364 GEOMETBID.E. 



below the costa and on vein 4 ; a waved grey submarginal line 

 and grey streak from apex. Hind wing pale fuscous grey. Under- 

 side browner ; each wing with cell-speck, postmedial and submar- 

 ginal lines. 



$ . Fore wing with bands of silvery grey, on which the dark 

 subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines show up prominently ; 

 some pink scales on the veins, inside the subbasal line, and on the 

 medial band. 



Hob. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 34 millim. 



3675. Cidaria molata, Fdd. Reis. Nov. pi. 132, fig. 23; C. $ 8. 



no. 3897. 



Grey, rufous, and fuscous. Fore wing with basal dark patch 

 edged by a grey line ; a broad medial band with waved whitish 

 edges and black waved lines on it, two of which enclose a white 

 band which is wide in the cell, bearing the discocellular black 

 speck, then narrowing to inner margin ; an indistinct waved grey 

 submarginal line with fuscous patches on costa and below apex ; 

 an apical white patch. Hind wing whitish, with traces of fuscous 

 postmedial lines. 



Another form is much more rufous, with the whole medial band 

 of fore wing fuscous black, with no white on it or at apex ; the 

 darker specimens of this form having the hind wing fuscous. 



Another form is olive-brown, with all the markings of the fore 

 wing obsolescent, except a diffused black basal patch and medial 

 band ; the hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiri plateau ; Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



3676. Cidaria magnificata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1312; C. fy S. no. 



3815. 



Cidaria subseparata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1403 ; C. $ S. no. 3872. 

 Cidaria inspurcata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1403 ; C. fy S. no. 3855. 

 Cidaria albilinea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 120, pi. 152, fig. 9. 

 Cidaria fumipennis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 120, pi. 152, fig. 7. 



c? . Rufous. Fore wing with numerous waved black lines ; the 

 basal area and medial band fuscous, the latter with waved grey 

 edges, the black lines on it enclosing below the costa a large pale 

 patch, on which is the discocellular speck, and two pale spots 

 above inner margin, the outer edge angled below the costa and on 

 vein 4 ; a waved grey submarginal line, with fuscous patches on it 

 at costa and below apex ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind 

 wing brownish fuscous, with traces of waved postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines. 



The form fumipennis is entirely suffused with purplish fuscous, 

 with only slight traces of rufous between the lines of fore wing ; 

 hind wing and cilia pale purplish fuscous. 



$ . Much greyer and less rufous ; fore wing with the waved 

 black lines more prominent ; the patches on the medial band grey ; 

 the cell-speck rufous ; the outer edge of the medial band promi- 

 nent and white. Hind wing more fuscous, with the cilia ochreous. 



