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though not rare in many parts of Europe), is a male in perfect 

 condition. The three Cosinoi-ho'e niRticata, Fb., are interesting, one 

 of the two from Tragacete being of the ab. mustclata, Rbr., which 

 Staudinger has sunk as virtually a synonym of the type, but 

 which should have been separated with the diagnosis " al. ant. 

 fascia media abbreviata." It is worthy of note t)iat Rambur's type 

 was Spanish (Andalusia), and that one of the other specimens brought 

 by Dr. Chapman shows a slight tendency in the same direction. Two 

 specimens of the ornata group (from Tragacete) are not easy to name 

 with precision from the material available to me ; they are probably 

 one of the forms of Craapedia violata, Thnb. { = decorat<i, Bkh.), though 

 so weakly marked at the margins that I, at first glance, took them for 

 C. ornata, Scop. ; I cannot make them square with the ab. aeqiiata, 

 Stgr., which is recorded from Spain, but on the other hand they 

 appear to agree entirely, unless it be in size, with the allied C. am- 

 (jruata, 7i., which seems to be only recorded from Sicily, and of which 

 Staudinger writes : " Sequ. (violata) an praec. (ornata) forma Darw., 

 an var. ?" 



The specimens of Kmniiltis ochrata, Scop., and Ptt/chojwda rnfaria, 

 Hb., are also a little puzzling. In their typical forms these two 

 species are distinct enough, but these Spanish examples (Cuenca, 

 Tragacete, Albarraein) look curiously intermediate, and without a close 

 study of the leg-structure I really should not care to pronounce upon 

 them positively. The three from Cuenca seem to be &'. ochrata, but 

 the central dots are rather distinct. 



There are also a few specimens present which seem to be referable 

 to the variable Pti/chopoda obsolctaria, Rbr., though they are very 

 different from my previous representatives of this species from Herr 

 Bohatsch, of Vienna. A rather Avorn specimen of apparently Hi/ria 

 ostriiiaria, Hb., and another which I take to be probably Leptomens 

 inornata, Haw., though exceedingly small, complete my records in this 

 huge and incongruous " genus." 



Of the other genera which are at present placed in the same sub- 

 family (or, rather, family), only one occurs in the collection, namely 

 Rhodostrophia. Here, again, one meets with a series of allied species 

 or forms, which are rather hard to work out without a somewhat close 

 knowledge of the genus and an abundance of material for comparison. 

 The 7 B. vibicaria, CI., are all referable to the var. strigata, Stgr. (the 

 usual southern form), although they vary somewhat inter se, and one 

 of those from Cuenca has the central line considerably widened. The 

 other 3 specimens are certainly either R. sicanaria, Z., or R. calabra, 

 Pet. var. tabidaria, Z., but I confess I have not at present been able 

 to make much out of the differences of the posterior tibiae. The only 

 one of the three which is in good condition (from Albarraein) is very 

 like my typical specimens of calabra, and has practically no central 

 spot; the two from Cuenca are very worn, but the central spot is large 

 and conspicuous, and I am inclined to make them calabra var. tabidaria. 

 In the Larentiidae, as I have already remarked, there is little to 

 discuss. The species are : Rhodomctra sacraria, L., one<y , Albarraein 

 (broadly, brightly, and strongly marked) ; 1 ? , Tragacete (narrowly, 

 obscurely, and weakly marked). Rythria (Botys) sani/uinaria, Dup.. 

 1 S , 1 ? , Albarraein, of the usual summer form, the S perhaps 

 rather weakly marked. Plerotymia (OrtlwUiha) chtiiopcdiata, L. 



