaosoouaued cao 432 | Omphaloscelis, Hmpsn. ...... 469

2636. decliva (Grote) ...... 432 2684. lunosa (Haw.) ........ 469

2637. apiata (Grote) ........ 433 | Amathes, Min. ............ 470

2638. contracta (Butl.) ...... 435 2685. vitzenmanni (Stndf.) .. 471

JINVERA, JEYIM0s Gooosuoeouoo 43 2686. ruticilla (Esp.) ...... 471

2639. diplostigma, Hmpsn. .. 434 | 2687. ragusee (Fuilla-Ted.) .. 472

Rhynchaylea, Hmpsn......... 435 2688. rupicapra (Staud.) .... 473

2640. scitula (Butl.) ........ 435 | 2689. humilis (Schiff) ...... 474

Hsia VELUD Ry wach s «=: 436 2690. lychnidis (Schiff) .... 475

2641. tripunctata, Butl....... 436 2691. scabra (Staud.) ...... 476

2642. satellitia (Zinn.) ...... 437 2692. cindermanni (Fisch.) .. 476

2643. quadrilinea (Leech) .. 438 Reb, MeeNas (SERA) “ccs ne woe 177

2644. strigifera, Butl. ...... 438 26094, hematidea (Dup.) .... 477

XIV

Amathes (con.).

2695.

2696.

2697.

2698.

9699,

2700.

9701.

DOP

Oo:

9704.

9705.

2706.

lota (Linn.)

macilenta (HHaw.)

verberata (Smzth)

circellaris (Hiifn.) ...

bicolorago (Guen.) .

helvola (Zinn.)

litura (Zinn.)

eratiosa (Staud.)

lucida (Hiifn.) .....

deleta (Staud.).....

mansueta (Herr.-Schiff.)

iners (Germ.)

eee weer

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Le TER

PRG

2707. pheeosoma, Hmpsn. 488

2708. immaculata ( Morr.) 488

2709. purpurea ( Grote) 489

2710. americana (Morr.) . 489

Ql putay (Grote) ee 490

2712. ralla (Grote & Rob.) 490

213; inops (Grote) rane a 49]

2714. decipiens (Grote) 49]

Austramathes, Hmpsn. ...... 492

2715. purpurea (Butl.) ...... 492

Atethmia we abresp ence ce 493

2716. pampina (Guen.)...... 493

2717. xerampelina (£sp.) 494

2718. ambusta (Schiff) 495

JOChey /FOie. Basel ocosonaen 495

QMO, VULAS OED es weeks) a 496

Brachycosmia, Hmpsn. ...... 496

2720. 50 ly

digitalis (Grote) ...

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Cosmia; Ochs sear 497

2721. aurago (Schiff:)........ 498

222, pallidago (Staud. ) .. 499

2723. siphuncula, Hmpsn..... 499

2724. lutea (Strom) eee 501

2725, fulvago (Linn.) 72.22. 502

2726. tunicata (Gres) Saas

2727. gilvago (Schiff) pees

2728. palleago (Hidbn.) ... 504

2729. ocellaris (Borkh.)...... 505

2730. sulphurago (Schiff.).... 505

2751. cypreago, mpsn. . 806

2732. vulpecula (Led.) ...... 507

2733. rectilineata (Zmpsn.).. 507

2734. citrago (Zinn.).:.... 508

2735. ledereri (Staud.) ...... 508

2736. melonina ( Buti.) . 509

278 . distigmata, Hmpsn. .. 509

2738. albosignata (Moore) .. 510

273 ‘ pulchella (Smith). . 511

2740. approximata, Hmypsn. . emolel

2741. edentata (Leech) ...... 512

2742. divergens (Butl.)...... 512

2742 a. andesica, Hmpsn. .... 517

9743. acuminata (Butd.) . 612

Homogiliea;, Monn acter 513

9744. carbonaria (Harv.) .... 514

9745, hircina (Morr.) ...... 514

2746. californica (Smith) .... 515

2747. insinuata (Smzth) . O15

CATALOGUE

OF

LEPIDOPTERA PHALAN &

Family NOCTUID.

Subfamily CUCULLIAN A.

Proboscis usually well-developed, sometimes aborted or absent ;

palpi usually short, upturned or porrect, the 3rd joint sometimes

long and dilated at extremity, in Xantholeuca rostriform; frons

sometimes with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it,

or with corneous processes of various forms; eyes naked, overhung

by more or less developed bristly cilia from their margins, the eyes

usually large and round, sometimes small and reniform; antenne

usually ciliated, sometimes serrate or pectinated, more rarely

laminated and almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair

and scales when there are usually crests on the pro- and meta-

thorax or a ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only, the

tegule sometimes produced dorsally into a ridge, or in Cucullia and

allies produced behind into a more or less developed hood over the

thorax ; tibize without spines, the fore tibia sometimes with terminal

claws ; the proximal joints of fore tarsi sometimes with a series of

curved claw-like spines; abdomen usually with a series of dorsal

crests or one crest at base. Wings usually rather broad, but often

long and narrow, the termen rounded or crenulate, rarely slightly

angled at middle; fore wing with vein 1 @ weak, not anastomosing

with vein 1 6, 1 ¢ absent; 2 from middle of cell; 3.and5 from near

lower angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with

8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins la

and 6 present, 1 ¢ absent; 3, 4 from lower angle of cell; 5 obso-

lescent from or from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from

VoL. VI. B

2, NOCTUIDA.

upper angle or shortly stalked; 8 arising free, then bent down-

wards and touching the cell, then again diverging. In Thecophore

the male has a very large boat- shaped fovea in the disc of hind

wing, the extremity of “the subcostal nervure being dilated and

played on by the spines of the elongate 1st joint of hind tarsus,

the tibiew being shortened.

The imagos “mostly appear in the autumn or early spring, some-

times hibernating.

Larva smooth, the warts with one hair; all the prolegs present,

the 12th somite with more or less developed dorsal hump, in

Oucullia artemisie there are subdorsal series of double hump-like

warts.

The larvee of Cucullia and allies are usually brightly coloured,

feeding exposed on plants.

Fig. 1.—Larva of Cucullia verbasci.

Key to the Genera.

A. Tegulz more or less strongly produced behind into

a hood.

a. Fore tibie with curved claw on inner side and

shorbiclawaon) outers aradccesesscatscsceeteecteeces Nyctrropumra, p. 83.

6. Fore tibiee with long curved claw on inner side, Copicucunit, p. 9.

c. Fore tibiz with short medial claw at extremity.

a. Frons with truncate prominence ............... Arayromata, p. 82.

b', Frons with slight rounded prominence ...... CueLigauma, p. 15.

d. Fore tibie without claw.

a. Frons with truncate prominence with raised

COBESLEs araccice usec cdaestnecuntce sehesennanian ests BRACHYGALEA p. 8

. Frons with slight rounded prominence. —

a?, Abdomen with dorsal crests//c

‘a. Thorax clothed entir ely with scales ...... NnoGatea, p. 7

. Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like

Rien Koy enmaancacractacloacdocsacoosuorsaanerucd. Cucutrta, p. 14.

Thorax clothed with hair only............ ArGyroGaLna, p. 81.

5 Bases without dorsal crests.

as. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales, meta-

thorax with triangular crest............... OpsIGALEA, p. 84.

4°, Thorax clothed with hair and a few hair-

like scales'' ic. 3. .cvcswetenentereece-heecneesl Eurusapa, p. 85.

c}, Frons without prominence ................0+.0. Loprnormrcss, p. 91.

B. Tegule not produced behind into a hood.

a. Frons with truncate corneous prominence with

raised edges and conical process in centre

hollowed out in front.

a, Fore tibise with curved claw at extremity

ONMNMEL SI COL eeacerp sss seessaoesionesceepiosgcltlces Coprritana, p. 99.

b'. Fore tibize without claw.

a. Fore tarsi with two curved claw-like spines

ONMIStMOINT Es cesradeccnmsnandesmadedcsenes atte JTarpacopnana, p. 115.

Car. Ler, Puan. B. M. vol. vi.J PHYLOGENY OF THE CUCULLIANA, [To face p. 2,

Neogalea. Brachygatea. Copicucullia. Cheligalea. Euscotia. Graptolitha, Behrensia. Xylotype.

1

Cneullia. Lithophane, Xylina, Eurotype.

Argyrogalea. Argyromata. Nuycteropheta, Opsigalea. Dichonia. Pleroma. Thecophora. Daseuplexia.

Lophoterges. Neumichtis. Nyctycia. Dryobota. Meganephria. Pachypolia. Lamprosticta, _Agriopis.

Empusada, _Callierges. Dryotype. _Derthisa.

Copiphana. Aporophyla. Eumichtis. Valeria. Xylinissa.

a |

Cleophana. Metalopha. Amephana. Omphalophana, Oxicesta, Pseudanthecia. Harpagophana. Metopoceras. Ammetopa. Protophana, Criophasia. Chloantha. Antitype. Rhizotype. Sydiva. Athaumasta. Bryotype. Harpaglea. Elvesia.

|

Phodochlena. Dpidemas. Hypotype. Blepharidia. Epiglea. Bhynchaglea. Eupsilia. Psectraglea. Xantholeuca.

| |

Leucochlena, Lepipolys, Cerapoda. Psaphida. Bombycia. Bryomima, Trichoridia. Sympistis. Cleipolia. Grammoscelis. Atethmia.

| r | |

Ulochlena. Charidea, Oncocnemis. Ectochela. Copitarsia. Feralia. Brachionycha. Butolype. Brachylomia. Litholomia, Hillia, Dasysternum. Hypnotype. Hypsophila. Dasypolia. Conistra. Omphaloscelis. Jodia. Brachycosmia,

Hypomecia. Calophasia. Andesia. : Homoncocnemis. Homohadena. Pseudanarta. Momaphana. Lathosea. Copitype. Copipanolis. Caffristis. Dasythorax. = = Amaties. Austramathes. Cosmiu.

Homoglea.

W

CUCULLIAN 4%.

6°. Fore tarsi without claw-like spines on Ist

joint.

a>. Thorax clothed with hair and scales

HAPS coboqcogodaosoqgoSoodaonSocadceQsoNGBDE Meropoceras, p. 116.\

2°. Thorax clothed with hair only............ CLHOPHANA, p. 97.

6. Frons with truncate corneous prominence with

raised edges and trilobate process from lower

GBkR2)” savsnodasdocadebioouddosossonadédecseosducbbduo0q00 Meraopna, p. 105. '

c. Frons with truncate corneous prominence with

raised edges and shovel-shaped process from

lower edge.

a, Head and thorax clothed with hair and

scales mixed and without crests ............... AnmeEtopa, p. 120.

o!. Head and thorax clothed with hair only and

‘WIM, (AEST) Gonncadeoaaaadeades sopsadousstedoonoscoUnE Amepuana, p. 106. }

d. Frons with corneous prominence with raised

edges and no process.

a, Head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales. Grammoscetts, p. 468. |

6'. Head and thorax clothed with hair only...... OmpPHALoscELis, p. 469. !

e. Frons with small truncate conical prominence... Crioprasta, p. 122.)

f. Frons with rounded prominence with corneous

jolts lnalOyi7 tlh. so5c5odobocdeso6bades SS ;ondacbeadponuiacuc Onernatornana, p. 109.7

g. Frons with rounded prominence roughened im

front.

a’, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests ......... Deyoryen, p. 228.

b!. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only.

GP, IPROOOGIS DOE cososuosnosacosdovaoduccooseqqson Derrutsa, p. 229. C

62, Proboscis fully developed ................00008 Aporopnyna, p. 254.

h. Frons smooth.

al. Fore tibiz with curved claw at extremity.

a, Frons with rounded prominence ............ Corrryen, p. 206.

22, Frons without prominence.

a3, Frons with curved corneous plate below it. Psnupanruacta, p. 114.

3, Frons without corneous plate below it.

a’, Tegule produced to a slight dorsal

ridge.

a. Fore tibiz short with short claw on

outer side and long claw on inner ;

thorax clothed chiefly with scales... Leprronys, p. 145.

5, Fore tibiz with Jong claw on inner

side only ; thorax clothed with hair. Bracutonycua, p. 202.

b4. Tecule not produced to a dorsal ridge.

a. Fore tibiz with corneous plate at

ima)

cu

extremity.

a6, Thorax clothed with rough scales ;

/ abdomen with dorsal crests ......... Psaruipa, p. 207.

is. Thorax clothed with hair and hair-

likerscalles)< 2eascwesceseacucsnseneaantnnee Evrotyeg, p. 210.

c&, Thorax clothed with hair only ...... Coprpranouis, p. 218.

6°, Fore tibiee without corneous plate at

extremity.

a6, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales... Oncocymmis, p. 145.

o6. Thorax clothed with hair and _ hair-

like seales.

a’, Pro- and metathorax with spread-

INPVCLEStSI saciceco kine ceeasaeeueeeeeaer Ectocueta, p. i79.

é7, Pro- and metathorax without

OTESES: Seals saeedsadad case dealt .... Homoncocyemis, p. 180.

61, Fore tibiee without claw at extremity.

a2, Fore tarsi with curved claw-like spines on

outer side of Ist joint.

NOCTUID,

a®, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales; ab-

domen with dorsal crest at base only... Crrapopa, p. 181.

28, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like

scales mixed with some scales ; abdomen

with dorsal crest at base only ......... ... CorrrarsiA, p. 183.

©, Thorax clothed with hair only ; abdomen

without crests.

a4, Prothorax with triangular crest. ...... Harpacima, p. 429

+4, Thorax without distinct crest ......... PsrctraGuma, p. 439.

é2, Fore tarsi without claw-like spines on

outer side of Ist: joint. _

a8, Proboscis aborted, non-functional.

a4, Thorax clothed with rough hair and

scales and with spreading crests.

a®, Proboscis absent; fore wing with

the termen non-crenulate ............ Epipemas, p. 215.

b5, Proboscis weak; fore wing with the

LermMenlcrenwlavejumseseaesseccss ces Ruopocute#na, p. 131.

b4, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like

scales.

a>, Eyes small, reniform; thorax with

slight triangular crest ..............065 Bracuycosmia, p. 496.

05, Eyes large, rounded; thorax with

spreading crestsiicn.outeseroreose sence Lrvcocuiana, p. 132.

c4. Thorax clothed with hair only.

a°, Eyes small, elliptical.

CAS, MOVE) Saar ABRNORONY Borddoosaoosdonooqode Crerrorta, p. 421.

6, Fore wing broad, triangular ......... Forauia, p. 196.

b5, Eyes large, rounded.

a’, Metathorax with double crest ; pa-

tagia curled up at extremities ...... Oxicxsta, p. 112.

06, Thorax without crests; patagia

normal.

a’. Fore wing narrow, the costa rather

CONCAVE hesad accuse ces ccpane soatesises Unocuimna, p. 137.

7. Fore wing broad, the costa arched. Dasyrouta, p. 422.

83. Proboscis fully developed.

a4, Tegule produced into a more or less

prominent dorsal ridge,

a, Palpi with the 3rd joint long and

dilated at extremity.

a’, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests,

MOtstlat bened a aaenenasescsceeseerceeter Evscoria, p. 241.

b6. Abdomen flattened, without dorsal

series of crests.

a7, Fore wing with the termen and

cilia very highly crenulate......... Etvexsia, p. 434.

b7, Fore wing with the termen very

slizhtly crenulates.cs.ccc.m=-eseeseess RuyncuaGuma, p. 435.

b5, Palpi with the 3rd joint short.

aS, Abdomen dorsally flattened.

a7. Palpi not forming a beak.

a?. Thorax clothed with hair and

hair-like scales.

a9, Prothorax with divided crest ... Graprouitua, p. 246.

29, Prothorax without distinct crest. Xyina, p. 280.

és, ‘Nhorax clothed with hair only.

a, Prothorax with triangular

crest.

@0, Fore wing with the termen

CLEDUl atom penceessnaeeeaess .. Hurst, p. 436.

CUCULLIAN &.

610, Fore wing with the termen

evenlypclinyodenmnssasrenne 0

49. Prothorax without distinct:

crest.

a0, Abdomen very broad and

much flattened ...............

b10, Abdomen normal, slightly

flatbenedeepeeeereeepece nce

67, Palpi produced at extremity into a

beak ; prothorax with triangular

OLE coscosoaconoandodvosononenudDNOKood

b6. Abdomen not dorsally flattened.

a, Prothorax with divided crest ......

7. Prothorax with distinct spreading

crest.

a8. Palpi with the 3rd joint upturned.

a. Abdomen with dorsal crests.

a0, Thorax smoothly clothed with

scalesand with distinct crests.

b10, Thorax rougbly clothed with

long scales and hair, with

slight crests.

a, Abdomen with large fan-

shaped crest on 2nd segment.

61, Abdomen without large crest

One2ndusesmentir cases

29, Abdomen without dorsal crests.

68, Palpi with the 5rd joint porrect.

a? Head and thorax clothed chiefly

withyscalestimensaemeneaceee ccs

o9. Head and thorax clothed with

hair and hair-like scales.........

ci, Prothorax with ridge-like crest.

a8. Fore wing with the termen crenu-

late; angled at veim 4. .2.7...:.....-

os, Fore wing with the termen not

crenulate, oblique towards tornus.

di, Prothorax without distinct crest.

a8, Abdomen with dorsal crests.

a9’. Fore wing with the termen

Obliquelyicurved|yecnsececce steer:

69. Fore wing triangular, the termen

WWAKONR=) CLEGG SososooucboooogospqRccbN

68, Abdomen without dorsal crests...

b4, Tegule not produced into a distinct

dorsal ridge.

a>, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal

segments.

a®, Thorax clothed with hair and scales

mixed.

ai, Kyes rather small.

a8. Thorax smoothly clothed with

Scales stewie ine ceosnemenaasseucns

68. Thorax clothed with long rough

scales.

a. Frons with curved corneous plate

beloweercsihsncris section eepeeeascces

belo wares iso Ua ten Ge em erty ea

c8. Thorax clothed with hair and

hair=likerscalesimevesceseoncecesen:

Epica, p. 432.

ConistRA, p. 445.

AMATHES, p. £70.

XANTHOLEUCA, p. 441.

LirHopuann, p. 249.

XyLotyr#, p. 288.

Benreysi, p. 287.

Evroryes, p. 289.

Hypnoryrs, p. 411.

Dicnonta, p. 292.

CALLIERGES, p. 93.

ATETHMIA, p. 493.

Jopta, p. 495.

Purroma, p. 295.

Nevumicutis, p. 298.

CaLoruastia, p. 123.

Nyctycia, p. 299.

Protopuana, p. 121.

Tuxcornora, p. 301.

Dryopora, p. 302.

NOCTUID A.

7, yes large.

a8, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales.

a. Fore femora greatly dilated ......

0%. Fore femora not dilated.

al0, Thorax quadrately scaled.

a, Prothorax with divided crest.

du, Prothorax with spreading

a, Thorax with divided ridge-

IWUES) GRESE cabosaaoneodacodaonon00s

64, Pro- and metathorax with

spreading crests.

a, Fore wing broad, the apex

not produced.

als, Thorax clothed chiefly with

large rounded scales......

613, Thorax clothed with small

scales and hair ............

}, Fore wing narrow, the apex

somewhat produced.

a8, Thorax smoothly scaled ...

613, Thorax rather roughly

clothed with scales ......

68, Thorax clothed with rough spatu-

late scales and hair ...............

c8, Thorax clothed with hair with a

few scales; oaixed) (i n3. secs

66, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-

like scales.

ai. Palpi with the 3rd joint very long,

dilated at extremity and porrect...

7, Palpi with the 3rd joint short.

. a, Thorax with divided crest; fore

wing with the termen crenulate.

68. Thorax with spreading crest; fore

wing with the termen non-

a

~

crenullate siser nose sqcaycerecenes sists

c&, Thorax clothed with hair only ......

5°, Abdon en with dorsal crest at base

only.

a’, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales.

a, Prothorax with divided crest ......

. 67, Pro- and metathorax with spread-

ing crests.

a’, Fore wing long and narrow, the

termen not crenulate ............

8. Fore wing short and broad.

a. Fore wing with the termen

crenulate.

a, Frons with transverse ridge of

SCalestarsemecemeeeecenccceecest

610, Frons without transverse ridge

ofiscales aeercmsenesisnectecer

19, Fore wing with the termen not

crenulate.

a, Palpi upturned, reaching ver-

bexsofsheadWeencer emcees

610, -Palpi porrect, short ............

c’., Pro- and metathorax without crests.

Agerioris, p. 317.

DasEvrLexia, p. 303.

MeGANEPuRIA, p. 305.

Pacnypo.ta, p. 311.

Lamprosticra, p. 313.

Evumicutis, p. 321.

Xyuinissa, p. 355.

Psrupanarra, p. 193.

Vauerta, p. 347.

ANTITYPE, p. 307.

Sypiva, p. 378.

Rurzoryrn, p. 373.

Bompycta, p. 217.

Larnosna, p. 205.

Bryoryrr, p. 382.

CLoanTHa, p. 239.

Cuaripea, p. 140.

ATIHAUMASTA, p. 380.

AnpustA, p. 142.

Bracuytomia, p. 220.

Hyroryen, p. 384.

cf

NEOGALEA,.

66, Thorax clothed with hair witha few

scales mixed, and without distinct

CHESS arecemee ays eet eee Ete anes nats Bryon, p. 086.

c6, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-

like scales and with spreading crests

on pro-and metathorax ............ Biernarivia, p. 394.

d6. Thorax clothed with hair only and

without distinct crests.

aw, Kore wing with the termen crenu-

Larter shart eanes aoc eeeperiet eseiss TricnorIDIA, p. 400.

7, Fore wing with the termen evenly

Cunvedeeereer eas Page cuiacies Syaataaeeee Dasysternun, p. 407.

©, Abdomen without dorsal crest

a®, Eyes small, reniform.

a, Thorax clothed with hair and

SCALES oH ter swsmauniciisarietanesseseese se Synprstis, p. 412.

67, Thorax clothed with hair only...... Hyrsopurna, p. 418.

0°. Eyes large, rounded.

ai, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales.

a°, Fore wing narrow, the apex pro-

n

duced eae tocdreccc vse eacnaet eae Hyromecta, p. 94.

6°, Fore wing broader, the apex and

termen rounded... ........ Seen Homonapena, p. lt

i, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-

like scales.

«@, Thorax clothed with rough hair

and hair-like scales ............... Momarnana, p. 199.

08. Thorax smoothly clothed with

hair and hair-like scales.

a’. Prothorax with divided crest ... Austramatues, p. 492.

6°, Prothorax with large spreading

CRESE Mails caisiidne lee coin eciactnatsaes Hinra, p. 224..

¢’. Prothorax with slight crest ...... Lirnonomta, p. 222.

c, Thorax clothed with hair only.

a, Thorax with ridge-like crest ...... Costa, p. 497.

08. Thorax without crests.

a, Palpi upturned, reaching vertex

of head.

@°, Fore wing narrow, the apex

somewhat produced, the ter-

men obliquely curved ......... Carrristis, p. 227.

10, Fore wing broad, the apex and

termenmouncleduresemeeers ... Dasyrnorax, p. 426.

69. Palpi porrect, short ............ ... Homoerma, p. 514

Genus NEOGALEA, nov.

Type, WV. braziliensis.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint broadly

sealed in front; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate

below it ; antenne of male nearly simple; head and thorax clothed with scales

only, the tegule produced behind into a hood aud to a dorsal ridge; tibiee

broadly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments.

Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

S NOCTUID®,

2058. Neogalea braziliensis, n. sp.

@. Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark brown scales ;

frons with blackish band ; tegule with dark lines near base and at

middle; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally

irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated and

suffused with brown; the veins with slight dark streaks; the

antemedial line represented by slight dark streaks below costa and

in and below cell; postmedial line double and bent outwards below

costa, then represented by a series of slight dark streaks connected

by a very ill-defined line; the terminal area with slight dark

streaks in the interspaces ; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind

wing semihyaline white ; the costal area and veins of terminal halt

brown; the terminal area brown, narrowing to tornus cilia.

white, entirely brown at apex, and with their bases brown on

apical half.

Hab. Braztt, Rio Janeiro, 1 2 type. Hap. 36 millim.

Genus BRACHYGALEA, nov.

Type, B. leucorhabda.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed

with long hair in front; frons with truncate prominence with raised edges ;

antenne of male almost simple; tegulze produced behind into a slight hood ;

head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales; tibize fringed with

hair; abdomen with slight dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing

with the apex somewhat produced and the termen obliquely rounded, veins.

3 & 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from LO anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle

of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ;

8 anastomosing with cell near base only.

2059. Brachygalea leucorhabda, n. sp.

Head and thorax clothed with white and fuscous scales mixed ;

tegule with blackish line near base and two lines filled in with

white towards tips; abdomen white irrorated with brown. Fore

wing bluish white very thickly irrorated with fuscous; the veins

streaked with black; a white fascia below base of cell, defined

above and below by fine black streaks confluent with the very

elongate black-defined claviform ; a white fascia in cell from before

middle to extremity defined by fine black streaks and with a fine

streak through its middle, confluent with a small white mark at

BRACHYGALEA.—COPICUCULLIA. 9

lower angle of cell; some white points on costa towards apex ; the

interspaces of terminal area with blackish streaks and with short.

oblique white streaks below veins 7, 6, 4,3. Hind wing fuscous,

Fig. 5.—Brachygalea leucorhabda, S. }.

the interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white except at base ;

the underside white irrorated with fuscous.

Hab. Ateuria, Biskra (Walsingham), 235, 2 9, type. vp.

34 millim.,

Genus COPICUCULLIA. Te

Copicucuilia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 84 (1894) ........ , eulepis.

Proboscis tully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long

hair in front ; frons with slightly roughened prominence with corneous plate

below it; eyes large, rounded; antennz simple in both sexes; head and

thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegule produced behind into-

a hood, the pro- and metathorax with slight erests; fore tibia with curved

claw on inner side; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore

wing with the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin lobed near base ;

veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto-

mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4

from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7

from upper angle or stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform distinctly defined.

a. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white.................. antipoda.

6. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey .........2-2.0.06+ propingua.

B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform obsolete.

a. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey.

w', Fore wing with black streak from postmedial line to

termen at vein 2.

a’, Kore wing with black streak on medial part of inner

margin.

a®, Fore wing with the postmedial line present ......... eulepis.

6°. Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolete ......... astigina.

6°, Fore wing without black streak on medial part of

Tobaleye eT eh Wen haem uer ocr sran ad ee bdcosbricsondodted subek osaeocaoanS alfarata.

b'. Fore wing with two obliquely-placed subterminal black

Marks belowsvermi2 stasunscuec eae se eee ee eee eae syrtana.

6, Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous white.....:...... naruenensis.

ce. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous yellow............ subluted.

2060. Copicucullia antipoda. (Plate XCVI. fig. 16.)

Cucullia antipoda, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 129 (1878) ; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 236.

6. Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown ;

10 NOCTUIDE.

frons reddish brown; tegule with black medial line and brown

tips ; patagia edged with brown above; tibisw with black streak ;

abdomen tinged with pale brown and irrorated with dark brown,

the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing violaceous white, irrorated

with purplish brown; subbasal short black streaks below costa, in

and below cell ; antemedial line very strongly angled outwards below

costa and cell and above inner margin where there is an oblique

dark streak beyond it; claviform small, incompletely defined by black;

orbicular and reniform small and close together, incompletely defined

by black and with some black marks round their centres; postmedial

line bent outwards below costa, then almost obsolete to vein 2,

forming almost a W-mark in submedian interspace, then very

strongly angled outwards on vein 1, some pale points beyond it on

costa; the interspaces of terminal area with diffused dark streaks ;

subterminal line represented by slight, somewhat dentate marks,

a more prominent streak above vein 6, a short streak above vein 4,

and two below vein 2; a terminal series of black striz ; cilia with

two brown lines through them. Hind wing white, the veins and

termen brown; the underside irrorated with brown.

Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia, Pantecton (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 ¢ ;

U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢, Arizona. Exp. 42 millim.

2061. Copicucullia propinqua.

Copicucullia propingua, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe, xxi. p. 85, pl. iv.

f. 11 (1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 173.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown; tegule

with medial black line; tibie striped with black; abdomen with

the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with

brown; the veins and submedian fold with blackish streaks; the

interspaces of terminal area with diffused brown streaks; ante-

medial line very indistinct, strongly dentate outwards in interspaces

Fig. 4.—-Copicucullia propingua 3g.

and with an oblique black streak beyond it above inner margin ;

claviform very indistinctly defined by black and with slight pale

streak beyond it; orbicular and reniform small, close together,

defined by black and with some blackish marks in centre, the

former round; postmedial line indistinct, hardly traceable between

veins 7 and 2, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in sub-

median fold and outwards on vein 1; subterminal line represented

by a series of slight dentate marks, a more prominent streak above

COPICUCULLIA. 11

vein 6 and oblique streak below vein 2; a terminal series of black

strie; cilia with two brown lines through them. Hind wing

white, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown,

most strongly in female; cilia white; the underside white irrorated

with brown and with the veins brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver (Bruce, Cockerell, Oslar), 4 3,

5 2, Durango, 1 2, Glenwood Springs, 1 @. vp. 42-50 millim.

*2062. Copicucullia eulepis.

Cleophana culepis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. iii. p. 86 (1875); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 256.

@. Whitish grey ; tegule with black line at base; metathorax

with the spreading crest blackish on outer sides ; abdomen without

crests. Fore wing whitish at base; the ante- and postmedial lines

oblique, indistinct ; the veins slightly marked with black ; orbicular

and reniform absent; a black streak on inner margin between the

ante- and postmedial lines, the latter double, obsolescent except

towards costa and inner margin, with a black streak from it to

termen at vein 2 and some white points beyond it on costa; a

wedge-shaped black mark from termen below vein 4. Hind wing

blackish fuseous, paler at base; the cilia white; the underside pale

fuscous, the marginal areas irrorated with grey.

Hab, U.S.A., Oregon, California. vp. 35 millim. This species

is unknown to me.

2063. Copicucullia astigma. (Plate XCVI. fig. 17.)

Copicucullia astigma, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 85, pl. iv. f. 8

(1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 173.

Q. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with black

bar above; tegule with black line near base; tibie striped with

black; abdomen grey irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged

with brown. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with brown ;

the veins finely streaked with black; a fine black streak in sub-

median fold from base to the oblique black fascia from submedian

fold beyond middle to termen at vein 2; a black fascia on inner

~ margin from before middle to near tornus; short black streaks

above veins 6 and 4; cilia white with two brown lines through them.

Hind wing pale nearly uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia white

with a brown line near base; the underside whitish irrorated with

brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 9. Hap.

46 millim,

*2064. Copicucullia alfarata.

Cucullia alfarata, Streck. Lep., Rhop. & Het., Suppl. 1, p. 9 (1898);

Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 178.

Pale grey ; tegule with black lines and tips; abdomen white

with the crests and three terminal segments brown. Fore wing

2 NOCTUID®,

with black streak below cell to antemedial line which is strongly

angled outwards in the interspaces; orbicular and reniform absent;

postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin,

strongly incuryed and defined by black in submedian interspace,

with a black streak from it to termen at vein 2; veins black; the

costal area with a dark shade; an oblique dark subapical shade;

a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing white with brown

terminal band; cilia white.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, St. Augustine. wp. 40 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

2065. Copicucullia syrtana. (Plate XCVI. fig. 18.)

Cucullia syrtana, Mab. Bull, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 51; id. Nov. Lep.

p. 65, pl. xi. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown; tegule:

with black line near base, two mediai lines and a line at tips:

tibize slightly streaked with black; abdomen ochreous white

irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged with ochreous

in parts, irrorated and more or less suffused with black ; the veins.

streaked with black; a black streak in base of submedian fold; °

antemedial line almost obsolete towards costa, very strongly angled

outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards

on vein 1; postmedial line obsolete except below vein 2, where it

is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ;

a series of diffused short streaks in the interspaces running obliquely

from termen below apex to lower angle of cell; two short sub-

terminal streaks below vein 2. Hind wing whitish, the veins and

terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside whitish irrorated

with fuscous.

Hab. AtcEria, Biskra (Walsingham), 2 3, 5 23; Cawnarizs,.

Teneriffe. Hxp. 34-42 millim.

2066. Copicucullia naruenensis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 19.)

Cucullia naruenensis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 322; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 216.

Cucullia ewmorpha, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 847 (1893); id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 218,

JB, To tle eh

Cucullia dimorpha, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 268 (1896).

Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white mixed with fuscous

brown; frons with two black bars, vertex of head with one ;

tegule with slight line near base, a prominent black medial line

followed by two slight lines and brown tips; metathoracic crest

dark at tips; abdomen with the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing

ereyish white irrorated and suffused in parts with fuscous; the

veins, submedian fold, and cell with dark streaks, the last forking

at extremity;°a prominent black streak below base of cell ;

subbasal line represented by two slight strix from costa and one

from cell; antemedial line very highly angled outwards in the

COPICUCULLIA.—CHELIGALEA. 13

interspaces and inwards on the veins; reniform represented by

sight brownish outlines to centre and circumference, with an

ill-defined oblique striga from costa above it; postmedial line bent

outwards below costa, then obsolete to submedian fold and angled

outwards on vein | and forming a black streak on middle of inner

margin; some black strize on costa tewards apex; an oblique series

of short black streaks from termen below apex to above middle of

vein + and another series from termen above vein 3, with a more

prominent streak below vein 2 connected with the streak in

submedian fold; a terminal series of slight black strie; cilia

whitish with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing ochreous

whitish, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia

white ; the underside white with slight discoidal spot.

Ab. 1. dimorpha. Fore wing with more distinct dark markings.

—Uliassutai.

Ab. 2. ewmorpka. More ochreous white.—Kaschgar, Aksu.

Hab, 8.K. Russia, Nariin; W.Turxesrayn, Issyk Kul; E.Turxe-

stan, Kaschgar, Ili, Lob Nor, 1 9; Moneotra, Uliassutai, Aksu,

26. Kzwp., 3 42, 2 44 millim.

2067. Copicucullia sublutea. (Plate XCVI. fig. 20.)

Cucullia sublutea, Gres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 312; Piimg. Iris, xiv.

pl. i. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow; frons, vertex

of head, tegule, and mesothorax with rufous bars; metathoracic

crest tipped with rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow; a

rufous streak below base of cell; a rufous streak on inner margin

from before middle to tornus; an oblique series of short rufous

streaks from termen below apex to lower angle of cell and another

series from termen below vein 4 to vein 1 beyond middle. Hind

wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with rufous; the

underside whiter.

Hab, EK, Turxestan, Kaschgar, type + Q in Coll. Piingeler ; Mon-

eotta, W. Gobi Desert, 1 $. Ep. 34 millim.

Genus CHELIGALEA, nov.

Type, C. scoparie.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with

long hair; frons with shght rounded prominence with corneous plate below

it; eyes large, rounded; antennz almost simple; head, and thorax clothed

with hair and hair-like scales; tegule produced behind into a hood; meta-

thorax with crest; tibie fringed with long hair, the fore tibie: with small

medial terminal claw covered by a tuft of hair; abdomen dorsally crested on

basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rather produced and

the termen oblique , veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper

angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 fromcell. Hind

wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle

of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near

base only.

14 NOCTUID A.

2068. Cheligaiea scopariz.

Cucullia scoparie, Dorfm. Verh. zool.-bot. Wien, 1855, p. 413; Herr.-

Schiff. Neue Schmett. p. 11, #75; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax brown and grey; tegule with white medial

band edged with black; metathoracic crests tipped with black ;

abdomen ochreous, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface

Fig. 5.—Cheligalea scoparie, 3. 4.

whitish. Fore wing pale brown; the basal costal area suffused

with white ; the subbasal line represented by dark striz from costa

and cell; antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards

on vein |; the inner medial area suffused with white; orbicular

and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by

black, the former round, the latter with the annulus indistinct ;

a diffused black medial shade from costa to median nervure, then

a slight waved line; postmedial line waved, bent outwards below

costa and incurved below vein 4, with slight black streak beyond it

above vein 4; subterminal line diffused whitish, angled outwards

at vein 7 and middle with slight black streaks before it below

costa and beyond it below vein 2; a terminal series of small black

lunules with some whitish before them. Hind wing yellowish, the

veins and terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Avserta, Zeller, Frey and Leech Colls.; Hungary; Sryria,

Leech Coll.; 8S. Russta; Armenra; W. Srper1a?; EK. Srperta,

Amurland, Crowley Coll. Hep. 62-40 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. and Moths Eur. p. 259.

Zeddish brown or brownish green; dorsal line pale; oblique

lateral pale red streaks ; a broad white lateral fascia. Food-plant,

Artemisia scoparia.

Genus CUCULLIA.

Type.

Cucullia, Schrank, Faun. Boica, ii. (2) p. 157 (1802)............... PR,

Euderea, Hitbn. Verz. p. 245 (1827) ......cesectcseeensencneneeveeres asteris. ©

Eucalimia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 245 (1827)... cece ec eceeeeneceeeeeetes gnaphalii.

Callenia; Hub. Verz: p) 246 (1827) conse scecesessteceenecescomslel wmbratica.

Argyritis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 (1827) .........sseseceeesseeeceeeeenee artemisic.

Rancora, Smith, Ent. News. iii. p. 253 (1892); id. Trans. Am.

IBi My SHOIO> S'S, [Oy Cotss (UKe$49))!" TesdpqoooandacadaiodpabaedangnbadnAvcacbacc strigata.

Tribonophora, Hubn. Tent. ined. ...........-scernerereecesceeee S1 065000 umbratica.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair on both

sides; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; antenne

typically almost simple in both sexes; head and thorax clothed with hair and

hair-like scales, the tegule produced behind to a hood, the metathorax with

CUCULLIA. 15.

double crest ; tibize fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal

crests on basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced, the

termen oblique; veins 3 & 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below angle of disco-

cellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Seer. I. (Rancora). Antenne of male strongly serrate, of female minutely

serrate.

A. Thorax dorsally blackish; patagia broadly edged with

lola @le GONADS: coscosanudocodaboocoqobcaonobnponosHaapanoceupoaaoudeD strigata.

B. Thorax dorsally dark brown; patagia narrowly edged

Willa [ORO EVOKE) Gogsenboosenassoensouooodedoo76599b00RR00506 serraticornis.

CA lnoraxaclonsallllysor ey en eesseecsesciecrseescercnrrcccercececes brucei.

2069. Cucullia strigata. (Plate XCVI. fig. 21.)

Rancora strigata, Smith, Ent. News, iil. p. 253, pl. x. f. 1 (1892); id.

Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 85; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 173.

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with grey-brown; tegulee with

black line near base, traces of a medial line and blackish tips ;

upper edge of patagia and dorsum of thorax blackish ; abdomen

dark brown slightly mixed with grey, the dorsal crests blackish.

