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basal two thirds silver-grey, crossed near the base by two grey stripes visible througli tlie 
wing, the inner one marked with two blackish spots ; an oblique black fasciole across the end 
of the cell, partly limiting the grey area ; an angulated white discal belt, followed by a black 
border ; a white subapical costal dot, and a series on the fringe : secondaries as above : body 
below white. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Somewhat like Emmelesia ericetata. 
CIDAEIA, Trait. 
Cidaria complicata. (Plate JJV . fig. 4.) 
Wings above white : primaries crossed near the base by four parallel zigzag black lines, 
followed by an irregularly angulated interrupted brown belt ; central band formed by seven 
angulated black lines, the inner ones ^-shaped, the outer ones zigzag, so that in the middle they 
become complicated ; a broad and very irregular sandy-brown belt ; external border sandy 
whitish : secondaries speckled with brown upon the median vein and crossed by three central 
angulated brown lines ; discal belt and external border as in the primaries : body white, 
streaked with brown •, palpi testaceous. Under surface uniformly sandy whitish, but the 
markings of the upper surface indistinctly visible on account of the transparency of the wings. 
Expanse of wings 11 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Cidaria obscura. (Plate LV. fig. 5.) 
Cidaria obscura, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 450 (1878). 
Most like very dark varieties of C. russata, but altogether deeper in tint and with a 
different pattern on the underside. Greyish brown, the primaries with a pink tinge, markings 
extremely like those of C. russata, dark brown, limited by pale-bordered black lines ; a slightly 
sinuated black outer margin and grey-tipped fringe : secondaries with dusky external border, 
on which there is an indication of a paler snbmarginal sinuated line ; a black scalloped 
marginal line ; fringe grey, with pale basal line. Wings below grey, with pale testaceous costal 
borders; discocell ular dots dusky ; three parallel darker grey lines beyond the middle of the 
wing, followed by a whity-brown broadly sinuated discal belt; a submarginal dusky belt 
followed by an ill-defined undulated pale line ; outer border grey ; fringe whity brown : body 
whity brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
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