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basal two thirds silver-grey, crossed near the base by two grey stripes visible through the 

 wing, the inner one marked with two blaekish spots ; an oljlique black fasciole across the end 

 of the cell, partly limiting the grey area ; an angulated white discal belt, followed by a black 

 border ; a white subapical costal dot, and a series on the fringe : secondaries as above : body 

 below white. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 

 Yokohama [Jonas). 



Somewhat like Emmelesia ericetata. 



CIDARIA, Treit. 

 Cidaria complicata. (Plate LY. fig. 4.) 



Wings above white : primaries crossed near the base by four parallel zigzag black lines, 

 followed by an irregularly angulated interrupted browu belt ; central band formed by seven 

 angulated black lines, the inner ones <-shaped, the outer ones zigzag, so that in the middle they 

 become complicated ; a broad and very irregular sandy-brown belt ; external border sandy 

 whitish : secondaries speckled with brown upon the median vein and crossed by three central 

 angulated brown lines ; discal belt and external border as in the primaries : body white, 

 streaked with brown ; palpi testaceous. Under surface uniformly sandy whitish, but the 

 markings of the upper surface indistinctly visible on account of the transparency of the wings. 

 Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Cidaria obscura. (Plate LV. fig. 5.) 

 Cidaria obscura, Butler, Ann. 4' Mar/. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 450 (1878). 



Most like very dark varieties of C. russata, but altogether deeper in tint and with a 

 different pattern on the underside. Greyish brown, the primaries with a pink tinge, markings 

 extremely Kke those of C. russata, dark brown, limited by pale-bordered black lines ; a slightly 

 sinuated black outer margin and grey-tipped fi-inge : secondaries with dusky external border, 

 on which there is an indication of a paler submarginal sinuated line ; a black scalloped 

 marginal line ; fringe grey, with pale basal line. Wings below grey, with pale testaceous costal 

 borders ; discocellular dots dusky ; three parallel darker grey lines beyond the middle of the 

 wing, followed by a whity-brown broadly sinuated discal beltj a submarginal dusky belt 

 followed by an ill-defined undulated pale line; outer border grey; fringe whity brown : body 

 whity brown. Expanse of wings 1 iuch 5 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



