SIDEEIDI?, 



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Sect. I. Anteunte of male bipectinate, with short branches to near apex. < 



1775. Sideridis limbata. 



Apamea limbata, Butl. A.M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 360 (1879). 



Head and thorax grey tinged witli brown, the crests on thorax 

 tipped with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brownish 

 grey irrorated with black. Fore wi"ng ochreous white striated with 

 brown and irrorated with black, the areas between subbasal and 

 antemedial lines down to submedian fold and between postmedial and 

 subterminal lines except towards inner margin suffused with black; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, angled outwards below cell ; claviform 



Fig. 119. — Sideridis limbata, d. \- 



small, incompletely defined by black; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former small, irregularly rounded, the latter 

 rather constricted at middle ; an oblique fuscous striga from costa 

 to reniform; postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line only defined by 

 the contrast between the dark and pale areas, angled outwards at 

 discal fold and incurved above and below those points ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia rufous with black tips. Hind wing 

 ochreous white tinged with brown, the inner and terminal areas 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line with 

 short black strealis on the veins sliowing through to upperside. 



Hab. Japan, Kiushiu, i d , Yokohama {rri/cr), 1 J , 4 ? , type. 

 Ex2). 44 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. {Hi/philare). Abdo7nen of male with paired ventral tufts of long liair 

 from base ; the wing suffused with silvery scales on underside. 

 a. Frontal tuft of male enlarged and hollowed out over the palpi ; tults 

 of jellow scales below and between teguliu. 



177G. Sideridis litliargyria. 



Kodua li/harr/7/ria, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 124. f. 6 (17J 



Hiibn. Enr. 



jchmett, iSoct. f. 225 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 100, pi. 107. f. 1 ; Steph. 

 :il. 13rit. Eut.; llaust. ii. p. 161 ; Stand. Cat. I-ep. pal. p. 19?-. 



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