CATACLYSME. CIDARIA. 349 



SECT. II. Antennae of male bipectinated, with short branches 

 dilated at extremity. 



3629. Cataclysme conturbata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1703 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3759. 



Grey, suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with double waved 



subbasal, antemedial, and post- 

 medial lines, the area between 

 them tinged with fulvous, the 

 postrnedial lines angled at 

 vein 4 ; a dark spot at end of 

 ce ^* Hind wing with ante- 

 medial, two medial, a post- 

 Fig. 175. medial, and subrnarginal waved 

 Cataclysme conturbata, 3. |. dark lines. Underside greyer, 



with a prominent whitish post- 

 medial band with fuscous on its inner edge, and the area beyond 

 it suffused with fuscous ; a speck at end of cell ; fore wing with 

 medial line, hind wing with antemedial and medial lines. 

 Hob. N.W. Himalayas ; Khasis. Exp. 36 milliin. 



SECT. III. Antennae of male bipectinated, with longer branches 

 which are not dilated ; fore wing with the apex more produced 

 and the outer margin oblique. 



3630. Cataclysme obliquilineata, n. sp. 



c? . Ochreous white, slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 with double indistinct oblique subbasal and antemedial lines ; a 

 speck at end of cell ; six almost straight oblique lines on outer 

 area, of which the third is the most prominent and has ochreous 

 suffusion inside it. Hind wing with three oblique lines on medial 

 area and three on outer area, all obsolete on the costal area. 

 Underside more suffused with fuscous: the lines of hind wing 

 more prominent. 



Hob. Dalhousie (Harford). Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus CIDARIA. 



Cidaria, Treitschke, Eur. Schmett. vi, 2, p. 140 (1828). 

 Ochyria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 334 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Eustroma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 335. 

 Coremia, Guen. Phal ii, p. 408 (1857). 

 Gnamptopteryx, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 155 (1893). 

 Ecliptopera, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 679 (1894). 



Type, C. desirjnata, Borkh., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi clothed with hair and reaching beyond the slight frontal 

 tuft ; antennae of male typically minutely serrate and fasciculated ; 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars ; 6 from 



