356 GEOMETEIDyE. 



wing fuscous ; both wings with white strigae on the cilia. Under- 

 side of hind wing with six lunulate blue lines. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



3650. Cidaria dentistrigata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 374, pi. 30, fig. 4, 



cJ. Dark rufous; metathorax with a tuft of leaden scales, 

 Fore wing suffused with leaden grey, except the basal area and a 

 postraedial band; four antemedial leaden lines; the two outer 

 most prominent and excurved in the cell ; two waved postmedial 

 nes, with two other lines beyond them with fewer waves in them ; 

 a submarginal waved line. Hind wing with the base and inner 

 area fuscous ; the apical area down to the cell and vein 2 white ; 

 three waved submarginal white lines on inner area ; the margin 

 fuscous and the cilia brown ; underside with cell-spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Sikhim, 10,000 feet. Escp. 34 millim. 



3651. Cidaria subrubescens, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 329; C. $ S, 



no. 3871 A. 

 Melanippe despicienda, Butl. HI. Het. vii, p. 117, pi. 137, fig. 17. 



Kufous brown. Fore wing with the base blackish, bounded by 

 an obliquely curved line ; a medial band, which is slightly suffused 

 with black, or deep black, with waved grey edges, the inner edge 

 curved, the outer angled below costa and on vein 4, then incurved ; 

 an oblique discocellular striga touching the inner edge of the 

 band ; traces of waved lines on outer area and of a waved grey 

 submarginal line. Hind wing with speck at end of cell ; a medial 

 line, which becomes black and double from vein 4 to inner margin ; 

 indistinct waved lines on outer area. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 22 millim. 



3652. Cidaria subangulata, Koll. HilgeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 490. 

 Melanippe cymaria, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 24 (nee Wlk.}. 



Head and thorax grey, irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen with a 

 reddish tinge. Fore wing with the base grey, with two slightly 

 waved darker lines, followed by an antemedial grey-edged dove- 

 coloured band with rufous middle, then a medial dark band, with 

 waved grey edges and two black lines on it enclosing grey patches, 

 on one of which is a discocellular speck ; outer area grey, with in- 

 distinct waved lines on it ; a reddish patch on costa before apex ; 

 a submarginal series of white specks. Hind wing whitish, slightly 

 suffused with fuscous, and with about eight indistinct minutely 

 waved lines. Underside with prominent waved white lines ; the 

 outer area chestnut, with submarginal series of white specks. 



//"''. Afghanistan ; N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 34 millim. 



3653. Cidaria mediovittaria, Moore. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 656 ; C. & S, 



no. 3816. 



Differs from subangulata in being redder. Fore wing with the 