Fore wing dark purplish grey slightly suffused with fuscous; a

black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line which js

indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards

on the veins ; orbicular and reniform very small, indistinctly and

incompletely defined by black, the former rather elongate elliptical

and connected with the antemedial line by slight streaks, the latter-

with minute black lunule beyond it; postmedial line represented

by a series of indistinct, minute, dentate blackish marks connected

by traces of a waved line, bent outwards below costa and oblique

below vein 4; a black streak above basal part of vein 4 with oblique

series of streaks from its extremity to termen below apex; a streak

above extremity of vein 3 and oblique streak below vein 2, with

traces of shorter streaks above and below it; a fine yale line at

base of cilia. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the:

veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous; the underside with the.

costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a black streak in

cell and small discoidal lunule.

Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Victoria; U.S.A., Washington,

Almota (Piper), 1 $. Hep. 52 millim.

2070. Cucullia serraticornis.

Cucullia servaticornis, Lintn. Ent. Cont. iti. p. 174 (1874); Grote, Check-

List, pl. i. f. 10; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 238.

Cucullia matricarié, Behr. Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 94 (1874).

$- Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown -

frons with black bar; tegule with black line near base, two dark

medial lines and dark tips; dorsum of thorax and upper edge of

16 NOCTUIDE.

patagia dark brown; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with red-

brown, the crests dark. Fore wing purplish grey slightly irrorated

with brown; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from

costa: a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line

which is indistinctly double and very strongly angied outwards in

the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform

very small and indistinctly defined by dark scales ; postmedial line

somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below

vein 4, with a distinct dentate dark mark on a whitish streak in

submedian fold; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen where

Fig. 6.—Cucullia serraticornis, §. 1.

it is met by an oblique series of short streaks from termen below

apex; short streaks above extremities of veins 3 and 2, and an

oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 to a slight streak in sub-

median fold beyond the postmedial line; cilia intersected with

fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, and

termen tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the costal area

irrorated with brown, a black streak on median nervure and small

discoidal lunule.

2. Fore wing suffused with brown; hind wing nearly uniformly

suffused with reddish brown.

Hab, U.S.A., California, Sanzalito (Behrens), 3 5,12. EHuxp.,

3 46, 2 50 millim.

2071. Cuculiia brucei. (Plate XCVI. fig. 22.)

Rancora brucei, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 156 (1903),

©. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown ;

tegule with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown

tips; patagia slightly edged with brown above; abdomen red-

brown mixed with grey. Fore wing purplish grey, suffused and

irrorated with dark brown; a prominent black streak in submedian

fold to the antemedial line which is very indistinct, strongly angled

outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; faint traces

of minute orbicular and reniform stigmata ; postmedial line obsolete

except below vein 2 where it is oblique and sinuous; a prominent

black streak above basal half of vein 4 with slight streaks between

it and termen below apex, slight streaks above extremities of veins

3, 2 and a prominent oblique streak below vein 2, dilated in sub-

median fold. Hind wing pale uniformly suffused and irrorated

lod

CUCULLIA. 17

with brown; cilia white; the underside grey strongly irrorated

with brown, a black streak in cell connected wilh a black discoidal

lunule.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 9. Evp. 52 millim.

Sucr. IT. Antenne: of male minutely serrate.

A. Fore wing grey suffused with brown.............cc.ccceeeeen ee solidaginis.

B. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey ............... albicinerea.

C. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish white......... albida,

2072. Cucullia solidaginis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 23.)

Cucullia solidaginis, Behr. Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 94 (1874); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 239.

Head and thorax purplish grey largely mixed with dark brown ;

frons with blackish bar; tegule with black line near base, two

slight medial lines and dark tips; dorsum of thorax dark brown ;

abdomen dark brown slightly irrorated with grey. Fore wing

purple-erey thickly irrorated and suffused with dark brown; the

veins streaked with black ; a black streak in submedian fold, promi-

nent to the antemedial line which is strongly angled outwards in

the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ;

two slight streaks in end of cell; postmedial line obsolete to vein 2,

then oblique and angled outwards on vein |; a black streak above

vein 4, with slight streaks between its extremity and termen below

apex ; slight streaks above extremities of veins 3 and 2 and an

oblique streak below vein 2. Hind wing pale, almost wholly

suffused with brown, the cilia white with slight brown line at base;

the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black streak in cell

and shght discoidal lunule.

Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Osoyoos, 1 ¢; U.S.A.,S. California,

19. ep. 50 millim.

2073. Cucullia albicinerea.

Rancora albicinerea, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 137 (1903).

Head and thorax bluish white mixed with brown; frons with

blackish bar ; tegulee with black line near base, traces of two medial

Fig. 7.—Cucullia albicinerea, S. 3}.

lines and blackish tips; dorsum of thorax blackish; abdomen dark

brown irrorated with grey, or bluish white irrorated with brown,

VOL. VI. c

18 NOCTUID®.

the crests blackish. Fore wing bluish white irrorated and slightly

suffused with fuscous; the veins streaked with black; a black

streak in submedian fold, prominent to the antemedial line, which is

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins, very

strongly in submedian interspace and on vein 1; two slight streaks

in end of cell; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then

waved, obsolescent to vein 2, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a

black streak above vein 4, with others between its extremity and

termen below apex; slight streaks above extremity of veins 3 and 2

and an oblique streak below vein 2; cilia chequered fuscous and

white. Hind wing white, more or less completely irrorated with

brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown; cilia

white with a brown line near base; the underside with more or

less developed black streak in cell and small discoidal lunule.

Hab, Canava, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 2 9, Vancouver I.

(W. H. Danby), 1 o; U.S.A:, Colorado (Cockerell), 2g. Exp.

5V roillim, :

*2074, Cucullia albida. (Plate XCVI. fig. 24.)

Cucullia albida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 84, pl. iv. f. 9 (1894) ;

Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 172.

g. White with a faint yellowish tinge; palpi at sides and vertex

of head fuscous ; tegule with the base fuscous defined by a black

line, a slight dark medial line, the tips rather broadly fuscous ;

thorax dorsally fuscous; abdomen with the dorsal crests fuscous.

Fore wing with the veins blackish; the lines obsolete; a black

streak below base of cell to an elongate clearer white mark repre-

senting the claviform ; orbicular and reniform obsolete ; a series of

rather broad dark streaks in the interspaces of terminal area, the

streak above vein 4 longest ; cilia intersected with fuscous. Hind

wing whitish with a faint fuscous tinge, the veins darker ; cilia

white ; the underside white irrorated with grey, a black streak in

cell extending nearly to the discoidal lunule.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Exp, 40 millim, This species

is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J. B.

Smith.

Sucr. IIT. Antenne almost simple in both sexes.

A. Fore wing with silvery white markings.

a. Fore wing withthe reniform obliterated by a silvery-

wWihite patch og: ids nenscseccerr nce eeceeuseeceaeescere magnifica,

6, Fore wing with the reniform not obliterated by a

Silivenyewiliitempabclyyeseaetadsese ceteceactiensosee tits Jancousct.

B. Fore wing without silvery-white markings.

a. Fore wing without distinct dark fascia on middle

of inner margin.

a, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform more

or less distinctly defined.

a?, Fore wing with the reniform filled in with

LY as aria nn AR eae G anon BRERA GoACEneETocacuaT spectahilis,

CUCULLIA,

0°, Fore wing with the reniform not filled in

with black.

Fore wing with the postmedial line angled

outwards at vein 5, then almost straight

AHL marnuenn conan anemnoddceeend cacoNaEsBadaogne

3, Fore wing with the postmedial line irregular

towards inner margin.

a4, Fore wing with distinct white annulus

(WO) See poMU RON ETAY (Gap ecooocscadosoKs Gensoosoeacenc

v4, Fore wing without distinet ‘white annulus

to reniform.

a, Fore wing with prominent subterminal

black fascize above veins 6, 4, 1.

a’, Fore wing the orbicular and reniform

connected by a white streak on median

MOVVAINOW See ste ee occ saiccee tanec naokslcuins

66. Fore wing with the orbicular and reni-

form not connected by a white streak

Oia TENANT) INSAMUURS) | Gooncpacncaqsonossone

b>, Fore wing without prominent subtermi-

nal black fascize above veins 6, 4, 1.

a6, Kore wing without dark medial shade,

Fore wing with the orbicular rounded.

a8, Fore wing with the postmedial line

doublesentine see sesteccceceesecesees

bo’. Fore wing with the postmedial line

single, obsolescent except below

vein 2.

«9. Colour purplish grey.

a0, Kore wing with prominent black

spot on postmedial line in sub-

median fold .......... ABE CRMERMOGRRE

6, Fore wing without pr ominent

black spot on postmedial line in

submedian fold.

1, Fore wing with the basal streak

traversing a whitish patch ...

1, Fore wing the basal streak not

traversing a whitish patch

o9. Colowr grey suffused with red-brown.

a0, Fore wing with prominent black

tooth on postmedial line in sub-

HECUAIN TO! eoseceoccagascosesecnaae

6, Fore wing without prominent

black tooth on postmedial line

in submedian fold.

Fore wing with black patches in

cell and on postmedial costal

andvimmeraneasiy.eecceensccee

51, Fore wing without black patches.

67, Fore wing with the orbicular oblique

Coll shave) eH aseeiyanadcosdetcadanenssace

ce’, Fore wing with the orbicular erect

elliptical.

a8, Fore wing without oblique series of

black streaks from termen below

apex to lower angle of cell.

. Fore wing without whitish patch

at base of costal area ...............

Fore wing with whitish patch at

base of-costal area .c.....0.2..10e0e-

albipennis.

Suchsiana.

mandschurie.

Sraudatrix,

leucopis,

e

maculosa,

mixta.

constmisis.

brunnea.

gresert.

clneracet.

maracendica,

artemisie.

propingua,

_

2

19

20

NOCTUIDAE.

Fore wing with oblique series of

black streaks from termen below

apex to lower angle of cell .........

d’, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate

elliptical

a’, Fore wing with the ground-colour

brownish grey.

a, Fore wing with the markings obso-

lescent, IRON TR 5. osjaeabencseece oo yee

0°. Fore wing with the markings

strong, blackish ......... atiaseseeee

68, Fore wing with the ground-coloar

blue-grey.

a9. Fore wing with the ante- and post-

medial lines double .......... pogaobde

69, Fore wing with the ante- and post-

medial lines single ...............-.-

48, Fore wing with dark medial shade.

a7. Fore wing bright blue-grey ..........66.

6’, Fore wing whitish.

aS, Fore wing with the antemedial line

not angled outwards in eell.........

68, Fore wing with the antemedial line

angled outwards in eell...............

Fore. wing purplish grey.

a8. Fore wing with the antemedial line

moderately angled outwards in the

interspacesand inwards on the veins.

a9, Fore wing with short black streak

above; Vein) 4 sckerccas.csticcsseeeceee

a O°. Fore wing with the black streak

above vein 4 extending to-reniform.

: 68, Fore wing with the antemedial line

very strongly angled outwards in

the interspaces and inwards on the

RINT Ger aanaadeneddocauca sascpasdddpdda

. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifurm de-

fined by “black points.

a, Fore wing with black points in orbicular and

NEMMORMP pier ebient ise secacia clan ean senses gboabd

. Fore wing without black points in orbicular

and reniform.

«a, Fore wing more or less tinged with brown.

a’, Hind wing white, the veins and terminal

area tinged with brown.

Fore wing without oblique black streak

above tornus.

a’. Fore wing without black streak above

median nervure and vein 4.

. Fore wing with black shade from costa

between the stigmata ............... hob

+7, Fore wing without blaek shade from

costa between the stigmata .........

b6, Fore wing with black streak above

median nervure and vein 4 ............

65, Fore wing with slight oblique black

streak below extremity of vein 2.

Fore wing elongate, narrow.

@. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with

lOXOMZM, gooonasnds¢acadaneoo>onoKEdaGeD|a¢ op

+7, Fore wing ash-grey tinged with blue.

GENCTOSH.

embolina.

umbristriga.

duplicata.

santonict,

alpheraci.

Jormosa,

hemidiaphana,

nigrifascia.

retecta.

perforata.

absinthii.

clausa.

rufescens.

perstriata,

wmbratica.

clarior.

CUCULLIA.

6°. Fore wing shorter and comparatively

broader.

a‘. Fore wing pale, the costal area slightly

tinged with brown ..............-.-066+

. Fore wing darker, the costal area

strongly tinged with brown ........ i

©, Fore wing with prominent oblique black

streakjabovel tornus-cesaceeseeeke cee ee

64. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown.

@, Fore wing with the base of cilia not

intersected with black streaks.

a6, Fore wing with the cell and area be-

yond it strongly tinged with rufous.

6°, Fore wing without rufous tinge in and

beyandicellinne eeeuencnen ee nee ernie

45. Fore wing with the base of cilia inter-

sected by black streaks .. ...............

3, Fore wing blue-grey not tinged with brown.

c’, Fore wing gr ey-white suffused with fuscous,

cl}, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform

almost obsolete.

a?. Hind wing in male white, the veins and ter-

minal area tinged with fuscous.

a. Fore wing bluish grey.

a’, Fore wing with some white above the

oblique black streak above tornus.

. Fore wing with hardly a trace of medial

Inne Mas Saltese ucacisuce nacbtesemnece ements

. Fore wing with fairly distinct medial

Lane’ WS ehisdeesseessceasosunau-eccenienees

64, Forewing without whiteabove the oblique

streak above tornus.

Thorax with the dorsum grey.

a Fore wing with prominent elongate

black streak below end of cell.........

06, Fore wing with indistinct short curved

black streak below end of cell.........

6°, Thorax with the dorsum dark brown.

a’, Kore wing with the angle of postmedial

line in submedian “fold bidentate,

acuberatitiprarsemaacec cee cseeeoecascuesce se

o6& Fore wing with the angle of postmedial

line in submedian fold single, more

rounded at tip ............ boadasasaasenaa

63, Fore wing tinged with brown.

at, Fore wing with black mark before the

whitish mark above tornus ..............-

i4, Fore wing with rufous mark beyond the

whitish mark above tornus ..............-

c4, Fore wing with slight oblique ~* black

streak below extremity of vein 2.

a°. Fore wing with oblique medial shade

from costa to cell.

a®, Fore wing not tinged with purple ...

66, Fore wing str ongly tinged with purple.

6°, Fore wing ‘Without oblique medial shade

from costa to cell.

a. Fore wing blue-grey suffused with fus-

GOMS) lO} WAWspandencbosocoddcanandoouscddesor

b6, Fore wing purplish grey tinged with

rufous ....... gpovodebpon000 oesete tate erstase tice

anthemidis.

linosyridis.

extricata.

virgauree.

distinguenda.

chamomille.

terrensis.

dentilinea.

boryphora.

achillee.

tanaceti.

dorsalis.

speyert.

letifica.

buddhe.

phocylides.

Sraterna.

luctuce.

minuta.

dracuncult.

aa NOCTUID&.

b2. Hind wing white with large black discoidal

lunule and broad biack terminal band ......

c2, Hind wing of male wholly suffused with

brown.

a’, Fore wing with the base of cilia intersected

with black streaks.

a‘, Fore wing with prominent oblique black

streak below extremity of vein 2.

a, Fore wing tinged with purple............

}°, Fore wing not tinged with purple ......

}4, Fore wing without. black streak below

extremityjOfeyeln 22 sccnoiececce steers

b°, Fore wing witb the base of cilia not inter-

sected by black streaks.

a*. Fore wing with pale yellowish suffusion

ImicellitSowcte eine vaceeacd sree teaees cone meses

U4, Fore wing without pale yellowish

suffusion in cell.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line

strongly angled inwards in submedian

fold.

a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line

not angled inwards to below ante-

medial line in submedian feld.

a’. Fore wing with the angle of post-

medial line in submedian fold not

bidentate and with somewhat

TROUNC eG cuivyerr. scscereesse she cee ese

-b7, Fore wing with the angle of post-

medial line in submedian fold bi-

dentate, acute.

a. Hind wing with the cilia brown

Einila}:Vsles Gepdugsonabenseuadcdeunsodosecuss

oS. Hind wing with the cilia wholly

white.

a. Thorax with the dorsum brown ...

69. Thorax with the dorsum grey......

66, Fore wing with the postmedial line

angled inwards to below antemedial

line in submedian fold... .....-........

6°. Fore wing with the postmedial line

slightly angled inwards in submedian

LOU. ¢ tes.tjdashciecueiaas stheslsnene nuttenae castes

b. Fore wing with distinct dark fascia on middle of

inner margin.

a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform

more or less distinctly defined. ;

a. Fore wing with the orbicular elliptical.

a®, Hind wing with the basal half whitish.

a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line

angled inwards in submedian fold ......

64, Fore wing with the postmedial line

forming a whitish lunule defined on

each side by brown in submedian inter-

space.

a, Fore wing with the basal area yellowish

tinged withinutousis.resasseesaer see

8, Kore wing with the basal area con-

colorous.

a’, Fore wing with the costal area not, or

hardly, tinged with rufous.

pullata.

santoline.

tecca.

inderiensis,

precana.

campanula,

luci fuga.

intermedia.

cinderclla.

GP iSescens,

celsi@.

xeranthemi.

montana.

o,

Hind

wing with

CUCULLIA.

the basal

area

slightly tinged with ochreous.........

}7, Hind wing with the basal area white

or tinged with brown

v§, Fore wing with the costal area to

median nervure strongly tinged with

rufous.......

Hind wing wholly suffused with brown ...

7. Fore wing with the orbicular small, round.

a’, Fore wing with the area beyond the cell

not tinged TAAL PUD ROWIS as nascasocaoe BARC bor

8, Fore wing with the area beyond the cell

tinged with rufous.

Hore wing with oblique black streak in

cell before the orbicular

}*. Fore wing without oblique black streak

in cell before the orbicular

c?, Fore wing with the orbicular absent .........

Fore

defined by dark points.

@, Fore wing with the postmedial line forming

a pale lente defined on each side by Aaecods

in submedian interspace, then retracted to

a,

antemedial line.

Fore wing

costa at or

below apex.

wing with the orbicular and reniform

without whitish streak from

beyond middle to termen

a‘, Hind wing white, the veins and terminal

area euiraaed ait ISRO AMonsoatocoasducoes ;

oA,

Hiud wing with the basal area ambetis b

tinged with brown.

a,

with brown.

a, Fore wing

with the

Fore wing with the costal area suffused

streak below

extremity of vein 2 almost reaching

postmedialplineyrcnss. cesses

0°, Fore wing

with the

streak below

extremity of vein 2 well separated

from postmedial line............

>. Fore wing with

suffused with brown.

a®, Fore wing without black points in

orbicular and reniform.

wv, Fore wing with the markings almost

obsolete .-......-. Npeemacatnaonar Uaeisaeeaeiae

o7, Fore wing with the markings fairly

distimet....

66, Fore

wing

orbicular and reniform

the costal area not

with black points. in

. Fore wing with whitish streak from Cote

at or beyond middle to termen below

apex.

a!, Abdomen with the dorsal crests small,

black.

ow.

Fore wing with

the whitish streak

across apical area arising from middle

of costa.........

b°. Fore wing with the ahunlifeln streak across

apical area arising from well beyond

middle of costa

florea.

elonguta.

asteris.

gnuphatii.

brevipennis,

lilacina.

agua.

bistrigd.

asteroides.

postera.

lcdereri.

indicta.

obscurior.

similaris.

arizona.

perstrigata.

No

ri

NOCTUID A.

v4, Abdomen with the dorsal crests large,

fhicks mudousieieesccecsee setae sede secre convexipennis.

2°, Fore wing with the postmedial line forming

a pale lunule defined on each side by

fuscous in submedian interspace, then a

smaller lunule above inner margin.

as, Fore wing with grey suffusion on the dark

costal area. ;

a’, Hind wing nearly evenly suffused with

brown. y

a. Fore wing with slight dark streaks

between orbicular and reniform ...... stigimatophora.

65, Fore wing without dark streaks be-

tween orbicular and reniform.

a6, Fore wing with white suffusion in

submedian interspace before post-

wledsallaner: ae ssavcsnth tescednosecerisena scrophulariphaga.

v6, Fore wing with white patch in sub-

median interspace before postinedial

IDbIXS) cacsbecusacuoantonddeabanocancboadaconodes — SAROOMIlONryplooles.

6’, Hind wing white, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown.

a. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey

slightly tinged with ochreous ......... blattarie.

6, Fore wing with the ground-colour

ochreous suffused with whitish ......... thapsiphaga.

© Fore wing with the ground-colour white

slightly tinged with ochreous in and

beyond cell ..... E Ug eisintasdise sctacantmeaneneas anceps.

d. Fore wing with the ground-colour

ochreous with hardly any whitish

suffusion.

a8, Fore wing rather browner............... lychnitis.

b8, Fore wing more ochreous ............ .. scrophularie.

23, Fore wing without grey suffusion on the

dark costal area.

a!, Fore wing with the cilia strongly dentate,

the postmedial line with the lunule

above inner margin shallow ............ verbasct,

o4, Fore wing with the cilia slightly dentate,

the postmedial line with the lunule

above inner margin deeper ............... prenanthis.

cl. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform

absent eersesosseetascaseecs Rae deashsntciaele ats Sadak lee oribae.

2075. Cucullia magnifica.

Noctua magnifica, Fry, Beitr. iv. pl. 304. f. 38 (1839); Dup. Lép. Fr.,

Suppl. in. p. 450, pl. 38. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ii.

p- 308, f. 191; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Cucullia scopula, F. de Waldheim, Bull. Mose. 1839, i. p. 115, pl. 4. f. 1.

Head brown mixed with some white; thorax pure white, tegule

brown at base, the hood and metathoracic crests tipped with brown ;

legs tinged with brown; abdomen white tinged with ochreous or

brown, the dorsal crests tipped with brown. Fore wing silver

white, the base, inner margin, and costa from antemedial line to

hear apex white, more or less tinged with brown; a double waved

CUCULLIA. 25

brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, some-

what waved olive-brown antemedial line,incurved from below costa to

vein 1, then strongly angled outwards ; a brown and whitish medial

band, edged by brown lines in cell, angled outwards to lower angle

of cell, then with waved brown line on its inner side and the post-

medial line on outer represented by a brown mark below costa, a

point below vein 4 and a double irregularly-waved line filled in with

white from vein 3 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black points

and more prominent spot below vein 2. Hind wing white, with

some small dark lunules on termen from apex to vein 2.

Hab. Avsrria; 8. Russa, Sarepta, Zeller and Leech Colls., Urals;

W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul, Tarbagatai. Hep. 44-48 millim.

2076. Cucullia jancousci.

Cucullia jankowskii, Oberth, Et. Ent. x. p. 23, pl. 3. f. 2 (1884); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head brown mixed with some white; thorax white tinged with

brown, the base of tegule and metathoracic crests at tips dark

brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous, the crests

tipped with brown. Fore wing white, more or less completely

suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented by a blackish striga

below the cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown filled in

with white, irregularly waved and prominently defined by black on

outer side from subcostal nervure to vein 1; a large silvery-white

patch in and below cell, defined on outer side in cell by two black

points; reniform Jarge, with brown centre and white annulus

defined by black, shghtly angled inwards on median nervure and

with some blackish suttusion beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly

double, the inner line prominent, bent outwards below costa, angled

inwards in discal fold, oblique and waved below vein 4, some white

points on costa beyoud it; a diffused oblique white subterminal

line, slightly angled inwards in discal and submedian folds; a

minutely wayed white terminal band with series of small black

lunules on it. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with

fuscous brown; the underside with the costal area tinged with

brown.

Hab, Ki. Stserra, Amurland,3 ¢, 1 9, Leech and Crowley Colls.,

Ussuri. Hep. 36-40 millim.,

2077. Cucullia spectabilis.

Noctua spectabilis, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 557 (1827); Dup. Lép.

Fr. vii. p. 413, pl. 125. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. 1. p. 307,

Noct. f. 193; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax clothed with brown and grey hair ; tegulee with

blackish medial line; abdomen brown and grey, the dorsal crests

darker. Fore wing ochreous, brown, and fuscous mixed, the inner

medial and postmedial areas grey suffused with white; subbasal

26 NOCIUID®E.

line indistinct, slightly defined by whitish on outer side, waved,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double filled in with

whitish, angled outwards below costa, then waved ; clavitorm repre-

sented by a slight dark mark with some whitish suffusion beyond

it: orbicular and reniform with white annuli incompletely detined

by brown, the former with pale brown centre, somewhat oblique

elliptical, the latter with dark centre, somewhat angled inwards on

median nervure; a slight waved medial line ; postmedial line double,

somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below

vein 4, the costa beyond it dark with white points; subterminal

line white, diffused, somewhat excurved at middle, usually with

some blackish points beyond it; a terminal series of black striz

with slight whitish line before them ; cilia intersected with white.

Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area

brown ; cilia whitish; the underside whitish irrorated with brown,

the terminal area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal lunule.

Hab. 8. Russta, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Armunra; W. 'TurKESTAN,

Ala Tau, Issyk Kul; W. Sipurta, Altai. xp. 38 millim.

Larva. Pale ochreous, the dorsal area irrorated and striated with

brown, leaving the dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines pale, the

spiracular line darker; head red-brown.

2078. Cucullia albipennis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 25.)

Cucullia albipennis, Himpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 259 (1894).

Head and thorax white mixed with brown; tegule with black

medial line; patagia with some black near upper edge ; abdomen

whitish tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing whitish suffused

with brown; a white fascia below base of cell, with a black streak

in submedian fold ; subbasal line black, somewhat dentate, from cell

to submedian fold; antemedial line double, the outer prominent,

black, oblique from costal to submedian fold, where it is angled

outwards, then inwards on vein 1; claviform small, obscurely

defined by brown and with a white patch beyond it; orbicular and

reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the

former oblique elliptical, open above and below, the latter with

white at sides only and angled inwards on median nervure ; post-

medial line black defined by white on outer side, bent outwards

below costa, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some white

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line diffused, white with

slight black streaks before it below costa and beyond it above vein 4

and below 2, running obliquely to near apex and angled outwards

at vein 4; the extremity of veins defined by dentate. white maris ;

a series of black points on termen. Hind wing white, the veins,

inner and terminal areas suffused with brown; the underside white,

with curved postmedial brown line and diffused terminal band.

Hab. Punsas, Simla (Pilcher), 1 6, 1 2, Kulu, Sultanpur

(G. Young),2 6,2 2 type. Hap. 32-38 millim.

CUCULLIA.

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2079. Cucullia fuchsiana.

Cucullia fuchsiana, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 552, pl. 5. f.6 ; Dup. Lép.

Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 229, pl. 70. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. 1.

p. 808, Noct. f. 192; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax white mixed with brown; tegule with dark

medial line ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore

wing whitish suffused with brown ; a white fascia below basal half

of cell with a black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line

represented by a black point below costa; antemedial line diffused,

dentate ; claviform large, defined by black, a white patch beyond

its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white

annuli defined by black, the former rather irregularly rounded, the

latter with its lower extremity produced ; postmedial line obsolete

on costal area, oblique, waved from reniform to inner margin ; sub-

terminal line diffused, white with slight black streaks before it

below costa and beyond it above vein 4 and below 2, running

obliquely to apex and interrupted at vein 5 by an oblique brown

shade from termen below apex; a terminal black line towards

tornus preceded by some white. Hind wing white, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown; the underside with slight

discoidal spot.

Hab. Russta, Urals, 13, Zeller Coll.; W. Stpzria, Altai; Trset,

Kuku-noor; E. Siperra, Ussuri. Lap. 34 millim.

2080. Cucullia mandschuriz.

Cucullia mandschurie, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 23, pl. 3. £. 4 (1884); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown; tegule

with indistinct brown lines near base and at middle ; abdomen grey

tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red-

brown, the end of cell and postmedial area suffused with red-brown ;

a prominent black streak below base of cell; antemedial line very

indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards

on the veins; orbicular represented by a brown mark with curved

white mark forming its upper edge and a white streak below it

connected with the reniform, which has a dark brown centre and

very incomplete whitish annulus slightly defined by brown; an

oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; post-

medial line very indistinct, whitish, slightly angled outwards below

costa and at veins 5 and 1; subterminal line whitish, defined on

costal area by a dark shade on its inner side with pale points on

costa and slightly by brown on outer side, slightly angled outwards

at veins 7 and 5, with short black streaks before it above vein 6 and

beyond it above 4 and below 2; a fine dark terminal line; cilia

brown. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with

brown ; cilia white; the underside with the basal half whiter, a

small discoidal spot.

Hab, K. Siserta, Ussuri, Sidemi, 1 g,1 9. Hep. 42 millim.

bo

WD

NOCTUID 4.

2081. Cucullia fraudatrix.

pace fraudatrix, Ky, Bull. Mose. 1837, vi. p. 43; Frr. Beitr. v. pl. 388.

: Staud. Cat. ‘Lep. pal. p. 217.

Cheese Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 153 (1840).

Cucullia pyrethri, Herr.-Schaif. Schmett. Eur, ii. p. 310, Noct. f. 183 (1845).

Head and thorax clothed with grey and brown hair ; tegule with

dark medial line and tips; abdomen greyish tinged with brown

Fore wing grey-brown, the base of costal area suffused with whitish’;

a black Peron below base of cell; antemedial line black defined

by whitish on inner side, oblique from costa to submedian fold,

then acutely angled inwards on vein 1, some white suffusion

beyond it running obliquely from costa to submedian fold and

embracing the orbicular which is oblique quadrate defined by black

at sides; an oblique bJackish shade from costa before the reniform,

which is very large, whitish slightly defined by brown, its lower

extremity angled outwards: postmedial line indistinct, oblique,

waved, from reniform to submedian fold, obsolete towards costa ;

subterminal line diffused whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and

middle, with prominent black streaks before it below costa and

crossing it above vein 4 and below 2; a fine dark terminal line with

some whitish before it. Hird wing whitish, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown; the underside white, the costal area

irrorated with brown. the terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Huneary; Russta,

Livonia, Ukraine (Dowler); Gatiraz1a: Rumevia; W. TurKesran,

Issyk Kul; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Turxestan, Th; EK. Srperta,

Amurland, Ussuri. Lap. 38- 40 millim.

Larva. Greyish irrorated and striated with brown; subdorsal

brown stripes: a lateral series of oblique brown stripes on abdo-

minal somites ; a fine waved brown sublateral line; head with the

hemispheres marbled with red-brown. Food-plant, "Artemisia.

2082. Cucullia leucopis, n. sp. (Plate XCVI. fig. 26.)

@. Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ; frons

with black bar above ; tegule with black line near base and shight

medial line ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown and irrorated

with fuscous, the dorsal crests blaek-tipped. Fore wing violaceous

grey slightly irrorated with black; subbasal line double, waved,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line strong, double,

waved; claviform defined by black at extremity; orbicular and

reniform pale grey defined by black, the former with central dark

point, round, incompletely defined above and below, the latter with

two dark points in centre; a waved medial line from cell to inner

margin ; postmedial line double, waved, bent outwards below costa

and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line indistinct, grey, irregular, with small dentate black

marks before it below costa and beyond it above and below veins 5

CUCULLIA. 29

and 2; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white,

the veins and terminal area fuscous ; cilia white.

Hab. Carn Cotony, Grahamstown (Z'uck), 1 2 type. vp.

36 millim.

2083. Cucullia maculosa.

Curullia maculosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 259; id. Rom. Mém.

vi. p. 526, pl. 10. f. 4; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

9. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; frons

with blackish bar; tegulee with blackish line near base and two

slight medial lines; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen grey

tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey; subbasal line repre-

sented by an oblique striga from costa; a fine dark streak in sub-

median fold to the antemedial line, which is diffused towards costa

and slightly angled outwards below costa and in cell, then fine and

very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards on

vein 1; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and in-

distinct grey annuli defined by fuscous, the former rounded, the

latter with two dark points in its lower part; postmedial line very

indistinct, with some fuscous before it below costa and a prominent

black spot in submedian fold, then angled outwards on vein 1, some

pale points beyond it on costa; the veins of terminal area slightly

streaked with black; a slight subterminal black streak above vein 4

and streak below vein 2 extending to termen, on brownish spots ; a

terminal series of black strive. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins

and terminal third suffused with fuscous; the underside with the

costal area suffused with fuscous.

Hab. Ki. Siperta, Ussuri, Raddefka, 19. up. 44 millim.

*2084. Cucullia mixta.

Noctua mixta, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pl. 352. f. 3 (1842); Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 2i9.

Cucullia consors, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1846, iii. p. 88, pl. 2. f. 4, & 1857, i.

p. 64.

3. Head and thorax grey-white, the vertex of thorax suffused

with dark brown; frons at middle and above and vertex of head

with blackish bars ; tegule with black line near base, two slight

brown medial lines and dark brown tips: patagia with some black

scales near upper edge and edged with brown ; abdomen grey mixed

with brown, the dorsal crests dark at tips. Fore wing grey-white

suffused with brown, the veins with slight dark streaks : a fine black

streak in submedian fold to below amet of vein 2 traversing a

whitish fascia; subbasal line represented by two minute black

streaks below costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, strongly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ;

claviform very faintly defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform

rather small, with rufous centres and whitish annuli incompletely

defined by black, the former irregularly rounded, the latter with

30 NOCTUID &.

some whitish on discocellulars ; postmedial line obsolescent except

below vein 2, where it is defined by whitish on outer side, bent

outwards below costa, then with some white and black points on

the veins, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on

vein 1, some pale points beyond it on costa; a series of slight

diffused brown streaks running obliquely from termen below apex

to above vein 4, and shght subterminal streaks from above vein 3

to a blackish spot above tornus; a terminal series of minute black

lunules; cilia pale brown with a fine white line through them.

Hind wing whitish tinged or suffused with reddish brown, the veins

and terminal area darker; cilia white slightly tinged with brown

at base; the underside white irrorated with brown, a more or less

distinet dark discoidal lunule.

Hab. ? Huneary; 8. Russa, Sarepta, Ural Mts.; W. Torkesran,

Issyk Kul; E. Turxusray, Ii. Hep. 42 millim.

2085. Cucullia consimilis.

Cucullia consimilis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 52 (1874).

Cucullia pusilla, Moschl. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxili, p. 296, pl. xvi.

f. 10 (1884).

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown; tegule

with black line near base and two dark medial lines; tarsi with

pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with yellow-

brown, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing grey-white suffused

and irrorated with dark brown; the veins with fine dark streaks ;

subbasal line, represented by dark strize from costa and cell; a slight

dark streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled

in with whitish, the outer line strong, dentate, and strongly angled

inwards on the veins; claviform moderate, incompletely defined by

black; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, their centres

suffused with red-brown, the former round ; postmedial line obsolete

except at costa and below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in sub-

median fold and to inner margin; costa towards apex black with

pale points on it ; subterminal line only defined by a series of short

black streaks before it below costa and beyond it below vein 6; a

terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white,

the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; the

underside with the costal area irrorated with brown.

Hab, Oranen Kt. Cotony, Bloemfontein (Kckersley), 1 9 ; Capz

Cotony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 9, Grahamstown, 1 9,

Knysna (7’rimen), Rosmead, 2 3, Concordia (Alston), 1 g. Kup.

30-38 millim.

2086. Cucullia brunnea. (Plate XCVI. fig. 27.)

Cucullia brunnea, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 277 (1902).

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegule with dark line

CUCULLIA. Bul

near base ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen pale red-brown. Fore

wing red-brown suffused with grey ; subbasal line represented by

some dark scales below costa and cell; antemedial line indistinct,

double, dentate, very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold

and inwards on vein | ; orbicular and reniform small, approximated,

with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former

round ; postmedial line hardly traceable except in submedian inter-

space, where it 1s represented by a dark angulate mark with a

diffused pale patch before it; subterminal line represented by some

obscure pale and brown streaks in the interspaces and by a curved

blackish mark in submedian interspace defined by whitish on inner

side; some blackish striz on termen. Hind wing with the basal

half pale tinged with yellow-brown, the terminal half deep red-

brown ; cilia white with a brown line at base.

Hab. Carn Cotony, Bedford (Mansel Weale), 1 3, Deelfontein

(Sloggett), 1 2. Hep. 36 millim. Type 7 in Coll. Druce.

2087. Cucullia greseri. (Plate XCVL. fig. 28.)

Cucullia greseri, Ping. Iris, xiv. p. 186, pl. iii. f. 9 (1901).

Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown ; frons with

blackish bars at middle and above; tegule with blackish medial

line and shght line near tips; metathorax with four small

blackish spots ; tibize with slight blackish streaks ; abdomen whitish

suffused with red-brown, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore

wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the veins with slight dark

streaks; subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from

costa ; antemedial line double, oblique and forming diffused black

spots towards costa, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1,

outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin, obsolescent

below submedian fold; claviform slightly defined by brown, elon-

gate and extending to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with

reddish-brown centres and yellowish-white annuli defined by black,

the former irregularly rounded, open above; postmedial line double

and forming diffused black spots towards costa and inner margin,

obsolescent between those poits, oblique below vein 5, slightly

angled inwards in submedian told and outwards on vein 1, some

whitish and black spots beyond it on costa ; a series of slight diffused

brown streaks running obliquely from termen below apex to above

vein 4 and slight ditfused brown marks before termen above and

below vein 2; a terminal series of small somewhat dentate black

spots; cilia whitish at base, pale brown at tips. Hind wing pale,

nearly uniformly suffused with reddish brown, the inner area rather

paler; cilia yellowish white; the underside white tinged with

brown, traces of a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Moneotsa, Aksu, 1 3, typet 3, 2 in Coll. Piingeler.

Exp., 6 42, 2 44 millim.

32 NOCTUID.®

2088. Cucullia cineracea.

Noctua cineracea, Fry, Neue Beitr. iv. p. 110, pl. 352. f. 2 (1841); Herr.-

Schaff. Eur. Schivett., Noct. f. 196 ; Mall. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr, 1885, p. 119,

pl. 2. f. 11; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Cucullia mixta, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 807 (nec Frr.).

Cucullia defecta, Staud. Iris, x. p. 338, pl. 9. f. 27 (1897).

3S. Head and thorax grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged

with pale red-brown; tegule with black medial line; abdomen

yellow-brown, the anal tuft greyish, the ventral surface whitish.

Fore wing grey irrorated with black and tinged with pale red-

brown, the veins with fine black streaks; a slight black streak in

submedian fold to the antemedial line; subbasal line represented by

double striz from costa; antemedial line double, excurved in inter-

spaces and strongly dentate inwards on the veins; claviform slightly

defined by black, elongate and extending to postmedial line; orbicular

and reniform defined by black and with some black points in

centres, the former irregularly rounded ; postmedial line dentate,

obsolescent except below vein 2, where it is double and strongly

angled inwards in submedian fold; subterminal line represented

by an obscure series of small dentate dark marks ; a terminal series

of black points. Hind wing white, tinged with reddish brown, the

veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white.

Ab. 1. defecta. Fore wing darker grey, the markings less dis-

tinct. —S.E. Siberia.

Hab. France, Alpes Maritimes ; Russta, Urals, 1 ¢; W. Torxes-

TaN, Issyk Kul; E. Turxesran, Ili; Moneorra, Uliassutai. Lup.

