CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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characteristic hindmarginal dark mark of comis developed, but accompanied anteriorly by some dark shading 
which gives it a more triangular (less flattened) appearance; median band much less parallel-sided, the ante- 
median line, though dentate, being moderately direct, except for a small indentation about the median 
vein; both ante- and postmedian line blackened at costa and especially at hindmargin; subterminal shades 
not very strong, the proximal one darkening at the hindmargin; apical dash developed; cell-dots, or at least 
that of the forewing, strong. Japan: Shinano, 2 3 and 6 August 1911, the type in the British Museum; 
Gifu (Nawa) a damaged q , without antennae, in the Wileman collection, determined as variata. Leech also 
recorded variata from Gifu, as well as from Oiwake, Gensan and Ningpo, but unfortunately seems to have 
dispersed his eastern material in the group. Perhaps quadrifulta will prove to be near sounJceana Mat- 
sumura. 
C. taigana Djakonov. I have not seen the type, a from the upper River Kasyr, E. of Minussinsk, taigana. 
7 April 1924, but the careful description and figure leave nothing to be desired. Closely like a large and broad- 
banded quadrifulta (“33 mm” — i. e. about 40 in actual expanse), the pectinations similar, the wings more 
glossy, the forewing brick-brown, especially between basal and median bands and in proximal half of outer 
area, the hinclwing yellowish grey; cell-mark of forewing larger, of hindwing more elongate; subterminal line 
obsolete (no dark shading on its distal side to define it), apical dash also wanting. 
C. consimilis Warr. (11 d). Pectinations a little longer than in comis. Colour at least as variable, consimilis. 
typically about as in cupressata, sometimes more variata- like in tone, sometimes more obeliscata- like. Founded 
on Thundiani specimens, fairly common in the Punjab and known from Kashmir. 
C. dentifasciata Hmps. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 d, as dentifascia). By oversight this name was inaccurately given dentifascia- 
both on the plate and in the text. It was founded 40 years ago on a pair from Dalhousie and Murree and has 
not subsequently come under my notice. The median band is narrower and more sharply dark than in con¬ 
similis (more recalling that of exangulata Warr., Vol. 4, pi. 8 1), basal patch less toothed, hindwing paler, with 
postmedian more acutely angled, pectinations of <$ considerably shorter, though not merely, as Hampson calls 
them, “short cilia-bearing processes.” 
C. serrataria Prout (11 d). We figure a $ from Pompejefka, Amur, not perfectly fresh, but well recog- semdaria. 
nizable. I now regard it as a distinct species. 
C. distracta Sterneck, founded on a $ from Wassekou, W. China was doubtfully referred to Thera, but distracta. 
the strongly glossy and snow-white ground-colour, with deep-black markings shows that at least it is not at 
all typical thereof; in any case very distinct. Face smooth, white. Palpus long, with elongate terminal joint. 
Forewing with the markings interrupted, the proximal ones strongly angled at the fold, not (as in serraria) 
at the median; central band broken into a costal half and a hindmarginal triangle, the former not whitened 
round the cell-spot, distally forming a long, acute projection (much as in brevifasciata Warr., s. Vol. 12). Hind¬ 
wing clean white, with strong cell-dot, faint postmedian (strong beneath) and a series of almost confluent dark 
spots close to the termen. 
Subgenus Cliloroclysta Hbn. 
(See Vol. 4, p. 220.) 
C. siterata Hufn. (Vol. 4, pi. 8 i) ab. phaiolata Schawerda (= phailota B.-Haas, perfuscata Dannehl) phaiolata. 
is deep brown without a trace of green; the hindwing brown-grey, not black-grey. Schawerda’s type came 
from Mostar. Dannehl describes his perfuscata (from Pforzheim) as brown-black, but I suppose both authors 
are dealing with essentially the same form. 
C. miata L. (Vol. 4, pi. 8 i) ab. radiata Nessling. Basal and median areas darker green, strongly bound- radicita. 
ed with white; all the veins dusted (especially on the median band?) with black-green. Hindwing rather 
white. Vetil, Om (Finland), an imperfect specimen. — primaria Stauder, erected as a separate species, is primaria. 
merely a large pale $-ab., perhaps not essentially (if at all) different from clara. The specimen was bred at 
Castelrotto, S. Tyrol. — clara Th.-Mieg ( = coarctata Mill., nec F ., alpinata $ Culot, vix <J) (13 c). Founded clara. 
on Guenee's “remarkable variety”, which he thinks should form a distinct local race; characterized by its 
silky ground-colour (not or scarcely irrorated with green), the green bands (subbasal, ante- and postmedian) 
well separated, the distal area green with sharply white subterminal. First known from Vernet, where it was 
said to appear in July, subsequently in other Pyrenean localities, in Spain and, according to Zerny, in Albania. 
Culot ’s alpinata, originally supposed to be a separate species, was founded on a mixture of this and a strik¬ 
ingly clark-banded aberration (clearly not, as Zerny suggests, a tophaceata- ab.) from the Bernese Oberland; 
his type is, on all the evidence, the $ (Gedre), notwithstanding that later (1919) he calls the $ the type. — sub- subapenni- 
apennina Costantini, smaller, lighter (than typical miata), densely scaled, is said to be the common southern, 
subapennine form. Type locality: Monte Gibbio. Occurs in April and the beginning of May and again in 
September and October; the author, evidently unaware of its habits, calls this a second generation. 
