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{=linutata, Scop.), 2. P. (0.) coelinaria, GrasL, 1 S' , Ti-agacete ; 3 ^ a, 

 Albarracin, the former slightly different in tone, and less ochreous 

 behind the central fascia, &c. P. (0.) bipnnctaria, Schiff., 3 from 

 Tragacete, rather dark, and well undulated. Calocalpe [EucosDiia) 

 montivarjata, Dup., 1, Albarracin; 10, Tragacete. Cidaria falvata, 1. 

 Catach/s)iie dissiinnlata, Rbr. (?), 1 Cuenca, 1 Albarracin, larger and 

 decidedly different in appearance from the one I had before ; Campto- 

 (jramma bilineata, L., 3, the one from Tragacete more testaceous-tinted 

 than the two from Cuenca. Eupithecia siibnotata, Hw., two ; and two 

 unidentified species of the same genus. 



Turning now to the Boarmiid section, I have to discuss probably 

 the most interesting specimen, as it has certainly been one of the most 

 puzzling in the whole collection; this is the Notodonta-Y\\\e Geometer 

 which Dr. Chapman has already mentioned [antea, p. 181). The only 

 Geometrid afiinities which I could think of for it were with the 

 aberrant genus Endymia (ProsolophaY'', which belongs characteristi- 

 cally to southern or south-western Europe ; and when I found that it 

 did not agree structurally with that genus I was for a time altogether 

 nonplussed. I find, however, that it either belongs to, or is an 

 excessively close ally of, the Syrian PhaseUa deliciosaria, Led., which 

 Lederer and Staudinger rather absurdly retain in the gBn\\s8[inopna\, 

 although Guenee pointed out that the differences were " numerous 

 and important." According to Meyrick {Tr. Ent. Soc. LoiuL, 1892, p. 

 122) the genus PhaseUa only comprises three species, serrnlaria, Ev., 

 deliciosaria, Led., and strictaria, Led., all belonging to south-eastern 

 Europe, and south-western to central Asia. I am interested to notice 

 that Eversmann, in erecting the first species {serridaria), compared it 

 with Endymia (Prosolopha), and that Meyrick {loc. cit.) writes that 

 PhaseUa is " doubtless a development from the Prosolopha group, but 

 the actual point of connection seems uncertain." Guenee, on the 

 other hand, places it in his Boarmidae, far away from his Li(jidae. 

 The early stages are, I believe, entirely unknown. PhaseUa deliciosaria 

 was originally discovered at Beyrout, and has hitherto only been 

 recorded from Syria and Palestine. There is, of course, just a bare 

 possibility that our Spanish example was introduced by Mediterranean 

 shipping, but the locality and the circumstances of its occurrence do 

 not lend much colour to the idea. It is also possible to invent pretty 

 little theories such as that it was accidentally introduced in some way 

 by Phoenician traders two or three millenniums ago, and found a 

 congenial climate ; but the fauna of many parts of the Mediterranean 

 coast is so insufficiently catalogued at present that it is quite possible 

 its Spanish station is not really so thoroughly insulated as it now 

 appears, and in any cas3 it is well known that several Syrian species 

 crop up again in Spain. There is no specimen of P. deliciosaria in 

 our national collection, but my example seems, upon comparison with 

 Lederer's figure and description, to be of a little less clear white than 



* Ligia, Dup., a preoccupied name, was corrected to Endymia by Gistl in 

 1848 (Natarg. Thierr., p. ix) and to Prosolopha by Lederer in 1853 ; the earlier, 

 though less known, naine must of course be restored. If Guenee was right in 

 making this genus the type of a separate family, it will have to be called 

 Endijiniidae. 



t Lederer admits that this species and the allied P. serrnlaria, Ev., form a 

 separate section of the genus. 