44 millim.

2089. Cucullia maracandica.

Cucullia maracandica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 89; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 216.

Cucullia herzi, Alph. Inis, vi. p. 347 (1893); id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 217,

1D Go tt Te

¢. Head and thorax dark blue-grey irrorated with white; the

palpi, sides of frons, back of head, base of tegule, and greater part

of pectus and legs ochreous, the tegule with fine dark line before

middle; the tarsi bluish grey with fine ochreous rings; abdomen

ochreous tinged with fuscous on dorsum. Fore wing deep blue-

grey irrorated with ochreous, the base suffused with ochreous; the

antemedial line ochreous, angled inwards on the veins and outwards

in the interspaces ; orbicular and renitorm moderate, defined by

ochreous, the former oblique elliptical: postmedial line bent out-

wards below costa, then waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ;

subterminal line represented by traces of ochreous streaks; cilia

ochreous with a dark line at base intersected by ochreous points.

Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous, especially on terminal

area ; cilia whitish at base ; the underside whitish, slightly irrorated

with fuscous, especially on terminal area, a slight discoidal lunule.

Hab. W. Turxesran, Sarawschan ; Moneouia, Aksu,2 ¢. Hap.

50-58 millim.

CUCULLIA. 33

2090. Cucullia artemisiz.

Phalena artemisie, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 292 (1767); Knoch, Beitr.

li. p. 47, pl. 2. f. 10; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 128. ff. 1-2; Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 217. 5

Noctua abrotani, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii.

p- 166 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 257; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii.

p. 415, pl. 125. f.6; Frr. Beitr. iv. pl. 320; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 83,

pl. 239. f. 4.

Cucullia lindei, Heyne, Soc, Ent. xiv. p. 105 (1899).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegule with black

line near base followed by a grey band with fine dark line on it;

abdomen ochreous grey, tinged with brown towards extremity, the

dorsal crests brown. Fore wing grey-brown suffused in parts with

grey ; the veins and submedian fold with fine dark streaks; a small

e

A

Fig. 8.—Cucullia artemisie, 3. 1.

whitish patch at base; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa

to submedian fold; antemedial line highly waved, strongly angled

inwards on vein 1 ; claviform represented by a diffused white patch ;

orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined

by black, the former erect elliptical, the latter very slightly angled

inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct medial line oblique from

costa to median nervure, then dentate; postmedial line dentate,

double at costa, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold

to reniform, oblique below vein 4; subterminal line represented by

diffused dentate brown marks, often with short black streaks on them

at middle, defined on inner side by diffused grey, and interrupted

by a diffused oblique grey fascia from apex; a terminal series of

small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown.

Ab. 1. lindeit. Much darker.—C. Russia.

Hab. ? Brivain; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech

Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Searn, Aragon;

N, Ivary; Scanpinavia; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; C. Russra,

Urals (Lederer) ; Anmenta; W. Srperia, Altai; E, Srperta, Amur-

land, Ussuri. Hwvp. 36—44 millim.

Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 85.

Green with darker segmental lines; dorsal line slender, white ;

each somite with 8 red tubercles, except the anal somite which has

two; the 2nd and 8rd somites with yellowish points; lateral stripe

broad, yellow, interrupted ; spiracles white ringed with black ; head

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34 NOCTUID®.

brown, blackish behind and with pale-edged frontal triangle ;

ventral surface pale green with two slender green lines which are

red-brown on 3rd and 4th somites. Food-plants: Artemisia cam-

pestris, abrotanum, and absynthium.

Pupa. Yellowish with the front greenish.

2091. Cucullia propinqua.

Cucullia propingua, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1842, p. 553, pl. 5. f. 7; Frr. Beitr.

vi. pl. 508. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 307, Noct. f. 187 ;

Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some black; frons

and vertex of head with black bars; tegule with black medial line

and rufous tips; metathoracic crest tipped with rufous; abdomen

grey, the dorsal crests tipped with black, the ventral surface

whitish, irrorated with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused

with fuscous and tinged in parts with rufous; the basal area

whitish down to the slight dark streak in submedian fold ; sub-

basal line represented by two black points on costa and one below

costa; antemedial line double, strongly angled outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins, a violaceous-white patch

beyond it between submedian fold and inner margin; orbicular

with rufous centre with dark points on it and white annulus defined

by black, erect elliptical; reniform reddish brown with ill-defined

grey annulus; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa,

then waved, indistinct to vein 2, then prominent and white; sub-

terminal line only defined by violaceous-white suffusion on its inner

side and by short black streaks beyond it below veins 5 and 2; the

veins slightly streaked with black towards termen; a terminal series

of black striz. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, the

terminal area darker; cilia white; the underside paler with dark

discoidal spot.

Hab. Russta, Urals; W. Srperta, Altai; Moneortra, Urga;

K. Srperia, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 ¢,1 9, Ussuri. LHep., ¢ 36, 2 40

millim.

2092. Cucullia generosa. (Plate XCVI. fig. 29.)

Cucullia generosa, Staud, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 51; id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 216.

3. Head and thorax grey-white; palpi at sides and lower part

of frons red-brown; frons and vertex of head with blackish bars ;

tegule with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown

line near tips; patagia edged with red-brown, dorsum of thorax

red-brown ; tibiee with black streaks ; abdomen whitish tinged with

red-brown. Fore wing pale greyish with a violaceous tinge, the

costal area, cell, and an oblique shade from termen below apex to

below end of cell reddish brown; a prominent black streak below

base of cell; the veins finely streaked with black; antemedial line

indistinet, angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the

veins, very highly angled outwards in submedian fold and above

qo

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inner margin, where it forms a black streak connected with the

postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and

whitish annuli defined by black, the former erect elliptical, the

latter with its outer side open above vein 5; postmedial line

represented by an oblique striga from costa, obsolete to vein 2, then

indistinct, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1,

some pale points beyond it on costa; an oblique series of black

streaks on a brown shade from termen below apex to lower angle

of cell, an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2; a terminal

series of black strize; cilia pale rufous with a fine white line

through them. Hind wing yellowish brown tinged with fuscous ;

cilia white; the underside whitish irrorated with brown; the veins

brown, those bounding the cell darker, a dark streak in cell.

Hab. EK. Turwestan, Kashgar, Kizil,1¢. Ewvp. 46 millim.

*2093. Cucullia embolima. (Plate XCVI. fig. 30.)

Cucullia embolima, Ping. Iris, xix. p. 96 (1906).

Head and thorax pale grey-brown; vertex of head with some

fuscous hair ; tegule with black line near base; tibive with slight

dark streaks ; abdomen reddish brown, the base greyish, the dorsal

crests blackish at tips. Fore wing brownish grey suffused with

brown, the veins with slight dark streaks; a fine dark streak in

basal half of submedian fold ; subbasal line represented by a slight

striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, single, rather strongly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins;

orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former

rather elongate elliptical, the latter somewhat angled inwards on

median nervure; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate,

oblique from costa to vein 4, where if is angled outwards, then

inwardly oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; a slight

dark streak above vein 4 beyond the cell; a short oblique dark

streak below vein 4 towards termen; a terminal series of minute

black lunules, the one above vein 3 sometimes forming a slight

streak; cilia greyish with two slight brown lines through them.

Hind wing uniform rather pale reddish brown; cilia whitish with

a brown line through them; the underside pale tinged and finely

irrorated with brown. :

Hab. Tisnr, Kuku-noor, typet ¢, Q in Coll. Piingeler. Lvp.,

3 42, 2 44 millim.

*2094. Cucullia umbristiga.

Cucullia wnbristiga, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 452 (1892); id.

Rom. Mém. ix. p. 37, pl. 3. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown; frons at

middle and above and vertex of head with blackish bars; tegule

with two black lines near base and two brown lines near tips;

patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tibize with blackish

streaks; abdomen grey-white suffused and irrorated with brown,

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36 NOCTUID®,

the dorsal crests dark at tips. Fore wing whitish suffused and

irrorated with reddish brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ;

a black streak below basal half of cell; subbasal line represented

by two oblique strive from costa; antemedial line double, formed by

short diffused streaks towards costa, strongly angled inwards on

median neryure and vein | and outwards in submedian fold, slightly

angled outwards above inner margin; claviform defined by black,

elongate and extending to postmedial line with slight dark streak

through centre; orbicular and reniform with some red-brown

suffusion in centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former

oblique elliptical; postmedial line double towards costa, then

obsolescent, stronger below vein 2, angled inwards in submedian

fold, outwards above vein 1, then oblique to inner margin, some

whitish points beyond it on costa; a series of black streaks in the

interspaces running obliquely from termen below apex to above

vein 4, shght streaks from termen above veins 3 and 2 and an

oblique streak below vein 2 to a streak in submedian fold extending

to postmedial line; a terminal series of black strize ; cilia brownish

white with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing whitish

tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ;

the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with

brown, a slight discoidal lunule.

Hab. EK. Turxestan, Kashgar; Moneoria, Aksu; W. Curna.

Exp. 44-46 millim.

*2095, Cucullia duplicata. (Plate XCVI. fig. 31.)

Cigullia duplicata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 47; id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 216.

Cuilie amena, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 379, pl. 6. f. 17 (1899).

3S. Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with dark brown; frons

at middle and above and vertex of head with black bars; tegulee

with black line near base, two slight medial lines and black tips ;

metathoracic crest with black spots ; tibize with slight black streaks ;

abdomen grey-white irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal crests

blackish. Fore wing bluish grey slightly irrorated with brown,

the veins with slight dark streaks ; a fine black streak below basal

half of cell; subbasal line represented by two oblique strie from

costa, one in cell and one below cell ; antemedial line double, formed

by short rather diffused streaks from costa to median nervure,

strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards on vein 1,

then slightly angled outwards abeve inner margin ; claviform defined

by black, elongate, extending to postmedial line and with slight

dark streak through centre ; orbicular and reniform with whitish

annuli defined by black and some reddish-brown suffusion in centres,

the former elongate elliptical ; postmedial line double at costa and

below vein 2, obsolescent between those points, slightly bent out-

wards below costa, angled outwards between veins 5, 4, inwards in

submedian fold and outwards just above vein 1, then oblique to

inner margin, some white and black strize beyond it on costa, and a

black streak in submedian fold from it to termen; subterminal line

represented by a series of rather diffused short brown streaks running

CUCULLIA. Bri

obliquely from termen below apex to above vein 5, then subterminal,

a terminal series of small wedge-shaped black spots; cilia pale

brown with fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish

tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown; cilia pure

white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with toma, a slight discoidal lunule.

@. Fore wing with the markings darker and seoneét hind wing

browner.

Ab. amena. Darker ; fore wing brownish grey with the markings

less distinct.—Mongolia.

Hab. W. Turkestan, Saisan, Ala Tau; E. Turkestan, Kashgar,

Thian Shan, Korla; Moneorta, Uliassutai; Tiser, Kuku-noor..

Exp., 3 42, 2 46 millim.

2096. Cucullia santonici.

Noctua santonici, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 584, 585 (1827 7); Frrz

Neue Beitr. iv. pl. 357 ; Dap: Lép. Fr. vii. p. 407, pl. 125. f. 2; id-

Suppl. iii. p. 398, pl. 36. f. i. ; Staud. Cat. Lep.. pal. p. 216.

Cucullia odorata, Guen. Noet. ii. p, 139 (1852).

Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown; frons:

with black bar above; tegule with two black lines near base, two

slight medial lines and brown tips; patagia with dark line near

upper edge; metathoracic crest black-tipped; tibiae with black

streaks; abdomen whitish tinged with brown towards extremity,

the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous white slightly irrorated

with reddish brown; the veins with fine dark streaks; a black

streak in base of submedian fold; subbasal line represented by an

oblique striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double,

strongly angled outwards in interspaces and very strongly inwards

on median nervure and vein 1; claviform defined above by a slight

dark streak, rarely completely defined; orbicular and reniform

defined by black and with some brown in centres, the former round

or somewhat elongate elliptical and touching antemedial line;

medial line represented by an oblique dark shade from costa to:

reniform ; postmedial line irregularly waved, obsolescent except

towards costa and below vein 2, bent outwards below costa, oblique

below vein 5 and strongly angled inwards in submedian fold, some

white points beyond it on costa; an oblique series of four dark

streaks from termen below apex, a short black streak above vein 4,

and an oblique streak below vein 2 from termen to a black streak

in submedian fold beyond postmedian line; a series of black strive

on termen. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused

with reddish brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated’

with brown, a slight discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. odorata. Larger, blue-grey ; tegule with one black line

at base.—Valais. Alpes Maritimes.

Hab. Swirzertann, Valais, Frey Coll.; Iraty, Alpes Maritimes ;

Corsica, Leech Coll.; S. Russra, Zeller, Frey, leech, and Crowley

Colls.; ARMENIA ; ? AsrA Minor, "Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul.

Exp. 44-50 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 258.

38 NOCTUID 2%.

White with a dorsal series of dull green angulate marks open

above and adjoining faint red spots; lateral stripes dull green.

Food-plants: Chamomile, Artemisia. 7.

*2097. Cucullia alpheraci.

Cucullia alpherakyi, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 371, pl. 4. f. 5 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax blue-grey tinged with brown, the latter with

black dorsal streak on metathorax; abdomen with the crests

blackish. Fore wing bright blue-grey ; a brown shade before the

antemedial line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, oblique

and slightly waved from costa to submedian fold, where it is acutely

angled, then very oblique to inner margin; a slight black streak on

middle of inner margin; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform

with brownish centres and slight pale annuli defined by black, the

former erect elliptical, rather narrow, the latter somewhat angled

inwards on median nervure and with pale lunule in centre; a

medial shade from costa to median nervure and a brown shade before

the postmedial line, which is indistinct except below vein 2, bent

outwards below costa, and forming a double lunule with pale centre

in submedian interspace; short dark streaks in the interspaces of

terminal area above veins 6 and 4 and below 2; a terminal series

of slight black lunules; cilia greyish. Hind wing dark grey-brown,

the basal half paler; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated

with brown, the veins and terminal area dark brown.

Hab. Moneotta, Urga. vp. 38 millim. This species is unknown

to me.

2098. Cucullia formosa.

Cucullia formosa, Rghfr. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1860, p. 775; Friv.

Jell. pl. 7. f.4; Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 98. f. ii.; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p- 217.

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous; frons and

vertex of head with black bars; tegule with black line near base

and brown tips; metathoracic crests black; abdomen whitish

irrorated with brown towards extremity, the dorsal crests black.

Fore wing violaceous white slightly tinged in parts with brown ;

the subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa;

a black streak below base of cell to the double irregular antemedial

line, which is angled inwards on vein | and outwards above inner

margin; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish

annuli defined by black, the former rather small, round, the latter

incompletely defined; a strong black medial shade; postmedial

line double, minutely waved, almost obsolete between veins 7 and 4,

hent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some grey

points on costa beyond it : the veins of terminal area finely streaked

with black, the interspaces with irregular brown streaks below

CUCULLIA. v9

costa, at middle, and below vein 2; a terminal series of small black

lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly streaked

with brown, more strongly in female.

Hab. France, Ardéche; Huneary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Trser, Kuku-noor, Amdo. vp, 34-44 millim.

Larva. Resembles that. of C. absinthiit. Food-plant, Artemisia

camphorata.

2099. Cucullia hemidiaphana. (Plate XCVI. fig. 82.)

Cucullia hemidiaphana, Gres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 313; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax whitish mixed with black-brown; frons and

vertex of head with blackish bars; tibiee slightly streaked with

black ; abdomen white shghtly tinged with brown, the crests

blackish at tips. Fore wing whitish slightly tinged with brown and

sparsely irrorated with black; a fine black streak below base of

cell; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique black striga from

costa; antemedial line angled outwards in the interspaces, very _

strongly in submedian fold and inwards on the veins; orbicular

and reniform small, with brownish centres and whitish annuli

slightly defined by black, the former round; a blackish medial

shade ; postmedial line almost obsolete except below vein 2, where

it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1,

some whitish points beyond it on costa; the veins of terminal area

finely streaked with black ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen

below apex to lower angle of cell; an oblique subterminal black

streak below vein 2; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing

semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown towards termen, in

female the terminal area tinged with brown.

Hab. W. Turxestan, Turcomania, Askabad, 1 9, Alexander

Mts. 1 3g, Issyk Kul. “vp. 36-40 millim.

2100. Cucullia nigrifascia. (Plate XCVII. fig. 1.)

Cucullia nigrifascia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 289 (1894).

Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and dark brown;

_ frons with black bar above; tegule with black line near base and

two light brown medial lines; tarsi banded with black; abdomen

whitish, irrorated and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing

violaceous grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous and the area

from end of cell to termen tinged with reddish brown; the veins

slightly streaked with black; a fine black streak below base of cell ;

subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa; ante-

medial line indistinctly double, the outer line strong, waved,

strongly dentate inwards on vein | and outwards above inner margin ;

claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and

hardly defined white annuli, the cell before and between them black,

the former round ; avery strong black medial shade, obliquely waved

40 NOCTUID A.

from costa to above vein 1, then angled inwards; postmedial line

almost obsolete except at costa and inner margin, where it is defined

by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved

below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; a black streak

above vein 6 and short subterminal streaks above 4 and below 2;

a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing white, the

veins and terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Punsas, Murree (Horne), 2 3 type, Simla (Pilcher), 19.

Exp. 44-50 millim.

2101. Cucullia retecta. (Plate XCVIL. fig. 2.)

Cucullia retecta, Ping. Iris, xiv. p. 187, pl. ii. f. 10 (1901).

Head and thorax pale purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ;

frons and vertex of head with black bars; tegule with prominent

black line near base, two slight medial lines and dark tips ; patagia

with some black scales near upper edge which is brown ; dorsum of

thorax dark; metathoracic crest black; tarsi brown; abdomen

ochraceous white, the dorsal crests black, the anal tuft grey. Fore

wing pale purplish grey irrorated with brown, the veins with fine

black streaks ; a black streak below base of cell; antemedial line

double, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian

fold, where it is angled, then angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular

round with brown centre and whitish annulus defined by black; a

prominent black medial ‘shade, oblique from costa to vein 2, then

approximated to the postmedial line; reniform rather indistinctly

defined and with brownish lunule in centre ; postmedial line obsolete

except below vein 2, angled outwards on vein 1; some pale points

on costa towards apex ; a fine black streak above vein 4 from reni-

form to middle, where it is met by a slight dark shade from termen

below apex ; a prominent oblique black streak below extremity of

vein 2; a terminal series of slight black lunules; cilia pale brown

with a fine whitish line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged

with ochreous especially on inner area, the terminal area suffused

with brown; cilia white with brownish line at base ; the underside

whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight

discoidal point.

Hab. Viner, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢,1 9. Exp. 44 millim. Type ft

¢o, @ in Coll. Pingeler.

2102. Cucullia perforata.

Cucullia perforata, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 54, pl. 5. f. 14 (1864) ; Oberth.

Kt. Ent. x. p. 24, pl. 3. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown; frons with

black bar; tegule with black line near base and two fine medial

brown lines; abdomen yellowish grey irrorated with brown, the

dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated and suffused

with brown; subbasal line represented by two oblique black strize

from costa; a black streak below the cell to the double black ante-

CUCULLIA. 41

medial line, which is very highly angled outwards in interspaces and

inwards on the veins ; orbicular elliptical with red-brown centre and

white annulus partially defined by black ; a white bar in cell before

the reniform, which has a brown centre and greyish annulus incom-

pletely defined by black ; an indistinct curved medial shade ; post-

medial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, minutely waved,

bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; terminal

area suffused with whitish, with dark streaks on the veins and short

black streaks in the interspaces below costa above vein 4 and below

2; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish

white tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with

brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot.

Hab, KH, Steerta, Ussuri; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 1 ¢, Hakodate

(Leech), 1 2; Corua, Gensan (/to),19; N.Cuina. ELwp. 40 millim.

2103. Cucullia absinthii.

Noctua absinthii, Linn. Faun. Suee. p. 314 (1761); Clerck, Ivones, pl. 8.

f.9; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 116. ff 1-8; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.

258; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 418, pl. 125. f. 7; Frr. Beitr. iv. pl. 321;

Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 91; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Noctua punctigerc, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 416 (1767).

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown; palpi

blackish at sides; frons with black bars; tegule with black line

near base, two slight medial brown lines and brown tips; patagia

with some black scales near upper edge which is brown ; abdomen

grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing

grey-white mostly suffused with brown; the subbasal line represented

by two black strize from costa, a short streak in cell and striga from

median nervure; antemedial line double, diffused, irregularly waved,

strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ;

claviform obsolete with diffused white patch beyond it; orbicular

with brown centre with two black spots on it and white annulus

defined by black spots and forming a figure-of-8-shaped mark; a

black patch from costa to median nervure before the reniform,

which has a brown centre with black spot on it above and two below

and indistinct white annulus defined by black spots; postmedial

line double towards costa and inner margin and almost obsolete at

middle, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then

incurved, the costa beyond it black with grey points on it; the

veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks, a black streak above

vein 6 and spot below vein 2; the subterminal line represented by

slight diffused brown and white streaks; a terminal series of small

black lunules. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white; the underside with

the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal

oint.

5 Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls. ; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Iraty; Swepren; Rvssia,

A ey NOCTUIDE.

Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul; W. Siserta, Altai;

HE. Turkestan, Ili. Hwp. 36-44 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 47; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 82, pl. 239. f. 3.

Pale yellow-green dorsally suffused with purple-grey except at

incisions ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale green ; head and thoracic

shield ochreous grey. Food plant, Artemisia absinthium. 8:9.

2104. Cucullia clausa. (Plate XCVIL. fig. 3.)

Cucullia clausa, Wk. xi. 657 (1857).

¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; tegulw

with black line near base and two slight medial lines. Fore wing

grey suffused with brown, leaving some whitish below base and

extremity of cell and slight streaks in interspaces of terminal area ;

subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ;

antemedial line ill-defined, dentate, interrupted; orbicular and

reniform whitish defined by. black points on their edges and

with a blackish patch between them from costa to median

nervure ; postmedial line obsolete except at costa and below vein 2,

where it is oblique waved ; subterminal line obsolete, a terminal

series of small black spots. Hind wing whitish, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Ignotus, 1 ¢, type. Hap. 32 millim. Probably from

8. Africa.

2105. Cucullia rufescens, n. sp. (Plate XCVII. fig. 4.)

6. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; tegule with brown

line near base, two slight medial lines and brown tips; patagia

with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous white

dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated and

suffused with red-brown especially on basal and costal areas; sub-

basal line represented by two oblique strize from costa; antemedial

line double, dentate, highly angled outwards in submedian fold and

above inner margin and inwards on vein 1; orbicular defined by

four brown points and with its centre incompletely defined by

brown ; reniform with some brown points on its inner edge, its

centre incompletely defined by brown; postmedial line indistinct

and bent outwards below costa, below vein 4 represented by double

points on the veins and below vein 2 by a double waved oblique

line, some pale points beyond it on costa; the veins towards apex

streaked with black; traces of an irregular subterminal line; a

terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins

and a terminal line brown.

Hab. Br. KE. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $ type. -Lvp. 42

millim.

2106. Cucullia perstriata, n. sp. (Plate XCVII. fig. 5.)

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with blackish bar ;

tegule with their bases brown bounded by a black line, two slight

CUCULLIA. 43

medial lines and dark tips; tibie streaked with black; abdomen

grey irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous.

Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged with

brown ; a more or less strongly developed black streak above median

nervure and vein 4 from base to near termen ; some very pale rufous

in and beyond end of cell; traces of a black streak in base of

submedian fold and of an antemedial line below the cell, where it

is very strongly angled outwards; orbicular represented by two

black points on its upper edge; reniform with two black points on

its upper edge and a curved black line representing its lower edge ;

postmedial line represented by a very oblique indistinct black line

in submedian interspace ; a slight fuscous shade from termen below

apex ; a subterminal black spot in submedian fold ; a terminal series

of black strie. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and

termen brown.

Hab. Uaanpa, Entebbe (Minchin), 1 9; Carr Cotony, Buntingville

(Miss F. Barrett), 1 3 type, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 gd. Lup.

46 millim,

2107. Cucullia umbratica.

Joctua umbratica, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 515 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 187. £1; Hiubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 263 ; Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett.

v. pl. 447 ; Sepp, Ins. i. pl. 25. f.7; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 421, pl. 26. f. 1;

Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 87; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Noctua lucifuga, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 178. f. 6 (nec Schiff).

Noctua lactuce, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 264; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent.,

Haust. ili. p. 88 (nec Esp.).

Cucullia tanaceti, Steph. Ll. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 88 (nec Schiff.).

Cucullia sonchi, Hein. Schmett. Deutsch. i. p. 400 (1859).

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base and two brown

medial lines; tibize with dark streaks ; abdomen ochreous greyish,

dorsally suffused with brown, especially towards extremity, the crests

dark. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brown, the veins

with dark slight streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique

striga from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the

antemedial line, which is highly angled outwards in the interspaces,

especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins; orbicular and

reniform almost obsolete except for four more or less distinct points

at the angles of each and a curved line on lower edge of latter ;

postmedial line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein

2, then angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ;

a black streak above medial part of vein +; a slight dark shade from

termen below apex with traces of white streaks on it ; a black streak

above terminal part of vein 3 and slight oblique subterminal streak

below vein 2; some dark striz on termen. Hind wing white, the

veins, termen, and inner margin tinged with brown, in female the

whole terminal half suffused with brown; the underside with the

costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot.

44 NOCTUIDAE.

Hab. Brrvatn, Leech Coll. ; France; Guruany, Zeller and Leech

Colls.; Ausrrra, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Swrr-

ZERLAND, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Spary, Bilbao; N. Iraty; Russta,

Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenra; Asta Mryor, Pontus, Bithynia ;

Persta ; W. Turkesran, Turcomania, Issyk Kul; W. Sipurta, Altai;

E. Turkestan, Kashgar, Ili; Moneona, Changai Mts. Kap. 54-60

millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 92, pl. 240. f. 2.

Ochreous yellow or grey with numerous fine irregular raised

black markings; head black ; thoracic shield black-brown. Food-

plants: Sonchus and Lactuca., 8-9.

*2108. Cucullia clarior.

Cucullia clarior, Fuchs, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. lvii. p. 31, pl. ii. f. 2 (1904).

Ditfers from C. wmbratica in the fore wing being broader, bright

ash-grey with a bluish tinge thickly irrorated with white, the

streak below base of cell very faint. Hind wing dark grey, paler

in male, yellowish at base ; cilia of fore wing bright grey, of hind

wing pure white. Antenne grey, whitish at base.

Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta; C. Asta. Lvp. 54 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

*92109, Cucullia anthemidis.

Cucullia anthemidis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 140 (1852); Mill. Icones, iii. pl. 145.

ff. 6-8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

3. Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ;

frons and vertex of head with blackish bars; tegule with black

line near base, two slight brown medial lines and brown tips ;

patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; vertex of thorax

suffused with brown, the metathorax with black spot; abdomen

erey-white slightly tinged with brown, the dorsal crests blackish.

Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with brown especially on costal

area, the veins with slight dark streaks; a slight dark streak in

submediam fold to below origin of vein 2; subbasal line represented

by a slight oblique striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct,

double, very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and

inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform only defined by faint

dark points on their margins ; postmedial line almost obsolete except

below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and

excurved above vein 1; slight black streaks above veins 4, 3

beyond angle of cell ; slight brown and white streaks before termen

above veins 6, 5, 4; a slight oblique black streak below extremity

of vein 2; some slight black lunules on termen towards apex and

strie towards tornus; cilia brownish white. Hind wing white

slightly tinged with brown, the veins brown; the terminal area

suffused with brown except towards tornus; cilia white with slight

brown line near base from apex to vein 2; the underside white

with the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown.

CUCULLIA. 45

. Fore wing with slight white patch in submedian interspace

before postmedial line; hind wing with the terminal area broadly

suffused with fuscous brown.

Hab. 8.E. France, Digne, in Coll. Piingeler. Hp. 40-46 millim.

This may he a local form of C. dracunculi.

Larva, Kirby, Butt. & Moths Hur. p. 256; Hffm. Raup. p. 128, pl. 34.

f, 4

Pale violet-grey ; dorsal and subdorsal lines double, edged

with black; lateral line dull white. Food-plant, Aster acrvs.

9. IO.

*2110. Cucullia linosyridis.

Cucullia linosyridis, Fuchs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 85 (1903); Fuchs, jun.,

Jahrb. Nass. Ver. 1904, p. 32, pl. ii. ff. 3, 4, 12.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons

at middle and above and vertex of head with black bars; tegulie

with black line near base, two slight medial brown lines and brown

tips; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; vertex of

thorax with blackish fascia; tibize with slight black streaks ;

abdomen grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal

crests blackish; male with protrusible tufts of long rufous hair

from lateral stigmata. Fore wing purplish grey, the costal area

suffused with fuscous brown except towards. base, the end of cell

tinged with rufous, the veins with slight black streaks ; subbasal

line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa; antemedial

line indistinct, double, very strongly angled outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform

defined by slight dark points on their margins, the latter with slight

curved line below it ; postmedial line almost obsolete except below

vein 2, where it is indistinctly double, angled inwards in submedian

fold and excurved just above vein 1; a slight blackish streak

beyond the cell above vein 4; slight whitish and dark streaks in

the interspaces before termen and a slight oblique black streak

below extremity of vein 2; the termen with slight black lunules

towards apex and strize towards tornus; cilia brownish grey with

slight dark line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with

brown, the veins brown, the terminal area broadly suffused

with brown; cilia white with a brown line near base; the

underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the veins

fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a slight discoidal

oint.

; Hab. W.Germany, Wiesbaden, St. Goarschansen, in Coll. Piingeler;

S. Russia, Sarepta. Hap. 46 millim.

This may be a local form of C. dracuncult.

Larva. Brownish grey, the sides pale; dorsal stripe pale, sub-

dorsal stripes dark grey. Food-plant, Linosyris vulgaris. 8, 9.

46 NOCTUID&.

2111. Cucullia extricata. (Plate XCVII. fig. 6.)

Xylina extricata, W1k. xi. 630 (1857).

¢. Head and thorax pale reddish brown sometimes more or less

mixed with fuscous; frons with blackish bar above; tegule with

two black lines near base and two faint medial lines ; patagia with

some black scales near upper edge; tibie with black streaks;

abdomen whitish tinged with pale reddish brown and dorsally with

some ochreous. Fore wing very pale reddish brown; a slight

black streak in submedian fold to the very indistinct antemedial

line, which is highly angied outwards in the interspaces and inwards

on the veins; orbicular and reniform each represented by four

black points on their edges ; a slight oblique black bar from middle

of costa; postmedial line represented by some black points on costa

and median nervules and by a whitish lunule in submedian inter-

space, with dentate black mark before it and oblique fascia from

beyond it to termen below vein 3; slight black streaks above vein +

towards termen and on extremity of veins; some fuscous suffusion

and pale points on termen towards apex ; a terminal series of black

strie. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and terminal

area suffused with brown.

@. Fore wing with the inner area from base to postmedial line

and to just above median nervure suffused with black.

Hab. Navat (Gueimzius), 1 3d , Durban (Leigh) 1 9; Capp Conony,

2,1 Q@ type, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 19, Transkei (Miss F.

Barrett), 3 2, Knysna, 1 2. sap. 42-48 millim,

2112. Cucullia virgauree.

Cucullia virgauree, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 154 (1840); Ev. Bull.

Mose. 1857, i. p. 66; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Cucullia dracunculi, Ky. Faun. Volg. et Ur. p. 304; Herr.-Schiff. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 194 (nec Hubn.).

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base, two dark medial

lines and black tips; patagia with some black scales near upper

edge ; abdomen ochreous brown, the dorsal crests dark, the anal

tuft greyish. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with rufous especially

in and beyond cell, the costal and inner areas darker; the veins

with fine dark streaks ; antemedial line almost obsolete except from

cell to inner margin, where it is very strongly angled outwards in

submedian fold and inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform

represented by four dark points on their edges, a curved streak

below end of cell representing lower edge of latter; postmedial line

obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is angled

inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1; a blackish

streak above middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak

below vein 2; some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal area ;

a terminal series of black strize. Hind wing whitish tinged with

brown, the veins and terminal half darker; cilia whitish; the

underside with small discoidal spot.

CUCULLIA. 47

Hab. Russta, Urals; W. Sreeeta, Altai, Zeller Coll.; W-

Turkestan, Issyk Kul; E. Turxusran, Ili. “vp. 44-50 millim.

2113. Cucullia distinguenda. (Plate XCVII. fig. 7.)

Cucullia distinguenda, Staud. Iris, v. p. 368, pl. 3. f. 7 (1892); id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with

blackish bar ; tegula with black line near base, two slight medial

lines and blackish tips; abdomen yellowish brown, the ventral

surface grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey

irrorated with fuscous, the costal area, end of cell and area just

beyond it suffused with brown; the veins streaked with black; a

fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line ; subbasal

line represented by a slight striga from costa; antemedial line black

defined by white on inner side, strongly angled outwards in the

interspaces, in submedian fold almost to the postmedial line and

inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform pale brownish defined

by black points, the former rather quadrate, the latter angled

inwards on median nervure and defined by a curved line below ;

postmedial line obsolete except below vein 2, where it is defined by

whitish on outer side, strongly angled inwards in submedian fold

and outwards on vein 1; the terminal area with slight white streaks

defined on each side by brown; aslight oblique brown streak below

extremity of vein 2; a terminal series of black strie. Hind wing

suffused with reddish brown, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia

white; the underside pale irrorated and the costal and terminal

areas suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot with streak

before it in cell.

Hab. W. Torxestan, Issyk Kul; E. Turkestan, Ili; Tiner,

Amdo; E. Srszrra, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 ¢,1 9, Amurland. Lyxp.

52 millim.

2114. Cucullia chamomille.

Noctua chamomille, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Sepp, Ins. iti. pl. 25.

f.6; Esp. Schmett. iy. pl. 193. ff. 1, 2; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct.

f. 261; Dup. Lép. Fr. vil. p. 427, pl. 125. f.3; Steph. Ill. Brit. Knt.,

Haust. iii. p. 89; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Noctua fissina, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 166 (1809) ; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust.

ili. p. 90.

ares chrysanthemi, Hiibn. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 686 (1827).

Noctua lucifuga, Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 432, pl. 127. f. 1 (1827).

Cucullia calendule, Treit. Eur. Schmett. x. 2, p. 127 (1835).

Cucullia leucanthemi, Rmbr. Cat. Lép. 8. And. pl. 9. f. 3 (1858).

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; frons with blackish

bar above ; tegule with black line near base, two medial fuscous

lines and fuscous tips; tibis with black stripes; abdomen grey

tinged with brown; the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing grey-

brown; the veins with fine dark streaks; a fine black streak in base

of submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, very strongly dentate

48 NOCTUID®.

outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular

represented by black points before and beyond it; reniform with

very indistinct dark points on its edges; postmedial line obsolete

on costal half, oblique, dentate below vein 4; sometimes connected

with antemedial line in submedian fold; the interspaces of terminal

area with pale streaks defined on each side by brown streaks, an

oblique black streak below vein 2; cilia grey intersected with black

at the veins. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal half

brown ; cilia white at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with

brown.

Ab. 1. chrysanthemi. Fore wing largely suffused with fuscous.

Ab. 2. calendule. Fore wing greyer and less strongly marked.

Ab. 3. leucanthemi. Fore wing with a slight yellowish tinge.—

Andalusia.

Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; Francr; Gurmany, Zeller and Leech

Colls.; Atsrria, Frey Coll.; Swirzertanp; Sparn, Andalusia;

Corsica; Iraty, Leech Coll.; Datmarra, Leech Coll. ;} Morocco

(Meade- Waldo), 2 8; Canarres; Manrrra; Scanpinavia; Rvssta,

Zeller Coll., Livonia; Asta Minor, Bithynia, Pontus, Lydia; Syria ;

Eeyer; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Samarkand (Haberhauer), 2° ,

Sarawschan. Hap. 44-54 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 88, pl. 240. f. 1.

Pale yellow-green with a purplsh-pink band on each segment ;

a subdorsal series of oblique olive-green marks; lateral and

spiracular lines irregular, olive-green, interrupted; head yellow-

law

green. Food-plants: Pyrethrum and Anthemis. 6-7.

2115. Cucullia terrensis. (Plate XOVIII. fig. 21.)

Cucullia terrensis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 53 (1874).

Cucullia africana, Auriv. Gify. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 59 (1879).

Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with black

bar above; tegule with black line near base, two slight medial lines

and fuscous tips; abdomen pale grey suffused with brown towards

extremity and with the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing blue-grey,

more or less irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown; the veins

with fine dark streaks; a slight black streak in base of submedian

fold; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa and

two slight streaks in base of cell; antemedial line double, dentate,

very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner

margin and inwards on vein 1; claviform represented by two shght

streaks; orbicular defined by four black points; reniform incom-

pletely defined by black points and striz ; a more or less prominent

dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell and

obscuring part of the reniform ; postmedial line double at costa and

below vein 2, obsolescent between these points, waved, bent

outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of slight

somewhat dentate black marks in the interspaces; a terminal series

of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal

CUCULLIA. 49

area suffused with fuscous especially in female; cilia white; the

underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown.

Hab. German 8.W. Arrica, Damaraland, type t Q africana, in

Mus. Stockholm; Navat, Durban (Leigh), 1 2; Carz Conony, Cape-

town (Lightfoot),1 6,19. Hap. 44-46 millim.

2116. Cucullia dentilinea. (Plate XCVII. fig. 8.)

AXylina dentilinea, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. vii. p. 229 (1899); Dyar, Cat.

Lep. N. Am. p. 169.

@. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and black ;

abdomen yellowish brown, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing

grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins streaked with

black; a slight black streak below base of cell; subbasal line

represented by a dark striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly

double, the outer line strong, dentate, very strongly angled outwards

in submedian fold; orbicular defined by two points above and a

short streak below, the reniform by short streaks above and below

and.points on outer side ; postmedial line indistinct from costa to

vein 2, then prominent, bent outwards below costa, obliquely waved

to vein 2, angled inwards in submedian fold and excurved at vein 1;

subterminal line represented by some slight black marks; short

streaks in interspaces of terminal area above and below vein 6,

above vein 3, and an oblique streak across extremity of vein 2;

some slight terminal lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal

and terminal areas more or less strongly suffused with fuscous ;

cilia white at tips; the underside whiter,

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 2, Arizona, Gila Co., Pinal Mts.

(Kunze), 1 2. Hep. 34-38 millim.

2117. Cucullia boryphora.

Cucullia boryphora, F. de Waldh. Bull. Soc. Mose, 1840, p. 85, pl. 3. f. 3;

Pees Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 508; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

Dp. w1d.

One lignata, Guen. Ind. Meth. p. 246 (1841).

