SIDEJIIA. 435 



the terminal area rather darker ; cilia ochreous, with a difFused 

 brown line through them. Uuderside of fore wing with the ter- 

 minal area grey-white with a diffused dark hand before it ; hind 

 wing pale irrorated with brown and white scales, a sinuous post- 

 medial line from costa to vein 2, a diffused dark subterminal band, 

 the termen whitish. 



Hah. Punjab, Dalhousie {Harford), 1 $ tj'pc. Exp. 48 millim. 



Genus SIDEMIA. 



Type, 



Sidemia, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 459 (1892) s-peoiosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; liead and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae slightly fi-inged with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apes rather produced, the 

 termen oblique,ly curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 frum near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of disoocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennie of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 ciliated. 



A. Fore wing fuscous brown tinged with grey christophi. 



B. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown. 



a. Hind wing white with fine terminal brown line imitilis. 



b. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with brown ... depravata. 



3273. Sidemia christophi. 



Hadena christophi, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 68; id. Eom. Mem. 

 v. p. 236, pi. 12. ff. 2,a,h; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; antenna3 

 brownish white except at base and with brownish tufts of hair from 

 basal joint, patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; pectus 



Fig. 80. — Sidemia chrisiojjhi, (^ 



with whitish hair ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 white suffused with dark brown towards extremity, the lateral and 

 anal tufts brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown, some 

 pure white hair at base and the dorsal crest dark. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown suffused with grey, especially on medial and terminal 



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