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Idaea lacernigera. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 15.) 
Primaries silvery white, faintly tinted with tawny ; basal sixth dark grey, irrorated and 
bordered with black ; three nearly equidistant grey costal spots, black upon the costal margin, 
the third almost black throughout, the second forming the commencement of a slightly 
irregular central brownish band, and the third of a similar discal band which is only separated 
from a broad brownish external border by an interrupted series of white spots ; fringe with 
ochreous basal half, a central black line and white tips ; black discocellular spots : secondaries 
silvery white, the external third grey ; fringe paler than in the primaries ; black discocellular 
spots : thorax dark grey, irrorated with black ; face and a patch at the base of each antenna 
white ; palpi and antenufe whitish, black-speckled. Under surface silvery white : primaries 
with indications of the upper surface markings ; three white spots of the submarginai series 
towards apex bounded on both sides by black dots : secondaries with similar spots ; two 
abbreviated series of blackish spots from abdominal margin beyond the middle : body below 
smoky grey with plumbaginous anal claspers. Expanse of wings 16 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Idaa insuavis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 16.) 
? . Sericeous whity brow^n, irrorated with greyish. The primaries crossed by three 
pale stripes only visible in certain lights, the first from cell to inner margin across basal 
third ; the second from costal vein to inner margin beyond the middle, angulated on the 
second median interspace ; the third submarginal, unequally trisinuated, the shortest sinua- 
tion at the posterior extremity; a slender imperfect dark grey marginal line ; fringe pale at 
the base and between the veins : secondaries without the innermost stripe, but otherwise 
similar to the primaries : head, excepting the vertex, red-brown; collar crossed by a brow^n 
stripe. Under surface silvery greyish white ; costal borders of wings and legs slightly tinted 
with golden buff: primaries showing indications of the stripes of the upper surface. Expanse 
of wings 22 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
One specimen of this very distinct but obscurely marked species stood in Mr. Hocking's 
collection with the series of /. holosericeata. 
CEASPEDIA, Hubn. 
Craspedia insolata. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 17.) 
Closely allied to C. paludata of Europe : much smaller ; wings more glossy white ; the 
external area wider, with more angular inner edge, and enclosing a black patch near external 
angle ; a second smaller black subapical spot : secondaries with a wavy dark brown line 