Cucullia rimula, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. p. 110, pl. 352. f. 1 (1842).

dg. Fore wing whitish mixed with grey; frons with blackish

bar above; tegule with black line near base, slight medial line and

line near tips ; abdomen white irrorated with grey, the dorsal crests

dark. Fore wing white irrorated and suffused with grey-brown ;

a black streak in submedian told becoming fine beyond middle; a

slight black streak in cell forking towards extremity; traces of a

highly dentate antemedial line; postmedial line only traceable

below vein 2, where it is defined by white on outer side, angled

inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1; the veins of

terminal area blackish slightly defined by white; slight black

streaks above veins 6, 5, 4, increasing in length inferiorly, and a

more prominent oblique streak below vein 2; a terminal series of

black marks. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged

with fuscous,

VOL. VI. E

50 NOCTUID A.

@. Abdomen with the anal segment edged with red-brown

below; hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous.

Hab. 8. Russta; ArmentA; Asta Minor, Konia; Persia; W.

Turkestan, Turcomania, Askabad, 1 ¢,1 2, Ferghana, Issyk Kul;

K. Turkestan, [li. Lap. 36 millim.

*2118. Cucullia achilleez.

Cucullia achillee, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 189 (1852); Rmbr. Cat. Lép. 8. And.

pl. 10. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax grey-white; tegule with fine black lines at

middle and tips; abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey-white with a

faint bluish tinge; the veins with dark streaks; a black streak

below base of cell; antemedial line represented by a shght striga

from costa and two very oblique lines from vein 1 to inner margin ;

some dark suffusion on medial part of costa; orbicular and reniform

absent; a medial line from costa to the postmedial line at sub-

median fold, defined by grey on outer side at costa and slightly

angled outwards on median nervure; postmedial line double and

angled outwards below costa, then obsolete to vein 4, then very

oblique and bent outwards at vein 1; an oblique series of dark

marks in the interspaces of terminal area from below apex to vein 4

and an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2; a terminal series

of dark strive ; cilia with fine dark lines through them. Hind wing

white, the veins and termen tinged with brown, a fine dark

terminal line ; cilia white.

Hab. Seaty, Andalusia. Hap. 36 millim. This species is

unknewn to me.

2119. Cucullia tanaceti.

Noctua tanaceti, Schiff, Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Knoch, Beitr. ii. p. 29,

pl. 2. ff. 1-9; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 265; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii.

p- 429, pl. 126. f.4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base and two slight

medial lines; tibiee with dark streaks; abdomen whitish dorsally

tinged with brown especially towards extremity, the crests dark ;

male with orange tufts protrusible from lateral stigmata. Fore

wing purplish grey suffused with pale brown, the veins with fine

dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga

from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial

line, which is strongly angled outwards in the interspaces, especially

the submedian, and inwards on the veins; claviform sometimes

represented by a black streak on its upper edge; a slightly curved

black streak from or from before origin of vein 2 to vein 4 beyond

the cell; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to inner

margin, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards

on vein 1; a black streak above middle of vein 4; some slight dark

streaks from termen below apex. Hind wing white, the veins and

CUCULLIA. Sul

_termen suffused with brown, especially in female; the underside

with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point.

Hab. France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Austria; Huneary; Swirzertanp; Swepen; Rvssia, Livonia

ARMENIA; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana,

Sarawschan; E. Turxesray, Ii. Hwp. 46-50 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257.

Pale pearly grey with yellow dorsal and lateral stripes and

numerous black dots and spots. Food-plants: Tunacetum vulgare

and Artemisia vulgaris. 7-8.

2120. Cucullia dorsalis. (Plate XCVII. fig. 9.)

Cucullia dorsalis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 47 (1892); id. Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 288.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight medial

lines and slight line at tips; tibize with black streaks; abdomen

grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the dorsal crests dark. Fore

wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous; the veins with fine

black streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga

from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial

line, which is very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and

inwards on the veins, an oblique striga before it above inner

margin; a curved black streak below end of cell representing the

lower edge of reniform; postmedial lne almost obsolete except

from vein 2 to inner margin, angled inwards and more or less

bidentate in submedian interspace, the lower tooth longer and

acute, then angled outwards on vein 1; blackish streaks above

middle of veins 6 and 4, a slight shade from termen below apex

with faint white streaks on it, a short black streak above termination

of vein 3, and an oblique streak below vein 2 connected with a shight

streak in submedian fold beyond postmedial line. Hind wing

white, the veins and termen suffused with brown, especially in

female; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown.

Hab, U.S.A., Colorado (Cockerell, Bruce), 2 $, 1 2, Glenwood

Springs, 1 ¢, Denver (Oslar), 45,1 9, Durango (Oslar), 13,19.

Exp. 50-52 millim.

2121. Cucullia speyeri. (Plate XCVII. fig. 10.)

Cucullia speyeri, Lintn. New York State Cab. Ann. Rep. 26, p. 168,

ff. 13, 14 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight medial

lines and brown tips; thorax dorsally dark brown; tibia with dark

streaks: abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the dorsal

crests darker. Fore wing pale grey thickly irrorated with brown;

the veins with fine dark streaks; subbasal line represented by an

oblique striga from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to

E2

52 NOCTUID ®.

the antemedial line, which is very strongly angled outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular represented by a

slight dark streak on its lower edge, a curved streak below end of

cell representing the lower edge of reniform and slight traces of its

upper edge; postmedial line almost obsolete except from vein 2 to

inner margin, angled inwards and more or less bidentate in sub-

median interspace, the lower tooth being long and acute, usually

with slight diffused white patch before it, then angled outwards on

vein 1; a slight black streak above medial part of vein 4; a slight

brown shade trom termen below apex with faint white streaks on it,

a short black streak above terminal part of vein 3 and an oblique

streak below vein 2 connected with a streak in submedian fold

beyond the postmedial line. Hind wing white, the veins and

termen tinged with brown, especially in female; the underside with

the costal area irrorated with brown.

Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Weolley-Dod), 19; U.S.A.,

Ki. States to Pennsylvania and West to Montana, Massachusetts,

Buffalo, 1 9, N. York, 3.¢, Iinois, 1 ¢ , Montana, Miles City, 1.

Exp. 46-50 millim,

2122. Cucullia letifica. (Plate XCVII. fig. 13.)

Cucullia letifica, Lintn. Grote’s Check List Noct. p. 24 (1875); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287.

Cucullia cita, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 75 (1888).

Cucullia hartmanni, French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 69 (1888).

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous; frons with

blackish bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight medial

lines and dark tips; dorsum of thorax dark brown; tibie streaked

with black; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the dorsal crests

dark. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous; the

veins with fine black streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight

oblique striga from costa; a fine black streak in submedian fold to

the antemedial line, which is very highly angled outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins, an oblique black striga before

it above inner margin; a curved black streak below end of cell

representing the lower edge of reniform; postmedial line almost

obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin, angled inwards in sub-

median interspace, the sinus being single and more or less rounded

at extremity and with a diffased whitish mark before it, then angled

outwards on vein 1; a black streak above middle of vein 4; a

slight dark shade from termen below apex with. traces of white

streaks on it; a black streak above extremity of vein 3 and an

oblique streak below vein 2 connected with a slight streak in sub-

median fold beyond postmedial line. Hind wing white, the veins

and termen tinged with brown, especially in female.

Hab. U.S.A.,-Texas, Arizona, Nogales (Oslar),2 §,2 9, Prescott

(Kunze), 1 9. Ewp. 44-46 millim. |

Larva. Head black and yellow-green in vertical stripes, a narrow

black line edging clypeus. Body slightly enlarged at joint 12,

CUCULLIA. 53

yellow-green with more or less distinct shaded red dorsal and sub-

stigmatal bands. Surface marked irregularly with black forming a

series of broken dorsal rings, broad subdorsal band, erect lines on

the sides and irregular subventral marks. Feet ringed with black.

Food-plants : low Composite.—H. G. D.

2123. Cucullia buddhe. (Plate XCVII. fig. 14.)

Lithomia buddhe, Wik. xv. 1731 (1858).

Cucullia phocylides, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 488 (nec i. p. 298).

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; tegulse with

slight medial dark line. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and

irrorated with fuscous; the veins with fine dark streaks; antemedial

line double and irregular towards costa, then single, very strongly

angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and

inwards on vein | ; two slight dark streaks below middle of costa;

reniform represented by a slight curved mark on its lower edge ; the

postmedial line roaneseated by an oblique striga from costa,

obsolete to vein 2, then indistinct, strongly angled inwards in. sub-

médian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line represented

by a series of slight dentate dark marks, oblique below vein. 4,. with

an oblique mark beyond it on vein 2 and round spot before it below

vein 2; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white

tinged with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area.; cilia

brown, white at tips.

Hab. Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (tds 1 $, Godman-

Salvin Coll. ; VENEZUELA, type in Mus. Oxon. Hxp. 40-46

millim,

2124. Cucullia phocylides..

Cucullia phocylides, Drace, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 298, pl. 23. f. 5

(1889).

@. Head and thorax pale red-brown ; tegule grey except at tips,

with black medial line ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown.

Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown especially on medial area ;

subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga from: costa; a

fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is

indistinct, irregular towards costa, then very strongly angled out-

wards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; postmedial line

represented by an oblique black striga from costa, obsolete to vein

2, then strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on

vein 1; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen; a series of

short rufous streaks in interspaces of terminal area, a more elongated.

streak above vein 7, and a subterminal spot in submedian interspace ;,

a black streak on inner margin towards tornus ; some black strice

on termen. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on the

' veins and terminal area; the underside with the costal and

terminal areas irrorated with brown.

Hab. Mexico, Guerrero (H. H, Sau) ® type, Godman-Salvin

Coll, Hvp. 52 millim.

ot NOCTUID.E.

2125. Cucullia fraterna.

Cucullia fraterna, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 198 (1878); id. Ill. Het.

B. M. iii. p. 18, pi. xlv. f. 10.

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegule with the basal

half whiter with a black line near base ; tibize with dark streaks ;

abdomeu grey suffused with brown, the dorsal crests darker. Fore

wing grey tinged with brown ; the veins finely streaked with brown ;

a black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is

very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on

the veins ; a curved streak below end of cell representing the lower

edge of reniform; a slight oblique medial shade from costa to lower

angle of cell; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 3 to inner

margin, where it is strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and

outwards on vein 1; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen,

where it is connected with a triangular brown shade from termen

below apex; an oblique brown streak below terminal part of vein 2;

a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins

and terminal area brown; cilia whitish; the underside white, the

veins and terminal area suffused with brown, the costal area

irrorated with brown, a discoidal point.

Hab, Javan, Hakodate, 1 9 type, Tokio (Fenton), 1 3, Yokohama

(Pryer),1 3,3 9; EH. Cuina, Haining (J. J. Walker),1 9. Hap.

46-54 millim.

2126. Cucullia lactuce.

Noctua lactuce, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 74 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 137.

ff. 4-6 (1788); Htbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 264; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii.

p. 424, pl. 126. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Cucullia pustulata, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 551, pl. 5. f. 3; Herr.-

Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 189.

Cucullia campanule, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 516, vi. p. 58, Noct.

f. 188 (nec Frr.).

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; tegulee

with black line near base and two brown medial lines; abdomen

brown mixed with grey, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface

pale. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated and partly suffused with

brown ; the veins with fine dark streaks; the submedian fold with

fine black streak to the antemedial iine, which is very strongly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; reni-

form with very incomplete dark outline and curved streak repre-

senting its lower edge; a slight oblique brown shade from costa

to lower angle of cell; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 2 to

inner margin, where it is strongly angled inwards in submedian fold

and outwards on vein 1; a black streak above vein 4 connected with

a series of diffused brown streaks trom termen below apex; an

oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2; a terminal series of

small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish

brown, especially on the veins and terminal area; cilia white; the

underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule.

CUCULLIA. oo

Hab. Francu, Leech Coll. ; Grrmany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Avsrria, Leech Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzprtanp, Zeller

and Leech Colls. ; ? Irany ; Scanprnavra; Russra, Livonia; ARMENIA ;

? Asta Minor, Bithynia; W. Siperta, Altai; Moneorra, Urga;

E. Srserta, Amur, Evp. 46-58 millim.

Larva. Hibn. Larv. Lep. iv. Noct. ii. Gen. v. 6, c, f. 1, a, 6, c; Kirby,

Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257, pl. 41. f. 4.

White with yellow dorsal and lateral maculate stripes; a sub-

dorsal series of large oval segmental and oblong intersegmental

black spots. Food-plants: sow-thistle and lettuce, chiefly the

‘flowers. 7-8.

2127. Cucullia minuta. (Plate XCVII. fig. 15.)

Cucullia minuta, Moschl. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 295, pl. xvi.

f. 9 (1884).

@. Head and thorax grey mixed wilh brown and fuscous ;

tegule with black line near base and dark medial line and tips ;

abdomen grey irrorated with brown. J ore wing purplish grey

irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the veins with fine black

streaks ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ;

a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which

is very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on

the veins; a black streak in lower end of cell ; a curved black

streak below end of cell representing the lower edge of reniform ;

postmedial line represented by a very oblique black bar across sub-

median interspace; a black streak above vein 4 to an oblique series

of short black streaks from termen below apex, and a short streak

above middle of vein 6; subterminal line represented by oblique

streaks above and below vein 2; a terminai series of small dentate

black marks. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half

fuscous brown; cilia white.

Hab. Carn Cotony, Grahamstown, | 2, Annshaw (Miss /. Barrett),

29. Exp. 40-44 millim.

2128. Cucullia dracunculi.

‘Noctua dracunculi, Hibn. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 586 (1827); Dup. Lép

Fr. vii. p. 409, pl. 125. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Cucullia incana, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 551; Herr.-Schaff. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 184.

Cucullia amota, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 171; id. Rom. Mém. v.

jab Ne ole tle tid We

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; frons with

black bar; tegule with black line near base; two brown medial

lines and brown line near tips ; patagia with some black scales near

upper edge; abdomen pale dorsally tinged with brown, the crests

» dark, the anal tuft greyish. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with

brown; the costal area suffused with brown; some pale rufous

suffusion in and beyond end of cell ; the veins with fine dark streaks ;

subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa; a fine

56 NOCTUID.E.

dark streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is

indistinctly double, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces

and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform incompletely de-

fined by brown, the former rather constricted at middle, the latter

angled inwards on median neryure ; postmedial line obsolete except

from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is angled inwards in sub-

median fold and outwards on vein 1; a slight black streak above

middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak below vein 2;

some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal

series of black strie. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown: cilia white.

Ab. 1. amota. Fore wing greyer and less irrorated with brown.

—wW. & K. Turkestan.

Hab. Huneary, Leech Coll.,; S. Russra, Zeller and Leech Colls. ;

W. Siserra, Altai; W. Turxesran, Turkomania, Ferghana, Issyk

Kul; E. Turxesran, Ili. Hap. 40-44 millim. |

Larva. Greyish yellow with slight dark striation; dorsal and

lateral lines formed of rufous points ; sublateral line whitish.

2129. Cucullia pullata. (Plate XCVILI. fig. 11.)

Callenia pullata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 858; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p- 239.

@. Head and thorax grey mixed with purple-brown; tegule

with black line near base ; tibiee with dark streaks ; abdomen black-

brown, greyish at base, extremity, and on ventral surface, with

lateral tufts of white hair from base. Fore wing purple-grey

tinged with brown and with slight dark iroration ; subbasal line

with slight striw from costa and cell; a fine black streak in

submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinct, irregular,

very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold ; orbicular incom-

pletely defined by black, sometimes reduced to four points ; reniform

represented by a slight black streak on its upper edge and curved

streak on lower; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 4 to

inner margin, where it is very indistinct, strongly angled inwards

in the interspaces and outwards on the veins; a black streak above

vein 4 to near termen, where it is connected with a series of slight

brown streaks from termen below apex ; a terminal series of small

black lunules. Hind wing white; a large black discoidal lunule

connected with the blackish costal area ; terminal area broadly black,

its inner edge waved and bent outwards to tornus; cilia white; the

underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a black mark

in base of cell, the discoidal black spot quadrate.

_ Hab, W. Cutna, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 9; Pungas, Dalhousie,

1 2 type. Lap. 74 millim.

2130. Cucullia santoline.

Cucullia santoiing, Rubr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. p. 587, pl. &. f. 4 (1884) ;s

Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 418, pl. 387. f. 8; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 198; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Cucullia wredour, Costa, Faun. Reg. Nap., Lep. (5) p. 28, pl. 14. ff. 1-38

(1é62-86).

CUCULLIA. 57

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; frons with blackish

bar above ; tegule with black line near base, two fuscous medial

lines and fuscous tips; vertex of thorax with dark streak ; abdomen

grey dorsally tinged with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore

wing brownish grey with fine black streaks on the veins and in sub-

median fold; antemedial line very highly dentate outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins ; two shght brown streaks in

end of cell; a curved brown streak below end of cell representing

lower edge of reniform ; a slight oblique medial shade from costa to

lower angle of cell; postmedial line obsolete except from vein 3 to

inner margin, where it is strongly angled inwards in submedian

fold; a fine black streak above vein 4 to before termen, with

a series of slight brown streaks above it to termen below apex; an

oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2. Hind wing brown,

the interspaces rather paler except on terminal area; cilia white

with fine brown line at base; the underside whitish, the costal and

terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins brown.

Hab. 8. France, Leech Coll.; ?Swirzertanp; Sparn, Andalusia ;

Corsica, Leech Coll.; Iraty; Ateeria; ? W. Turxestan; Turco-

mania; ? Moneoria, Uliassutai. Hap. 48-50 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 258; Hoffm. Raup. p. 128, pl. 84.

lin A,

Dull green or reddish with white spots on the back and black and

violet lines and streaks on sides. Food-plant, Artemisia. 4 & 7.

2131. Cucullia tecca. (Plate XCVII. fig. 16.)

Cucullia tecca, Ping. Iris, xix. p. 96 (1906).

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown; frons and

vextex of head with blackish bars; tegule with black line near

base, two ill-defined medial lines and one near tips ; abdomen

whitish dorsally tinged with yellow-brown, the dorsal crests black

at tips. Fore wing rather short, grey-white, largely irrorated and

suffused with fuscous brown; the veins streaked with black; a fine

black streak in base of submedian fold; subbasal line represented by

a slight black striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double,

strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the

veins; orbicular and reniform almost obsolete, the latter represented

by a curved black streak below end of cell; postmedial line obsolete

except below vein 2, where it is angled inwards in submedian fold

and outwards on vein 1; a black streak below middle of vein 7; a

series of shght streaks from te1men below apex to above middle of

vein 4; small subterminal spots sometimes present between veins 4

and 2; an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2; bases of cilia

intersected by black streaks. Hind wing pale nearly uniformly

suffused with fuscous brown, the inner area rather paler; cilia

white with a brown line through them; the underside white

irrorated with brown, the veins brown.

Ab. 1. ¢. Head, thorax, and fore wing bluer grey with much less

fuscous suffusion and irreration. Q typical.—Jerusalem.

58 NOCTUID &.

Hab. Pauusrinz, Jerusalem, Coll. Ptingeler; W. Turkestan,

Askabad, 1 g, 1 2. Hap. 42 millim. Type t o 2 in Coll.

Pingeler.

2132. Cucullia inderiensis.

Cucullia inderiensis, Herr.-Schaff, Eur. Schmett. vi. p. 178, Noct. f. 634

(1852) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with reddish brown ;

palpi blackish at sides ; frons with black bar; tegule with black

line near base ; dorsum of thorax darker grey ; tibiee streaked with

black ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen with the dorsal crests

darker at tips. Fore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated with

grey-brown ; the veins streaked with black; a fine black streak on

yellow fascia below base of cell; antemedial line highly angled out-

wards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; two slight

brown streaks in end of cell; postmedial line almost obsolete

except below vein 2, where it is strongly incurved in submedian

fold and excurved on vein 1; the terminal area with rufous streaks

in the interspaces defined on each side by pale yellow streaks ; some

white points on costa; cilia intersected by black streaks at base.

Hind wing pale suffused with brown, the veins and termen deeper

brown; cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the under-

side whitish thickly irrorated with brown.

Hab. Russia, Urals, 1 ¢; W. Turxzstan, Kirghistan, Issyk Kul.

Exp. 44 millim.

Larva. Christoph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1895, p. 38.

Bluish green with whitish marblings and yellowish segmental

bands; a slender yellow-green dorsal line; lateral and ventral lines

white; head pale green with dark points. Food-plant, Artemisia

dracunculus.

2133. Cucullia precana.

Cucullia precana, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 304 (1844); id. Bull. Mose.

1857, p. 62; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 509; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous; tegule with

black line near base, brown medial line and brown tips; abdomen

grey dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly

irrorated with fuscous, some ochreous in and beyond end of cell;

the veins with fine black streaks; subbasal line represented by an

oblique striga from costa; a fine black streak in submedian inter-

space to the antemedial line, which is double, strongly angled

outwards in the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards

on the veins; orpicular and reniform represented by four black

points on their edges, a curved black streak below end of cell

representing lower edge of latter; postmedial line bent outwards

below costa, almost. obsolete to vein 2, then angled inwards in sub-

median fold and outwards on vein 1; a slight black streak above

middle of vein 4 and an oblique subterminal streak below vein 2;

some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal

CUCULLIA. 59

series of black striz. Hind wing brown, the basal half rather paler ;

cilia whitish; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with

brown and the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal

spot.

Hab. 8.E. Gurmany, Leech Coll.; Denmark; Russra, Livonia,

Leech Coll., Curland, Frey Coll., Urals. wp. 44 millim.

Larva. Rosenberg, Corr. Nat. Ver. Riga, xx. p. 45; Kirby, Butt. & Moths

Eur. p. 206.

Golden green with dark irroration and red-brown spots, the lines

interrupted, yellow. Food-plant, flowers and young seeds of

Artemisia vulgaris. 7-8.

2134. Cucullia campanule.

Noctua campanule, Freyer, Beitr. i. p. 54, pl. 385 (1828); id. Stett. ent.

Zeit. 1859, p. 423; Herr.-Schaff. Neue Schinett. f. 127; Staud. Cat. Lep.

‘pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with brown; tegule with

black line near base and dark medial line; abdomen grey-brown,

the ventral surface paler. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and

suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from

costa; a black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line,

which is angled outwards below costa and very strongly in cell and

submedian told and above inner margin and inwards on median

nervure and vein 1; claviform represented by a slight black streak

on its upper edge; traces of the orbicular and reniform, the former

rounded, the latter angled inwards on median nervure and with

curved black streak representing its lower edge; postmedial line

somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, nearly obsolete to

vein 2, then angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on

vein 1; a black streak above vein 4 connected with some short

diffused streaks from termen below apex; a slight black streak above

terminal part of vein 3 and an oblique streak below vein 2 towards:

termen; some slight dark lunules on termen, Hind wing reddish

brown, the interspaces of basal half rather paler; cilia white,

brownish at base; the underside with slight discoidal lunule.

Hab. ?S.W. France; Germany; Avsrria ; SwitzeRLanp, Zeller,

Frey, and Leech Colls.; Russta, ? Livonia,? Urals; Armenia. Hap.

50-54 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 257.

Pearly white with small white spots and dots, a maculate yellow

dorsal stripe and a narrower lateral stripe. Food-plant, Cam-

panula. 8.

2135. Cucullia lucifuga.

Noctua lucifuga, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Hiubn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 262; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with dark brown ; tegule

with black line near base and dark medial line; abdomen fuscous

brown, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing purple-grey suffused

60 NOCTUIDE.

and irrorated with reddish brown; the veins with fine dark streaks

the subbasal line represented by a slight brown striga from costa ;

a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which

is angled outwards below costa and very strongly in submedian fold

and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1; an oblique medial

line from costa to lower angle of cell; orbicular and reniform some-

times almost obsolete except lower edge of reniform, sometimes in-

completely defined by brown, the former round, the latter constricted

at middle and angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line

very oblique from costa to medial fold, then nearly obsolete and

waved to vein 2, then angled inwards'in submedian fold and

outwards on vein 1; a more or less developed black streak above

medial part of vein 4; a triangular brown shade from termen below

apex ; an oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2; a series

of shght terminal lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown

especially on the veins and terminal area, more uniformly suffused

in female; cilia white, brownish at base; the underside with

discoidal lunule.

Hab. France; Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Ausrria, Leech

Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; S. Scanpryavra; Russia, Livonia,

Zeller Coll.; Armenta; W. Srperta, Altai; Moneorma, Urga;

Trser, Kuku-noor; E. Siser1a, Amurland, Ussuri. Hwp. 44-54

millim.

Larva. Hiibn. Larv. Lep. iv. Noct. ii. Gen. v. &. f. 1,@; Kirby, Butt.

& Moths Eur. p. 257.

black ; a dorsal series of large orange-red and a lateral series of

smaller spots. Food-plants: sow-thistle and wild carrot. 7-8.

2136. Cucullia intermedia. (Plate XCVII. fig. 17.)

Cucullia intermedia, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 400 (1870) ; id. New

York State Cab. Ann. Rep, 23, p. 217, pl. viii. tf. 5,7; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 238.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ;

tegule with black line near hase, dark~ medial line and tips ;

abdomen brownish, the extremity grey irrorated with brown.

Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ;

the veins with fine dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by an

oblique striga from costa ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to

the antemedial line, which is very strongly angled outwards in the

interspaces and inwards on the veins; a slight curved streak below

end of cell representing the lower edge of reniform; postmedial

line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then

angled inwards to or to near antemedial line in submedian fold

and outwards on vein 1; a slight black streak above middle of

vein 4; a short streak above extremity of vein 3 and an oblique

subterminal streak below vein 2; a terminal series of black points.

Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, especially on the veins and

terminal area; the underside with slight discoidal spots, the costal

area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown.

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Hab. Canava ; U.S.A., E. States to Virginia, New York, Scho-

harie (Lintner), 1 g, Albany (Bailey), 1 9, Centre (Builey), 1 @,

C. States. Hwp., ¢ 50, 9 56 millim.

Larva, Shining black, minutely granular; a row of segmentary

orange spots on the sides. (After Lintner.)—H. G. D.

2137. Cucullia cinderella. (Plate XCVII. fig. 18.)

Cucullia cinderella, Smith, Proce. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 49 (1892) ; id. Cat.

Noect. N. Am. p. 2388.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ;

tegule with black line near base, two fuscous medial lines and

fuscous tips; abdomen grey irrorated and dorsally suffused with

fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ;

the veins finely streaked with fuscous; a black streak in sub-

median fold to the antemedial line, which is very strongly angled

outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular

represented by a slight dark streak on its lower edge; a curved

streak below end of cell representing lower edge of reniform;

postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete

to vein 2, then strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and

outwards just above vein 1; a slight black streak above terminal

part of vein 3, a subterminal streak below vein 2 and one in

submedian fold beyond postmedial line; a terminal series of points.

Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on the veins and

terminal area; the underside with the costal and terminal areas

irrorated with brown.

Hab. Canana, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 3,1 9; US.A.,

Colorado. Hap. 50 millim.

2138. Cucullia grisescens. (Plate XCVII. fig. 12.)

Cucullia grisescens, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 99.

@. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown;

frons with brown bar above; tegula with black line near base;

tibie with dark streaks; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing

purplish grey tinged and irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line

represented by a dark striga from costa; a black streak in sub-

median fold to antemedial line, which is very strongly angled

outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular

and reniform very indistinctly defined by brown; postmedial line

obsolete except from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is strongly

angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1; a slight

dark streak above vein 4. Hind wing reddish brown; cilia pale

at tips; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown, a dark discoidal lunule.

Hab. W. Curtna, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 9 type. wp. 64 millim.

62 NOCTUIDAE.

2139. Cucullia celsiz.

OCucullia celsie, Herr.-Schaff, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 311, Noct. f. 182 (1845) ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

3S. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; tegule with

blackish line near base, two brown medial lines and brown tips ;

abdomen ochreous whitish suffused with reddish brown, the dorsal

crests black and grey. Fore wing fuscous black suffused with

erey, leaving the base and terminal area except towards costa pale ;

antemedial line dentate, very strongly angled outwards in sub-

median fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1,

indistinct on costal half, defined by grey on inner side below

submedian fold; stigmata obsolete ; postmedial line obsolete

towards costa, represented by a double series of points on the pale

area and by a whitish lunule in submedian interspace and small

lunule above inner margin; the veins towards termen slightly

streaked with black; slight oblique black streaks below extremities

of veins 6 and 2; cilia white at base, black at tips. Hind wing

pale, uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white at base,

fuscous at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, an

indistinct discoidal lunule and postmedial line.

Hab. Huneary; Burearta; 8. Turney; Parestinn,1 ¢. Hap.

32 millim.

Lerva. Rebel, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xviii. p. 230 (1903).

Green with fine whitish dorsal, subdorsal, and stigmatal lines ;

lateral line broad, the upper half formed by a dark green streak, the

lower half whitish. Food-plant, Hesperis desertorwm.

2140. Cucullia xeranthemi.

Cucullia xeranthemi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 153 (1840); Herr.-Schaff.

Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 309, Noct. ff. 195, 481; Frr. Beitr. v. pl. 412.

ff. 3-4; Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 89. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey; frons with

black bar; tegule with black line near base and brown medial

line; abdomen whitish mixed with brown except at base, the

dorsal crests dark. Fore wing violaceous whitish tinged with

brown, the veins with fine dark streaks, the interspaces with —

diffused brown streaks; the subbasal line represented by a slight

oblique striga from costa; a slight dark streak below base of cell;

antemedial line rather indistinct, double, highly angled outwards

in the interspaces and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reni-

form with reddish-brown centres and grey annuli defined by black,

the former rather figure-of-8-shaped, the latter more or less angled

inwards on median nervure; the medial part of inner margin with

black streak; postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on outer

side, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in submedian

fold and to inner margin, some pale points on costa beyond it; the

interspaces of terminal area with whitish streaks and black streaks

above veins 6 and 4 and below 2; a terminal series of shght black

lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and

CUCULLIA. 63

terminal area brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated

with brown, a slight discoidal spot, the terminal area brown.

Hab. 8. Francn; S. Germany; Ausrria; Huneary, Frey Coll.;

28. Ivary; Barkan Srares; S. Russta, Zeller and Leech Colls. ;

W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul; W. Srperia, Altai. Exp.

44 millim.

Larva. Mill. Tcones, ii. p. 873, pl. 89. f. 10.

Pale green; dorsal line pink; subdorsal line pink forming a

chain of elliptical marks with greyish centres ; a pink lateral stripe

defined by white below.

2141. Cucullia montana. (Plate XCVII. fig. 19.)

Cucullia montane, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 237.

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some fuscous and

tinged in parts with rufous, especially at base and inner side of

tegule ; head darker with black bar on frons; tegule with black

line near base, two slight medial lines and black tips ; patagia with

some black scales near upper edge; dorsum of thorax mostly

black; tibize with black streaks; abdomen grey tinged with brown,

the crests black. Fore wing violaceous whitish; the costal area

darker except at base ; the basal area, end of cell and area beyond

it suffused with rufous; the veins with fine dark streaks; a slight

streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinct,

double, angled outwards in the interspaces, very strongly below

cell and above inner margin and inwards on the veins ; orbicular

and reniform whitish incompletely defined by black and with

brown points in centres, each rather constricted at middle and

forming figure-of-8-shaped marks; postmedial line bent outwards

below costa, obsolete to vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule

defined on each side by black and with some blackish suffusion

before and beyond it, then bent inwards as a blackish fascia on

inner margin to antemedial line; some irregular subterminal

rufous streaks in the interspaces and a more prominent oblique

streak below extremity of vein 2; a terminal series of black strie.

Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown,

especially in female; cilia white, with fine brown line near base

except towards tornus.

Hab. Canava, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 1 $; U.S.A., Montana,

Colorado (Bruce), 1 2, Denver (Oslar), 4 3,192. Hap. 48-54

millim.

2142. Cucullia florea. (Plate XCVIL. fig. 20.)

Cucullia florea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 184 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p- 237.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with

black bar; tegule with black line near base, two medial lines and

brown tips; abdomen pale brownish, the extremity greyer, the

dorsal crests dark. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and suffused

64 NOCTUID.

with fuscous, the costal area darker; a black streak on medial part

of inner margin; the veins with fine dark streaks; subbasal line

represented by an oblique striga from costa; a fine black streak in

submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is double, highly

angled outwards in the interspaces, especially the submedian, and

inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform moderate, with

brown centres and grey annuli incompletely defined by black, each

slightly angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line

obsolete except in submedian interspace, where it forms a whitish

lunule defined on each side by black and with some diffused black

before it; a black streak above middle of vein 4 and an oblique

streak below vein 2; some slight whitish streaks in interspaces of

terminal area and a terminal series of black strie. Hind wing

whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused

with brown; the underside with the costal area suffused with

brown, a small discoidal spot.

Hab. Canava, Hudson’s Bay (Barnston), 1 9, Alberta, Calgary

(Wolley-Dod), 2 $, 2 9; U.S.A., New Hampshire, New York,

Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 4 9 type, New Jersey. xp. 50

millim.

2143. Cucullia elongata.

Callenia elongata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi. p. 67 (1880); id. Ill. Het.

B. M. vi. p. 11, pl. 108. f. 7.

Cucullia albescens, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 357; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p- 288; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Cucullia atkinsoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 131 (1882).

Cucullia ‘postera, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 524 (1892).

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous; head

blacker ; tegulee with black line near base, two slight medial lines

and fuscous tips; patagia with their upper edges fuscous, dorsum

of thorax mostly fuscous; tibize with fuscous streaks; abdomen

grey irrorated with brown, the crests dark. Fore wing purplish

erey irrorated with brown, the costal area suffused with fuscous,

the end of cell and area beyond it with rufous ; the veins with fine

black streaks; a slight black streak in submedian fold to the

antemedial line, which is usually indistinct, double, angled outwards

in the interspaces, very strongly below cell and above inner margin

and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform moderate with

rufous centres and grey annuli defined by black, each rather

constricted at middle; postmedial line bent outwards below costa,

obsolete to vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule defined by black

‘lines and with some fuscous suffusion before it, then retracted as a

blackish streak along inner margin to antemedial line; a slight

black streak above middle of vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak

below extremity of vein 2; a terminal series of black striz. Hind

wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area

suffised with brown, especially in female.

Hab. W. Siperis, Altai; E. Srpnr1a, Amurland, Ussuri; Trpexr,

Amdo; Kasumir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 2 $; Punsaz, Kulu

CUCULLIA. , 65

(Hocking), 2 3, 292, type albescens, Simla (Swinhoe, Harford),

1g, 2 2, Murree (Harford), 1 g, Dalhousie, 1 ¢; Srxam

(Lidderdale), 1 2 type. Hwvp. 44-56 millim.

2144, Cucullia asteris.

Noctua asteris, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 154.

ff. 2,3; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 260; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 125.

1; Curt. Brit. Ent. pl. 45; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 86 ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head dark red-brown mixed with grey; frons with black bar ;

thorax pale violaceous grey tinged with rufous; tegule with fine

black line near base, two slight ane lines and dark brown tips ;

patagia edged with dark brown above and with some black scales ;

dorsum of thorax dark brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown,

the crests blackish. Fore wing pale violaceous grey tinged with

rufous, the costal area dark rufous; the veins with fine dark

streaks; traces of a dark streak in submedian fold to the ante-

medial line, which is very indistinct, double, angled outwards in the

interspaces, very strongly below cell and above inner margin, and

inwards on the veins; a slight dark streak representing upper edge

of claviform ; orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by red-

brown and each somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line

obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms a white lunule defined

on each side by brown lines and with some rufous suffusion before

and beyond it, then retracted as a dark streak along inner margin

to antemedial line; a slight dark streak above taiddlo of vein 4 and

a prominent oblique streak below extremity of vein 2; some slight

pale streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal series

of black strize. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown; cilia ochreous at base, white at tips;

the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown.

Hab. Brrrain, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls. ; Huneary, 1D? Emmich Coll. ; N. Ivaty; ScanDINAvia ;

Russta, iivoniel Zeller Coll.; W. SIBERIA, Altai; W. TurKxnsran,

Issyk Kul; E. TURKESTAN, Ubi, Kerlan Moncorta, Urga; EH. Srperia,

Dahuria, Ussuri; Javan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 ¢6,1 2; W.Cutna,

Pu-tsu-fang, 1 9. Hap. 48-50 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 75, pl. 239. f. 1.

Pale yellow-green or purplish pink; dorsal, subdorsal and spira-

cular lines yellow, black-edged, the subdorsal line sometimes

greenish ; head pale yellow or pink speckled with black. Food-

plants: Soiidayo and Aster. 8-9:

2145. Cucullia gnaphalii.

Noctua gnaphalit, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 582-3 (1827); Meig.

Syst. Besch. iii. p. 196, pl. cxi. f. 11; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 125. f. 4.

Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 5; Herr. -Schaff, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 200- 1;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown; frons with

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66 NOCTUIDAE.

black bar above; tegule red-brown at base defined by a black line

and two brown lines near tips; abdomen brown, pale at base aud

irrorated with grey towards extremity, the dorsal crests dark.

Fore wing violaceous grey tinged with red-brown especially on

medial area; the veins with fine dark streaks; subbasal line

represented by a slight striga from costa; a black streak below

base of cell; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, highly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins;

orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined

by black, the former elliptical, the latter slightly angled inwards

on median nervure; a black streak on medial part of inner margin ;

postmedial line bent outwards below costa, obsolete at middle,

angled inwards in submedian fold and to inner margin, some pale

points beyond it on costa; the terminal area with short black

streaks above veins 6 and 4 and below 2; a terminal series of

black strie. Hind wing reddish brown, the interspaces of basal

half paler; cilia white at tips; the underside with the interspaces

of basal half white, a discoidal point.

Hab. Brrrain; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swrrzerzanp,

Leech Coll.; N. Iraty; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Finland,

Odessa; Armenta; W. Srperia, Altai. Hep. 42 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 47; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 79, pl. 239. f. 2.

Bright green ; dorsal stripe broad, purplish brown with darker

markings ; spiracles yellow on purple-reddish marks ; head bluish

green. Food-plants: Solidago, Artemisia. 8-9.

2146. Cucullia brevipennis. (Plate XCVII. fig. 21.)

Cucullia brevipennis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 239 (1894).

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; tegule with black

line near base, two fine brown medial lines and brown tips;

patagia with some black scales near upper edge; abdomen grey

dorsally tinged with brown, the crests dark. Fore wing grey with

a violaceous tinge and slight brown irroration; the costal area

suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique

black striga from costa defined by grey on outer side; antemedial

line indistinctly double filled in with grey, very strongly dentate

inwards on the veins and outwards in interspaces; claviform hardly

traceable ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black and with

slight brown centres, the former small, round, touching the ante-

medial line, the latter incompletely defined; medial shade highly

curved, obsolete at middle, strong towards costa and inner margin ;

postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, indistinct except

on inner area, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to

vein 4, then oblique and incurved at submedian fold, some white

points beyond it on costa; the terminal area with the veins slightly

streaked with black and with black streaks above veins 7, 6, 4, 1,

the 3rd extending to lower angle of cell and the last extending to

termen and with some reddish brown below it; a brown shade

from termen below apex; a terminal series of black lunules and

CUCULLIA. 67

fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with

brown, the veins and terminal half suffused with brown, most

strongly in female; the underside with the costal and terminal

areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. .

