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basal area rufous; the medial band with almost regularly curved 
edges, rufous with a grey band at middle, not broken up into 
patches ; the indistinct waved lines of outer area more regular. 
Hind wing nearly white, with the waved lines very indistinct. 
Hab. Sikhim. Evp. 32 millim. 
3654. Cidaria silaceata, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 118. 7+ / 
Phalena insulata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 330. 
Cidaria oblongata, Gwen. Phal. 11, p. 472; C. & S. no. 3864. 
Cidaria substituta, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1691; C. & S. no. 3878, 
Cidaria albolineata, Pack. Rep. Peab. Ac. v, p. 55. 
Eustroma dentifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 275; C. & S. no. 3877. 
Cidaria umbrosaria, Butl. Ill. Het. vii, p. 24 (nee Motsch.). 
/Epurhoe subfalcata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 376. 
Dark reddish brown; vertex of head and thorax marked with 
ochreous ; abdomen with white line on lst segment. Fore wing 
with indistinct subbasal line, slightly angled below costa; a grey 
antemedial band edged by sinuous white lines, the outer edge 
strongly toothed on median nervure; two indistinct dark waved 
medial lines, which meet in places and enclose the black cell- 
speck; a double postmedial white line sending teeth inwards on 
veins 2 and 3, and having a series of dentate black marks with 
white edges beyond it, which decrease in size to the inner margin ; 
outer area suffused with ochreous; a black mark with dentate 
white inner edge below apex, and some smaller white-edged black 
marks towards outer angle. Hind wing whitish, with traces of 
cell-speck and two postmedial lines, which on underside are pro- 
minent and have a dentate band beyond them. | 
The Himalayan form oblongata is usually larger than the Nearctic 
and Palearctic typical form. In the variety wnsulata veins 2 and 
3 of fore wing are pale, streaked at base, enclosing a dark patch 
on the medial area. 
Hab. United States; Europe; Japan; N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim ; 
Khasis. vp., 5 30-36, 9 30-40 millim. 
_ 3655. Cidaria nivicincta, Butl. Ill. Het. vii, p. 119, pl. 187, fig. 20. 
Differs from selaceata in the vertex of head and thorax being 
dark. Fore wing darker; the antemedial band brown, more 
regular, and with the outer white edge toothed on vein 2; the 
postmedial line less toothed, the area beyond it reddish brown ; 
the subapical patch with evenly curved inner edge. Hind wing 
dark fuscous, with curved postmedial pale line. 
Hab. Dharmsala; Khasis. Hap. 36 millim. 
3656. Cidaria niphonica, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 452. 70 
Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown. Fore wing with the 
apex somewhat produced ; the base dark red-brown, with curved 
grey edge; the antemedial band ferruginous, its outer grey edge 
angled in the cell and toothed below vein 2; the broad medial 
