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Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd minute 5 frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antennee of male typically minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair only, except a few scales on upper edge of patagia ; the prothorax with 

 spreading crest ; tibiae fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest on 1st 

 segment only. Forewing with the apex rectangular, the termen oblique towards 

 tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 

 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 67 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only 



A. Forewing yellow slightly suffused with rufous vitellina. 



B. Forewing white with a violaceous tinge exiniia. 



1937 a. Sidkridis vitellina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. if. 379-589 



(1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. VII., p. 475, pi. 130, f. 4 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal., p. 193. 



Head, thorax and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous. Forewing yellow 



irrorated with 

 rufous ; indis- 

 tinct oblique 

 rufous streaks 

 above and 

 below vein 1 

 before the an- 

 temedial line, 

 Sidericlis vitellina, $ i. which is den- 



tate, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular a small rufous spot ; reniform a rufous lunule ; postmedial line some- 

 what dentate and with minute dark streaks on the veins, slightly incurved to 

 costa and in discal fold, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line minutely waved, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle. Hindwing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins and terminal area tinged with ochreous ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly irrorated with rufous. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Algiers ; Canaries ; Syria ; W. Turkistan ; Kashmir, 

 Scind Valley, Nubra, iiala, Narkundah ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur. Exp. 40-44 

 mill. 



Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep., p. 69 ; Barrett. Lep. Brit. V., p. 168, pi. 204, f . 3. 

 Pale reddish brown ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral whitish lines edged with 

 brown ; spiracular line pale ; head reddish brown reticulated with black. Food 

 plants : Grasses. 10'5. 



1937. b. Sideridis eximia, Staud. Iris. VIII., p. 319, pi. 6, f. 7 (1895) ; id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



£. Head and thorax white with some brown hair ; palpi pale red-bro^n ; 

 frons with brown bar above ; tegulse with diffused brown medial line ; 

 abdomen pale yellow-brown mixed with grey. Forewing white, with a 

 slight violaceous tinge and irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented by 



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