Hab. Punsas, Sabathu (Harford), | g, 292 type; SrkaIM,

1 3; Assam, Nagas. vp. 38-46 millim.

*2147. Cucullia lilacina. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 1.)

Cucullia lilacina, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 116 (1898).

3. Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown; frons

and vertex of head with blackish bars ; tegule with black line near

base, brown medial line and brown tips; patagia edged with black ;

dorsum of thorax black; tibi striped with black, the pectus

clothed with pale rufous hair; abdomen pale ochreous brown,

greyish at extremity, the crests large and black. Fore wing

violaceous grey irrorated with brown; the base suffused with

red-brown; a black streak on inner margin from near base to

postmedial line; the area beyond the cell suffused with rufous ;

the antemedial line represented by an extremely long tooth in

submedian interspace; an oblique black striga in cell before the

orbicular, which is small, round, tinged with rufous and defined by

black, incompletely below; reniform incompletely defined by brown ;

a black shade between the stigmata from costa to median nervure ;

postmedial line represented by double oblique striz filled in with

white from costa and by a white lunule defined by brown lines

and with some fuscous suffusion before it in submedian interspace,

then retracted to inner margin; the veins of terminal area with

dark streaks ; costa towards apex black with some white points on

it; an oblique black streak below extremity of vein 2. Hind wing

whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with

brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, typet ¢ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 44

millim.

*2148. Cucullia agua.

Cucullia agua, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 203 (1904).

é. Clear, bluish grey ; head dark, black and grey mixed; palpi

blackish at sides; tegula# pale brown largely mixed with grey, black-

brown at base and with black-brown medial streak, a medial brown

line edged with white in front; patagia grey edged with blackish ;

abdomen fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish; pectus and ventral

surface of abdomen pale yellow-brown; legs greyish on outer side,

the tarsi darker. Fore wing with the markings pale reddish to

dark brown and black, the base dark brown with a small white spot

below costa, the inner margin with a black-brown fascia; ante-

medial line with blackish spot below costa, then almost obsolete,

strongly angled outwards in submedian interspace ; orbicular small,

round, brown slightly defined by black; reniform defined by dark

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68 NOCTUID&.

brown, incompletely on inner side; a diffused medial shade from

costa to median nervure, then indistinct; postmedial lne obsolete

except for a pale lunule in submedian interspace interrupting a

dark streak ending on termen below vein 2; the end of cell and

costal area from it to apex suffused with reddish brown, leaving the

costa narrowly grey with some white points on it with oblique dark

strize between them; a terminal series of dark striz; cilia pale at

base. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, the veins and terminal

area suffused with fuscous; cilia white; the underside dirty white,

the costal and terminal areas darker.

@. Fore wing darker and more suffused with black-brown ;

the medial shade darker, the orbicular and reniform darker with

brown centres ; hind wing darker.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuea Mts. Evp., ¢ 44, 2 46 millim.

This species is unknown to me; it may be the same as S. lilacina,

Schaus.

*2149. Cucullia bistriga. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 20.)

Cucullia bistriga, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 48 (1892); id. Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 238.

3. Bluish grey ; frons with some black scales ; tegule with a black

line near base and brownish line near tips; patagia with dusky line

hear margin; metathoracie crest brown. Fore wing with slight

dark streaks on the veins, the costal area with dark suffusion, the

terminal area with short black streaks in the interspaces; ante-

medial line single, dark, strongly angled outwards in and below cell

and above inner margin; a black streak on inner margin from base

to postmedial line, another in submedian fold from antemedial

line to beyond middle, then bent upwards to termen below vein 3 ;

orbicular absent; reniform moderate, indistinct, dusky ; postmedial

line single, blackish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4,

then oblique; a sight oblique shade from termen below apex. Hind

wing whitish with dark suffusion on terminal area; cilia whitish ;

the underside grey-white with darker irroration.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado. wp. 35 millim. This species is

unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat.

Mus.

2150. Cucullia asteroides. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 2.)

Cucullia asteroides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 183 (1852); Smith, Cat, Noct. N.

Am. p. 237.

Head fuscous brown mixed with some grey, thorax purplish grey ;

the tegulee with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown

tips; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; dorsum of

thorax dark brown with the metathoracic crest black; tibize with dark

streaks; abdomen whitish at base, greyish at extremity, dorsally

tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, the crests dark.

CUCTLLIA, 69

Fore wing pale purplish grey ; the costal area suffused with fuscous,

the cell and area beyond it with rufous; the veins with fine dark

streaks; a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial

line, which is indistinctly double, very highly angled outwards in

the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ;

orbicular and reniform represented by dark points on their edges,

the latter with curved streak below end of cell representing its lower

edge; postmedial line obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms

a whitish lunule defined on each side by fine black lines, then bent

inwards along inner margin to antemedial line, some rufous before

it in submedian interspace; slight whitish streaks in interspaces of

terminal area towards apex and two oblique dark streaks in sub-

median interspace, some black strize on termen. Hind wing white,

the veins and termen tinged with fuscous, in female the whole

terminal area suffused with fuscous.

Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 3 ; U.S.A., E. States to Virginia and

Nebraska, Massachusetts, Buffalo (Packard), 2 ¢; New York,

6 3,22 type, Illinois, 1 9. Exp. 50-58 millim.

Larva. Head rounded, green with paler reticulations. Body

cylindrical, uniform, green; dorsal line moderate, yellow, black-

edged ; subdorsal and lateral lines yellow-green, black-edged ; supra-

stigmatal line black-edged, its lower edge a row of dashes, below

which is the yellow substigmatal line margined beneath with

white. Feet green.—H. G. D.

2151. Cucullia postera. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 3.)

Cucullia postera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 183 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am,

)Q~

p: aod.

@. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous brown ;

frons with black bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight

medial lines and brown tips; patagia with some black scales near

upper edge; metathoracic crest tipped with black ; tibize with black

streaks; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with ochreous and

irrorated with brown, the crests black. Fore wing purplish grey

slightly tinged with brown, the costal area darker, the end of cell

and area beyond it suffused slightly with rufous; subbasal line

represented by a slight oblique striga from costa; a slight black

streak in submedian fold to the antemedial Jine, which is indistinctly

double, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards

on the veins; orbicular and reniform moderate, with slight rufous

centres and greyish annuli incompletely defined by black, both

somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line obsolete except

from vein 2 to inner margin, where it forms a whitish lunule

defined on each side by black lines and with some fuscous suffusion

before it, then bent inwards as black streaks along inner margin to

the antemedial line; a blackish streak above medial part of vein 4

and an oblique streak below terminal part of vein 2; some whitish

streaks in interspaces of terminal area; a terminal series of black

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70 NOCTUID A.

strie. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown.

Hab. U.S.A., New Hampshire, New York (Doubleday, W. W. Hill),

3 2 type, New Jersey. Hap. 46-54 millim,

*2152. Cucullia ledereri.

Cucullia ledereri, Staud. Rom. Mém., vi. p. 525 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 215 :

Differs from C. postera in the costa of fore wing being slightly

instead of strongly suffused with brown; the streak on inner margin

blacker; the orbicular defined by two dark points, the reniform by

three minute striz in centre; the black-edged white lunule on

postmedial line in submedian interspace further from the oblique

black streak below extremity of vein 2.

Hab. Kamiscuatka. Eap.? This species is unknown to me.

*2153. Cucullia indicta.

Cucullia indicta, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 154 (1904).

Bluish grey; head smoky brown; tegule fuscous at base and

with blackish medial line; dorsum of thorax fuscous; abdomen

with the crests fuscous. Fore wing almost uniform in colour ; ante-

medial line hardly traceable, highly dentate ; orbicular and reniform

defined with slight brownish centres and greyish annuli incompletely

defined by black, both somewhat constricted at middle; a black

streak on inner margin before the postmedial line, which is obsolete

except for a double curved line in submedian interspace, followed

by a pale line with a black-brown streak from it to termen below

vein 2; a terminal series of black stria, Hind wing dull yellowish

white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous; cilia white; the

underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with

fuscous.

Hab. Canapva, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod). Exp., 3 46,

© 52 millim. This species is unknown to me.

2154. Cucullia obscurior. (Plate XCVIII. fig. +.)

Cucullia obscurior, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 41 (1892); id. Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 237.

@. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ;

frons with black bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight

medial lines and brown tips; patagia with some black scales near

upper edge; metathorax with the crest tipped with black; abdomen

greyish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, the crests

dark. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with fuscous; a slight

black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is

indistinct, double, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces

and inwards on the yeins; orbicular and reniform moderate,

CUCULLIA. Hall

incompletely defined by black and with black points round their

centres, both somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line

double and bent outwards below costa, obsolete to vein 2, then

represented by a grey lunule defined on each side by black lines and

with slight fuscous suffusion before it, then bent inwards as a black

streak on inner margin to the antemedial line ; a slight black streak

above medial part of vein 4, and a strong oblique streak below

extremity of vein 2; a series of slight black terminal lunules.

Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown; cilia white; the underside white, the

costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown.

Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 3 2. Ewp. 48-50

millim.

2155. Cucullia similaris. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 5.)

Cucullia similaris, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 41 (1892); id. Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 237.

Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with some fuscous; frons

with black bar; tegule with black line near base, two slight medial

lines and dark tips; patagia with some black scales near upper

edge; dorsum of thorax mostly black; tegule streaked with black ;

abdomen brownish grey, the crests black. Fore wing blue-grey

irrorated- with fuscous, the costal area rather darker towards apex,

the veins with fine black streaks ; subbasal line represented by a

slight oblique striga from costa; a slight black streak in submedian

fold to the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double and very

strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the

veins; orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by black and

with black points round centres, the former somewhat constricted

at middle, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ;

postmedial line double and bent outwards helow costa, obsolete to

vein 2, then forming a whitish lunule defined on each side by black

lines and with some fuscous suffusion before it, then bent inwards

as a black fascia on inner margin to antemedial line; slight black

streaks above middle of veins 6, 5, 4, and a prominent ck lique streak

below extremity of vein 2, with a short streak below its origin in

submedian fold; a terminal series of small black Iunules. Hind

wing white slightly tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area

suffused with brown, especially in female.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 1 g, Durango (Oslar),1 3,2 2.

Exp., 3 45, 2 52 millim.

*2156. Cucullia arizona. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 6.)

Cucullia arizona, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xiii. p. 206 (1905).

2. Dark bluish grey, the markings fuscous black, distinct ; head

black-brown with transverse black and grey lines; tegule grey with

three blackish and two white lines; thorax dorsally irrorated with

mo lave

(Pp NOCTUID 2.

black. Fore wing with pale grey shade from middle of costa to

termen below apex, defined by fuscous below becoming black towards

termen, the area above it darker; a black fascia on inner margin

expanding beyond middle and filling submedian interspace ; a fine

black streak in base of submedian fold; antemedial line represented

by a long black tooth in submedian interspace; orbicular and

reniform only defined by black points ; postmedial line represented

by a fine grey lunule in submedian interspace. Hind wing whitish

at base, the veins and terminal area broadly suffused with blackish ;

cilia white.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co. Exp. 45 millim. This

species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in

Coll. J. B. Smith.

2157. Cucullia perstrigata, n.n. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 7.)

Cucullia strigata, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 116 (1898), nec Smith,

1892.

Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown; head

blackish; tegule tinged with fuscous, a brown line near base,

slight medial line and brown tips; patagia with some black scales

near upper edge; dorsum of thorax blackish; tibie with black

stripes; abdomen grey, the crests dark. Fore wing violaceous grey

irrorated with white; a black streak in submedian fold to the

antemedial line, which is very indistinct, highly angled outwards in

the interspaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ;

claviform represented by a slight black streak on its upper edge;

the end of cell and area beyond it pale tinged with rufous; orbicular

and reniform defined by some dark points, the latter with curved

streak below end of cell representing its lower edge; a black streak

above median nervure and vein 4 from antemedial line to near

termen; an oblique streak from middle of costa to upper angle of

cell; postmedial line represented by a pale streak from costa to

termen above vein 6 and by a pale lunule defined by brown lines

between veins 2 and 1, then strongly retracted to inner margin, the

medial area with oblique dark fascia on inner margin; some pale

points on costa towards apex ; black streaks above veins 7, 6, and

terminal part of 5, and an oblique streak below extremity of vein 2.

Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area

suffused with brown; cilia white at tips; the underside with the

costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown.

Hab, Mexico, Jalapa, 1 9,typet din Coll. Schaus. Exp. 46

millim.

2158. Cucullia convexipennis. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 8.)

Cucullia convexipennis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. ii. p. 201, pl. iii.

f. 76 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2386.

Head and thorax whitish mixed with ochreous brown; frons

with two black bars. Vertex of head with brown bar; tegule

CUCULLIA. We

with black line near base, two slight rufous medial lines and rufous

tips; patagia with the upper edge rufous, dorsum of thorax rufous ;

tibie with black streaks; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the

dorsal crests very large and thick, formed of rufous scales. Fore

wing violaceous grey, the area from middle of costa through end of

cell to near termen tinged with ochreous, the area beyond and

above it and the inner area towards tornus suffused with rufous ;

subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa; a

brown streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is

very indistinct, angled outwards in the interspaces, very strongly

below cell and above inner margin, and inwards on the veins, a

dark streak beyond it representing upper edge of claviform; orbi-

cular represented by two dark points, the reniform by traces of its

upper edge; the veins of terminal half with dark streaks ; post-

medial line represented by two oblique brown striz from costa

with a white streak above latter from costa to termen at vein 7,

some whitish streaks in interspaces below costa towards apex,

below vein 2 the postmedial line forms a whitish lunule defined on

each side by brown, then bent inwards as a dark fascia on inner

margin to antemedial line; a slight dark streak above middle of

vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak below extremity of vein 2;

the extremity of some of the veins defined by slight white streaks.

Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area suffused

with reddish brown, especially in female.

Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., New York, Evans Centre, 2 5, 3 2,

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 1 2, Delaware, Ohio. Hwp. 46-52

millim.

Larva, Head rounded, shining black; sutures of clypeus and a

dot in its centre, a spot behind and one above eyes pale yellow.

Body with a low dorsal hump on joint 12, which with joint 13 is

black ; forward of this a dorsal red line becoming yellow on joint 2;

four fine yellow subdorsal lines; a broad yellow lateral line, verti-

cally cut with black into four spots on each segment, the most

anterior one partly divided on the lower side; a dark red stripe

on a black ground subventrally; nine yellow ventral lines, the

central ones wider than the marginal. Feet black—H. G. D.

2159. Cucullia stigmatophora. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 9.)

Cucullia stigmatophora, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 239 (1894).

Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous; tegulie

with blackish line near base, three slight rufous medial lines and

dark rufous tips; thorax with the scales of dorsal crest tipped with

black ; abdomen ochreous whitish mixed with brown and tinged

with rufous, the crests dark. Fore wing whitish suffused with

rufous, the costal area suffused with fuscous; antemedial line

angled outwards in cell, obsolete to submedian fold, then double,

strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner

margin; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, pale, with two

74 NOCTUID ©.

slight brown streaks between them in discal fold; the inner margin

dark brown on medial area; postmedial line obsolete except below

vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule defined on each side by brown

and with some brown suffusion before it in submedian fold, and a

similar smaller lunule above inner margin; an oblique series of

brown streaks between vein 6 and apex, a slight streak above

middle of vein 4 and a prominent oblique streak below vein 2, with

some fine white and brown streaks below it; cilia white at base,

red-brown ‘at tips. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with red-

brown ; cilia white at base, red-brown at tips; the underside paler

with slight discoidal lunule.

Hub. KH. Turxustan, Kuldja, g in Coll. Piingeler. Ponsas,

Simla (Harford), 1 9 type. Hap. 44 millim.

2160. Cucullia scrophulariphaga.

Cuculiia scrophulariphaga, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, ra, 20, pl. 1.

f. 4; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 409, pl. 36. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 215.

Head and thorax grey tinged with brown; frons with two brown

bars, back of head dark brown; tegule with blackish line near

base, two slight medial lines and dark brown tips; patagia with

some black scales near upper edge which is brown; dorsum of

thorax dark brown; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the dorsal

crests dark. Fore wing grey tinged with brown, the cell and area

beyond it with rufous, some whitish suffusion from medial area

below cell to middle of termen, the costal area rather darker

towards apex; a slight brown streak in submedian fold to the

antemedial line, which is pale brown defined by white on inner

side, very highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards

on the veins; orbicular and reniform defined by dark points on

their edges; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, very in-

distinct to vein 2, then forming a white lunule defined on each side

by brown, and a smaller lunule above inner margin; an oblique

black streak above inner margin on medial area; an oblique series

of slight brown streaks from vein 6 to apex, and some others from

termen below apex to vein 4; a prominent oblique streak from

termen above vein 3 to postmedial line in submedian fold, with

some slight brown and white streaks below it; cilia blackish and

white at base, grey at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with

brown, especially on the veins and terminal area; cilia whitish

with a brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal

area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a

discoidal lunule.

Hab. Corsica, Leech Coll. Hap. 42-46 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 255.

Almost exactly like that of C. blattariew, with four black spots

on back of each segment arranged in a St. Andrew’s cross, the

outer ones touching a yellow subdorsal line.

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CUCULLIA.

*2161. Cucullia scrophulariphila. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 10.)

Cucullia scrophulariphila, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 215; id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 214.

6. Palpi rufous with blackish streak and the 3rd joint blackish ;

head red-brown, the vertex with semicircular white mark in front ;

tegule and patagia brownish grey, the former with white band

before the tips which are dark brown, the latter with white fascia

near upper edge which is dark brown, and some black scales below

it; vertex of thorax black~brown; pectus clothed with pale yellow

and rufous hair; the mid and hind tibize brown above, yellowish

below, with black points near extremity and at base of spurs;

abdomen whitish suffused with pale reddish brown, the crests

blackish. Fore wing pale grey-brown, the costal area rather

darker and suffused with grey, the basal inner area whitish; a

slight dark streak in base of submedian fold; antemedial line in-

distinct, double, very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces

and inwards on the veins, the tooth above inner margin forming a

blackish streak to postmedial line, a white patch beyond the tooth

in submedian fold before the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform

only defined by dark points on their margins; postmedial line

almost obsolete except below vein 2, where it is double, forming

oblique lunules filled in with white in submedian interspace and

above inner margin; indistinct wedge-shaped brown streaks from

termen above veins 7, 6,5; an oblique wedge-shaped black-brown

fascia from termen just above vein 3 to postmedial line at sub-

median fold, with diffused white fascia above it and slight white

streak below it; cilia grey-brown with a dark line near base.

Hind wing dark brown, the cell and inner area yellowish white,

the veins dark brown; cilia brownish white with a dark line

through them except towards tornus; the underside white, the

costal and terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a dark

discoidal lunule.

@. Hind wing brown, the inner area only yeliowish white.

Hab. Spain, Andalusia, Chiclana, in Coll, Piingeler; ? Aterrra,

Exp. 40-44 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 255; Hffm. Raup. p. 126.

Like ©. verbasci, head broader, spots more confluent. Food-

plant, Scrophularia sambucifolia, 3-5.

2162. Cucullia blattariz.

Noctua blattarie, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 154. f. 4 (1786) ; Frr. Beitr. pl. 81;

Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 202-3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Cucullia canine, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 19, pl. 1. f. 5; Dup.

Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 415, pl. 37. f. 2.

Cuculiia scrophularivora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 180 (1852).

Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous; palpi, two bars on

frons, aud back of head dark rufous ; tegule with blackish line near

base, traces of a medial line and dark rufous tips; patagia with

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some black scales towards upper edge which is dark rufous, thorax

dorsally blackish ; mid and hind tibie with black points at their

extremities ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the crests

dark. Fore wing grey-white, more or less suffused with rufous,

leaving the inner half paler; the costal area darker; subbasal line

represented by an oblique striga from costa ; antemedial line double

below submedian fold, angled strongly outwards in the interspaces

and inwards on the veins, above inner margin angled outwards to

postmedial line, its outer part forming a black streak ; postmedial

line obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule

defined on each side by brown lines, and with a smaller lunule

below it above inner margin; some whitish points on costa towards

apex ; an oblique series of slight rufous streaks between vein 6 and

apex, and another series from termen below apex to vein 4, a

prominent oblique streak below vein 2 with sight white and brown

streaks below it; cilia blackish at base, grey at tips, and intersected

with white. Hind wing tinged with brown, the veins and terminal

area suffused with brown, in female mostly suffused with brown ;

cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside with

slight discoidal lunule.

Hab. W. France, Leech Coll.; Germany; Austria, Zeller and

Leech Colls.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Spary; Corsica, Leech Coll. ;

Datmatta, Frey and Leech Colls.; 8. Russta, Leech Coll. ; ArmENrA ;

Asta Mrnor, Pontus, Lydia, Taurus, Mardin; Syria, Beyrout

(Jessop), 1 2; Kasuuir (Pilcher), 1 2. Exp, 44-52 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. i. p. 256.

Citron-yellow above with black spots often conjoined into the —

form of a cross; sides grey dotted with black; head brown or

red. Food-plants: the flowers and seeds of different species of

Scrophularia. 6-7.

2163. Cucullia thapsiphaga.

Cucullia thapsiphaga, Treit. Schmett. v. 8, p. 120 (1826); Rmbr. Ann.

Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 22, pl. 1.f.2; Frr. Beitr. pl. 0; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 214.

Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale rufous and violaceous ;

frons with two dark brown bars, vertex of head with some brown ;

tegule tinged with rufous at middle, a blackish line near base, two

slight medial lines and dark brown tips; patagia with some blackish

seales towards upper edge which is red-brown; thorax dorsally

dark brown; abdomen greyish suffused with brown, the crests dark.

Fore wing grey tinged with rufous, especially in and beyond end of

cell, some whitish suffusion from medial area below cell to middle

of termen, the costal area rather darker; a slight brown streak in

submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is pale brown, strongly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ;

orbicular and reniform defined by some black points ; postmedial

line bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 2, then

CUCULLTA. v7

represented by a whitish lunule defined on each side by brown and

a smaller lunule above inner margin ; an oblique black streak above

inner margia on medial area; an oblique series of rufous streaks

between vein 6 and apex, and some others from termen below apex

to vein 4; a prominent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to

postmedial line at submedian fold, with some slight brown and

white streaks below it; cilia grey with dark line through them

intersected with white. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown; cilia brown at base, white at

tips ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule.

Hab. France, Frey and Leech Colls.; Guruany, Zeller and Frey

Colls.; Ausrrria; Hungary; Swirzertanp; Spain, Leech Coll.,

Catalonia; Corsrca; Irary; Datmarta, Leech Coll.; 8. Russia;

ARMENIA. Lup. 38-44 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 255.

Bluish white with dorsal and lateral broad pale yellow stripes

and usually small bluish spots between them. Food-plant, leaves

and flowers of mullein, 6-8.

2164. Cucullia anceps. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 11.)

Cucullia anceps, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 78 (1881); id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 219.

3. Head white, the palpi at sides, a bar on frons, and the back

of head rufous; tegule and patagia white, the former with dark

line near base, two medial lines and dark tips, the latter with a

few black scales and brown upper edge; dorsal ridge black and

grey; tibie with some grey; abdomen ochreous white irrorated

with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing white, the costal

area suffused with grey, the cell and area beyond it tinged with

ochreous; a slight brown streak below base of cell and streak on

median nervure ; subbasal line represented by a pale oblique striga

from costa; antemedial line very indistinct, defined by whitish on

inner side, angled outwards below costa and strongly below cell and

above inner margin, where it is represented by oblique dark brown

streaks; orbicular and reniform only defined by dark points below

them and beyond the latter ; postmedial line almost obsolete except

below vein 2, where it forms a whitish lunule defined on each side

by brown and smaller lunule above inner margin ; some white points

on costa towards apex; brown streaks above bases of veins 7,6, and

an oblique series from termen below apex to lower angle of cell;

a prominent oblique streak from termen above vein 3 to postmedial

line in submedian fold ; cilia with blackish line through them. Hind

wing whitish, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown, the

inner area with ochreous ; cilia with a brown line through them.

Hab. Armenta, 1 56; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus; Syrta,

Mardin; Persia; W. Turxesran, Sarawschan; E. Turkestan, Ili.

Exp. 42 millim.

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78 NOOTUIDZE.

2165. Cucullia lychnitis.

Cucullia lychnitis, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 17, pl. 1. f. 3; Dup.

Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. pl. 36. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schaff. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 204 ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Cucullia rivulorum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 129 (1852).

Head pale rufous, the frons and vertex of head with dark rufous

bars ; tegule violaceous grey tinged with rufous at middle, a black

line near base, traces of two medial lines and dark brown tips ;

patagia with some black scales near upper edge which is rufous ;

dorsum of thorax dark brown; mid and hind tibiz at extremity

and Ist joint of tarsus with black spots ; abdomen grey tinged with

brown, the crests dark. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale

rufous, the costal area dark, tinged with grey; traces of a brown

streak in submedian fold to the’ antemedial line, which is very in-

distinct, double, highly angled outwards in the interspaces and

inwards on the veins, its outer part forming an oblique black streak

above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by slight black

points on their edges; postmedial line bent outwards below costa,

obsolete to vein 2, then represented by two whitish lunules defined

on each side by brown; an oblique series of slight brown streaks

from apex to vein 6 and another from termen below apex to vein 4;

a prominent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to postmedial

line in submedian fold, with slight white and brown streaks below

it; cilia with blackish line through them intersected with white.

Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and termen suffused with

brown, especially in female; cilia pale with a brown line through

them ; the underside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with brown.

Hab. Brirain (Leech, Barrett); Francn, Leech Coll. ; Germany,

Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Avsrr1a, Leech Coll. ; Swirzer.ann,

Zermatt (Murray); Sprary, Bilbao, Castille; Corsica; SaRDINIA ;

Traty; S. Russa; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Lydia. ap.

42-48 millim.

Larva. Boisd. Rmbr. & Grasl. Chen. Ic. pl. 15. ff. 1-2; Meyr. Brit. Lep,

p- 49; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 71, pl. 238. f. 3.

Greenish white with a pale yellowish band on each segment; a

dorsal series of curved black bars alternating with rows of four

black spots ; a spiracular series of black spots. Food-plants: Ver-

bascum and Lychnis. 7-8.

Var. rivulorum. More elongate than lychnitis, greener and

without the yellow variety, the black markings slighter and tending

to form a single band; the incisions concolorous. Food-plant,

Scrophularia. 7.

2166. Cucullia scrophulariz.

Noctua scrophularie, Schilf. Wien. Verz. p. 812 (1776); Capieux, Naturf.

xxiv. p. 91, pl. 3. ff. 1-4 (1789) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 180. f. 4; Hubn.

Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 267; Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 14. pl. 1.

f. 1; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. vii. pl. 124. f. 38; Steph. Ill. Brit. Hnt., Haust.

iii. p. 85; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

CUCULLIA. 79

Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale rufous; frons and

vertex of head with rufous bars ; tegule with slight line near base,

traces of medial line and rufous tips; patagia with some brown

scales towards upper edge which is rufous ; dorsum of thorax dark

brown; mid and hind tibizw at extremity and Ist joint of tarsus

with black spots; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the crests

dark. Fore wing whitish suifused with pale rufous; the costal

area dark irrorated with grey ; a slight brown streak in submedian

fold to the antemedial line, which is very indistinct, double, highly

angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins, its

outer edge forming an oblique black streak above medial part of

inner margin; orbicular and reniform represented by some brown

points on their edges; postmedial line bent outwards below costa,

obsolete to vein 2, then forming two pale lunules defined on each

side by brown ; an oblique series of slight brown streaks from apex

to vein 6 and another from termen below apex to vein 4; a pro-

minent oblique fascia from termen above vein 3 to postmedial line

in submedian fold with slight brown and white streaks below it ;

cilia with blackish line through them intersected with white. Hind

wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area suffused with

brown ; cilia whitish with brown line through them ; the underside

with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown.

Hab. Brivain ; France ; Guruany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Austria, Leech Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey

Coll. ; Corstca ; N. Ivaty; Datmatia, Leech Coll.; Scanpinavia ;

Frxtanp, Leech Coll.; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; S. Russta,

Leech Coll.; Armenia; ? Asis Minor, Pontus; ?Syrra. Lap.

42-48 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 48; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 68, pl. 288. f. 2.

Bluish white with a yellow band on each segment ; a dorsal series

of black bars alternating with pairs of black spots; a spiracular

series of yellow spots and black marks ; head yellow spotted with

black. Food-plants: Scrophularia, especially S. nodosa, and Ver-

bascum, 6-7.

2167. Cucullia verbasci.

Noctua verbasci, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 514 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 139.

ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 266; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 392,

pl. 124, ff. 1, 2; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 85; Rmbr. Ann,

Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. p. 9, pl. 1. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous; frons and vertex

of head with red-brown bars ; tegule with slight line near base,

two faint medial lines and red-brown tips; patagia with some

black scales near upper edge which is whitish tipped with red-

brown; dorsum of thorax dark brown; pectus and legs clothed

with yellow hair, the mid and hind tibie fringed with rufous hair

on outer side and with brown spots at extremity ; abdomen

yellowish suffused with red-brown, especially in female, the crests

dark. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the costal area

80 NOCIUIDA.

dark rufous; a slight brown streak in submedian fold to the ante-

medial line, which is double, highly angled outwards in the inter-

spaces and inwards on the veins, indistinct except below vein 1;

the inner medial area suffused with rufous; orbicular and reniform

defined by some dark points on their edges; postmedial line

obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms two whitish lunules

defined on each side by red-brown; an oblique series of rufous

streaks from apex to vein 6 and others from termen below apex to

vein 4; the terminal area towards tornus from vein 4 obliquely to

lunules of postmedial line red-brown with some slight whitish

streaks on it; cilia strongly crenulate and intersected with white,

with fine pale line at base, then blackish and brown at tips. Hind

wing yellowish tinged with red-brown, the veins and terminal area

suffused with brown ; in female dark reddish brown, the basal and

inner areas paler; the underside with the costal and terminal

areas irrorated or suffused with brown, a small discoidal lunule.

Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; Francn, Leech Coll.; Germany,

Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Ausrria, Leech Coll. ; Swrrzertanp,

Frey Coll.; ? Anenrta; 8. Scanprnavia; Russia, Livonia, Zeller

Coll.; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia; Syria,

Beyrout (Jessop), 1 ¢; E. Stperia, Ussuri. Hap. 48-54 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 49; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 64, pl. 238. f. 1.

Blue-white with a yellow band on each segment ; double dorsal

series of bent black marks alternating with black spots; a spiracular

series of yellow spots and black marks; head yellow spotted with

black. Food-plants: Verbascum and Scrophularia, 6-7.

2168. Cucullia prenanthis.

Cucullia prenanthis, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 154 (1840); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 214.

Noctua ceramanthea, Fry. Neue Beitr. v. pl. 482 (1852) ; Herr.-Schaff. Kur.

Schmett., Noet. ff. 185-6.

Noctua blattarie, Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 124. f. 5 (mec Esp.).

Head rufous with some whitish on frontal tufts; thorax grey

tinged with red-brown; tegule with two slight medial lines and

red-brown tips; dorsum of thorax red-brown; abdomen greyish

suffused with brown, the dorsal crests red-brown. Fore wing pale

rufous with some whitish above the dark marks on inner area; the

costal area towards apex dark brown with some white points on it;

a faint brown streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which

is highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the

veins, very indistinct except from submedian fold to vein 1, where

it is double ; an oblique dark brown fascia on medial part of inner

margin ; orbicular and reniform obsolete ; postmedial line obsolete

except below vein 2, where it forms two whitish lunules defined on

each side by brown; aslight brown streak above medial part of

vein 4; the terminal area towards tornus obliquely from vein 4 to

postmedial lunules dark brown with slight whitish streaks on it; cilia

brown at base intersected with white, greyish at tips. Hind wing

CUCULLIA.—ARGYROGALEA. 81

reddish brown, the basal and inner areas paler in male ; cilia brown,

with fine pale line at base and white tips; the underside pale with

small discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. Guruany, E. Saxony; Avsrria, Frey Coll., Carniola,

Zeller Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Leech Coll. ;

Gaticta; RumertaA; Russta; Asta Mryor, Pontus. Hwp. 38-46

millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 254. ‘

Green with yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines and white

lateral line. Food-plant, seeds of Scrophularia vernalis. 6.

*2169. Cucullia oribac.

Cucullia oribac, Barnes, Can, Ent. xxxvi. p. 237 (1904).

3. Differs from C. agua in the fore wing being without the

dark patch and white subcostal spot at base; orbicular and reniform

absent ; cilia with white points at base at extremities of veins; the

medial area with three oblique dark strize from costa, with the area

below them tinged with pale brown to median nervure, the 3rd

striga continued to termen below apex, the area above it greyer

with slight dark streaks ; the brown-shaded costal area towards

apex longer and narrower than in C. agua; the inner area greyer

with the veins darker; the black fascia on inner margin slighter ;

the pale dark-defined portion of postmedial line on inner area

rather S-shaped and oblique. Hind wing with the dark-suffused

terminal area darker.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts. Lvp. 47 millim.

This species is unknown to me, it may perhaps be the same as

C. perstrigata, Schaus.

Genus ARGYROGALEA, noy.

Type, A. argentea.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned, fringed with

hair on both sides; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ;

antennz almost simple in both sexes; head and thorax clothed with hair only,

the tegules produced behind into a hood, the metathorax with double crest ;

tibiz fringed with long hair on outer side; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal

segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex produced and the

termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle,

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle ot

discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near

base only.

2170. Argyrogalea argentea.

Noctua argentea, Hifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 286 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 109. ff. 6-9; Knoch, Beitr. i. p. 45, pl. 3. ff. 1,2; Cram. Pap. Exot,

iv. p. 242, pl. 400. f. G; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Noctua artemisie, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776), nec Hiifn.; Cram.

Pap. Exot. iv. p. 223, pl. 396. f. G; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 259;

VOL. VI. G

82 NOCTUID 2,

Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 489, pl. 127. f. 4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii.

BOs

Cucullia subcerulea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 217 (1901).

Head olive-brown mixed with white; thorax white, the tegule

at base and tips, upper edge of patagia, and metathoracic crests

olive-brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous at base.

Fore wing golden green with some dark irroration ; a more or less.

developed oblique silvery-white subbasal band from below costa to

vein 1 and a streak above inner margin before middle; a slight dark

spot in middle of cell defined by silvery-white lunules above and

below, the lower conjoined to a more or less developed oblique

quadrate patch below the cell ; a slight dark discoidal spot defined

by silvery-white lunules above and below ; traces of a whitish post-

Fig. 9.—Argyrogalea argeniea, S. }-

medial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; a

silvery-white postmedial band, formed by a dentate patch below

costa, connected with or separated from an oblique band from

vein 4 to just above inner margin ; the costa white towards apex ;

a white terminal band; cilia grey at base, white at tips. Hind

wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown.

Ab. 1. subcerulea. Paler, the fore wing bluish green.—W. Siberia;

W. Turkestan.

Hab. Gurmany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Avsrrra ;

Huneary; Gatictd; Datmaria; Greece, Merlin Coll.; Scanpr-

wavia; Russta; W. Srperta, Altai; W. Turxusran, Ferghana,.

Tarbagatai; EK. Srserra, Amurland. Hap 36-42 millim,

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 260, pl. 41. f. 9.

Dorsal area olive-brown with the dorsal and subdorsal lines pale

yellow, each somite with a broad pinkish band thickly striated with

purple-brown ; thoracic somites with pale yellow lateral stripe,

broken up into oblique bars on abdominal somites ; stigmatal and

ventral lines defined on each side by purple-brown; head with the

hemispheres pinkish.

Genus ARGYROMATA, nov.

Type, A. splendida. ;

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned and fringed with

hair ; frons with truncate, rather heart-shaped prominence with raised edges,

its lower edge produced to a point; eyes large, rounded; antenre almost

simple; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegula-

ARGYROMATA.—NYCTEROPH RTA, 83

produced behind into a small hood; fore tibie produced at extremity into a

small medial claw, the tibise fringed with long hair on outer side; abdomen

without dorsal crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced, the

termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of disco-

pele 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

2171. Argyromata splendida.

Phalena splendida, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 242, pl. 400. f. F (1782);

Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 428, pl. 38. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett.

il. p. 318, Noct. f. 190; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217.

Noctua argyrea, Frr. Beitr. iv. pl. 304. f. 2 (1842).

Head and thorax white tinged with grey or brown; tegule with

pure white medial band; legs striped with white; abdomen white

tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery blue-green, the inner

margin ochreous from before middle to tornus; cilia white, Hind

Fig. 10.—Argyromata splendida, G. }.

wing white, the veins and terminal half tinged with brown; cilia

white.

Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller and Leech Colls., Urals; W. Srsrrra,

Altai, Leech Coll.; W. Turxustan, Marghilan, 1 ¢, Ferghana,

Issyk Kul; E. Turxestan, Ili; Moneorta, Uliassutai; Tiner, Amdo.

Exp. 40-42 millim.

Genus NYCTEROPH ETA.

Type

Nycteropheta, Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soe. iv. p. 45 (1882) ...... luna.

Epinyctis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 75 (1882) ............ pee diseases sles vojia luna.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed

with long hair above and below; frons with obliquely rounded prominence

with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennz almost simple in

both sexes; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegule produced

behind into a hood; fore tibia with strong curved claw on inner side and short

claw on outer; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the

apex produced, the termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ;

6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole;

11 from ceil. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent

from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. :

Ga

84 NOCTUID&.

2172. Nycteropheta luna.

Cucullia luna, Morr. Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 122 (1875); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267.

Nycteropheta magdalena, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iv. p. 45

(1882).

Epinyctis notatella, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 75 (1882).

Head and thorax pure white ; abdomen white, sometimes tinged

with brown. Fore wing silvery white; a subbasal black point

below costa; antemedial points below costa and above inner

Fig. 11.—Nycteropheta luna, S. }-

margin ; a point in middle of cell and another at lower angle; a

postmedial point on inner margin ; four points on termen between

vein 5 and submedian fold. Hind wing pure white.

Hab. U.S.A., Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Black Hills, Colorado,

Denver (Bruce, Oslar),5 6,1 92. Hap. 44-46 millim,

Genus OPSIGALEA, nov.

Type, O. ocellata.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head and

thickly clothed with hair ; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large,

rounded ; antennz: of male almost simple; head and thorax clothed chiefly

with scales, the tegule produced behind into a slight hood, the metathorax

with triangular crest ; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without

dorsal crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced, the termen

oblique, excised towards tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from

upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from above angle

of cell; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 5 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

2173. Opsigalea ocellata.

Nystalea ocellata, Wik. xxxiii. 760 (1865) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het.

i. p. 249.

