PAEASICCIA. 



409 



ochreous. Fore wing white ; the costal edge blacMsli towards base; 

 a black point below base of cell ; obliquely placed subbasal black 

 spots below costa and cell ; a curved aiitemedial series of spots with 

 larger spot on costa ; a black spot at middle of cell and prominent 

 discoidal spot ; medial and postmedial series of spots with fuscous 

 suffusion between them, the former angled outwards to discocellulars, 

 the latter at veins 6 and 4 ; a subterminal series of spots angled 

 outwards at veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of spots, with those 

 at apex and vein 4 larger. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half 

 suffused with fuscous ; a discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line, more prominent on underside ; female with the hind 

 wing wholly fuscous above. 



Hab. SiKHiM {Atkinson), 1 $ cotype, type t c? in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



870. Parasiccia altaica. 



Nudaria altaica, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. G-es. Wien, v. p. 104. pi. i. P. 3 



(1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3fi0. 

 JEmene. fasciata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 399 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



ii. p. 7, pi. 22. f. 9 ; E.irby, Cat. Het. p. 367. 



Head and thorax grey ; palpi, antennae, fore legs, and spots on 

 mesothorax blackish ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface grey. Fore wing grey, the costal edge black towards base ; 



a black point at base and 

 subbasal spots on costa and 

 below cell ; an antemedial 

 spot on costa, with one or 

 two points below it in cell 

 and one on vein 1 ; a spot at 

 middle of cell and another on 

 discocellulars ; a double post- 

 Fig. 319.— Pamsiccw aZ^'ajm, cj' • r- medial series of more or less 



confluent spots, angled at 

 veins 6 and 4, then incurved ; a more or less complete subterminal 

 series of spots, many of them sometimes absent or sometimes 

 reduced to the spot on costa ; a terminal series of points and spots 

 on the cilia at apex and middle. Hind wing pale fuscous, with 

 traces of a discoidal spot ; cilia paler, with darker marks at apex 

 and middle. 



The antennae of male vary from being hardly more than ciliate to 

 having almost short branches. 



Hab. Altai, type t c? in Coll. Staudinger; Amur; Japan, 

 Nikko {Maries), 1 ?, Tokio {Fenton), 1 J, 1 $, (Whiteh/) 1 d, 

 (Jonas) 2 J, type /astn«to, Hakodate (Andreius), 1 d- J^-^I>- ^t) 

 millim. 



