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basal area of fore wing chestnut, with the white subbasal line 

 crossing it and no golden suffusion ; the outer edge of the ante- 

 inedial brazen band conjoined to the postmedial band below costa, 

 and leaving below that a very irregular medial chestnut band ; the 

 margin chestnut at outer angle. Hind wing whitish, with four 

 pale waved bands on outer area. 



Hob. Sikhim, 10,000 feet (Elwes). Exp. 32 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



3667. Cidaria decurrens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 276 ; C. $ S. no. 3876. 



Rufous ; head and thorax with a white stripe ; abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing with an oblique white subbasal line ; four other lines 

 on basal half, angled below cell, complicated by other lines and 

 streaks, and all running into a large pale yellow patch, which 

 occupies the area near outer angle, into which also run five other 

 lines on the outer half, the line nearest the margin being crossed 

 by a line from apex; on the yellow patch is a red patch with 

 yellow spots on it ; the veins of outer area streaked with white ; 

 a fine marginal white line and three black spots towards outer 

 angle. Hind wing very pale brown, with traces of pale post- 

 medial and submarginal curved lines. 



Hob. Japan; Nynee Tal; Khasis. Exp., $ 30, $ 34 millim. 



3668. Cidaria cervinaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 664 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3848. 

 Cidaria multifaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 429, pi. 44, fig. 9. 



Head and thorax purplish ; the head, collar, and patagia with 

 ochreous-edged black spots; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with 

 complicated pale purplish and black markings ; the base purplish, 

 with a subbasal series of black specks ; two almost conjoined irre- 

 gular black antemedial patches ; the antemedial band purplish, 

 with a series of small black spots on it ; the medial area black, 

 broad at costa, narrow at inner margin ; the median nervure and 

 base of vein 4 streaked with ochreous in the form multifaria ; a 

 medial Y~ sna P e( i purplish mark from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 the outer area purplish, with sinuous outer edge and indistinct 

 sinuous lines on it; the submarginal line with highly irregular 

 black patch on its costal portion, and some black specks above inner 

 margin ; an apical black spot. Hind wing pale fuscous, with in- 

 distinct waved postmedial and submargiual lines. Underside greyish 

 fuscous, with dentate postmedial line ; hind wing with cell-spot. 



The male is more purplish in colour : one form has the hind 

 wing angled at vein 3 ; the inner margin of hind wing and under- 

 side of abdomen with tufts of hair the Sikhim race with the tuft 

 on vein 1 dark and from near base, the Khasi race with it ochreous 

 and extending to outer margin of hind wing ; another Khasi form 

 has the outer margin of hind wing rounded, no tufts on inner 

 margin of hind wing or abdomen, the tufts on vein 1 from near 

 base and ochreous, 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp., $ 36, 44 millim. 



