122 THE entomologist's record. 



genus taken out of (rnop/ioa for the reception of the species with the 

 margins of the wings entire, the male antennfe pectinated, and the 

 palpi somewhat longer, etc. The type of Kloplmfi is operaria, this 

 being the only species cited m Blanchai'd's Hut. Xat. in 1840 {tnm. 

 iii., p. 530), and in the present state of our knowledge the name lies 

 dormant in the synonymy of ('ataacia, Hb., of which I believe the 

 type is obfiiscata. Guenee (1H57) also leaves ulaiirinaria in Ornnpho^, 

 and makes ohfuscata an aberrant Dasi/dia, a genus characterised by its 

 entire wings, the spurs of the hmd tarsi, the strong sexual dimorphism, 

 etc. (type tmebrariu, Esp.). He justly points out that the male 

 antennfe here cannot be relied on for generic purposes — compare the 

 twin species nmcidaria and rariefiata, the former with pectinated 

 antennffi, the latter without. Lederer (1853), however, has been 

 followed in limiting Dasi/ilia to its original extent {i.e., to tenebraria 

 only), and it is worth while to mention his divisions of his " genus " 

 Gnophos. Section A {stevenaria, dumetata, and fnrvata) has " wings 

 with pointed teeth; wing-form alike in both sexes." Section C 

 {obfiincata. zelh'vana. cadibaria, and operaria) has " wing-margins 

 entire," and the females showing a series of transitions to almost 

 entire winglessness. Section B (the rest) has " wings, or at least the 

 hind, gently waved at the margin ; wing-form alike in both sexes." 

 Allowing these divisions as sufficient for present purposes, we ought to 

 confine Sciadion, Hb. = (hiophox. Tr. (type furvata) to Section A ; to 

 use Catascia, Hb., for Section C (as Mr. Warren has done in our 

 national collection) ; and to call Section B {obscurata, filaucinaria, 

 etc.) Hypcm-otiii, Hb. (type imicidaria TMeyr.. 18^2]) — (Via rissa, Curt, 

 (type obHcurata). 



Notes (chiefly on lepidoptera) of a trip to the Sierra de la Demanda 

 and Moncayo (Burgos and Soria) Spain [u-ith map and three plate^i). 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D.. F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



{Continued from p. 88.) 

 We spent the next day at Tarazona, where it was rather hot, and 

 where to the south the isolated mass of Moncayo was prominent. We 

 left Tarazona at i a.m. on the 12th, on donkey back, for Moncayo, 

 reaching the Santuario at 9.15. The road passes along rather 

 dry rising ground, in places deeply cut by the little streams, but 

 though sloping gently upwards, only a few hundred feet are gained 

 before the foot of the mountain is reached, and then the slope becomes 

 very steep and the mule-track zigzags very much to enable it to have 

 a tolerable gradient. The foot of the mountain, it is the north side, is 

 occupied by oak-scrub, which gives way to a beech forest as soon as 

 the steepest portion begins, and this extends upwards to the Santuario. 

 Above the Santuario are only here and there an odd tree or two, that 

 maintains a starved existence. The height of the Santuario is said to 

 be 1634 metres or about 5400ft. Two authorities give the height of 

 the mountain as 2315 metres and 231G metres, or about 750Uft. and 

 7G40ft (Baedeker gives 7G00ft.), so that the Santuario is much more 

 than half-way between the plain below and the summit above. Tara- 

 zona cannot be much over 1500ft., but I do not know its exact 

 elevaticm. Moncayoisthe highest point, I believe, in the whole of the mass 

 of Sierra between Burgos and Saragossa, but it is much more than this, 



