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basal area rufous ; the medial band with almost regularly curved 

 edges, rufous with a grey band at middle, not broken up into 

 patches ; the indistinct waved lines of outer area more regular. 

 Hind wing nearly white, with the waved lines very indistinct. 

 Hob. Sikhiin. Kvp. 32 millim. 



3654. Cidaria silaceata, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 113. 

 Phalsena insulata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 330. 



Cidaria oblongata, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 472 ; C. $ S. no. 3864. 

 Cidaria substituta, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1691 ; C. $ S. uo. 3873. 

 Cidaria albolineata, Pack. Rep. Peab. Ac. v, p. 55. 

 Eustroma dentifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 275 ; C. fy S. no. 3877. 

 Cidaria umbrosaria, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 24 (nee Motsch.}. 

 Epirrhoe subfalcata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 376. 



Dark reddish brown ; vertex of head and thorax marked with 

 ochreous ; abdomen with white line on 1st segment. Fore wing 

 with indistinct subbasal line, slightly angled below costa ; a grey 

 antemedial band edged by sinuous white lines, the outer edge 

 strongly toothed on median nervure; two indistinct dark waved 

 medial lines, which meet in places and enclose the black cell- 

 speck ; a double postmedial white line sending teeth inwards on 

 veins 2 and 3, and having a series of dentate black marks with 

 white edges beyond it, which decrease in size to the inner margin ; 

 outer area suffused with ochreous ; a black mark with dentate 

 white inner edge below apex, and some smaller white-edged black 

 marks towards outer angle. Hind wing whitish, with traces of 

 cell-speck and two postmedial lines, which on underside are pro- 

 minent and have a dentate band beyond them. 



The Himalayan form oblongata is usually larger than the Nearctic 

 and Palsearctic typical form. In the variety insulata veins 2 and 

 3 of fore wing are pale, streaked at base, enclosing a dark patch 

 on the medial area. 



Hdb. United States ; Europe ; Japan ; 1ST.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; 

 Khasis. Exp., 3 30-36, $ 30-40 millim. 



3655. Cidaria nivicincta, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 119, pi. 137, fig. 20. 



Differs from silaceata in the vertex of head and thorax being 

 dark. Eore wing darker ; the antemedial band brown, more 

 regular, and with the outer white edge toothed on vein 2 ; the 

 postmedial line less toothed, the area beyond it reddish brown ; 

 the subapical patch with evenly curved inner edge. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous, with curved postmedial pale line. 



Hdb. Dharmsala ; Khasis. Exp. 36 millim. 



3656. Cidaria niphonica, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 452. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown. Eore wing with the 

 apex somewhat produced ; the base dark red-brown, with curved 

 grey edge ; the antemedial band ferruginous, its outer grey edge 

 angled in the cell and toothed below vein 2 ; the broad medial 



