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or four ill-defined darker irregular lines, scarcely perceptible on the primaries ; black disco- 
cellular dashes and marginal lunules : pectus white ; legs banded with grey ; venter dark 
grey, banded with white. Expanse of wings 36 millira. 
Dharmsala. 
This species is represented by one perfect and one imperfect specimen ; it is not very 
nearly allied to any species in the Museum series, indeed its general aspect is rather that of 
a Gnophos than a Scotosia. 
CIDARIA, Treit. 
Cidaria nivicincta. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 20.) 
Allied to C. substituta, altogether darker, more purplish ; the inner white edging of the 
central belt forming a long spur upon the first median branch instead of an obtuse angle on 
the median vein ; the two middle black lines of the central belt wider apart ; the outer white 
edge of the central belt with its lowest indentation below the first median branch instead of 
upon it ; the line following it and the veins cupreous red instead of ochreous ; the inner edge 
of the black-brown patch on outer margin almost regularly convex instead of zigzag : the 
secondaries suffused, excepting on the costa, with purplish grey : body with all the darker 
portions deep bronze-brown instead of paler brown or testaceous. Under surface similar to 
C. substituta, but slightly greyer. Expanse of wings 36 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Cidaria multistriata. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 21 .) 
Allied to C. comjjlicata : the triangular patch of the ground-colour following the three 
subbasal white lines extended forwards and backwards so as to form a band ; the fifth and 
sixth lines diverging from the cell to the costa ; the blackish reniform spot bordered with 
white followed by a broad angular dark brown central band, the upper half of which only is 
present in the Japanese species; the seventh white line bounding this band more slender, less 
angular, followed by an additional pale line; the eighth and ninth lines closely approximated, 
only separated by a tremulous black line ; the tenth line acutely dentate-sinuate, widely 
separated from the ninth but coalescing with the eleventh, so as to leave an apical patch of 
yellowish olivaceous, and a large dark brown irregularly triangular patch near outer margin ; 
a marginal series of more or less confluent white-edged black spots ; fringe white, traversed 
by a central grey stripe : secondaries with the abbreviated white lines nearer to the outer 
margin and partly zigzag ; margin and fringe as in the primaries. Expanse of wings 24 millim. 
Dharmsala; at sugar from July to October. 
This species and C. complicata have rather long palpi for the genus, but hardly seem 
sufficiently distinct to require the erection of a separate genus for their reception. 
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