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by a silvery-grey line; a broad, irregular, purple-brown medial band, bounded outwardly by 

 a waved silvery-white line and crossed by numerous |jlack lineal bands, leaving a large grey 

 black-outlined ovate spot, witli chestnut centre, at the extremity of the cell, and a small 

 round similar spot without the chestnut centre below the submedian nervurc ; outer area red- 

 brown, with indistinct waved transverse black lines, and a lunulate grey submarginal line ; 

 cilia smoky brown. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards costa; a black maculate antecilial 

 line ; cilia ochreous white. Underside : fore wing fuscous ; costa ochreous in parts ; indistinct 

 medial and postmedial bands : hind wing ochreous-white, suffused, with black ; a black spot 

 at upper end of cell ; slightly waved postmedial and diffused submarginal blackish bands. 



Cidaria subapicalis. (Plate CLIII. fig. 1.) 



Expanse, c? 1^, ? 1? inch. 



Male and female. Antennae simple in both sexes. Fore wing: basal area brown, crossed 

 by one and bounded by another slightly waved blackish band, with traces of another between 

 them ; followed by an olive-brown band, with traces on it of two brown bands ; a broad 

 medial brown band, bounded by waved blackish lines and crossed by two irregular ones near 

 the centre which nearly meet at the costa, lower end of cell, and inner mai'gin, with other 

 indistinct waved lines on each side of them ; exterior area olive-brown, suffused in parts with 

 brown, and crossed by two waved brown bands, and with traces of another close to the medial 

 band; a black line from the apex inwardly-oblique to first discoidal nervulc, then outwardly- 

 oblique to outer margin above second median nervule; a black spot close to the outer margin 

 below first median nervule ; a black antecilial line. Hind wing fuscous ; cilia pale brown. 

 Underside : fore wing fuscous ; costa ochreous ; a very prominent and large black patch 

 below the costa near the apex, with a square ochreous patch on the inner side of it, and an 

 indistinct lunulate band from it to inner margin ; a postmedial indistinct ciu'ved band ; traces 

 of other bands near costa : hind wing ochreous white suffused with black ; a black lunule at 

 upper extremity of cell; waved antemedial and medial lineal blackish bands; a lunulate 

 postmedial blackish band. 



Cidaria multilineata. (Plate CLIII. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing : basal two thirds dai'k ruddy brown, oiiter area paler, a rather darker 

 subbasal curved band, outlined by waved black lines, and with a waved black line through its 

 middle ; similarly marked medial and postmedial bands, which join below the end of the cell 

 and enclose a pale patch on the costa and two small round ones towards inner margin ; three 

 waved lines between the subbasal and medial bands, and three or four traversing the outer 

 area, which has dark diffused patches near apex, outer angle, and middle of outer margin. 

 Hind wing pale brown, with a ruddy tinge, crossed by numerous indistinct waved dark lines, 



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