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CiDARiA BULBULATA, Guenee, n. s. 



Statura vix C. interrupted. Alee anticce lignicolores, variegatcBy lineis 

 qyuatuor alhis sinuafis, tertia gemina angulata ; punetis numerosis termi- 

 7ialihus nigris : posticce lutece, immaculatce : subtm omnes liitece, absque 

 lineis, posticce puncto cellulari serieque media punctulorum nigris. 



I have seen only the female, which is one of the smallest of the genus ; but 

 the male is no doubt larger. 



Superior wings wood-brown, varied with pale and dark ; the fringe ooncolorous, 

 preceded by small geminated black dots ; there are four white linos, the two first 

 parallel and somewhat angulated, the third forming a band, divided by an interrupted 

 white thread and followed by another very slender brownish line, the fourth simple, 

 continuous and slightly shaky, no sub-apical line : inferior wings dark ochreous- 

 yellow without any line, and simply with black terminal markings : under-side of 

 all the wings ochreous-yellow without markings, excepting that on the inferior there 

 is a little cellular dot, and a series of very small and distant black dots. Abdomen 

 grey with several black atoms. 



CiDAEiA DELicATTJLATA, Gruenee, n. s. 



Statura C.silaceatce: alee anticce Juscm,lineolis multisparallelisallidis, 

 spatio medio lato furcula alhida nervulari diviso, macula apicali pallida : 

 posticce ochracece immaculatce ; suhtus rufescentes,punctulo cellulari lineo- 

 laque media dentatafuscis. Abdomen immaculatum, 



I have only the female of this pretty species, conspicuous for its delicate 

 markings. It is almost of the size of the European C. silaceatay but has the cut of 

 the Australian species. 



Superior wings slightly falcate at the apex, pale brown varied with black 

 markings ; the two principal nervures are tinged with whitish, and the median 

 forms a little fork in the median space, which is very broad, and enclosing several 

 black markings (of which the lower ones tend to form rings), and also the cellular 

 marking, which is bordered all round with whitish ; on each side of the median 

 space is a fascia formed of very slender, undulating, parallel, and closely placed, 

 whitish lines, at the base are two other lines, almost straight and distant, and 

 on the terminal space is a fine line, which is continuous, and descends from a 

 broad triangular apical spot ; little geminated black dots, encircled with pale grey, 

 precede the fringe, but without touching it : posterior wings dirty ochreous, the 

 fringe silky, and preceded by scarcely evident little grey triangular spots j the 

 under-side of these wings is tinged with rosy, with traces of parallel lines, of which 

 one, median, is formed of little slender blackish arcs. Body concolorous, without 

 dots or lines. 



Genus Helastia, Gueu6e, nov. gen. 

 Antennae of the rather short, furnished with long, robust, but 

 very distant, pubescent pectinations. Palpi very scaly, hairy, connivent 

 in form of a beak, acute. Abdomen and legs as in Scotosia. Wings 



