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CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
forewing somewhat, the median area considerably, more irrorated with dark grey; in the latter area the irro- 
ration extends, though not quite regularly, to the postmedian line of vein-spots, while in the type it tapers 
to a quite narrow ending posteriorly. Kachin Hills, Upper Burma: Htawgaw, 6000 feet, the type £; Hpimaw 
Fort, 8000 feet. 3 all sent to me by Capt. A. E. Swann. Probably a subspecies, but in view of Sterneck’s 
experience I feel somewhat uncertain. 
■mediant/ala- C. mediangularis Prout. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 c, as mediangularia; also misprinted mediangularia in the German 
ris - edition). The altitude at which the type was collected was only 3620 feet, but I have since received a slightly 
darker $ from the same'mountain (Omei) at 11 000 feet. Besides, I know only the Pu-tsu-fong allotype. 
variabilis. C. variabilis Wan. My description of this species in Vol. 4 (p. 259) was based on a confusion of several 
closely allied forms which at the time stood together in the British Museum and were assumed to represent a 
specific unit. I am not convinced that the true variabilis (erected on a series from Tenglo, Sikkim. 10 000 feet) 
occurs in the Palaearctic Region, but as it may well do so, and the related forms cannot be elucidated without 
some rectification of it, I would call attention to the following particulars, leaving the figuring and further 
details to Vol. 12. P. variabilis is, as I stated, a small species and perhaps even more glossy than any of its 
neighbours, but the references to the conspicuous and sometimes complete basal patch and the occasional red- 
brown bands bounding the median area, and the emphasis on the thickened costal and hindmarginal spots of 
the ante- and postmedian were misleading and our figure (pi. 13 m) was apparently taken from the following 
species though not quite successfully. A characteristic feature of variabilis, as mentioned in Warren’s original 
description, is the presence of lustrous blue-white or greenish-white scales on the forewing, especially between 
the 2nd submedian and the hindmargin, where they commonly coalesce into small spots which define the dark 
lines; there are usually some similar dots at the termen and always some subterminal ones. The median area 
albimacula. is inclined to be very slightly darker, but not sufficiently so to form a definite band. — ab. albimacula Prout. 
Although not definitely stated, this was based on the topotypical (Tonglo) form described bv Warren and figured 
by him on his PI. 30, fig. 18 as variabilis (not “17”, as erroneously cited in his text). It probably belongs rightly 
condignata. to variabilis and in any case is not identical with — condignata subsp. (? sp.) nov. (= seriata var. Btlr., nec 
Moore) (16 a). This very small form (20—22 mm), unfortunately only known from 3 was referred to albi¬ 
macula in Vol. 4 (p. 259), but it is doubtful whether it is even a variabilis form at all. Lustrous scales wanting, 
median and especially basal (or double subbasal) better darkened, subterminal dots before and behind the 
white central spot enlarged into (small) white spots; hindwing darker (and on the underside more weakly 
marked) than in variabilis. Dharmsala (Hocking), collected at sugar, feeding (like a good many Larentiines) 
with the wings erect. 
antisticta. C. antisticta sp. n. (16 a). Expanse 23—27 mm. Nearly as glossy as variabilis. Anal tuft darker (less 
buff-tinged). Forewing less dark, its basal (or subbasal) band fuscous, very conspicuous; median area not ap¬ 
preciably darkened, generally broader than in variabilis. at least in its anterior part, its proximal and distal 
boundaries defined by dark costal and hindmarginal spots, sometimes also faint indications of dark antemedian 
line and whitish postmedian, the latter projecting slightly near the costa; and accompanied proximally by dark 
vein-dots or dashes; subterminal whitish, but slender and much interrupted, in the middle crossed by an ir¬ 
regular buff-tinged mark, which runs broadly along the 3rd radial and throws out a curved projection to the 
1st median; terminal line interrupted. Hindwing slightly more tinged with grey than in variabilis, nearly always 
with a darker terminal shade; cell-dot visible above, rather stronger beneath. Thundiani, 2 and 2 $$ in 
the British Museum, besides 1 $ from Sultanpur. A similar species, but with buff head, linking antisticta with luci¬ 
frons, has been received from Ta-tsien-lu as variabilis (Sterneck , nec Walk.), but I have seen no good specimens. 
lucifrons. C. lucifrons Prout. This species, which was still mixed with variabilis Wan. when Vol. 4 was prepared, 
differs therefrom in its pale head and white spot or transverse line at base of abdomen above, followed on 2nd 
tergite by a bright, somewhat tawny line or narrow band. Forewing relatively somewhat broader, perhaps not 
quite so glossy; hindwing above scarcely so white, with apex slightly dark-clouded, beneath a little more pow¬ 
dery. I founded it on specimens from Upper Burma and mentioned others from Sikkim; but it has since been 
lychnobia. taken at Tu-pa-ko (Mupin) in the following race. — lychnobia subsp. nov. (16 a). Darker than the name-type, 
at least as regards the abdomen (which tends to show less strongly the characteristic maculation) and the liind- 
wing, which is quite weakly marked beneath; on the contrary the relatively large white subterminal dots in 
cellules 3 to 5 and oblique buff spot outside them (across and behind the 3rd radial) well developed, apparently 
pretty constant. The typical series of 2 and 6 $$ (30 August—7 September) has in general a more strongly 
blackened basal patch or subbasal band (at least at its edge) than l. lucifrons, but this is less manifest in 5 
collected with them, which, however, are not in good condition. 
fulvimacula. C. fulvimacula Hrnps. (= fulvistriga Wan.) (Vol. 4, pi. 13 m, as affinis). C. affinis Moore, as I now 
understand it, belongs exclusively to Sikkim and Assam. The species which I called “the fulvimacula form" 
