KOTES ON SPANISH GEOMETfilDES. 9*? 



ties in central and southern Spain, are, again, quite new to me, and 

 the latter is not yet represented at the i3ritish Museum. It was only 

 made known as a species so recently as 1892, yet it is distinguishable 

 at first glance from the allied A. intcrjrctaria (Jmrommnxa, Goezc) by 

 its bright ochreous colouring. The two specimens differ much in size 

 and somewhat in the strength of their markings. Of the two A. inar- 

 f]inepunctata, Goeze, one is unusually pale, and may be compared with 

 our British chalk form (but weakly marked), the other is rather dark. 

 Of the allied A. subnintata, one of the two is one of the gems of the 

 collection, having a very handsome and striking dark border (the 

 whole area behind the " elbowed line") ; the other is a little worn, but 

 shows a tendency in the same direction, which tendency is also some- 

 what adumbrated in the only two Spanish specimens m the national 

 collection (Leach coll.), so that one would almost suspect a local race 

 here ; it will probably be worthy a distinctive name, whether as var. or 

 ab. The two A. decomta, Schiff. (violata, Thnb.), are somewhat of 

 the same pale type which puzzled me at first in the Tragacete collec- 

 tion {Eiit. Rec, xiv., p. 200) ; one has a particularly clear white ground 

 colour, but its borders are fairly normal in their darkness. 



The other most notable things from Bejar are the series of Ehodo- 

 strophia calabra, Pet. {-aria, Z.), Lythria sauifuinaria, Dup., Flelio- 

 thea discoidaria, Bdv., and a nice form of Enrranthis [Atkroolopha) 

 pemiigeraria, Hb. The latter (1 <? , 2 ? ) is a tine dark form, super- 

 ficially suggesting the allied E. {A.) chrydtaria, Hb., but differing 

 therefrom in the run of the lines and in the presence of dark brown 

 colouring on the inner margin and costa of the hindwings. 



The Rhodostruphia calabra (5 c? , 11 ? ) vary a little inter .se, but 

 seem to all belong to the var. (ab.) tabidaria, Zell., though not a very 

 extreme development thereof. 



The Lythria sanyuinaria (9 J , 10 ? ), a species which Staudinger 

 regards as the Darwinian representative of L. purpuraria. in southern 

 France and the Iberian peninsula, are distinctly variable, and one of 

 the females comes close to the spring brood form {vernalis, Stgr,). It 

 is possible, considering the belated spring we had in 1902, that it 

 really belongs thereto. Br. Chapman has no exact date attached to 

 it, and he tells me that the species was about during most of the time 

 of his sojourn at Bejar. 



The singular and distinct little Heliothea discoidaria, Bdv. (placed 

 in the (Enochrominae in the Meyrick-Hampson system), is represented 

 by fifteen specimens, with a curious preponderance of $ s (12, to 3 <? s). 

 They show no appreciable variation, excepting a little in the size of 

 the discoidal spots. 



Among the Piedrahita collection the most noteworthy species are 

 Acidalia lateolaria. Const. (8 ^ , with the margins before the fringes 

 very dark), and A. decorata, Schiff'. — one exquisitely chaste 3" , with 

 the ground colour clean white instead of cream colour, weakly marked, 

 yet with the first and second lines clearly cut. The three Rhodo- 

 strophia vibicaria, CI., are of the usual southern variety, striyata, 

 Stgr. 



The following complete list of the Bejar and Piedrahita species may 

 be useful for reference: — Bejar — Acidalia ochrata, rnacilentaria, litigio- 

 saria, serlccata, moniliata, robiyinata, Intalentaiia, interjectaria, 

 humiliata, deversaria, marginepunctata, submutata, and decorata ; 