3g. Head and thorax grey and fuscous mixed, the metathorax pale

fulvous; tegule with curved black medial line; pectus and legs

ochreous white ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with brown. Fore

wing with the costal half ochreous white, the costa tinged with brown

from before middle to apex ; the inner half grey finely pencilled with

fuscous ; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; a

OPSIGALEA.—EMPUSADA. 85

prominent black streak in submedian fold from near base to middle ;

antemedial line very highly dentate, with a long hardly traceable

tooth in cell and longer teeth in submedian interspace and above

inner margin; the terminal part of median nervure streaked with

black ; the veins of medial part of terminal area streaked with black ;

. 12,—Opsigalea ocellata, S. 3.

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a large round subterminal black spot with white annulus above

tornus defined on inner side by a curved black line; a fine black

terminal line reduced to small spots towards apex. Hind wing

semihyaline white.

Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé), 1 $ type. Hwp. 52 millim.

Genus EMPUSADA, n. n.

Type.

Empusa,.Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 (1827), nec. Tl. Orth. 1798............... lactea.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, rather short, fringed

with hair on both sides; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous

plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antennz almost simple in both sexes,

thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulee produced behind into

a slight hood; metathorax and abdomen not crested; the anal tuft long ;

tibiz fringed with long hair on outer side. Fore wing long and narrow, the

apex produced, the termen oblique, the inner margin lobed near base; veins.

3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from

angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper

angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with silvery-white markings.

a. Fore wing with the silvery-white extending to base.

a’, Fore wing with silvery- white fascia from base

through the cell to apex .......cc...cseceseecseescecesess argyrina.

b', Fore wing with the silvery-white not extending

beyondstheycel eccscsssrcaceressnereeenaseenseeeeeene argentina.

b. Fore wing with the silvery-white not extending to

base.

a, Fore wing with the silvery-white fascia in discal

fold arising well before origin of vein 2 ............ hutchinsont.

61, Fore wing with the silvery-white fascia in discal fold

arising above origin of vein 2................e0ces00e we. argentivitta.

B. Fore wing without silvery-white markings.

a. Fore wing with fiery-red or red-brown suffusion below

base of cell with yellow fascia below it.

a, Fore wing without yellow fascia in and beyond end

of cell.

a?, Fore wing with black streak on median nervure

and grey-white patch below end of cell............ pyrostrota.

86 NOCTUID2.

0°, Fore wing without black streak on median nervure

or grey-white patch below end of cell............... ruficeps.

. Fore wing with yellow fascia in and beyond end of

cel

. Fore wing with three black points in upper part

C7 (2) Beep Ran BRE ce cor ca cebeartaaue nctdaddacadad-aacued™ chrysota.

*, Fore wing without black points in cell............... pallidistria,

b. Fore wing without red or brown suffusion below base

of cell.

a’, Fore wing with black streak in base of submedian

fold.

a’, Fore wing with prominent pale yellow fascie in

discal and submedian folds ............:02sc000-eeeeee biornata.

2°, Fore wing with hardly any yellow in discal and

submedian folds.

a*, Fore wing str ongly suffused and irrorated with

brown; hind wing with the terminal area

strongly suffused with brown .............0se0sees balsamite.

4°, Fore wing and terminal area of ined wing

slightly tinged with pale brown .........0.0+.0008 sabulosa.

o', Fore wing without black streak in base of; sub-

median fold Sieialeisiats oats oleate sae coset omeniseeaemencomeueises lactea.

2174. Empusada argyrina. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 12.)

Cucullia argyrina, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 150, pl. 9. f. 3 (1852).

Argyritis pura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 86.

3 (pura). Head and thorax white pencilled with pale brown;

abdomen white. Fore wing bright red-brown, the inner area paler ;

a silvery-white fascia in and above cell to just below costa, curved

upwards beyond the cell to a point at apex ; a white streak on vein 1

from before middle to Pevoud middle; a white line just before termen

between veins 7 and 2; cilia white with three brown lines through

them. Hind wing white, the terminal area reddish brown, rather

broadly at costa and narrowing to a point at submedian fold; the

underside wholly white.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen browner; hind wing wholly

tinged with brown.

The typical form from Argentina and Uruguay has the inner

area of fore wing almost wholly white and the hind wing of female

as in the male.

Hab. Axcrentina (Thomas), 13,192; Urvevay; Curt1, Coquimbo

(J. J. Walker, Edmonds), 3 6,1 2 type pura. Exp., 3 32, 2

36 millim.

2175. Empusada argentina.

Noctua argentina, Fabry. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 162 (1787) ; Buby. Eur. Schmett.,

Nee f. 553; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 442, pl. 127. f.5; Staud. Cat. Lep.

p. 217.

Ca Poi achalina, Ping. Iris, xiii. p. 120 (1900).

Head and thorax ochreous white, the head tinged with brown,

the tegule with two dark lines, a few black-tipped scales on upper

edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous white, the extremity of ventral

surface often with some rufous. Fore wing pale yellow, the cell

and area above its base and below it from just below costa to sub-

DMPUSADA. 87

median fold silvery white, partly edged with dark scales and with

some rufous suffusion below it and above its extremity ; postmedial

line represented by brown points above and below vein 6 and an

indistinct very oblique waved line from vein 4 to inner margin; an

oblique irregular fuscous shade from termen below apex to inner

margin beyond middle; a terminal series of brown striz. Hind

wing pure white.

Ab. 1. achalina. Fore wing with the brown markings darker ;

hind wing suffused with brown.—Aschabad.

Hab. Hungary; 8S. Russta; Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Ateerta; Astras Mrnor, Amasia, Zeller Coll., Pontus; Prrsta ;

E. Turkestan, Ferghana, Askhabad, type? achalina in Coll. Piingeler,

Tura, Sarawschan, Tarbagatai, Issyk Kul; W. Srserra, Altai;

EK. Turrsstan, Ti. Lvp. 34-40 millim.

Larva. Pale yellow tinged with brown and transversely striated

with black, leaving the dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, subventral, and

ventral lines pale yellow ; each somite with diffused rufous medial

band; head with the hemispheres pale rufous with two series of

black strie. oot-plant, Artemisia.

2176. Empusada hutchinsoni. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 13.)

Cucullia hutchinsoni, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 276 (1902).

Head and thorax white pencilled with grey and tinged with flesh-

colour; abdomen white irrorated with grey and tinged with brown

towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous almost wholly suftused

with bright rufous, the costal and inner areas violaceous grey

irrorated with fuscous ; a silvery-white stripe tapering at extremities

from middle of cell to termen, sometimes with slight silvery streaks

above and below it on terminal area; a rufous streak below base of

cell; traces of a very oblique waved postmedial line from vein 4 to

submedian fold; traces of a waved subterminal line at middle; a

terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins slightly

tinged with brown.

Hab. Navat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 3 type, Mooi R.,1 9. Kup.

44-50 millim.

2177. Empusada argentivitta, n. sp. (Plate XCVILI. fig. 14.)

Head and thorax whitish irrorated with grey; tegule with slight

dark lines; abdomen ochreous white with slight dark irroration.

Fore wing pale yellow tinged with grey and irrorated with fuscous ;

a double very oblique antemedial line from submedian fold to vein 1;

two minute black points in middle of cell; a silvery-white fascia

tapering at extremities from cell above origin of vein 2 to just before

termen; traces of a very oblique double waved postmedial line from

vein 4 to submedian fold; traces of a waved subterminal line at

middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins

and sometimes the termen tinged with brown, especially in female.

Hab. Basurotanp, Maseru (Orawshay), 1 ¢ ; Caer Coxony,

Transkei (Miss F. Barrett),4 $,3 @ type. Hap. 38-40 millim.

88 NOCTUID E.

2178. Empusada pyrostrota, n. sp. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 15.)

©. Head blackish with a white bar above frons ; thorax brownish.

white; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing pale yellow, the

costal area irrorated with fuscous ; the cell and areas just beyond it

and below it to origin of vein 2 suffused with fiery red, the area

below its extremity grey-white; the median nervure streaked with

black; the veins and interspaces of terminal area streaked with

brown; a slight blackish streak above inner margin before middle ;

three black points in upper extremity of cell. Hind wing white,

the veins and termen tinged with brown.

Hab, Transvaat, Johannesburg (Cholmley), 1 9 type. Exp.

44 millim.

2179. Empusada ruficeps, n. sp. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 16.)

©. Head and thorax brownish grey, the vertex of head tinged

with rufous; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fusceus. Fore

wing grey-brown, the cell suffused and streaked with bright rufous ;

the area below the cell to origin of vein 2 suffused with rufous with

a curved pale yellow streak below it; three slight dark points in

upper extremity of cell; traces of a waved postmedial line bent

outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; the veins and

interspaces of terminal area slightly streaked with brown; a

terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and

terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Mapacascar, Betsileo (Cowan),1 2 type. Hvp. 40 millim.

2180. Empusada chrysota. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 17.)

Cucullia chrysota, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 277 (1902).

Head rufous with a yellowish bar above frons; thorax grey, the

tegule with fine dark lines; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing

with the costal area pale golden yellow irrorated with brown and

tinged with brown towards apex; the cell and area below it to

origin of vein 2 red-brown, a curved golden fascia below the latter ;

the rest of wing purple-grey with darker irroration; three black

points in upper part of cell; the veins and interspaces of medial

part of terminal area streaked with brown. Hind wing white, the

veins and termen tinged with brown.

Hab. Guru. FE. Arrica; Nara, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 ¢,

Durban (Jnnes), 1 ¢,1 9. Eap. 36-38 millim.

2181. Empusada pallidistria. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 18.)

Cucullia pallidistria, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 54 (1874).

3g. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous.

Fore wing grey slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a yellow-brown

fascia below base of cell to origin of vein 2 with pale golden-yellow

EMPUSADA. 89

streak below it; a yellow-brown fascia in lower end of cell extending

along vein 4 to near termen with a yellowish-white streak above it ;

a slight white streak above terminal part of vein 6; three black

points in upper part of cell, a black point just beyond upper angle

and an obliquely-placed postmedial series on veins 3, 2, 1; a terminal

series. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area broadly and

irregularly suffused with fuscous brown.

Hab. Basvronanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 3 3; Carn Cotony,,

Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle), 1 3. Ewp. 44-46 millim.

2182. Empusada biornata.

Cucullia biornata, Fisch. d. Wald. Bull. Mose. 1840, p. 83, pl. 3. f. 1; Frr.

Neue Beitr. iv. p. 352, f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 317, Noct.

f. 197; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head whitish and fuscous, a white bar above frons; thorax

ochreous white tinged with brown; tegule with black line near

base, two fine fuscous medial lines and one near tips; abdomen

grey-white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged with

brown ; a pale yellow fascia below the cell traversed by a fine black

streak in submedian fold to below origin of vein 2; a pale yellow

fascia from middle of cell to well beyond the cell, where it extends.

from vein 5 to 7, the streaks on it being pale rufous; antemedial

line indistinct, very highly dentate in the iuterspaces; a fine streak

below end of cell between veins 2 and 4, bent upwards above vein

3; postmedial line indistinct, obsolete except from vein 2 to inner

margin, angled outwards at vein 1; the veins of terminal area dark

defined by fine white streaks and with fine white streaks in the

interspaces. Hind wing white, the terminal area suftused with

pale brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot.

Hab. S. Russta, Zeller and Leech Colls; W. Turkestan, Ferghana,

Issyk Kul; W. Srzeria, Altai; E. Turxesran, Ili. Hvp.54 millim.

2183. Empusada balsamite.

Cucullia balsamite, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 154 (1840); Frr. Neue

Beitr. iv. pl. 358 (1841); Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 77, pl. 57. f..1;

Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 199; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with pale brown; frons

with dark bar; tegule with blackish line near base and two

fuscous medial lines; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged and irrorated

with brown. Fore wing pale purplish grey suffused and irrorated

with brown, the veins with fine dark streaks; a black streak on an

ill-defined yellow-brown fascia in submedian fold to the antemedial

line, which is indistinet, very highly angled outwards in the inter-

spaces, especially the submedian, and inwards on the veins ; the end

of cell and area beyond it pale yellowish brown; some dark points

above median nervure; a curved streak below end of cell repre-

senting the lower edge of reniform; postmedial line obsolete except

from vein 2 to inner margin, where it is indistinct, angled inwards

90 NOCTUID&.

in submedian fold and outwards on the veins; a slight black streak

above medial part of vein 4; the terminal area with slight brown

and white streaks; a black streak above extremity of vein 3 and

oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 sometimes present. Hind

wing brownish white, the veins and terminal area suffused with

brown, in female the whole terminal half brown; the underside

with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot.

flab. 8.E, Gurmany; Austria; Hungary, Frey and Leech Colls. ;

Gazicra ; 8. Russra, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; W. Turxesran,

Issyk Kul. wp. 48-52 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 256.

Pale yellow with an interrupted orange dorsal line ; subdorsal

series of black spots and lateral series of orange spots, Food-

plants: Rue, Hawkweed, &c.

*2184. Empusada sabulosa. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 19.)

Cucullia sabulosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 322; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 215.

3. Head and thorax ochreous-white tinged with brown; vertex

of head with brown bar; tegule with fine blackish line near base,

two slight brown medial lines and brown line near tips ; tibize with

brown streaks; abdomen ochreous-white tinged with brown. Fore

wing ochreous-white slightly tinged with pale red-brown except the

the cell which is whiter, the veins slightly streaked with brown;

cilia white with a faint brown line through them. Hind wing

white; the veins tinged with brown; the terminal area slightly

suffused with pale red-brown to vein 2; the underside nearly pure

white.

Hab. S. Russta, Nariin, cotype tT ¢ in Coll. Piingeler. Hwp. 44

millim.

2185. Empusada lactea.

Noctua lactea, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 182 (1787); Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 190.-f. 1; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 448; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii.

p. 486, pl. 127. f. 3, Suppl. iii. pl. 36. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215.

White; head and thorax with some fuscous mixed; abdomen

Fig. 13.—Hmpusada lactea, 3. }.

slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing irrorated with pale

fuscous; no trace of markings. Hind wing with the veins and

EMPUSADA.—LOPHOTERGES, 91

terminal area tinged with pale brown; the underside with the

costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a small

discoidal spot.

Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; ARMENrA ;

W. Stseria, Altai. Hwp. 44-50 millim.

Genus LOPHOTERGES, nov.

Type, L. fatua.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the second joint extending to well

beyond frons and fringed with long hair below, the third rather long; frons

smooth; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male almost simple, somewhat

laminate ; frons and vertex of head with strong ridges of hair; thorax clothed

chiefly with scales, the tegulz produced behind into a hood, the metathorax

with double crest; tibixe fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on

basal segments, the crest on 3rd segment large. Fore wing with the termen

evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolete, except at costa... svillierei.

5B. Fore wing with the postmedial line entire, double............... fatua.

2186. Lophoterges millierei.

Lithocampa millierei, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, pp. 119, 330; Mill.

Icones, iii. p. 219, pl. 123; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 212.

Head and tegule white slightly tinged with brown ; tegule with

black medial line; thorax red-brown; abdomen grey-white, the

dorsal crests browner. Fore wing grey-white, the cell and area

beyond it to near termen red-brown, the basal half of costal area

whiter; a black streak defined by whitish above below base of cell ;

subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga from costa ;

antemedial line represented by a very oblique black striga from

costa and traces of a dentate line from cell to inner margin;

orbicular and reniform white defined by brown and their centres

defined by brown, the former narrow, very oblique, extending below’

cell and slightly confluent with the latter, which is a narrow lunule;

a black streak beyond the cell above vein 4 with an oblique series

of short streaks between its extremity and termen below apex;

postmedial line represented by an oblique dark striga from costa ;

subterminal line represented by a slight oblique line between vein

3 and submedian fold slightly defined by whitish on inner side; a

fine black terminal line defined by a fine white line on inner side ;

cilia brownish intersected with white and with fine white line

through them. Hind wing white, the terminal area in female

suffused with brown.

Hab. Spain, Catalonia. Ewp., 5 28, Q 32 millim.

La:va. Whitish; dorsal line yellow ; subdorsal line white, dilated

between joints of somites 4-9 and enclosing small elliptical red-

92 NOCTUIDZE.

brown spots, meeting dorsally at the bifid hump on segment 11;

lateral line yellow; head brownish. Food-plant, Lonicera.

Subsp. centralasic, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212 (1901).

Larger; thorax grey tinged with brown; fore wing with the

cell and area beyond it slightly tinged with brown; the orbicular

and reniform well separated below; hind wing of male with the

terminal half suffused with brown, of female almost wholly suffused

with brown.

Hab. W. Turxestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul, 1 ¢. Eap. 38

millim.

*2187. Lophoterges fatua.

Lithocampa fatua, Ping. Iris, xvi. p. 288, pl. vi. f. 4 (1904).

Head and tegule grey tinged with brown; palpi with strong

black streak at side of 2nd joint; frons and vertex of head with

blackish bars ; tegule with black line near base: thorax blackish

with some grey at extremity of patagia and on metathorax ; pectus

and legs brown mixed with grey ; abdomen black-brown with grey

segmental rings, paler in female. Fore wing grey suffused with

fuscous brown, the veins with slight blackish streaks ; subbasal line

represented by double black striz from costa ; a short whitish streak

in base of submedian fold on a brown patch; an oblique black streak

across the cell before the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double,

curved, somewnat dentate; claviform absent; orbicular narrow,

‘very oblique, elliptical, grey defined by black, its centre slightly

defined by brown, connected with a similar semicircular mark below

Fig. 14.—Lophoterges fatua, g. 3

1°

the cell nearly touching lower edge of reniform, which is a narrow

lunule with its extremities produced, with brownish centre and

whitish annulus defined by black; postmedial line indistinctly

double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, then

minutely dentate and produced to short black streaks on the veins,

obliquely excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some slight grey

points beyond it on costa; an obliquely curved blackish shade from

apex to lower angle of cell, crossed by a series of black streaks in

interspaces of terminal area; an incurved dark subterminal line

from vein 4 to inner margin, with some whitish scales on inner

side in submedian fold; a fine slightly waved black terminal line ;

cilia brown with whitish line at base. Hind wing ochreous, nearly

uniformly suffused with red-brown; cilia white with a brown line

LOPHOTERGES.—CALLIERGES, 93

through them; the underside whitish irrorated with pale and dark

brown, a black discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short

streaks on the veins.

Hab. Trset, Kuku-noor, type Td, @ in Coll. Piingeler. Hvp. 36—

40 millim.

Genus CALLIERGES. T

ype.

Callterges, Hubn Vierz: p. 244 (1827)... c3.-cce-s.csseccessssineesssc-ns*s ramosa.

Inthocampa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 108 (1852) ....... cece ee ce eeseeeee eens raMosa.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long

hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth, with ridges of hair at middle and

above; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male bipectinate, with moderate

branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the

tegule produced to a dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax with spreading

crests ; abdomen with large dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with

the apex rectangular, the termen non-crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near

angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the

areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso-

lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only.

2188. Callierges ramosa.

Bombyx ramosa, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 391, pl. 78. f. 3 (1787); Hibn. Eur.

Schmeti., Noct. f. 247; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 228, pl. 114. f.5; Frr.

Neue Beitr. iii. pl. 245; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 212.

Lithocampa ramosula, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 258; id. Rom.

Mém. vi. p. 524, pl. 10. f. 3.

Head and tegule grey-white; palpi brown at sides; frons with

black bar ; tegule with black line near base and brown band near

tips ; thorax dark red-brown, the crests with some grey; pectus

grey mixed with some brown; tarsi blackish with pale rings;

abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests dark brown.

Fig. 15.—Callierges ramcsa, S. 1

g g ’

Te

Fore wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the submedian inter-

space chocolate-brown, extending into the cell before orbicular and

joined by an oblique chocolate band from apex ; a black streak

below basal half of cell; an oblique subbasal streak above inner

margin and two streaks above middle of inner margin; subbasal

and antemedial lines represented by slight oblique strie from costa;

orbicular and reniform very large and confluent except above,

extending to well below the cell, where they are defined by a

prominent curved black streak, slightly defined above; postmedial

94. NOCTUIDA.

line indistinct, dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein

4 and obsolete below vein 3; a black streak above vein 5 and

short streaks above terminal parts of veins 6, 5, the veins of

terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a curved white mark from

termen at vein 3 to tornus with some black beyond its upper part ;

cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing white, the veins of

terminal half and terminal area tinged with red-brown, in female

almost wholly tinged with red-brown ; a small discoidal spot; cilia

white with a pale brown line near base; the underside white, the

costal area slightly irrorated with brown.

Ab. 1. ramosula. Darker; fore wing with the orbicular and

reniform much better defined, confluent below but not defined by

such a long curved streak.—Amurland.

Hab. S.K. Francn, Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls.; Avsrria, Leech Coll.; Hungary; Switzertanp,

Zeller Coll.; Sparn, Catalonia; N. Ivaty; Amurtann, Ussuri.

Eep. 32-38 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 251; Hffm. Raup. p. 124,

pl. 33. £. 3.

Brownish yellow variegated with whitish on dorsum and with

oblique black subdorsal stripes ; a lateral dark stripe. Food-plant,

Loncera. 7-8.

Genus HYPOMECIA. Type

Hypomecia, Staudlrisyx, p20) (USI) is eoeseeecmeeuee ene quadrivirgula.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with

hair and scales in front, the 3rd joint short, porrect ; frons smooth, rounded ;

eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male bipectinate, the apical part serrate ; head

and thorax clothed chiefly with scales; tibie fringed with long bair; build

slender; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow; veins

3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing ample; veins 3, 4 from

angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulars ; 6,7 from angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base.

2189. Hypomecia quadrivirgula.

Epimecia quadrivirgula, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 51; id. Nov.

Lep. p. 67, pl. 11. f.5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

6. Head and tegule white mixed with brown, the latter with

brown line at base, two slight medial lines and more prominent line

before tips; thorax fuscous mixed with grey; pectus and legs

whitish mixed with brown; abdomen white. Fore wing whitish,

mostly suffused with fuscous, the costal area tinged with ochreous,

the veins with slight dark streaks; an ill-defined white fascia below

basal half of cell irrorated with a few large black scales ; faint traces

of a dentate antemedial line strongly angled outwards on vein 1;

orbicular represented by a faint whitish streak with one or two

black scales on it, the reniform by a white point at lower angle of

HYPOMECIA.—COPIPHANA, 95.

cell, with some black scales on its inner edge; some white points

on costa towards apex ; subterminal line represented by a series of

slight white streaks with obscure dentate blackish marks before

them, defined on inner side by an oblique white band from vein 4

to inner margin; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing

Fig. 16.—Hypomecia quadrivirgula, S$. 3.

white with fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal

and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight: discoidal

lunule.

Hab. Atcrrta; Patustins,1 ¢. Ewp. 34 millim.

Genus COPIPHANA, nov.

Type, C. olivina.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair

in front; frons with large corneous prominence with raised rim and central

process hollowed out in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male bipecti-

nate or with small Jaminate serrations; head and thorax clothed with long

rough hair only, the vertex of head with crest of hair, shoulders with crests

pro- and metathorax with double crests, patagia with curled-up tufts at

extremity ; pectus and tibiz clothed with long hair; fore tibia with curved

claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, large

crest on 2nd segment typically present, and Jateral fringes of hair. Fore wing

with the costa somewhat concave, the termen evenly curved; veins 3 and 5

from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from ]0 anastomosing with 8

to form the areole, or abnormally 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of

discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper augle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near

base only.

Secr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches decreasing to.

base and apex; abdomen without dorsal crest.

2190. Copiphana gassana.

Cleophana gassana, Bang-Haas, ined.

Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; tarsi brown

ringed with white; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with red-

brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous

whitish suffused with red-brown and with some fuscous before the

postmedial line, the median nervure and veins of terminal area

streaked with black ; an oblique black streak on inner area before

the antemedial line, which is double, minutely waved from costa to

96 NOCTUID.%.

median nervure, then oblique, incurved to inner margin ; claviform

and orbicular absent; reniform a slight pale lunule ; postmedial

line double filled in with whitish, with a black mark beyond it

at costa, obliquely excurved and sinuous from costa to vein 4,

then retracted to origin of vein 2 and again excurved; the veins of

terminal area defined on each side by slight whitish streaks; cilia

Fig. 17.—Copiphana gassana, S. 1}.

chequered ochreous white and reddish brown. Hind wing ochreous

white suffused and irrorated with brown; an indistinct sinuous

postmedial line with slight pale band beyond it; the underside

white, irrorated with brown, an obscure diffused curved postmedial

line and terminal band.

Hab. Tunts,1 3,19. Hep. 28 millim.

Secr. II. Antenne of male with laminate serrations; abdomen with large

dorsal crest on 2nd segment.

A. Fore wing with dark medial line with whitish band

DOV ONL AT padeeecncsth cesarean seceen cuit. samemereemtn ecBar are auer nee oliva.

B. Fore wing with slight olive medial shade without whitish

band beyondiil, eyes iecsmcdecavesnaceeauaanenen rescstnn aasoaeene olivina.

2191. Copiphana oliva. (Plate XCIX. fig. 1.)

Cleophana oliva, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 279, pl. ix. f. 15 (1894); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 213.

3. Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown and slightlv

mixed with fuscous ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous.

Fore wing whitish, the basal half and terminal area, except at apex

and tornus, suffused with red-brown; the veins with dark streaks;

the antemedial line at middle of wing, excurved from costa to vein 2,

angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1; clavi-

form small, white defined by brown; orbicular and reniform absent ;

postmedial line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa ;

some whitish streaks in interspaces of terminal area; cilia whitish

intersected with brown. Hind wing pale suffused with pale brown

on basal half and fuscous on terminal half ; cilia chequered brownish

white and fuscous; the underside white slightly irrorated with

brown, an indistinct diffused curved postmedial line.

Hab. Armenta, 1/3; Asta Mrnor, Paphiagonia. wp. 28

millim,

COPIPMANA.—CLEOPHANA. 97

2192. Copiphana olivina.

Cleophana olivina, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. vi. p. 57, f. 578 (1856) ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

Cleophana ferrieri, Bell, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1857, p. 13, pl. 1. f. 1.

Head and thorax pale olive-green mixed with some rufous, the

crests on vertex of head, pro- and metathorax with darker tips ;

abdomen greyish tinged with olive, dorsally irrorated with fuscous

and ventrally tinged with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing

pale olive-green, the veins with slight dark streaks; a diffused

rufous medial shade with pale point on it below cell; a diffused

whitish mark at lower angle of cell; the terminal area suffused

with rufous above and below discal fold; cilia chequered dark

Fig. 18.—Copiphana olivina, gd. }.

brown and white. Hind wing fuscons brown; cilia white tinged

with rufous at base. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the terminal

area whitish; hind wing white with slight somewhat diffused

fuscous streaks along the veins.

Hab. Ivaty; Datmuatta; Burearta; Asta Mrnor, Pontus, Leech

Coll., Taurus; Syrra, Leech Coll. Hap. 28-32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 253; Hffm. Raup. p. 125.

Reddish yellow with pale dorsal line and four slender lateral

black lines. Food-plant, Dianthus.

Genus CLEOPHANA. ra

ly pe.

Cleophana, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 151 (1840) 22... cece ees eee ee oe betica.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint clothed with long

hair, the 3rd rather long ; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges

and corneous process in centre hollowed out at extremity ; eyes large, rounded;

antenne of male typically with moderate branches decreasing to base and

extremity ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the vertex of head with

large crest of hair, shoulders with crests of hair, pro- and metathorax with

double crests, patagia with curled-up tufts at extremity; pectus and tibix

elothed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, usually a large

crest on 2nd segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa

rather concave, the termen evenly curved, the inner margin lobed near base,

the tornus with scale-tooth; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from

upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of

discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only.

VOL. VI. ik

98 NOCTUIDAE.

Seer. I. Antenne of male with moderate branches decreasing to base and apex.

A, Fore wing with the cilia chequered grey and white.

a. Fore wing with prominent white fascia in submedian

foldiow medial area ..-{..to.s:ins hee eee chabordis.

6. Fore wing with slight whitish streak in submedian fold

onmmedialtarea, 255 cccasgsaspecceia te een ecase cose emecee acer betica.

B. Fore wing with the cilia not chequered grey and white... pectinicornis.

2193. Cleophana chabordis.

Cleophana chabordis, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 47, pl. 2. f. 2 (1876); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Cleophana albicans, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214 (1901).

Head and thorax white mixed with pale grey-green, brown, and

black ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown and fuscous.

Fore wing pale grey-green with some cupreous-red suffusion beyond

postmedial line except towards costa, the median nervure and veins

6 to 2 slightly streaked with black; the extreme base white with a

slight black streak in base of cell; a white streak above median

nervure before the antemedial line, which is black defined by white

on inner side, strongly angled outwards in cell and slightly in sub-

median fold, angled inwards on vein 1, an oblique white streak

from it in submedian fold to postmedial line at vein 1; a white

discoidal lunule defined by black on outer side, angled inwards on

median nervure and with its upper extremity produced; postmedial

line white with black points on inner side, stronger at costa,

incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a white point

beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a fine oblique

white line from costa to vein 6, where it is angled outwards, then

oy traces of a line forming distinct angles to termen on veins 4, 3,

2; cilia grey-green aN ul with blackish especially at middle and

intersected with white. Hind wing with the basal half and inner

area white, the terminal half fuscous brown; cilia white, chequered

with brown at base; the underside white slightly tinged with

rufous on basal half of costal area and irrorated with fuscous on

terminal area, traces of a postmedial series of dark spots on the

veins.

Ab. 1 albicans. Head, thorax, and abdomen white; fore wing

much whiter, the markings indistinct.

he Ateerta, Biskra, Hammam-es-Salahin ( Walsingham), 3 3,

4 0; Tunis, 1 3: Parnsrine; Perstan Gur, Fao (Cumming), 6 3 ,

39. Hxp, 20-24 millim.

2194. Cleophana betica.

Cleophana betica, Rmnbr. Faun. Andal. ii. pl. 18. f. 4 (1889); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 214.

Cleophana penicillata, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 151 (1840), non descr. ; Herr.-

Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 298 (184: ee

Cleophana chenorrhini, Dup. Lép. Fr Suppl. iii. p. 879, pl. 34. f. 6 (1840).

Head and thorax greenish grey a with pale rufous hair;

CLEOPHANA, 99

tegule with rufous medial line defined by whitish above and some

black at middle of tips; patagia with white bar; metathoracic

crest’ tipped with black; abdomen whitish tinged with brown.

Fore wing greenish grey with some rufous suffusion beyond post-

medial line ; a black point at base of cell; antemedial line double,

red-brown filled in with white, angled outwards in cell and sub-

median fold and emitting slight dark brown streaks on each side at

the veins; claviform and orbicular represented by short dark brown

Fig. 19.— Cleophana betica, S.. 3.

streaks with some white at extremity; reniform a narrow white

lunule ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with white and

with short dark brown streaks before and beyond it at the veins,

bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4,

some white points beyond it on costa; traces of a white subterminal

line, incurved at discal foid and below vein 3 and with white streaks

beyond it on terminal area and intersecting the cilia which are

brown. Hind wing reddish brown, the basal and inner areas

yellowish, the veins of terminal half rather darker; cilia white

chequered with brown at base; underside whitish, the basal and

terminal areas suffused with red-brown; an indistinct rather

diffused postmedial line with short brown streaks on the veins.

Hab, S.E. France; Sparn, Andalusia, Leech Coll., Castile,

Zeller and Leech Colls., Seville (Jrby), 1 2; Sarprnra; Axcerta ;

Guoreta, 1 9; Asta Minor, Taurus; Syria, Mardin; Patzsrrye.

Exp. 32-34 millim.

Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 125.

Green with dorsal yellow line; lateral and stigmatal lines red ;

stigmata yellow with dark rings. Food-plant, Helianthemum.

2195. Cleophana pectinicornis. (Plate XCIX. fig. 2.)

Cleophana pecticornis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 215; Rmbr. Cat.

Lep. 8. And. pl. 12. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

g. Head and thorax brown mixed with black, especially on head

and front of patagia; tegule white mixed with brown, with slight

black patches at base and brown line near tips; patagia with white

line near upper edge defined by a brown line above; abdomen

whitish irrorated with red-brown and with slight segmental lines.

Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the veins streaked

with black to the postmedial line; the basal area irrorated with

fuscous ; the base of cell white with a slight black streak; a fine

HZ

100 NOCTUID®.

black streak in base of submedian fold; subbasal line represented

by a slight striga from costa; antemedial line double, the inner line

indistinct, obliquely excurved from costa to median nervure, where

it is angled inwards, then excurved in interspaces and angled

inwards on vein 1, the area beyond it fuscous black to the medial

line, which is oblique to median nervure and slightly angled inwards

in submedian fold; orbicular represented by a slight pale spot in

upper part of cell; reniform a narrow whitish lunule with fuscous

centre ; postmedial line black, excurved below costa, incurved at

discal fold, oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian

fold, a fuscous patch beyond it on costal area with two white points

on costa; subterminal line white, diffused, curved, slightly angled

inwards in submedian fold; a slightly waved brown terminal line ;

cilia brownish ochreous, dark at tips. Hind wing white, the veins,

costal and terminal areas suffused with brown; a dark terminal

line; the underside with black discoidal lunule and postmedial series

of minute streaks on the veins showing through to upperside.

Hab, Spatn, Andalusia, Murcia; AtcErta; Tunis,1 g. xp.

32 millim.

Sucr. IT. Antenne of male with very short branches, serrate at base and apex.

A. Fore wing with the termen and cilia intersected by white

and iblack bo saci ist cae sient rae ay suatae tla sate dommateeat semuslags resents Jubata.

B. Fore wing with the tips of cilia chequered white and

IDKO.Wily eee ceca sce Sahel REN etorap nia ere reeanien ee RTA GIR aoetese opposita.

2196. Cleophana jubata.

Cleophana jubata, Oberth. Et. Ent. xiii. p. 31, pl. 6. f. 40 (1890) ; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214,

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with brown and

fuscous ; tarsi fuscous with slight white rings. Fore wing whitish

suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with fuscous; antemedial

line double, black filled in with whitish, waved, angled inwards in

ep,

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Fig. 20.—Cleophana jubata, 3.

cell and on vein 1; a diffused blackish medial shade; a slight

whitish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on

outer side, reduced to a series of black points on veins 5 to 2, angled

outwards below costa, and inwards at discal fold, below vein 4 bent

inwards to below cell, then oblique to inner margin, some brown

CLEOPHANA. 101

suffusion beyond it on costa with two white points on it; the veins

of terminal area streaked with black, defined by short white streaks

on each side; cilia chequered brown and white and intersected with

black. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and terminal halt

except inner area suffused with brown; cilia white mixed with

brown; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with brown, a slight spot at upper angle of cell.

Hab. Aueeria; Tunts,1 ¢,19. xp. 22 millim.

2197. Cleophana opposita. (Plate XCIX. fig. 3.)

Cleophana opposita, Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xiii. pp. 34, 47, pl. 1. f. 12

(1870); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; vertex of head

and base of tegule reddish brown, tips of tegule and a line in front

and near upper edge of patagia blackish ; tarsi dark brown with

slight pale rings; abdomen red-brown mixed with some grey, slight

dorsal segmental black lines on medial segments. Fore wing grey,

the antemedial area suffused with red-brown, the basal half of

medial area fuscous black, the veins slightly streaked with black

except on terminal area; subbasal line represented by a slight black

striga from costa; antemedial line black, oblique from costa to

median nervure, where it is slightly angled inwards, excurved in

submedian interspace and slightly angled inwards on vein 1; a

minute black discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinct and some-

what reduced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below

costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, a

slight diffused brown band beyond it expanding towards costa, on

which are two oblique grey strive, angled inwards in discal fold and

incurved below vein 3, followed by a very indistinct diffused grey

subterminal line excurved above and below discal fold; a slightly

waved dark terminal line; cilia red-brown at base, chequered grey

and fuscous it tips. Hind wing reddish brown with indistinct

pale medial band ; cilia brown at base, greyish with dark points at

tips; underside whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with

fuscous except inner half to postmedial line, a slight dark discoidal

lunule and postmedial line with minute dark streaks on the veins.

Hab. Burearta; Maceponta; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus,

1 ¢, Taurus, 1 3, 2 9; Syria, Leech Coll.,3 ¢, Antioch, Mardin;

Baoan (Loftus), 1 9. Hep. 26-30 millim.

Secr. IIT. Antennz of male serrated.

A. Abdomen with dorsal crest on 2nd segment.

a. Fore wing with the angle of postmedial line in submedian

fold connected with the antemediai iine by a short

blacksstrealky aaa reetcossencemnte set eecrentae cence sonmarcmen vaulogere.

6. Fore wing with the angle of postmedial line in submedian

fold not connected with the antemedial line by a black

S Gre ray serous Han OR kao) TAABOOCE CRO SEGRE SUR enema diffluens.

102 NOCLUIDE.

2198. Cleophana vaulogeri.

Cleophana vaulogeri, Staud. lris, xii. p. 878, pl. 5. f. 9 (1899); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 214.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and_ black ;

tegule with black lines at middle and near tips; patagia with

strong black lines near front and upper edge ; pro- and metathoracic

crests tipped with black ; tarsi banded black and white; abdomen

grey-white tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with black.

Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black, the

veins slightly streaked with black; slight black streaks in base of

cell and submedian fold; antemedial line double, the inner line

indistinet, obliquely excurved from costa to median nervure, angled

outwards in submedian fold, then sinuous; orbicular very small,

with black centre and whitish annuius, oblique elliptical ; reniform

Om

Fig. 21.—Cleophana vaulogert, S$. }.

small, whitish with black lunule in centre; a diffused black medial

Shade, oblique below the cell; postmedial line double, the outer

line indistinct, strongly angled outwards below costa, angled inwards

in diseal fold, oblique ‘dla vein 4, and very strongly angled inwards

to savant line in submedian fold, a band of blackish suffusion

beyond it, broad towards costa and with two pale points on costa,

excurved at middle; a faint, pale, rather broad subterminal Jine,

incurved at discal fold, then oblique; a fine black terminal line;

cilia grey with black line through them and black tips. Hind wing

with the basal and inner areas whitish, the veins, costal area, and

terminal half fuscous brown; a fine black terminal line; cilia

whitish intersected with brown; the underside white, the costal

and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule

and postmedial series of fuscous spots on the veins.

Hab. Aterria, Biskra, Hammam-es-Salahin ( Walsingham), 5 SD 85

192. Hxp. 28 millim,

2199. Cleophana diffluens. (Vlate XCIX. fig. 4.)

Cleophana difflucns, Staud. Berl, ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 121; id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p- 214.

