PAEASICCIA. 409 



ochreous. Fore wing white ; the costal edge blackish towards base; 

 a black point below base of cell ; obliquely placed subbasal black 

 spots below costa and cell ; a curved antemedial series of spots with 

 larger spot on costa ; a black spot at middle of cell and prominent 

 discoidal spot ; medial and postraedial series of spots with fuscous 

 suffusion between them, the former angled outwards to discocellulars, 

 the latter at veins 6 and 4 ; a subterminal series of spots angled 

 outwards at veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of spots, with those 

 at apex and vein 4 larger. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half 

 suffused with fuscous ; a discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line, more prominent on underside ; female with the hind 

 wing wholly fuscous above. 



Hab. SiKHiM {Atkinson), 1 5 cotype, type t S in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



870. Parasiccia altaica. 



Nudaria altaica, Led. Vei-h. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, v. p. 104. pi. i. f. 3 



(1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3r>0. 

 Mmene. fasciata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 399 (1S77) ; id. 111. Ilet. B. M. 



ii. p. 7, pi. 22. f. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 367. 



Head and thorax grey ; palpi, antennae, fore legs, and spots on 



mesothorax blackish ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral 



surface grey. Fore wing grey, the costal edge black towards base ; 



a black point at base and 



subbasal spots on costa and 



below cell ; an antemedial 



spot on costa, with one or 



€i-i"}^ y^ j^ two points below it in cell 



H t>^ -->-.-r^ ^ ^ ^Q(j Qj^Q Qjj ygjj^ Y . a spot at 



middle of cell and another on 

 discocellulars ; a double post- 

 Fig. 319. — Parasiccia altaica, (5 . \. medial series of more or less 



confluent spots, angled at 

 veins 6 and 4, then incurved ; a more or less complete subterminal 

 series of spots, many of them sometimes absent or sometimes 

 reduced to the spot on costa ; a terminal series of points and spots 

 on the cilia at apex and middle. Hind wing pale fuscous, with 

 traces of a discoidal spot ; cilia paler, with darker marks at apex 

 and middle. 



The antennae of male vary from being hardly more than ciliate to 

 having almost short branches. 



Hah. Altai, type f <:? in Coll. Staudinger ; Amttr ; Japan, 

 Nikko (i¥am«), 1 $ , Tokio (Fenton), 1 J, 1 $, {Whitehi) 1 c? , 

 (Joiuis) 2 (S , typefasciata, Hakodate {Andrews), 1 cj' . Kv^;. 26 

 millim. 



