CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
fdbrefacta- 
via. 
granUalis. 
albida. 
aliena. 
tsermosaria. 
rhacophora. 
fulgidaria. 
aspretifera. 
albipuncta 
ria 
chimakule- 
paria 
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the name is invalid, the more so as Hirschke's interrupted (1910), from the Harz district, seems to have been 
synonymous with ruptata. - fabrefactaria Oberth. (15 g). We figure a $ from S. Ussuri. It should be noticed 
that the differentiation in colour between the basal and subbasal areas is inconstant, though often a charac¬ 
teristic feature. - granitalis Btlr. (15 g) sometimes attains a considerable size, the $ forewing occasionally 
reaching a length of 19 mm. The interruption of the median band (as in ab. ruptata ) is in this race almost 
constant. 
C. albida Herz (log). It is not unlikely that this may have to return to its first status as a form of 
corylata. V. G. M. Schultz (Int. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 25, p. 177), on the strength of the occurrence of a some¬ 
what analogous corylata ab. at Gottingen (ibid., pi. 1, fig. 18) and of typical corylata in Siberia together with 
albida (teste Bang- H aas), proposes to sink the latter. His figures, however (he reproduces in black-and-white 
that of Bang-Haas) are not convincing as to the identity. Probably more important are the Asiatic records. 
Djakonov reports transitions from the Minussinsk district. Sterneck, in referring to a Ta-tsien-lu S' which 
agrees with the description of albida except in having the basal patch more (instead of less) dentate-edged 
than even in corylata , shows that the general conformation of the median area can occur in other races or close 
relatives than the actual albida and mentions also an “undoubted corylata A from Vladivostok which demon¬ 
strates the variability possible in the basal patch. 
C. aliena Btlr. (15 g), in its strictly typical form, is chiefly, if not exclusively, North Indian and I was 
certainly wrong in treating the following form as synonymous. Even Oberthur, in erecting his tsermosaria, 
noticed that the Tonglo form (aliena) had “some brighter nuances", though his figured $ and a form known 
from Tse-ku are almost aliena with reduced yellow colour (subsp. div. ?). aliena , sens, str., occurs from the 
Punjab to Upper Burma; [ have lent for figuring a $ from Kasauli, on the confines of the Palaearctic Region, 
but by far the larger part of the known material belongs to the Indo-Australian fauna. — tsermosaria Obertli. 
(Vol. 4, pi 10 1, as aurata). Oberthur's first figure, the $, has been made holotype. Basal patch generally 
much more jagged-edged, antemedian white area with the dividing-line nearly always less bright ochreous 
(either browner or pale and weak), median band on an average less extremely attenuated posteriorly, distal 
area considerably less gaily coloured. - rhacophora subsp. nov. (15 h) shows still further divergence from 
alienaria. The yellow-brown shades in the white areas give place to a scarcely noticeable olivaceous tinge; 
median band less dark, with much more distinct white marks at costa, its posterior part in some specimens 
broadening again behind the constriction at the fold (more as in corylata) ; boundaries of basal patch and 
median band strongly and irregularly jagged; subterminal line filled-in proximally with dark spots. Hind¬ 
wing with more tendency to produce a (narrow) dusky terminal band. Koko-Nor; type £ in the Tring Museum. 
Perhaps a separate species; in most respects the account given by Sterneck of a Ta-tsien-lu <$ taken among 
tsermosaria and provisionally determined as albida agrees very well with this. 
C. fulgidaria Leech (= aurata Moore , nec Pack.) (15 h) has already (Vol. 4, p. 252) been sufficiently 
differentiated from aliena and its group; the totally different antemedian is the most obvious distinction. I 
overlooked, however, that the name aurata was preoccupied and I now believe perpulchra Btlr. to be a different 
species. If the Indian race of fulgidaria is distinguishable, which still seems to me very doubtful, the present 
is not the occasion for renaming it. 
C. aspretifera sp. nov. (15 h). 32—33 mm. Differs from nigrifulvaria Hmps. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 1) in having 
the face and palpus fuscous (in nigrifulvaria whitish to pale buff); colouring much less bright; forewing with 
basal and subbasal bands less sharply differentiated from one another, distal edge of the latter without the 
acute indentation on the median vein, postmedian also with less extreme irregularities, though rather variable; 
postmedian of hindwing, particularly beneath, less irregular. Kashmir, at 7000 feet (Colonel Ward), the type 
labelled Kashmir Valley, 7 June 1903, the figured (which shows still less ochre than the type and has the 
subbasal line less dentate) Srinagar, 20 June 1904. I have a $ from Murree, agreeing with the type but in 
poor condition. 
C. albipunctaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 1). The suggestion that this might be an aberration of the following 
must be abandoned; the differences are too considerable and too constant. The present species has been taken 
also on the Mishmi Hills, Assam, at 4000 feet and is nearer to the niveopicta Warr. of Sikkim, though distinct 
in the shape of the markings and the extent of the white in the distal area. 
C. chimakaleparia Oberth. (Vol. 4. pi. 8 h). The few specimens which I have seen show some approach 
■ towards the biangulate form of discocellulars (hindwing), perhaps more so than in albipunctaria, where, how¬ 
ever. it is slightly variable; in neither does it amount to anything of probable generic importance. 