Cleophana versicolor, Staud, Cat. Lep, pal. p. 214 (1901).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and black ; tegule

with dark line near tips which are black; patagia with grey lines

defined by black near front and upper edge; abdomen greyish

CLEOPHANA. 103

suffused with brown, the dorsal crests and a patch on terminal seg-

ment dark. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown, the basal half

of medial area fuscous brown, the veins slightly streaked with black

to postmedial line; a slight black streak in base of cell; subbasal

line represented by black strize from costa and cell ; antemedial

line black, oblique, and slightly sinuous from costa to median

nervure, excurved in submedian interspace and above inner margin

and angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular a slight pale spot with

black centre in upper part of cell; reniform a slight grey lunule

with black centre; antemedial line bent outwards below costa,

angled inwards at discal fold, excurved to vein 2 and strongly

angled inwards in submedian fold, a fuscous-brown patch beyond it

on costa; a slightly waved black terminal line; cilia pale reddish

brown. Hind wing reddish brown, the interspaces of inner half of

basal area whitish ; cilia pale brown, whitish at tips; the underside

whitish, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with

brown, a slight discoida] lunule and curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. versicolor. Smaller ; fore wing tinged with ochreous en

subbasal and terminal areas.— Algeria.

Hab. Spain, Andalusia, Leech Coll., Malaga, Zeller Coll.; ALGERIA.

Exp. 26-30 millim,

B. Abdomen without dorsal crest on 2nd segment.

a. Fore wing with the angle of postmedial line in submedian

fold connected with the antemedial line by a short

NOOR S ETO alee Ayre Piet Se cue ae de anor OTOL I Ss BEL re

4, Fove wing with the angle of postmedial line in submedian

fold not connected with the antemedial line by a black

SLY Cer ke ete ery oe seen Rte cra cane vat RR is RGIS otal ete ier sravale

Yyvani.

MArOCana.

2200. Cleophana yvani.

NXylina yvanii, Dup. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. ii. p. 257, pl. 9. fc (1883) ; Geyer,

Eur. Schmett., Noct. £.838; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 889, pl. 35. f.9 ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Cleophana korbi, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 280 (1894).

Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown; tegule with white line

near tips defined on each side by blackish; patagia with curved

Fig. 22.—Cleophana yvani, 3. {-

white line near upper edge defined by black above; tarsi fuscous,

ringed with white. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and

tinged with red-brown before middle of antemedial line and beyond

104 NOCTUID.E.

the postmedial line; a slight black streak in base of cell; ante-

medial line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, where it is

stror.gly angled outwards, then obliquely incurved; orbicular and

reniform very small with fuscous centres and greyish-white annuli,

the former round ; a fuscous medial shade ; postmedial line black,

angled outwards below costa and inwards in discal fold, then

excurved and very strongly angled inwards to antemedial line in

submedian fold, a diffused brownish band beyond it expanding to

costa, where there are two white points on it, excurved at middle ;

the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black; an indistinct

oblique whitish subterminal band from costa to vein 6; a slightly

waved black terminal line; cilia brown at base, chequered whitish

and brown at tips. Hind wing reddish brown, the veins and ter-

minal area tinged with fuscous; cilia brown at base, whitish at

tips ; the underside whitish irrorated and suffused with red-brown,

a small discoidal spot and indistinct: diffused postmedial line.

Ab. 1. corbi. Paler; fore wing without the black streak in base

of cell.

Hab. 8. Francr, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Spain, Aragon, Castile,

Murcia. Hp. 24 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Bur. p. 253.

Yellowish white with four red lines. Food-plant, seeds of

Helianthemum.

2201. Cleophana marocana. (Plate XCIX. fig. 5.)

Cleophana marocana, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214 (1901).

¢. Head and thorax bright red-brown; antenne whitish at

base ; tegule slightly tipped with black; tarsi with slight pale

rings; abdomen silky brown tinged with fuscous dorsally. Fore

wing bright red-brown, the veins slightly darker except on terminal

area ; basal area with slight fuscous irroration ; a slight dark streak

in base of submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, oblique from

costa to submedian fold, slightly angled outwards below costa and

inwards on vein 1; reniform a whitish lunule with dark centre ;

postmedial line slightly defined by greyish suffusion on each side,

more strongly on inner area, bent outwards below costa, angled

inwards in discal fold and strongly in submedian fold; traces of a

pale dentate subterminal line incurved at discal fold and below

vein 3; a fine slightly waved dark terminal line; cilia red-brown,

the tips faintly chequered pale and red-brown. Hind wing with

the basal half whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the

terminal half fuscous brown; cilia pale red-brown; the underside

with black discoidal lunule and rather diffused postmedial line.

Hab. Morocco, Forest of Marmora (Meade-Waldo), 3 3. Exp.

24-26 millim. .

METALOPHA. 105

Genus METALOPHA. ite

Metalopha, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 813 (1891) ...--eesseeeeeees eee eereee liturata.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with rough

hair in front, the 8rd joint short; frons with large corneous prominence with

raised edges. its lower edge produced into a trilobate process; eyes large,

rounded, antenne of male simple, laminate ; head and thorax clothed with

rough hair, the vertex of head with large crests, the pro- and metathorax with

double crests; pectus and tibiew clothed with long hair; abdomen with some

rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing

with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5

from near angle of cell; 6 fr m upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8

to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of

cell; 5 rather strong from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Head, thorax, and fore wing largely suffused with purplish

[DIME coaqcnob050 nodorsonegesddeadeedgadsounoededecbe couuooosaapocacasponcac gloriosa.

B. Head, thorax, and fore wing olive-brown and white without

Olumlke URTETTENO)N Go, don6decosobseaKoGorqsoonoDeDRocaDE adosenEstoadegcuDd0 liturata.

2202. Metalopha gloriosa. (Plate XCIX. fig. 6.)

Metalopha gloriosa, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 314, pl. 4. f. 7 (1801); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 223.

g. Head and thorax purplish pink more or less mixed with

erey-white; abdomen grey-white mixed with fuscous and olive-

yellow, the lateral fringes and ventral surface purplish pink. Fore

wing with the veins purplish grey ; the basal area dark olive-green 5

the antemedial line fine, grey, oblique from costa to submedian

fold, then slightly incurved ; the medial area suffused with purplish

pink and grey with some dark irroration ; orbicular and reniform

very small, defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow ;

postmedial line grey, very oblique, slightly excurved from costa to

vein 4, then slightly incurved, an olive-green band beyond it; the

terminal area purplish pink with some dark irroration ; a terminal

series of slightly darker lunules; cilia purplish pink and grey with

some dark scales. Hind wing olive-brown; a discoidal spot

slightly defined by white; a faint diffused medial greyish band;

terminal area shghtly tivged with pink: cilia pink with series of

brown spots ; the underside pink or whitish suffused with pink and

with some dark irroration, a dark discoidal point.

Hab. Asta Minor, Taurus, 1 ¢ ; Syria, Mardin; Patestine;

Mesopotamia, 1 ¢. Hxp. 30 millim.

2203. Metalopha liturata.

Megalodes liturata, Christ. Rom, Mém. iii. p. 89, pl. 4. f. 10 (1887);

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 228.

Metalopha plusina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 313, pl. 4. f. 8 (1891).

g. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with olive-green.

106 NOCLTUID.F.

Fore wing white suffused with olive-green and slightly irrorated

with blackish ; the veins white; subbasal line represented by an

oblique white bar from costa; an antemedial white band, excurved

below costa, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform rather small,

defined by white, the former round, the latter oblique oblong; an

Fig. 23.—Metalopha liturata, §. }.

oblique postmedial white band, slightly excurved from costa to

vein 4, then slightly incurved ; a curved subterminal white band ;

a crenulate white line enclosing the terminal series of olive lunules ;

cilia white with series of olive spots. Hind wing white irrorated

with pale fuscous ; diffused subterminal and terminal pale fuscous

bands; the underside white.

Hab. Syria, Antioch; Mrsororamza, 1 ¢ ; Prrsta; W. Tor-

knstan, Turcomania, Hp. 28 millim.

Genus AMEPHANA, nov.

Type, A. anarrhini.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head and elothed with

long hair, the 3rd joint short or long and dilated at extremity ; frons with

corneous prominence with raised edges, its lower edge produced to a shovel-

shaped process; eyes large, rounded; antenna of male pectinate or simple,

laminate ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair only, the vertex of head

with large crest, the pro- and metathorax with double crests; tibiz fringed

with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, large crest on 2nd seg-

ment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa somewhat concave,

the termen evenly: curved, the inner margin lobed near base, the tornus with

scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from

10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with

veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7

from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Secr. 1. Antenne of male bipectinate, the branches decreasing to base and apex ;

palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity.

2204. Amephana varionis.

Cleophana warionis, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 48, pl. 2. f. 3 (1876); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

3. Head and thorax whitish tinged with emerald-green and

slightly mixed with fuscous; the crests on vertex of head, pro-

and metathorax, and the patagia tipped with rufous ; abdomen

AMEPHANA. 107

white dorsally tinged with fuscous especially at base. Fore wing

brilliant emerald-green with some fuscous irroration especially on

terminal half; antemedial line white, angled outwards in cell and

submedian fold and inwards above vein 1, then outwardly to inner

margin ; a diffused white medial line from cell to inner margin,

incurved, then angled outwards on vein 1; discocellulars white ;

Fig. 24.—Amephana varionis, d. }.

postmedial line indistinct whitish, bent ontwards below costa,

incuryed at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal

line white, emitting streaks to apex on veins 9, 8, angled outwards

to termen on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2; cilia chequered white and fuscous.

Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous, leaving an ill-defined

whitish medial band; cilia chequered white and fuscous; the

underside white slightly irrorated with fuscous, diffused antemedial

and postmedial bands slightly incurved at middle, a discoidal point.

Hab. Atguria; Tunis, 1 do. Hap, 28 millim.

Secr. II. Antenne of male simple, laminate ; palpi with the 3rd joint short.

A. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour yellow. anarrhini.

b. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour grey... dejeant.

2205. Amephana anarrhini.

Cleophana anarrhini, Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. ii. p. 387, pl. 35. f. 2 (1836);

Herr.-Schaff. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 157; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214.

Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some yellow ; abdomen

brown with shght whitish segmental rings more distinct on ventral

Fig. 25.—Amephana anarrhint, 8. 3.

surface, the dorsal crest rufous. Fore wing yellow suffused with

bright rufous, leaving whitish streaks in the interspaces, the veins

with dark streaks; antemedial line double filled in with whitish,

108 NOCTUIDAE.

curved, the outer line black, minutely dentate; a rather diffused

fuscous medial line excurved at lower angle of cell; reniform a

slight white lunule; postmedial line black defined by white on outer

side, slightly bent one ards below costa, then broken up into points

and incurved at discal fold, below vein ‘4 incurved to below end of

cell, then continuous and outwardly oblique with slight rufous line

beyond it, two white points beyond it on costa; the interspaces of

terminal area more distinctly streaked with white ; cilia chequered

brown and white. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area

whitish ; cilia white tinged with brown; the underside whitish,

the basal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, an indistinct

diffused postmedial line with slight dark streaks at the veins.

Hab, SK. France, Sand, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Sparx, Murcia.

Exp. 26 millim.

2206. Amephana dejeani.

Noctua dejeanti, Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 238, pl. 115. f. 2 (1827); id. Suppl.

iu. pl. 85. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Eur, Schmett., Nose . 156; Frr. Neue

Beitr. pl. 256. f. 1; Staud: Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214,

Head and thorax pale brownish grey mixed with some black ;

patagia with whitish patches edged with black; legs with red-

brown and white hair; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with

brewn. Fore wing brownish grey suffused with cupreous red-

brown before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line; a

slight black streak in base of cell; antemedial line double filled in

with white, very oblique from costa, excurved to submedian fold,

angled inwards above vein 1, then strongly excurved ; claviform

eiiprcall extending from the antemedial to the postmedial line,

with brown centre and white annulus defined by black below and

at extremity ; orbicular small, round, confluent with antemedial

line, with slight white annulus; reniform small with brown centre

and white annulus, rather produced at extremities ; postmedial line

defined by white on outer side, angled inwards below costa, oblique

to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and very strongly below vein 4 to

below cell, two white points beyond it on costa; the veins of

terminal area streaked with black, defined on each side by white

forming sagittate marks and a V-shaped mark at apex ; cilia brown

intersected with white. Hind wing ochreous, the veins and terminal

haif reddish brown; cilia chequered brownish white and _ red-

brown; the underside ochreous white, the veins brown, a discoidal

lunule, indistinct diffused postmedial line, and diffused subterminal

band,

Hab. 8. Francz, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Srary, Anda-

lusia; Iraty; Grence; Aterri; Asis Minor, Pontus, Taurus,

1 ¢. Hep. 22-24 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 253; Hffin. Raup. p. 125.

Pale yellow with red subdorsal lines spotted with white and red

spiracles. Food-plant, Helianthemum.

OMPHALOPHANA. 109

Genus OMPHALOPHANA, nov.

Type, O. antirrhint.

Proboseis fully developed; palpi upturned to vertex of head and clothed

with long hair, the 3rd joint rather long ; frons with small rounded prominence

with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male typically

with laminate serrations; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-

like scales, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegulae with dorsal ridge,

the pro- and metathorax with double crests; tibie fringed with long hair ;

abdomen with scme rough hair at base, large crests on basal segments and

lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa almost straight, the termen

obliquely curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near base: veins 3 and 5 from

near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to

form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ;

5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

Secr. I. Antenne of male with laminate serrations.

A. Fore wing with the cilia intersected by white streaks.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial line erect, minutely

WEIN ogasagasdonobososcaqbans asanoudasucgnssnostadsoaaducpuadheded antirrhini.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial line excurved and approxi-

mated to the postmedial line below cell.

a}, Fore wing with small orbicular and reniform stigmata

Yona, gomtehy GHOUAML 5 onoonngspssebandogaosnenosoEdsoouDREnuAGoS serrata.

b'. Fore wing with the orbicular an oblique white lunule,

tres remimonmMsabsemt sw ver sejslerisleisiioclels seis eieiis sess sje eiseeisiee serratula.

B. Fore wing with the cilia not intersected with white ......... pauli,

2207. Omphalophana antirrhini.

Noctua antirrhini, Hitbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 253 (1827); Dup. Lép.

Fr. vii. p. 264, pl. 116. f. 6; Frr. Beitr. ti. pl. 172; Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 213.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with rufous and on thorax

with fuscous, the crests on head and prothorax darker at tips ;

Fig. 26.—Omphalophana antirrhini, §. +

tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen brown with slight white

segmental rings, the dorsal crests blackish, the ventral surface with

more white. Fore wing pale olive-grey suffused with red-brown,

especially on medial area and beyond postmedial line ; antemedial

110 NOCTUIDE.

line double, the outer line black, minutely waved; orbicular and

reniform small with fuscous centres and white annuli slightly

defined by black, the former round; an indistinct diffused brown

medial line; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side,

slightly bent outwards below costa, dentate at veins 6, 4, 3, 2, 1,

incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 to near origin of vein 2,

then oblique; the interspaces of terminal area with black streaks

not reaching termen with whitish streaks above and below, most of

them to termen; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Hind

wing dark reddish brown with indistinct diffused whitish medial

band ; cilia white chequered with brown at base; the underside

with the white band more distinct and emitting a streak in sub-

median fold to base, the termen white.

Hab. France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Ausrria, Frey

and Leech Colls.: Huneary, Leech Coll.; Spain; Ivaty; Batcans;

ArmeEnta; Asta Minor; Syria, Leech Coll., Mardin. wp. 26-

—32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 253 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 125, pl. 33. f. 7.

Green with black points and white dorsal line. Food-plants :

Antirrhinum and Scabiosa ochroleuca. 6.

2208. Omphalophana serrata.

Cleophana serrata, Treit. Schmett. Eur., Suppl. x. (2) p. 121 (1835); Geyer,

Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 871; Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 299, pl. 12.

f.2; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 426, pl. 37. f.5; Rmbr. Faun. Andal.

pl. 18. £6; Mull. Icones, ii. pl. 66. ff. 1,2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

Cleophana arctata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 161 (1852).

S. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown and

black ; tegule with slight black lines at middle and near tips

defined by white behind; tarsi with slight whitish rings ; abdomen

brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with

yellow-brown beyond the postmedial line and on terminal area; a

black streak in base of cell and a subbasal streak below cell on diffused

white fascize ; antemedial line double filled in with white and with

some blackish suffusion before it, curved and slightly angled inwards

below costa; orbicular and reniform small, approximated, with

fuscous centres and slight white annuli defined by black, the

former round; an indistinct medial line; postmedial line double

filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then produced to

short white streaks on the veins followed by black streaks, incurved

at discal fold and below vein 4 to below orbicular and approximated

to antemedial line, some oblique white strie from costa beyond it ;

a series of white streaks on terminal area and cilia, forking on each

side of veins, in the interspace below vein 4 connected inwardly and

forming a lunule. Hind wing with the basal half whitish tinged

with brown, the terminal half brown, narrowing to tornus; the

veins darker; cilia white chequered with pale brown on apical

half; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, a slight

discoidal lunule, the veins and a diffused subterminal band brown.

OMPHALOPHANA. tea

Hab, Sparx, Andalusia, Cadiz (Walsingham), 1 ¢ ; Sarvryta;

Story; Areerta. Lap. 30 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 253; Hffm. Ranpe p- 125:

Greenish with yellow dorsal and lateral lines. Food-plant,

Seabious. 5,

2209. Omphalophana serratula. (Plate XCIX. fig. 7.)

Cleophana serratula, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 88; id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 213

¢. Head and thorax white mixed with brown and black; the

tufts on frons and vertex of head and the tegule with dark tips;

tarsi with slight white rings; abdomen whitish tinged with brown.

Fore wing whitish suffused with brown; the veins streaked with

black ; a white fascia in base of cell; a diffused white fascia below

the cell with black subbasal streak in submedian fold and emitting

a white streak to termen; antemedial line double filled in with

white, excurved, very oblique towards costa and inner margin and

slightly incurved at submedian fold; orbicular a very oblique some-

what lunulate white mark in end of cell; reniform absent; post-

medial line black defined by white on outer side, the black reduced

to points on the veins of costal half, bent outwards below costa and

below vein 4 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique,

slightly angled outwards in submedian fold and approximated to

antemedial line; the terminal area with white streaks on each side

of the veins and on cilia, the black streaks on the veins extending

to basal half of cilia, through which there is a slight dark line.

Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal half suffused

with brown ; cilia white tinged with brown at base; the underside

white slightly irrorated with brown, an indistinct curved postmedial

line.

Hab, W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ¢, Ferghana, Issyk Kul;

E. Turkestan, li. ap. 30 millim.

2210. Omphalophana pauli.

Cleophana pauli, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 806, pl. 4. f. 4 (1891); Meade-Waldo,

Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 888, pl. 19. f. 11; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

Q. Head and tegule pale rufous, the latter grey and dark

brown at tips; thorax grey and dark brown; pectus and legs pale

rufous; abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing grey suffused with

brown; a double curved antemedial line ; claviform small, defined

by white; orbicular and reniform very small, dark brown, the

former round, placed on a white patch filling end of cell and

extending to inner side and upper edge of reniform; postmedial

line blackish, rather diffused, bent outwards below costa, below

vein 4 strongly incurved and below submedian fold approximated

to antemedial line; traces of a subterminal series of brown and

white dentate marks: cilia chequered brown and white. Hind

112 NOCTUIDA.

wing fuscous-brown with a reddish tinge: cilia white tinged with

brown at base; the underside whitish suffused with brown, traces

of a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Morocco, Marmora Forest (Meadz- Waldo),1 2; Patustrnr.

Eep. 26 millim.

Sect. LI. Antenne of male ciliated.

2211. Omphalophana anatolica.

Noctua serrata, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pl. 256, f. 1 (nee Treit.).

Calophasia anatolica. Led. Noct. Eur. p. 227 (1857); Calb. Iris, i. p. 256,

pl. 12. f 11; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

Head and thorax white mixed with black; tegulae with rather

diffused black medial line defined by white behind; abdomen grey

mixed with fuscous, the dorsal crests with some black. Fore wing

grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, the medial area

darker ; a black streak in base of submedian fold; antemedial line

double, curved; traces of a small claviform defined by black ;

orbicular and reniform very small and indistinct, with brownish

centres and whitish annuli slightly defined by black, the former

Fig. 27.—Omphalophana anatolica, 3. }.

round; a diffused black medial line; postmedial line indistinctly

double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then

dentate, incurved below vein 4; the veins of terminal area with

slight dark streaks, the interspaces with black streaks towards

termen between veins 8 and 5 and below 2; cilia chequered fuscous

and white. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, the

terminal area darker; cilia chequered white and fuscous; the

underside grey irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused

with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series of slight

streaks on the veins.

Hab. Ivaty; 8. Turkey; Ruopes; Asta Mrvor, Bithynia, Lydia ;

Patestinp; W. Turxnstan, Turcomania, Askhabad, 1 ¢. up.

30 millim.

Genus OXICESTA.

Type.

Oxicesta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 144 (1827) .........cssececeseesvesrncess geographica.

Clidia, Buisd. Ind. Meth. p. 68 (1840) .....:....ecscceseseeeeeees geographica.

Proboscis absent ; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair

below; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male bipectinate with

short branches decreasing to base and apex; head and thorax clothed with

OXICESTA, 113

hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at

extremity ; tibiz fringed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at

base, a large crest on basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with

the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from

near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to

form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ;

5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8

anastomosing with cell near base only.

A. Hind wing of male white with brown postmedial line and

Subtermunall bandee. 5. jvure sca. osss-censeacenaeetteeeoeetencics geographica.

pAodoosbadedondGoc chamenices,

2212. Oxicesta geographica.

Noctua geographica, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 167 (1787); Boisd. Ie. pl. 63.

f.5; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 84. f. 5; Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pl. 638 ; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134.

Bombyx austera, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 176, pl. 7. f.5 (1791); Esp. Schmett.

iv. pl. 191. ff. 4-6 (1796).

Bombyx sericina, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 1, pl. 4. f. Y (1827).

Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale rufous; palpi

at sides, tegule at middle and outer edge of tegule and patagia

dark rufous ; abdomen yellowish white suffused with dark brown.

Fore wing yellowish white, the basal and postmedial areas suffused

with rufous, the latter extending to termen below veins 6 and 3;

the basal part of medial area suffused with rufous extending to just

before postmedial line beyond and below lower angle of cell;

‘subbasal line oblique defined by white on inner side and ending at

submedian fold; amtemedial line double except towards costa, dark

brown filled in with white, slightly angled outwards below costa

Fig. 28.— Owicesta geographica, S. 3.

and in cell and inwards below cell, then outwardly oblique, an

oblique dark brown mark beyond it in cell; traces of a pale

discoidal line; postmedial line dark brown except towards costa,

defined by white on inner side, with some dark brown before it

at costa and below lower angle of cell, minutely dentate, angled

outwards at vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell and

outwardly oblique to inner margin; some slight wedge-shaped

brown marks in interspaces on termen from above vein 6 to below

2; cilia chequered yellowish white and brown. Hind wing

yellowish white, the costal area tinged with brown to the post-

medial line, which is excurved at middle and above inner margin ;

VOL. VI. I

114 NOCLUIDA.

a diffused brown subterminal band; cilia intersected with brown

towards apex ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and distinct

diffused postmedial line.

Hab. Ausrria, Galicia; Huneary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

S. Russra; Turner. Hap. 24-32 millim.

; aie Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155; Hffm. Raup. p. 74, pl. 21.

Black with hairy warts and two dorsal white lines; the sides

white spotted with black and with yellow lateral line; segmental

incisions bordered with reddish yellow. Food-plant, Linaria

vulgaris. 6-8.

2213. Oxicesta chameenices.

Bombyx sericina, Hibn. Hur. Schmett., Bomb. f. 259 (1827); nec id. Beitr. ii.

Noctua chameénices, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 568 (1845).

CNeoe chamesyces, Guen. Noct. i. p. 40 (1852); Staud, Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 154.

Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with rufous in parts, the

upper half of patagia and dorsum of thorax deep red-brown;

abdomen dark brown with some whitish hair and slight pale

segmental lines. Fore wing yellowish white almost wholly suffused

with dark red-brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark spots.

below costa and cell defined by whitish on outer side; antemedial

line dark brown, rather diffused, defined by whitish on inner side,

oblique from costa to submedian fold, then outwardly oblique ;

postmedial line double except below submedian fold, dark brown

filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to discal fold, then

minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 4 and inwards in sub-

median fold, then outwardly oblique to inner margin, the white

before it diffused inwards in submedian fold to antemedial line ;

the terminal area with more or less prominent whitish streaks on

each side of the veins, forming V-shaped marks below veins 8, 7,

and 4; cilia more or less prominently chequered whitish and brown.

Hind wing uniform dark brown; the cilia whitish at tips; the

underside with the medial part of costal area and termen whitish

with diffused dark postmedial band from costa to lower angle of

cell, the inner edge of terminal band dentate.

Hab. 8. France, ‘Zeller, D’Emmich, and Leech Colls.; Spay,

Catalonia, Murcia, Aragon; N. Ivaty. Hap. 24-28 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155; Hffm. Raup. p. 74.

Gregarious. Food-plants: Huphorbia characias, nicoécusis, and

chamesyce.

Genus PSEUDANTHGCIA. Type

Pseudanthecia, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 213 (1883) ...... tumida.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint fringed

with long hair below, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth with curved corneous

plate below; eyes rather small; antenng of male almost simple; head and

thorax clothed with rough hair only and without distinct crests ; abdomen with

PSEUDANTH@CIA.—HARPAGOPHANA, 115

some rough hair at base and with lateral fringes of hair but without crests.

Fore wing rather narrow, the costa slightly concave, the apex somewhat

produced, the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near

base; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10

anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins

3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, '7 from

upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

2214. Pseudanthecia tumida.

Lygranthecia tumida, Grote, Bull, Brkln. Ent. Soe. iii. p, 80 (1880) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p..286.

3. Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow slightly tinged with

rufous ; abdomen orange-yellow with more or less dorsal black

suffusion or irroration. Fore wing pale olive-ochreous tinged in

parts with rufous and with slight black suffusion in places ; subbasal

line represented by traces of a pale oblique striga from costa; some

specimens with traces of a diffused antemedial line; orbicular

represented by a faint lunule, the reniform sometimes by some black

scales at lower angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, pale,

sometimes defined by some dark scales on its inner edge at' middle

and towards inner margin, oblique from costa to discal fold,

Fig. 29.—Pseudanthecia tumida, 3. 1.

incurved at submedian fold, some white points usually with minute

black streaks between them on costa beyond it; subterminal line

represented by a diffused slightly paler band, bent outwards to apex :

a terminal series of slight black points ; cilia yellow at base, their

tips chequered whitish and black. Hind wing with the basal half

orange-yellow with some black suffusion on inner area; the terminal

half deep black connected with a waved medial line more or less

defined by yellow scales on its outer edge; cilia black at base,

white at tips. Underside of both wings orange-yellow, the terminal

area black with waved inner edge and with apical white patches

with white patches before them on costa. .

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 3 type, (Cockerell), 2 ¢, New Mexico,

Beulah (Cockerell), 1. $.. Exp. 24-28 millim.

Genus HARPAGOPHANA, nov.

Type, H. hilaris.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair

in front; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and slight process

12

116 NOCTUID ZX.

in centre hollowed out in front; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male with

fasciculate cilia; head and thorax clothed with rough hair only and without

crests; pectus and legs clothed with long hair, the lst joint of fore tarsi with

two long claw-like spines; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral

fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the

termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper

angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of

discocellulars ; 6,7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

2215. Harpagophana hilaris.

Metopoceras hilaris, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 275 (1894); id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 176.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with brown; sides of

palpi and frons fuscous; tegule irrorated with fuscous; tarsi

fuscous with slight pale rings. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark

brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark spots at costa and

median nervure; antemedial line represented by a series of small

indistinct dark spots, double below submedian fold; orbicular small

indistinctly defined by fuscous, round, confluent with antemedial

Fig. 80.—Harpagophana hilaris, $. 4.

line ; reniform an indistinct narrow lunule defined by fuscous, with

oblique fuscous bar from costa to it and dark spot at lower angle of

cell; postmedial line very indistinct, minutely dentate, incurved

below vein 4; traces of an antemedial line with diffused dark

marks below costa and at middle; a terminal series of small black

lunules. Hind wing grey uniformly suffused with fuscous ; cilia

whitish ; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, traces of a

curved postmedial line.

Hab. Spain, Murcia, Guadarrama,1 ¢,1 9. Ewp. 32 millim.

Genus METOPOCERAS.

Type.

Metopoceras, Guen. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2nd series viii. p. xviii

QUSBO) Wich. a. cae cae ccc bad eeeecdedeceecsecseeds aaletous cueuteecamnon cetaemmacns Selicina.

Phorocera, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 31 (1850) «2.0.20... ccceeeeeseeeeereceeeees canteneri,

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, fringed with long hair in

front; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and corneous process

from centre slightly hollowed out at extremity ; eyes large, rounded ; antenne

of male laminate ; head and thorax thickly clothed with hair mixed with scales,

the vertex of head slightly crested, the metathorax with thick crest ; pectus and

legs clothed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without

METOPOCERAS. 117

crests. Fore wing short and broad, the termen evenly rounded; veins 3 and 5

from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8

to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of

cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle ;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the terminai area paler, the subterminal line

strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ...... beata.

B. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous, the sub-

terminal line not angled inwards in discal and submedian

folds.

a. Fore wing with distinct black subterminal line angled

Outwardsiativelns Or 4, diccstaecsssenenesceececmcaareen eae cantener? .

6, Fore wing with the subterminal line obsolescent.

a!, Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown .........+.. felicina.

b', Fore wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ... gaucleri,

c’, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey.

a?. Fore wing with fuscous suffusion before antemedial

and beyond postmedial lines ..............2sccecssccereees chalildja.

?, Fore wing without fuscous suffusion before ante-

medial and beyond postmedial lines .............0..00668 omar.

- *2216. ? Metopoceras beata.

Metopoceras beata, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 274, pl. 3. f£.9 (1891); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 175.

Q. Head and thorax dark brownish grey mixed with pale

brownish grey; pectus and legs pale, the tarsi fuscous with pale

rings; abdomen fuscous grey. Fore wing dark brownish grey

mixed with pale brownish grey, the terminal area pale; subbasal

line double filled in with grey, waved, from costa to submedian

fold; antemedial line double filled in with grey, angled outward

below costa, then waved; orbicular and reniform small, with dark

centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round;

postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then

incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

only defined by the contrast between the dark and pale terminal

areas, strongly angled inwards in discal and subterminal folds; a.

fine waved terminal line; cilia whitish with a dark line through

them. Hind wing brownish grey with the terminal area broadly

fuscous ; a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line; cilia

chequered white and fuscous.

Hab. Asta Mrvor, Taurus, Hajin. Hyvp. 30 millim. This species

is unknown to me, the figure resembles somewhat Heterographa

zelleri. !

#2217. Metopoceras canteneri.

Polia canteneri, Dup. Rev. Ent. Silb. i. 1, p. 37, pl. 3 (1833); id. Lép. Fr.,

Suppl. iii. p. 267, pl. 25. f. 2; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.824; Rmbr.

Cat. Lép. S. And. pl. 6. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175.

Polia insueta, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 268, Noct. f. 491 (1845).

Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with a few dark scales ;

abdomen paler red-brown. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with a

118 NOCTUIDZ.

few dark scales ; antemedial line double, oblique from costa to sub-

median fold, where it is angled, then angled slightly inwards on vein

1; claviform absent; orbicular small, round, bright rufous defined

by black; reniform bright rufous defined by black on inner side

only, diffused on outer side with a black point in upper part, medial

line represented by an oblique black striga from costa; postmedial

line black, dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins,

excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line

black with diffused fuscous on inner side, slightly angled outwards

at veins 7,6, 4, 3, then incurved; a fine waved black terminal line ;

cilia with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing red-brown,

the terminal area darker; traces of a curved postmedial line; cilia

ochreous. with a slight dark line through them; the underside

reddish grey with dark discoidal point and curved postmedial

line.

Hab. 8. France; Spatn; Atcerta. Hap. 34 millim. This species

is unknown to me..

_ 2218. Metopoceras felicina.

Polia felicina, Donz. Ann..Soc. Ent., Fr. 1844, p. 199, pl. 6. f. 2; Herr.-

Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 485; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175.

Head and thorax purplish red-brown irrorated with a few black

scales ; tarsi fuscous with yellowish rings; abdomen grey irrorated

with black, the anal tuft rufous.- Fore wing purplish red-brown

irrorated with large raised grey scales, especially before medial part

Fig. 31.—Metopoceras felicina, S. }.

of antemedial line and on medial area except towards inner margin ;

subbasal line very indistinct, slightly defined by grey on outer side,

ending at submedian fold; antemedial line deep rufous, indistinct,

slightly waved; orbicular represented by asmall rufous spot in cell,

the reniform by a rufous patch with oblique bar to it from costa ;

postmedial line very indistinct, rufous slightly defined by grey scales

on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein

4, then incurved; a subterminal curved series of slight grey points.

Hind wing pale cupreous red with traces of a diffused darker sub-

terminal band; the underside greyish tinged with rufous and

irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and indistinct diffused curved

postmedial and subterminal lines. »

Hab. S. France; Sparn, Castile, Andalusia, Leech Coll.; Morocco,

Forest of Marmora (Meade- Waldo),1 3. Exp. 26-80 millim.

METOPOCERAS. 119

*2219. Metopoceras gaucleri. (Plate XCIX. fig. 8.)

Metopoceros gauckleri, Ping. Iris, xvii. p: 267 (1904).

Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white faintly tinged

with rufous ; antenne brown; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore

wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous; a pale red-brown

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line pale

red-brown, diffused, oblique, slightly waved; claviform absent ;

orbicular a small brownish spot; reniform a brown spot on the

diffused reddish-brown medial line, which is excurved from costa tio

lower angle of cell, then slightiy incurved; postmedial line slightly

bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein

4, then incurved, the area beyond it tinged with reddish brown

with some whitish points on costa; traces of a curved subterminal

minutely waved line; a terminal series of slight rufous striz. Hind

wing ochreous suffused with brown; cilia white; the underside

white with small dark discoidal spot and diffused brown band just

before termen from vein 3 to tornus.

Hab. Patsstine, Jordan, typet @ in Coll. Piingeler. © Eup.

26 millim.

2220. Metopoceras chalildja.

Metopoceras khalildja, Oberth. Et. Ent. ix. p. 38, pl. 3. f. 1 (1884); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175.

3g. Head and thorax white tinged with ferruginous and sparsely

irrorated with black scales; the hair on pectus and legs pinkish ;

tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous ;

the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with rufous and

sparsely irrorated with black; some black suffusion before the ante-

medial line, which is oblique waved; orbicular represented by a

small black spot, the reniform by two spots ; a diffused black medial

shade; postmedial line double towards costa, bent outwards below

costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 and excurved

at vein 1; some brown suffusion beyond it; subterminal line

represented by a blackish mark from costa, then by a few scales; a

terminal series of black strie; cilia whitish with rufous punctiform

line near base and fine line near tips. .Hind wing fuscous brown

with some greyish. hair at base; cilia pale brownish with a brown

line through them; the underside brownish grey thickly irrorated

with large black scales, a slight discoidal point and curved post-

medial line.

Hab. Atesrta, 1 od. Exp. 32 millim.

2221. Metopoceras omar.

Cleophana omar, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 57; id. Et. Ent. xii.

p-3l, pl. 5. f. 15; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176.

Metopoceras maritima, Failla, Ted, Nat, Sic. x. p. 31, pl. 1. f. 8 (1890).

Metopoceras felix, Stndf. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 361.

Metopoceras sacra, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 281, pl. 9. f. 16 (1894).

Metopoceras caspica, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 171 (1895).

120 _- NOCTUIDZ.

Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with

a few black scales; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen

brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wing grey tinged with

red-brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by two

slight black marks on costa; antemedial line double, the inner line

red-brown, indistinct, with black point at costa, the outer black,

slightly angled inwards below costa and on vein | and outwards in

submedian fold; orbicular and reniform small, hardly traceable and

very slightly defined by black, the former round, the latter somewhat

constricted at middle and with black point above it on costa; post

medial line double, the inner line black, the outer hardly traceable,

slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ;

a subterminal series of slight black spots, incurved at discal fold; a

fine waved black terminal line; cilia with fine black line near

tips. Hind wing with the basal half brownish ochreous, the

terminal half fuscous ; cilia ochreous, mixed with black at tips; the

underside brownish white irrorated with black, a slight discoidal

lunule and curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. caspica. Greyer.

Ab. 2. felix. Darker; fore wing dark leaden grey.

Hab. Stctry; Atcerta, 1 ¢, 1 9, Hammam-es-Salahin ( Wal-

singham), 2 9, Biskra(Haton),1 g ; Syrta; Parestine, Jerusalem,

1¢,1¢9; W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 5,1 9. . Exp. 26-30

millim.

Genus AMMETOPA, nov.

Type, A. codeti.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in

front ; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and shovel-shaped

process from lower edge; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male laminate ; head

and thorax clothed with hair mixed with scales and without crests; abdomen

without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the termen obliquely curved; veins

3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle

of cell; 5 rather strong from above lower angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; anasto-

mosing with the cel! near base only.

2222. Ammetopa codeti.

Metopoceras codeti, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 88, pl. 11. f. 10 (1881); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176.

3. Head and thorax white suffused with bright ferruginous ;

tarsi brown with pale rings; abdomen ochreous white dorsally

suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft yellowish. Fore wing whitish

almost wholly suffused with bright ferruginous; subbasal line

represented by two slight rufous marks on costa; antemedial line

faint, indistinctly double, minutely waved; orbicular a minute

whitish annulus; reniform almost obsolete ; a very indistinct medial

line bent inwards to costa and oblique below the cell; postmedial

line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate,

AMMETOPA.—PROTOPHANA. 12?

incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line represented by faint dark suffusion on its inner side,

angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing

Fig. 32.—Ammetopa codeti, d. 1.

whitish suffused with fuscous brown; cilia ochreous at base, whitish

at tips; the underside whitish with diffused curved postmedial line

and terminal bend.

Hab. AtcEri, Biskra (Mrs. Nicholl, Eaton),2 $. Exp. 26 millim.

Genus PROTOPHANA, nov.

Type, P. cervina.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect, fringed with long hair below ;

frons smooth with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, elliptical ;

antenne of male ciliated; head and thorax roughly clothed with hair and

scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibie fringed with long

hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with veins 3

and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle

of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8

anastomosing with the cell near base only.

