Q^ ^September, 
CiDARIA BULBTJLATA, Gueiiee, U. S. 
Statura vix G. interruptce. Alee anticce lignicolores, variegatcB, lint i 
quatuor alhis siniiatis, tertia gemina angulata ; punctis numerosis term, \ 
nalihus nigris : posticcB lutece, immaculatce : suhtus omnes lutece, ahsqut \ 
lineis, posticcB puncto cellulard 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 concolorons, • 
preceded by small geminated black dots ; there are four white lines, 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 DELiCATULATA, Gueuee. n. s. 
Statura Csilaeeatce: alee anticce fuscce,lineolis multis parallelis alhidis, 
spatio medio lato furcula albida nervulari diviso, inacula apicali pallida : 
posticcB ochracecs 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. silaceata, 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 ; 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, Guenee, nov. gen. 
Antennse of the (J 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 
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