CIDABIA. 355 



3647. Cidaria aurata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 664 ; C. fy S. no. 3844- 

 Cidaria aliena, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 230 ; id. III. Het. vi, 



pi. 120, fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 3840. 



Cidaria perpulchra, Butl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 393 ; C. $ S. no. 3865. 



Cidaria tsermosaria, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii, p. 39, pi. iii, fig. 43. 



Head and thorax golden yellow ; patagia marked with black , 



abdomen grey and fulvous, with paired series of dorsal black 



specks. Pore wing \vith the basal area black, tinged with fulvous 



and with traces of two waved 

 lines on it, its outer edge 

 silvery white and dentate in 

 the cell ; the antemedial area 

 golden yellow, with some 

 rufous suffusion ; a medial 

 _ fulvous-tinged black band, 



Fig. 176. Cidaria aurata, $ . \. broad at costa, narrow at 



inner margin, with waved sil- 

 very-white edges, the inner edge more or less prominently in- 

 dented on median nervure, the outer in the cell ; the outer area 

 golden yellow ; a waved silvery-white submarginal line, with 

 rufous on its inner edge, and blackish patches beyond it below 

 apex and above outer angle. Hind wing whitish, with indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial line, or sometimes suffused with fuscous, and 

 with a series of pale submarginal spots ; the underside irrorated 

 with fuscous and rufous, and with antemedial and medial lines, 

 and submarginal series of white specks. 



One specimen has hardly any yellow tinge, the markings being 

 white suffused with rufous. 



Hob. Murree ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Tibet ; Khasis. 

 Exp. 32 rnillim. 



3648. Cidaria nugata, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 132, fig. 39 ; C. $ S. no. 3862. 

 Harpalyce kashmirica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 277 ; C. fy S. no. 3884. 



$ . Lemon-yellow ; head, thorax, and abdomen tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing with a basal rufous patch produced to slight 

 angles in and below cell ; a broad medial rufous band, with 

 yellowish middle and waved edges, constricted below the cell, and 

 with an indentation in its inner edge in cell ; traces of a submar- 

 ginal line. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hob. Kashmir. Exp. 34 inillim. 



3649. Cidaria exquisita, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 375, pi. 30, fig. 2. 



Cupreous brown ; metathorax with a patch of silvery-blue 

 scales ; abdomen ringed with blue scales. Fore wing with some 

 silvery-blue scales, and two interrupted curved lines on basal area ; 

 a waved antemedial silvery-blue line with two obscure golden lines 

 inside it ; some medial patches of silvery-blue scales on the veins ; 

 a waved silvery-blue postmedial line interrupted by a copper patch 

 between veins 2 and 4, and with two waved golden lines beyond 

 it ; an interrupted silvery-blue waved submarginal line. Hind 



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