2223. Protophana cervina.

Hervichia cervina, H. Edw. Ent. Am. vi. p. 114 (1890) ; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 308.

dS. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with bright rufous, the

extremity of patagia and metathoracic crest with a few black

scales; antennee tinged with fuscous; tarsi fuscous ringed with

ochreous; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing

Fig. 83.—Protophana cervina, dg. }.

bright purplish pink slightly irrorated with black, the basal area

below the cell and the postmedial area below vein 3 ochreous tinged

with olive ; subbasal line red defined by whitish on outer side, waved,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line red defined by whitish on

inner side, rather oblique and slightly angled outwards below costa,

122 NOCTUID.

in submedian fold, and above inner margin; claviform a small red

spot; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and ochreous-

white annuli defined by rufous, the former round, touching the

antemedial line; a slight blackish medial line, oblique from costa to

lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line red defined by

white on outer side and with some ochreous beyond it on costa, bent

outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved; sub-

terminal line ochreous white, slightly angled outwards at vein 7,

angled inwards at discal fold to the postmedial line, slightly

dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus ;

a blackish terminal line; cilia slightly mixed with white. Hind

wing fuscous brown, the cilia purplish pink; the underside pale

suffused with brown and purplish pink, a black discoidal lunule,

curved postmedial line, fine terminal line, and slight line through

the cilia. ;

Hab, US.A., California, Shasta Distr., Little Shasta (Walsingham),

3 3 type. Hay. 24 millim.

Genus CRIOPHASIA, nov.

Type, C. albolineata.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed

with hair in front, the 3rd short; trons with small truncate conical prominence ;

eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly

with scales; tegule produced to a slight dorsal ridge ; metathorax with slight

crest; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termen

obliquely and evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from

upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind winz with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of

discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base

only.

A. Fore wing with the orbicular represented by a white streak

confluent with themeniformercesesms-asesancese scence eeese tee .. | albolineata.

B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent. ......... cauquenensis.

2224. Criophasia albolineata.

Calophasia albolineata, Bang-Waas, ined.

¢@. Head and thorax clothed with white and fuscous scales ;

tegule with black line near base and two black lines with white

between tnem near tips ; abdomen whitish mixed with grey-brown.

Fore wing brownish grey overlaid with smali white scales; the

veins with fine black streaks; a fine black streak in base of sub-

median fold defined by white above and confluent with the

claviform, which is defined by black and extremely narrow and

elongate, extending to below angle of cell; orbicular white defined

by black and with slight brown streak in middle, extremely

narrow and elongate, acute at basal extremity, distally bent

downwards and confluent with the small white mark defined by

black representing lower part of reniform; the lines absent;

some slight white points on costa towards apex ; a slight fuscous

CRIOPHASIA.—CALOPHASIA. 123

streak above vein 4 beyond angle of cell and other slight streaks in

interspaces of terminal area : slight oblique white streaks below

extremity of veins 6 and 4, with a slight dash below the latter

further from termen ; traces of a subterminal2white incurved line

Fig. 84.—Criophasia albolineata, S. 4.

below vein 3; cilia fuscous and grey with whitish line through

them. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, the veins and

terminal area suffused with fuscous; cilia fuscous at base, white at

tips. ;

Hab. Tunts,1 3. Exp. 30 millim.

2225, Criophasia cauquenensis. (Plate XCIX:. fig. 9.)

Aylophasia cauquenensis, Butl. Trans, Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 116.

©. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with

a few black scales; frons with black bars at middle and above;

tegule with black medial line and tips; metathorax with the crest

tipped with black; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen grey

tinged with brown, the crest at base tipped with black. Fore

wing grey slightly suffused with brown and irrorated with a few

dark scales, the veins of terminal half with slight dark streaks;

the lines and stigmata obsolete; two slight dark streaks on medial

area filled in with whitish forming a bow-shaped mark between

vein 1 and submedian fold, its inner extremity indistinctly angled

outwards below vein 1 and its outer curved to inner margin; a

slight oblique dark striga from middle of costa; an oblique series

of three black-brown marks slightly edged with whitish on outer

side from termen below vein 4 to submedian fold beyond middle ;

cilia chequered whitish and brown. Hind wing whitish suffused

with brown, leaving the lower part of cell and area beyond it paler ;

cilia white mixed with some brown at base and towards apex ; the

underside white irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and

postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins.

flab. Curtt, Cordilleras of Cauquenes, 19 type. wp. 36 millim.

Genus CALOPHASIA.

‘Type.

Calophasia, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 93 (1829) ......... lunula.

Cleophana, Boisd. Chen. Eur., Noct. pl. 4 (1832), non deser., nec

BOIS MAUS LOM Cee edaplstinase tee siineeudtccsasme eee ee tae re ace ci spuicedes casta.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long

hair in front, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded;

124 NOCTUIDE.

antennx almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales,

the frons and vertex of head with ridges of hair; the tegule produced to a

dorsal ridge, the prothorax without distinct crest, the metathorax with large

crest of long scales; pectus and legs clothed with long hair; abdomen with

some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly

straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ;

6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11

from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from

middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell

near base only,

A. Fore wing without white patch on costal area before

apex.

a, Fore wing without obliquely curved white subterminal

band.

a‘, Fore wing with white annuli to orbicular and reni-

form.

a’. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas

tinged wathypinkstr. scare tueceraeeterecdgeneneea te ce adamantina.

b*, Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas not

. tinged with pink.

a’, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

TUEGELE SIG Gaocubdudoonudpaducuonadeadaoomoonyocaoosdasc0n acuta.

+°, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

ADSEHG i eess ances cssiiscsecsteqosccnesasseseeserseeetG strigata.

b‘. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform white

defined by black Mya acsmstiec seeciecncceectosec mc aren sie lunula.

c', Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform obsolete.

a”, Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolete ...... CrAUSS?.

}?, Fore wing with the postmedial line present.

a>. Fore wing with black fascia from above clavi-

TOPMELOMLCKIMEN ssepcseasesencose seacoast almoravida.

6%, Fore wing with black fascia above vein 2 from

postmedial line to termen .............e sees eeeee hamifera.

e*, Fore wing without black fascia from postmedial

linettontenmen we nenancn oacccescescesseecccreeesecees platyptera.

6, Fore wing with obliquely curved white subterminal

DANIO See eT eee aa ae EOE Ge One GLE ase Sreyeri.

B. Fore wing with white patch on costal area before apex... casta.

*2226. ?Calophasia adamantina.

Calophasia adamantina, Blachier, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1905, p. 214.

Head and thorax grey mixed with white; abdomen with distinct.

crest on 2nd segment. Fore wing grey-white, the basal and

terminal areas slightly tinged with pink; ante- and postmedial

lines black edged with brown on inner side, widely separated at

costa, approximated below cell, confluent at vein 1, then separating

again ; medial area brown; orbicular and reniform brown with

white annuli and with a white patch between them; an oblique

brown fascia from termen just below apex ; a fine brown terminal

line ; cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing black with the

basal area paler.

Hab. Morocco, Rabat. Hap.26millim. This species is unknown

to me.

CALOPHASIA, 125

2227. Calophasia acuta.

Noctua acuta, Fry. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 88, pl. 255. f.3 (1839) ; Herr.-Schaff.

Eur. Schmett. vi. p. 54, Noct. f. 542; Staud. Cat. Gn pal. p. 180.

Calophasia producta, Led. Wien, ent. Mon. 1857, p

Polia pygmea, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. vii. p. ae pl. Tre LLESTO):

3g. Head and thorax white mixed with black; frons and vertex

of head with blackish bars; tegule with black line near base,

diffused brown medial line and brown tips; tarsi banded with

brown; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing bluish

white irrorated with brown; the veins with slight dark streaks ;

subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial

line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards in cell, in-

wards in submedian fold, then excurved; the stigmata white

defined by black; the claviform short, the orbicular round; an

indistinct medial line, excurved to median nervure, incurved in

submedian interspace, then excurved ; postmedial line double, the

outer line indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6 and strongly

incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by .some

diffused brown marks, especially towards costa ; a short subterminal

black streak above vein 4 and a streak above 2 reaching termen ;

a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered white and

brown with a blackish line through them. Hind wing almost

uniformly suffused with fuscous brown; cilia white at tips; the

underside white; the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with

brown.

Hab. 8.E. Turnny; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bythinia, Lydia; Syrra,

26. Kezp. 30 millim.

*2228. ? Calophasia strigata.

Calophasia strigata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 107 (1891);

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 156.

©. Head, thorax, and abdomen Ae mixed with some

fuscous ; tegule paler at base. Fore wing ash-grey, with a fuscous

shade through the cell and on terminal area; the lines obsolete ;

the veins streaked with black ; claviform reddish defined by black,

long and narrow, from base to beyond middle of wing; orbicular

and reniform with white annuli, the former narrow, clavate, oblique,

the latter narrow, angled inwards on median nervure and with a

faint reddish tinge beyond it; the terminal shade intersected by

white streaks at veins 4,3; a terminal series of slight dark lunules ;

cilia grey intersected with fuscous. Hind wing whitish at base,

the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous; the underside

whitish with dark irroration.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Hap. 30 millim. This species

is unknown to me.

126 NOCFUIDA.

2229. Calophasia lunula.

Phalena lunula, Wifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767); Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 213.

Noctua linarie, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 121.

ff. 4-5; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 252; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 110.

f.6; Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pl. 171; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. in. p. 94.

Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish ;

tegule with the basal half whitish with black line near base ; tarsi

with slight pale rings. Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown

especially on medial area and slightly irrorated with fuscous; sub-

basal line represented by a black point below costa; a slight black

streak below base of cell to the elongate claviform, which is white

defined by black; antemedial line represented by an oblique black

striga from costa and double strongly excurved line from submedian

fold to inner margin filled in with whitish; orbieular narrow,

elongate, defined by black ; reniform a small white lunule defined

Fig. 85.—Calophasia lunula, 3. }.

by black at sides; traces of a medial black shade ; postmedia] line

indistinctly double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below

costa, angled outwards at vein 6, and very strongly incurved below

’ vein 4 to below end of cell; some white points on costa towards

apex ; an oblique brown shade from apex to submedian fold, with

series of short black. streaks on it in the interspaces ; a black streak

above vein 4 from reniform to termen; some white and slight black

streaks in interspaces of terminal area and a slight incurved white

subterminal line from vein 3 to tornus; a fine dark terminal line;

cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing white tinged with

red-brown, the veins and terminal area red-brown ; cilia white with

slight brown line near base from apex to vein 2; the underside

with minute discoidal spot, traces of postmedial line with slight dark

streaks on the veins, and diffused subterminal band.

Ab. 1. Melanic ; fore wing with the markings almost obsolete.

Hab. Brrrain (once); Francn, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller,

Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Huneary, Leech

Coll.; Swirzertanp; Spain; Barxans; Russia, Livonia, Zeller

Coll.; Armenta; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk Kul; W. Srperta,

Altai; E. Srserta, Amur. wp. 26-32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p, 252; Hffm. Raup. p. 125, pl. 33.

sp ACY

Pearly white with the lines yellow ; a dorsal series of transverse

black spots and lateral series of black spots. Food-plants ; Linaria

vulgaris, genistifolia, and repens. 5-8.

CALOPHASIA. 127i

2230. Calophasia craussi. (Plate XCIX. fig. 10.)

Calophasia kraussi, Rebel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1895, p. 348; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218.

@. Head and thorax pale ochreous brown mixed with fuscous ;

metathoracic crest tipped with black; tarsi black with pale rings ;

abdomen brownish white dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore

wing pale brownish ochreous suffused with purplish grey except on

basal area, upper half of submedian interspace, and an oblique

fascia from apex to upper angle of cell; the veins with fine black

streaks; the submedian fold with stronger black streak with black

point below it below end of cell; a slight oblique antemedial striga

from costa; two slight black streaks in end of cell; a black streak

beyond the cell above vein 5, met by an oblique fascia from termen

below apex below the ochreous fascia from apex; a slight black

streak above extremity of vein 3; cilia chequered ochreous white

and black. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with fuscous except

basal and inner areas, the veins darker; cilia white intersected

with black ; the underside ochreous white sparsely irrorated with

brown, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial series of shight

streaks on the veins.

Hab, Avenrta, Hammam-es-Salahin (Walsingham), 1@ , Ourgla

Oasis. Hwp. 28 millim.

*2231. Calophasia almoravida.

Calophasia almoravida, Grasl. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 319, pl. 8. f. 6;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213, ;

¢d. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black-brown:

frons with black bar; vertex of head with two fine black lines :

tegulee with black line near base and black patch at middle of tips .

patagia with black outer edge; vertex of thorax black; tarsi black

with grey rings ; abdomen purplish grey mixed with brown. Fore

wing purplish grey irrorated with brown, the veins slightly streaked

with black ; a black streak in submedian fold extending through

the narrow whitish claviform; antemedial line represented by a

very oblique black striga from costa and an excurved grey line

defined on each side by blackish from claviform to inner margin ;

the medial area suffused with black below the claviform, extending

at inner margin to inner side of antemedial line; a black streak

from above extremity of claviform to termen ; orbicular and renj-

form absent; an oblique blackish medial shade from costa to

discocellulars ; postmedial line represented by two oblique striz

from costa and a double incurved line filled in with grey from

vein 3 to inner margin ; some slight pale points on costa towards

apex ; the interspaces of terminal area with black streaks, those

above veins 4, 3, 2 extending to postmedial line; cilia blackish

intersected with white. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown

the veins, costal and terminal-areas suffused with brown ; cilia

128 NOCTUID.

white with brown line through them; the underside white, the

costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with fuscous, a

slight dark discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short streaks

on the veins.

©. Vertex of thorax less black.

Hab. Spain, Andalusia, Castile; Porrueat, Soalheira in Coll.

Piingeler. wp. 28 millim.

2232. Calophasia hamifera. (Plate XCIX. fig. ALIS)

Calophasia hamifera, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1863, p. 268; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 218.

Head and thorax white mixed with black and fuscous and slightly

tinged with purplish, the head tinged with fulvous; frons with

black bars at middle and above; tegule with black line near base,

diffused medial band and black tips; tarsi with black bands;

abdomen grey-white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white

slightly tinged with purplish and irrorated with black, the veins

with fine dark streaks ; the medial area suffused with brown from

cell to inner margin, below submedian fold extending to inner

side of antemedial line; the area between vein 3 and submedian

fold suffused with brown to termen; a black streak below basal

half of cell; antemedial line represented by a dark mark on costa

and excurved line from submedian fold to inner margin; claviform

elongate, white defined by black, and with short black streak from

it to postmedial line; a faint oblique medial brown striga from

costa ; postmedial line represented by two slight very oblique striz

from costa and an incurved, indistinctly double, slightly waved

line from vein 4 to inner margin; a fine streak above vein 4 from

beyond cell to termen and strong streak below vein 3 from post-

medial line to termen ; a faint oblique shade from apex to vein 4;

some white points on costa towards apex ; traces of a subterminal

white line angled outwards to termen at vein 7 and incurved below

vein 3; subterminal black streaks above veins 7 and 6; cilia

chequered fuscousand white. Hind wing white, the veins fuscous ;

the terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous, its inner edge

diffused, more uniformly suffused in female ; cilia brown at base,

white at tips; the underside with the costal area irrorated with

brown, a postmedial series of short dark streaks on the veins.

Hab. Spain, Castile, 1 ¢, Zeller Coll., Catalonia, La Granja

(Chapman), 13,3 2. Hap. 32 millim.

2233. Calophasia platyptera.

Noctua platyptera, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 3896, pl. 130. f. 5 (1788); Dup. Lép.

Fr. vil. p. 387, pl. 120. f.5; Frr. Neue Beitr. v. pl. 412. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff.

Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 158; Graslin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, pl. 8.

f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2138.

Noctua canterius, Vill. Linn. Ent. pl. 5. f. 11 (1789).

Noctua tenera, Hibn. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 254 (1827).

CALOPHASIA. 129

Cleophana olbiena, Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 280, pl. 70. f. 3 (1842),

nec Geyer ; Herr.-Schaff, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 386.

Calophasia subalbida, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218 (1901).

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white tinged with brown ; frons

with brown bar; vertex of head dark brown; tegule with black

line near base, two slight medial lines and semicircular dark brown

patches at tips; vertex of thorax dark brown ; tarsi shghtly ringed

with brown. Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with brown,

the veins with fine brown streaks ; a fine brown streak in submedian

fold to below origin of vein 2; antemedial line represented by

a very oblique brown striga from costa and two fine lines from

submedian fold angled outwards on vein 1, then very oblique;

claviform with its extremity and lower edge defined by brown; an

oblique diffused brown medial bar from costa; an oblique brown

shade from apex to medial part of inner margin, where it extends

to just before antemedial line, narrowing to apex; a very fine dark

streak in lower part of cell; postmedial line represented by two

slight very oblique streaks from costa to vein 7 and two incurved

lines from vein 3 to inner margin; a black-brown streak above

vein 4 from beyond lower angle of cell to termen ; a series of streaks

in interspaces of terminal area interrupted by traces of white

lunules representing the subterminal line; cilia chequered whitish

and brown and with slight line through them. Hind wing white

shghtly tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area browner;

cilia white tinged with brown at base; the underside white, the

costal area faintly tinged with brown.

Ab. 1. subalbida. Much whiter; fore wing with the brown

markings obsolescent; hind wing nearly wholly white.—Sicily,

Algeria.

Ab. 2. olbtena. Melanie.

Hab. Brrratn (once); Francr, Sand and Leech Colls.; Gurmany ;

Austria; Hungary; Swirzertanp, Frey and Leech Colls.; Srerny,

Zeller Coll.; Aterria; Crere; Asta MOnOE, Pontus, Bithynia,

Taurus; Syria, Leech Coll., Mardin. xp. 28-30 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 252; Hffm, Raup. p. 125.

White with lines yellow and transverse dorsal black spots and

black lateral spots. Food-plants: Linaria, Antirrhinum minus. 6.

2234. Calophasia freyeri.

Xsylina freyert, Friv. A’ Mayg. Tudos. Tarsas, Evkonv. ii. p. 273, pl. 7. £.9

(1835); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213.

Noctua lintea, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. p. 141, pl. 370. f. 1 (1842).

Cleophana orontii, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 180-181 (1845).

Cleophana senescens, Ky. Bull. Mosc. 1856, ii. pl. 3. f. 1, & 1857, 1. p. 94.

Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; tegule with brown

medial line and band near tips ; patagia white, fuscous at base and

tips; abdomen white suffused with brown, the ventral surface

whiter. Fore wing grey-white suffused with pale fuscous brown,

with the area from upper angle of cell to basal inner area whiter ;

VOL. VI. K

130 NOCTUIDE.

subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa; a

short subbasal black streak in submedian fold; antemedial line

represented by dark points on costa, median nervure, and vein | ;

stigmata absent ; postmedial line represented by a small dark spot

on costa, bent outwards below costa then very oblique, defined by

white on outer side and slightly angled outwards on vein 1, some

white points beyond it on costa; an oblique very slightly curved

white subterminal band defined on inner side by minute dentate

black marks ; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner side by a

white line; cilia pale brown with a white line through them.

Hind wing dark fuscous brown ; cilia white with fine brown lines

near base and middle; the underside white, the costal half irrorated

with brown, the inner half suffused with brown, a slight diseoidal

lunule, a postmedial line excurved at discal fold, then oblique, a

diffused subterminal band from discal fold to inner margin.

Hab. 8. Turkey; Armenta; As1A Minor, Pontus, Taurus, 1 ¢;

Syria, Leech Coll.,1 9, Mardin. Hap. 30 millim. .

2235. Calophasia casta.

Noctua casta, Borkh. Scriba, Beitr. iii. p. 212, pl. 17. f. 7 (1793); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218.

Noctua opalina, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 182. f. 3 (1793); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. ff. 376, 808-9; Frr. Beitr. 11. pl. 79; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 246,

pl. 115. f. 3.

¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white; tegule with slight

medial line and some dark scales at middle of tips; metathoracic

crest tipped with black; tibize and tarsi with pale fuscous bands.

Fore wing with the basal half pure white ; subbasal line represented

by a small blackish spot on costa, the antemedial line by a small

spot on costa and minute points on median nervure and vein 1 ;

terminal half fuscous brown, the postmedial costal area white down

to vein 5, the inner edge of dark area indented by a white tooth

in cell not quite confluent with the small white discoidal lunule

which is connected above with the white postmedial area; postmedial

line with two dark marks on costa, below vein 6 a fine white line

excurved to vein 4, then incurved to below end of cell, with slight

dark streak before it on vein 2, then slightly defined by black on

inner side and minutely waved ; subterminal line very near termen

tormed of irregular white marks, with slight dentate black marks

before them below veins 7, 5, 3, 2, and some black spots beyond

them, slightly dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved, and with oblique

white streaks before it from vein 2 to tornus; the termen tinged

with cupreous ; cilia fuscous brown, the tips chequered with white.

Hind wing white with terminal fuscous-brown band from apex to

vein 2, its inner edge emitting slight streaks on the veins. Under-

side white; fore wing with diffused fuscous subterminal band

except towards costa and inner margin; hind wing with traces of

subterminal band.

©. Head, thorax, and abdomen slightly mixed with fuscous ;

CALOPHASIA.—-RHODOCHLAIN A. 131

fore wing with more fuscous on terminal half, its inner edge not

indented in cell, the white discoidal lunule separate from costal

patch, the basal inner area tinged with fuscous.

Hab. France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ;

Avustrta, Leech Coll.; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey

Coll.; Spary, Catalonia; Irany; Datmatta, Zeller Coll.; ARMENIA ;

Asta Mrnor, Pontus, Bithynia; W. Tourxestan, Turcomania,

Tarbagatai Mts., Ferghana, Issyk Kul; E. Turxesran, Il. Lap.

30 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 252; Hffm. Raup. p. 125, pl. 33. f 5.

Yellowish white with dorsal and subdorsal yellow lines and dark

brown spots. Food-plants: Linaria, Antirrhinum majus, Del-

phinium. 7.

Genus RHODOCHLAENA, nov.

Type, 2. botonga.

Proboscis weak; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair in front,

the 3rd joint porrect; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of female

serrate; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and scales, the pro- and

metathorax with spreading crests; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather

short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen slightly crenulate; veins 3

and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from

-angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

2236. Rhodochlena botonga.

Dianthecia botonga, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109. f. 28 (1874).

Heliophobus perrubra, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 279 (1902).

@. Head and thorax chestnut-red mixed with pale pink;

-antenne whitish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale ochreous

mixed with chestnut. Fore wing bright chestnut-red; subbasal

line represented by black marks below costa and cell, with a point

beyond it in cell, a short streak in submedian fold, and spot above

Fig. 36.—Rhodochlena botonga, 2. }.

‘inner margin; a purplish-pink band before the antemedial line,

which is black, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly

sinuous ; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform narrow, chestnut

with white annuli defined by black, the former extending to below

the cell and connected with the latter by a fascia on median

nervure; postmedial line black with a purplish-pink band on its

K2

132 NOCTUID.E.

outer side with slight brown line on it, bent outwards below costa,

obliquely excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower edge of

reniform and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line white defined by small somewhat dentate

black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved at

discal fold and below vein 3; a series of small black lunules just

before termen with chestnut patches on the termen and cilia

intersected by pinkish dentate marks. Hind wing red-brown with

darker terminal line; the underside whitish irrorated with red-

brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with red-brown, a

brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of sub-

terminal band shewing slightly on upperside.

Hab. Carz Cotony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 9 type perrubra.

Exp. 34 millim.

Genus LEUCOCHLANA, nov.

Type, L. hispida.

Proboscis minute; palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft and fringed with

long hair below; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennz of male

typieally bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female ciliated ; head and

thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with

spreading crests; pectus and legs clothed with long hair; abdomen with some

rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing

with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and somewhat crenulate ;

veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10

anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with

veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7

from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Sect. I. Antenne of female serrate.

2237. Leucochlena fallax.

Feliophobus fallax, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 116; Mill. Icones, iii.

p- 416, pl. 151. ff. 12-13; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177.

Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous ; paipi blackish at

sides ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused

4 KS AE O:

Fig. 87.—Leucochlena fallax, Q. }.

with reddish brown, leaving the costa and inner margin more

ochreous ; the veins ochreous ; a slight diffused black streak below

base of cell; the subbasal line represented by two black striz from

costa; antemedial line double filled in with ochreous, slightly angled

outwards below costa and excurved in submedian interspace ;

claviform defined by ochreous and black at extremity; orbicular

and reniform narrow with brownish centres and ochreous annuli

LEUCOCHL@ENA. 133

defined by black, the former very oblique, open above and below,

where it is confluent with the latter, which is strongly angled

inwards on median nervure and open above and below; postmedial

line double filled in with ochreous, strongly bent outwards below

costa, then very oblique and slightly sinuous; subterminal line

broad, ochreous, defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks

very slightly excurved below costa and at middle, then oblique; a

fine slightly waved black terminal line; cilia brownish ochreous

with a brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous suffused

with brown; an indistinct curved postmedial line; the termen

narrowly ochreous ; cilia ochreous white; the underside pale

ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved

postmedial line.

Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. Lvp., 5 26, 2 32 millim.

Larva. Fffm. Raup. p. 92.

Reddish grey irrorated with very small dark points, sides lighter ;

head brownish yellow. Food-plants : Grasses in the spring.

Secr. 11. Antenne of female ciliated.

A. Fore wing with the veins streaked with whitish.

a. Fore wing with the subterminal line evenly curved ......... hispida.

b. Fore wing with the subterminal line waved ................0006+ hirsuta,

B. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with whitish.

a. Fore wing without dentate black marks on subterminal line. orana.

b. Fore wing with dentate black marks on subterminal line.

a'. Fore wing with the reniform lunulate, filled in with

Jovy engi eta sn ore esi n ae en Gt Ne LR Einar ca ae hipparis.

b'. Fore wing with the reniform narrow, angled inwards on

median nervure, white with slight brownish centre ...... leucocera.

2238. Leucochlena hispida.

Noctua hispida, Geyer, Bur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 784-6 (1827); Boisd. Icones,

pl. 72. ff. 6-7; Mill. Icones, i. pl. 22. ff. 1-3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177.

Episema pilosa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 139 (1840).

Noctua hirta, Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 275, pl. 90. f. 3 (aee Hiibn.).

Head and thorax brownish ochreous mixed with greyish and

fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; frons dark above with whitish line

between antenne ; tegule with dark medial band and whitish tips ;

patagia edged with blackish; tarsi black ringed with white ;

abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing brownish ochreous, the

medial area suffused with red-brown except towards costa and inner

margin; the veins whitish; subbasal line double, black filled in

with white, waved, from costa to submedian fold; black spots above

and below vein 1 before the antemedial line, which is double, black

filled in with white, oblique, angled outwards below costa and above

inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black; orbicular and

reniform defined by black, the former orange-fulvous with whitish

annulus, round, the latter fawn-coloured, elliptical; a waved black

medial line except at inner margin, which is whitish from near base

to tornus; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, strongly

134 NOOCTUID 2.

bent outwards below costa, then dentate, below vein 4 bent inwards

to below reniform, obsolete towards inner margin, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line white defined on inner side by

dentate black marks and on outer by rufous, nearly evenly curved

from costa to submedian fold, where it is incurved ; a terminal series.

Fig. 38.—Leucochlena hispida, Gg. }.

of small black lunules defined by whitish on inner side; cilia

ochreous brown and fuscous at base, pale at tips. Hind wing

brownish white with sinuous postmedial line and diffused brown

subterminal band, in female move suffused with brown; a dark

terminal line; cilia whitish; the underside white slightly irrorated

with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. Briraty, Leech Coll.; 8. France, Zeller and Sand Colls.;

Spatn, Leech Coll. Catalonia, Andalusia; Srcrty; ALGERIA;

Parestinge. Hep. 28-386 millim.

Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 59; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 269, pl. 165. f.3.

Yellow-green or brownish ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, dark-

edged; spiracular line broad, yellowish white; tubercles black.

Food-plants: Grasses. 10-4.

*2239. Leucochlena hirsuta.

Heliophobus hirsutus, Staud. Ivis, iv. p. 277 (1891); id. Cat, Lep. pal.

oaellid.

3. Head and thorax brownish grey; palpi, pectus, and abdomen

yellowish. Fore wing dirty grey-brown, the lines and veins dark

defined by whitish; antemedial line excurved below the cell;

orbicular elongate oblique, with pale centre defined by fuscous and

whitish annulus defined by black; reniform with dark centre and

pale annulus definéd by black on inner side only ; postmedial line

strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then

incurved ; a pale waved subterminal line with three dentate black

marks before it on inner half; a fine black terminal line; cilia

fuscous with fine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing dirty

white slightly tinged with fuscous towards termen; the underside

with some dark irroration and a discoidal point.

Hab. Asta Minor, Marasch. wp. 28 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

On

LEUCOCHLENA, ALB

*2240. Leucochlena orana.

Episema orana, Lucas, Explor. Algérie, p. 384, pl. 3. f. 7 (1849) ; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177.

3. Head and thorax clothed with long grey hair; antenne

rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous. Fore wing whitish

tinged with brown, the medial area darker except towards costa ;

antemedial line indistinct, waved; claviform moderate defined by

blackish ; orbicular and reniform small, white defined by blackish

and with slight brown centres, the former rather elongate elliptical,

the latter narrow ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then

minutely dentate, obligue below vein 4; an oblique diffused whitish

fascia from apex to postmedial line, a whitish subterminal line from

the fascia to above inner margin; a terminal series of small whitish

lunules slightly defined by black on inner side. Hind wing whitish

tinged with brown; a curved postmedial line, indistinct diffused

subterminal band, and terminal series of dark striae; the underside

whitish tinged with rufous, a dark discoidal point and curved post-

medial band,

Hab. Atcrrta. Ep. 32 millim. This species is unknown to

me.

2241. Leucochlexa hipparis.

Heliophobus hipparis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 272, pl. xxvi. f. 19

(1887).

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous

brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by

slight double striz from costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinctly

double filled in with ochreous, oblique, angled outwards below costa

and above inner .margin and excurved in submedian interspace ;

claviform small, slightly defined by black; orbicular very small,

oblique elliptical, with rufous centre and ochreous annulus defined

by black; reniform small with black centre and ochreous annulus

defined by black; traces of a waved medial line; postmedial line

double at costa, then single, defined by ochreous on outer side,

strongly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, angled

inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some ochreous

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a diffused

blackish irregularly dentate line on its inner edge, slightly angled.

outwards below costa and inwards in discal fold, more strongly in

submedian fold; a terminal series of slight blackish lunules. Hind

wing ochreous tinged with brown; a slight brown terminal line ;

the underside paler irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and

indistinct curved postmedial line showing through to upperside.

Hab. Muxtco, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 5 ,Mexico City (Hoege, Godman),

26,1 type, “Milpas (forrer), 1 3, Godman- Palin Coll. Hap.

26- 32 millim.

136 NOOTUID

2242. Leucochlena leucocera. (Plate XCIX. fig. 12.)

Bombycia leucocera, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207 (1894).

@. Head and thorax clothed with grey-white and reddish-brown

hair; antennee white ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with whitish.

Fore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated slightly with

black, the costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked with

blackish ; subbasal line represented by blackish striw from costa

and cell; antemedial line blackish, interrupted below costa, then

oblique, sinuous; claviform small, narrow, yellowish white defined

by black, the yellowish interrupting the antemedial line; orbicular

very small, white defined by black except above and with slight

rufous mark in centre, oblique elliptical ; reniform white defined by

black and with brown centre, narrow and acutely angled inwards on

median nervure; postmedial line black-brown defined by whitish

on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely

waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line white

defined on inner side by small rather wedge-shaped black spots

between veins 7 and 2 indenting the line which is very slightly

angled outwards at vein 7; a fine black terminal line; cilia

whitish mixed with rufous and with three very slight lines through

them. Hind wing pale suffused with ochreous brown and slightly

tinged with fuscous except on costal area; cilia yellowish white ;

the underside whitish irrorated with brown and the veins streaked

with brown, a small discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line.

Palpi with the 3rd joint rather long.

Hab. Kasumrr, Scinde Valley (Leech), 1 9 type. Hap. 46 millim.

Srcr. ITT. Antenne of male with short branches.

2245, Leucochlena leucogonia.

Heliophobus leucogonia, Hmpsn. Aun. 8. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 426 (1905).

3. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some ochreous :

abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused

with rufous, the cell, costal area, and veins rather darker, the sub-

median interspace yellower; a short white fascia in base of cell,

Fig. 39.—Leucochlena leucogonia, 3. }.

bent upwards at extremity ; subbasal and antemedial lines, clavi-

form and obicular absent ; an elongate white spot defined by brown

LEUCOCHLENA.—ULOCHLENA. 137

on extremity of median nervure sometimes conjoined to the reniform,

which is narrow, white defined by brown, constricted at middle; a

medial brown line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin, excurved

in submedian interspace ; postmedial line absent ; subterminal iine

brown, slightly excurved below costa and incurved below vein 2; a

brown terminal line. Hind wing white slightly tinged with

rufous ; a small discoidal lunule, indistinct curved postmedial line,

and brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal area suffused

with rufous.

Hab. Masnonatanp (Dobbie), 1 S type; Narat, Kratzkloot

(field), 1 3. Exp. 32-36 millim.

Genus ULOCHLANA.

Wlochtend Weds Noct: Bury p: 96 (U857) ...cc..deccsscoecesseesecs-oees hirta.

Proboscis absent; palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft, fringed with long

hair below; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male typically

bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female ciliated ; head and thorax

clothed with hair only and without crests; tibie fringed with long hair ;

abdomen clothed with long hair and with lateral fringes of hair, without crests.

Fore wing rather narrow, the costa somewhat concave, the termen obliquely

eurved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10

anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins

3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7

shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Female typically

with the wings aborted and very much reduced.

Srcr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with long branches to apex; wings of

female aborted and minute.

A. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median

nervure and emitting strong teeth on veins 4, 5, 2 ............ superba.

B. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on median

nervure or emitting teeth on veins 4, 3, 2...............0ee-eeee hirta.

*2244, Ulochlena superba.

Ulochlena superba, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 447 (1892) ; id.

Rom. Mém. ix. p. 24, pl. 1. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178.

¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with ochreous.

Fore wing reddish brown; an ochreous fascia in base of cell

and below costa to middle: an ochreous streak defined by black

below the cell to middle confluent with the claviform ; the basal

inner area tinged with ochreous; an ochreous streak on median

nervure ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; orbicular ochreous

defined by black, elongate elliptical ; reniform ochreous defined by

black, rather narrow, angled inwards on median nervure and

emitting three strong teeth on veins 4, 3, 2; a quadrate ochreous

postmedial patch below costa confluent with a similar patch at apex,

some ochreous points on costa towards apex; postmedial line

obsolete towards costa, ochreous and oblique from vein 4 to inner

margin ; a subterminal series of ochreous strie from apical patch

to inner margin; a terminal series of black striw ; cilia ochreous at

138 NOCTUID®.

base, the tips chequered ochreous and brown. Hind wing uniform

brown, the cilia ochreous.

Hab. Tisrr, Nan-Schan Mts. vp. 36 millim. This species is

unknown to me; in appearance it suggests an Agrotid of the genus

Episilia.

2245. Ulochlena hirta.

Noctua hirta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 591 (1827); Boisd. Icones,

pl. 74. f. 1; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 176, pl. 16. f.4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr.

vi. pl. 515. f. 4; Mill. Icones, i. p. 276, pl. 34. ff. 6-9; Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 178.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ;

pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen mostly grey. Fore

wing reddish brown slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins, costal

and terminal areas greyish suffused with ochreous brown ; sub-

basal line represented by a black point below costa; antemedial

line double, black filled in with whitish, angled outwards and

obsolescent below costa, then slightly incurved, bent inwards to

inner margin; claviform whitish defined by black, elongate and

Fig. 40.— Ulochlena hirta, 3. 4

T

rather acute at extremity; orbicular and reniform small with

brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former

round, the latter rather quadrate and only defined at sides; faint

traces of an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner

margin; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side,

oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, the inner

margin beyond it whitish ; subterminal line whitish defined on

inner side by dentate blackish marks, slightly waved and somewhat

angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal

series of small brown lunules; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark

line near base. Hind wing ochreous brown with indistinct sinuous

postmedial line; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish with

brown line near base; the underside whitish tinged with brown

especially on costal area, a brown discoidal spot and curved post-

medial line.

©. Ochreous brown suffused with fuscous.

Hab. §. Francz, Frey and Leech Colls.; Sictry; Ateurra ;

Datmatia ; Roumevis ; Burearta; §. Russa, Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls., Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Armuenta; Asta Mrnor, Pontus,

Leech Coll.; N. Syrta. Hxp., §, 26-38 millim.

ULOCHLZENA, 139

Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 217; Hffm. Raup. p. 92, pl. 26. f. 4.

Pale grey with yellow stigmatal line. Food-plants: Grasses,

feeding at night and hiding during the day in a silken case under-

ground. 4.

Sect. II, Antenne of male bipectinate with long branches to apex; wings of

female partly aborted, the costa arched and fringed with hair, the

apex rounded ; cilia of both wings very long.

*2246, Ulochlena scille.

Heliophobus scille, Chrét. ee Nat. 1888, p. 92; id. Le Nat. 1892, p. 7;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177

3. Head and thorax black with a few grey hairs ; palpi at tips

and antenne ochreous; metathorax with a pair of white points ;

pectus with ochreous-white hair; tibiz with some purplish hair ;

tarsi fuscous with ochreous rings; abdomen ochreous tinged with

fuscous at extremity. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the costal area

and inner margin ochreous white on medial area with black streak

above latter, the postmedial area purplish red; the median nervure

and veins rising from it and vein | streaked with ochreous white on

medial area; subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line double, blackish, strongly curved ; claviform fuscous

defined by black, large; orbicular purplish defined by black, round ;

reniform ochreous defined by black and with whitish line on

discocellulars, angled inwards on median nervure and almost

touching the orbicular, the cell before and between the stigmata and

the area before postmedial line fuscous brown; postmedial line

double, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then

inwardly oblique and minutely waved, slightly bent outwards to

inner margin; subterminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7,

then curved and with dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the

terminal series of black lunules:; cilia brownish with a darker line

through them. Hind wing

ochreous suffused with brown,

darker on terminal area; the

extremity of median nervure,

discocellulars, and veins just

beyond lower angle of ceil

whitish ; a curved dark post-

medial line; cilia brownish,

the underside ochreous white,

Fig. 41.— Ulochlena scille. }. the veins streaked with brown

towards termen, a dark terminal

line ; cilia tinged with purplish pink.

©. Antenne dark; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing redder,

with the costal area and inner margin red-brown on medial area,

the veins without whitish streaks; reniform red-brown; sub-

terminal line pale, with a series of whitish points without streaks

from it to the terminal lunules; terminal area red-brown. Hind

140 NOCTUID®.

wing dark reddish brown, pale at base; cilia ochreous at base; the

underside ochreous suffused with red-brown, the inner area darker.

Hab. Atcerta, Bone, in Coll. Oberthir. Ewp., ¢ 42, 9°

36 millim.

Subsp. 1. datini, Oberth. Et. Ent. xiii. p. 30, pl. 6. f. 88 (1892).

3. Fore wing much paler; ochreous tinged with brown and

slightly suffused with fuscous; the subbasal line reduced to points

below costa and cell; the antemedial line more oblique from costa to

submedian fold; the claviform not: so dark ; the orbicular and reni-

form ochreous defined by black and confluent on median nervure, the

whitish on inner margin without black streak above it; the post-

medial area brownish ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, the