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67. Cidaria delecta, sp. n. 



Intermediate in character between C. interplagata and 

 mactata : primaries above black-brown, basal fourth limited 

 by a pale yellowish-white line, which emits a fork obliquely 

 backwards towards the inner margin, and two nearly longitu- 

 dinal streaks forwards to join a double stripe of the same 

 colour, which runs obliquely through the centre of the wing ; 

 the inner line of the central stripe curves forwards and up- 

 wards from the first median branch so as to enclose a large 

 partly cleft patch of the ground-colour, which crosses the end 

 Of the cell from the costal margin ; the latter is also crossed by 

 two indistinct whitish lines, and is partially enclosed by a 

 pale brassy -yellow line close to the whitish one, and running 

 across the disk j a slender dentate-sinuate whitish discal line 

 followed below the third median branch by a gravel-brown 

 stripe ; a widely bisinuated submarginal whitish stripe ; a 

 nearly marginal slender whitish line ; veins externally whitish 

 or yellow ; a slender indistinct whitish annular line near the 

 middle of the inner border ; fringe with a testaceous basal 

 line : secondaries nearly as in the allied species : body whitish, 

 tegular and sides of abdomen brown. Primaries below alto- 

 gether greyer than above, brassy towards the apex, the 

 markings less prominent : secondaries pale brassy yellow, 

 minutely black-speckled ; discocellular spot black and promi- 

 nent ; two central curved dusky lines and an indistinct discal 

 streak dotted with brown : body below yellowish. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



N.E. Himalayas (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



68. Cidaria relata, sp. n. 



Allied to C. silaceata, melancholica, and substituta : prima- 

 ries dark brown, crossed by four pale stripes, the first three 

 pinky whitish and enclosing brown lines, the first subbasal 

 arched, the second and third crossing one another so as to form 

 a large 8 -shaped figure, which covers more than a third of 

 wing, the fourth biangulated, white, submarginal ; several 

 pale annular markings in the centres of the patches enclosed 

 by the pale stripes : secondaries sericeous greyish white ; anal 

 half of abdominal border banded alternately with blackish and 

 white ; outer margin brownish : body pale bronzy brown, in- 

 distinctly banded with white. Primaries below greyish, with 

 faint indications of the markings of the upper surface : secon- 

 daries whitish ; a discocellular spot, an iV-shaped marking on 

 abdominal border, and a dentate-sinuate submarginal line 

 dusky : body below whitish, legs testaceous ; anterior tibire 



