. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CtJCULLIA. 33 2090. CucuUia artemisiae. Phdana artemisia, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 292 (1767); Knocli, Beitr. ii. p. 47, pi. 2. f. 10; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 128. ff. 1-2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. Noctim ahrofani, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 166 (1787); Hiibn. Ear. Schmett., Noct. f. 257 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. yii. p. 416, pi. f. 6 ; Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 320 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 83, pi. 239. f. 4. CucuUia lindei, Heyne, Soc. Ent. xiv. p. 105 (1899). Head and thorax dark


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CtJCULLIA. 33 2090. CucuUia artemisiae. Phdana artemisia, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 292 (1767); Knocli, Beitr. ii. p. 47, pi. 2. f. 10; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 128. ff. 1-2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. Noctim ahrofani, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 166 (1787); Hiibn. Ear. Schmett., Noct. f. 257 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. yii. p. 416, pi. f. 6 ; Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 320 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 83, pi. 239. f. 4. CucuUia lindei, Heyne, Soc. Ent. xiv. p. 105 (1899). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulae 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 5 a small. ISf Fig. 8.—CucuUia artemmcB, (j". 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 dift'used white patch ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grej^ 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; subfcerminal 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. lindei. Much darker.—C. Russia. Hah. ? Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Hungary, Lee


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