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40. Cidaria misera^ Butler. 

 Cidaria misera, Butler, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1882, p. 41o. u. 117. 



No. 154. 



41. Cidaria adela^ sp. n. 



Sericeous greyish brown ; the general aspect of C. squalidn 

 of New Zealand, but the primaries more acuminate at apex, 

 the secondaries with irregularly dentated outer margin ; the 

 central belt of the primaries having- more nearly the outline 

 of C. capitata of Europe, but black-edged, crossed by black 

 lines, and enclosing a black discocellular dot followed by a 

 whitish nebula ; beyond this belt one or two ill-defined 

 crinkled transverse lines, followed by a series of black or 

 blackish spots, bounded by submarginal white lunules; 

 nervures on external area pale sandy brownish, interrupting 

 an externally white-edged black undulated marginal line ; 

 fringe black-brown at base, Mdiite, tipped and spotted with 

 blackish brown, externally : secondaries paler than primaries 

 excepting towards outer margin ; the external area being 

 bounded internally by two or three scarcely discernible 

 parallel lines slightly darker than the ground-colour ; on the 

 abdominal margin these lines terminate as blackish lunules ; 

 a short white dash at anal angle, being the last of a series of 

 badly defined submarginal spots; marginal line and fringe 

 as in primaries. Wings below with black oblique disco- 

 cellular dashes or spots, one in each wing; an angulated 

 zigzag blackish discal line and a whitish badly defined zigzag 

 submarginal line ; marginal line and fringe almost as above ; 

 costal area of primaries and whole of secondaries irro rated 

 with whitish ; tibiai and tarsi dark grey-brown, banded with 

 ■whitish. Expanse of wings 37 millim. 



Nos. 69 and 147. 



42. Euphia hymenataj var., Felder. 



Cidaria hymenata, var., Folder, Keise der Nov., Lep. v. pi. cxxxii. 

 fig. 41, $. 



S ? . Nos. 141 and 143. 



The female in the present series is paler tlian in Feldcr's 

 figure, the primaries being stramineous instead of deep 

 ochreous. The male has shining pale copper-brown primaries 

 varied with pale ochreous on basal area and just beyond tlie 

 cell; the upper portion of the central belt is also of this 

 colour; the latter is represented by two slightly divergent 

 nearly straight grey stripes, the outer one of which is intcr- 



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