from China^ Japan, and Corea. 641 



Cidaria variegata, 



Larentia variegata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 653. 

 Cidaria varieyata, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 353 

 (1895). 



One female specimen from Chia-koii-ho, taken in July. 

 Distribution. Sikhim ( Hampson ) ; Kashmir ; Kulu ; 

 Western Cliina. 



Cidaria corylata. 



Geometra corylata, Tliimb. Ins. Suec. iv. p. 61, pi. iv. fig. 11 (1792). 

 Hydriomena corylata, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1892, p. 73, 

 Cidaria fabrefactaria, OlDerth. Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 6'd, pi. iv. fig. 15 

 (1880). 



There were specimens from Oiwake, Yesso, Nikko, and 

 Ohoyama in Fryer's collection. Greeser records the species 

 from Amurland, and Oberthiir, under the xiKuxt fabrefactaria ^ 

 from the Isle of Askold. 



Distribution. Europe; Ural; Amur; Japan; Askold. 



Cidaria aurata. 



Cidaria aurata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 664 ; Hampson, 



Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 355 (1895). 

 Cidaria corylata, var. tsermosaria, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 39, 



pi. iii. fig. 43 (1893). 



One specimen in Fryer's collection. 



Hampson considers Cidaria corylata, var. tsermosaria, 

 Oberth., from Moupin, to be synonymous with C. aurata, 

 Moore, which occurs throughout the Himalayas. 



Distribution. Murree ; Dliarmsala ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; 

 Tibet ; Khdsis {Hampson) ; Kulu ; Japan. 



Cidaria fulgidaria, sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries yellowish ; basal patch dark brown, its 

 external edge angulated and bounded by a silvery-white line; 

 central fascia broad on costa, much narrower on inner 

 margin, both edges are bounded by wavy silvery-white lines, 

 the external one deeply indented below the costa, and the 

 internal one indented at the middle ; the brownish outer 

 marginal area is traversed by a serrated silvery-white line, 

 and interrupted by an oblique streak of the ground-colour at 

 apex, there is a smaller spot of the ground-colour on the 

 middle of the outer margin. Secondaries greyish, basal and 

 outer marginal areas darker, the former is limited by a wavy 

 dusky line, and the latter is inwardly bordered by a pale 

 macular band ; discal spot blackish. Fringes of primaries 



