41('t j\Ir. Ti. B. Piout 0)1 neio 



of British liulia, Moths,' vol. i. pp. 327, 3:28, fig. 225, 

 Strand in Seitz ' Macrolepidoptera,' vol. li. p. 190, pi. 23/), 

 therefore remains without a name and I propose to call it 

 Ci/clhUa suhstigmaria superstiymaria, subsp. nov. Ground- 

 colour whitisli, markings fawn-brownish, always more or 

 less shadowy, subtornal spots at inner margin of fore wing 

 well defined, cell-spot of hind iciny above black. 



Dharrasala, Kulu, Sikkim, Burma, etc.; type ($ (Dar- 

 jeeling, ex coll. Lidderdalc) in coll. Joieey. 



From Vrianatong, Tibet, comes a greyer, more suffused 

 race, with the cell-spot of the hind wing above generally 

 less deep black than in the form supcrstigmoria, the sub- 

 tornal brown markings of fore wing not, or scarcely, more 

 strongly developed than the posterior end ot" the line which 

 ])reeedes them proximally. 1 name this substigmaria inter- 

 media, subsp. nov. Type in coll. Joieey. 



Typical substigmaria from China and Formosa (also, in 

 Tring Museum, from Tonkin) is very similar to subsp. 

 intermedia, but less dark grey, the cell-spot of the hind wing 

 above still Aveaker, the subterminal dots generally connected 

 by stronger grey shading, the subtornal markings of the 

 fore wing frequently confluent with the precediug line so as 

 ta form a brownish pyramid, the cell-spots generally less 

 intensely black. 



The Japanese representative, nigralbata, "Warr. (Nov. Zool. 

 xxi. p. 401), may possil)ly be a separate species, though most 

 coUectioushave mixed it with " cupitata'^ (\. e., substigmaria 

 substigmaria), not even I'ecognising the marked distinctions 

 as racial. 



Family ArctiidaB. 

 Snbfam. Litiiosianm. 

 6. Caprimima esthla. 



^ ? . — 31-32 mm. 



Similar to C. ca/ida, Walk., but larger. The yellow on 

 ])atagia and tegulse more extended. 



Fore tving with the yellow area broad, the black at base 

 ra'her broad, es[)ecially in the ? , where it curves outwards 

 along costal margin, the i)lack costal margin in middle very 

 narrow in ? , wanting in (J . 



Hind wing rather more produced in tornal region than in 

 calida, the black along abdominal margin broad, at apex 

 moderately broad, at distal margin between M' and toruus, 

 on the other hand, quite narrow (recalling isabella, Kothsch.) ; 



