426 DYSPESSA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



broad, anal angle rounded; hindwing oval, usually grey ^^ith dark veins. Veins 6 and 7 stalked. The larva 

 elongate-cylindrical, slightly stouter posteriorly, with a smooth head. 



uMa. D. ulula Borkh. (= pantherina Hbn., hepialica Borkh., hepialina Hbn.) (52 k). Extremely variable, 



.so that not one of the nme specimens I have is like another" (Ochsekheimer). Greyish brown, the wings 

 dull ivory yellow intermixed with greyish brown, so that either the one or the other of the two colours predomi- 

 nates. A considerable number of specimens from Austria, Italy, etc., has a cUstinctly visible oblique band on 

 the forewing, before and beyond which there are greyish, not very dark shadows, and dark greyish brown hind- 

 wing lighter in the anal area; I have therefore chosen a similar specimen for the figure. But among these 

 there are specimens in which the light and dark places form a kind of chess-board, and also examples in which 

 the dark shadows are strongly reduced. The species is widely distributed, occurrmg m South-Germany (south- 

 ward from about Kreuznach and Darmstadt), then in Austria, Italy, the Balkan Peninsula, S. Russia, Anterior 



marmoraia. Asia to the Altai. — The larger marmorata Bamb., from Southern Spain, which is quite regularly spotted, 



infuscala. is now, perhaps correctly, regarded as a distinct species. • — infuscata Stgr., almost entirely vuiiformly greyish 



brown with sparse white markings, is probably also rightly considered as a separate species ;o it is smaller tha 



algeriensis. the preceding and occurs from Hungary to the Black Sea. — algeriensfS Bamb. (52 i), scarcely half as large 

 as marmorata, similar in colour to the precedmg, light dust-grey with lighter wing- ells, from Mauretania, 

 is probably also a distinct species. — All these closely allied forms live especially on sandy soil, and are locally 

 not rare. The larva is rather like a young one of Cossus cossus, is flesh-coloured, darker red ch)rsally, with 

 brown head and thoracical plate. In the bulbs of Allium ; the pupa is said to have been found m a wooden ce41 

 near Darmstadt. Moth in May and June. 



aculeata. D. aculeata Turati (52 i). The figure is a very good reproduction of the cotype which was kindly lent 



to us. It is closely allied to iilula, but the basal area of the forcAving is almost without spots, the postmedian 

 oblique band reducetl, thorax and abdomen ivory yellow, and the hmdwing of ^^ also ivory yellow (uistead of 

 earth-brown) with dark vems. — From Sicily. 



palUdaia. D. pallidata Stgr. (52 k). The original of our figure, which was lent from the STAUDiNGER-collection 



by Herr Bakg-Haas, has a bright silky gloss, especially in the lighter parts of the forewing. It is not very 

 different from infuscata Stgr. and fusculn Stgr., and is considered by Pungeler to be a distinct species especially 

 on account of the shorter pectinations of the (J-antenna and the non-chequered fringes, and by Rebel to be a 

 form of ulula. 



kahylaria. D. kabylaria Bang-H. (52 k). In size and shape very like the preceding, but the pectinations of the 



antenna very much stronger, even more so than in ulula; ground-colour grey, not whitish as in pallidata, fore- 

 wing with dark markings, but the interior of the cell quite white, and a stripe between the costal and sub- 

 costal bright silvery white; hindwing grey. — Described from a number of specimens from Gafsa m Tunis; 

 also caught by A. Andres at the lamp in the Mareotis-desert (Egypt). 



luscula. D. fuscula Stgr. (52 k). Between pallidata and ulula algeriensis and perhaps not specifically different 



from ulula, as may also be the case with the two previous forms. Darker and still less marked than pallidata, 

 more sandy brown, not so grey as algeriensis. — From Eastern Algeria. 



rmilia. D. emiUa Stgr. (52 k). Various forms with very different markings are m the market under this name. 



The true emilia is rather closely allied to typical ulula, but the median shadow is more regular, not so dark ; the 

 marginal area purer, the hindwing of the (^ more imiformly brown. • — From the Black Sea. 



salicicola. D. salicicola Ev. (52 k). From the same locality as the precedmg, which it resembles exactly m shape 



The forewing is glossy silvery white, only « ith mmute browii spots at the apex of the cell and above the middle 

 of the hind margua, and the basal half of the frmges chequered with brown. 



alpherakyi. D. alpherakyi Christ. Slightly recalling emilia in shape and scheme of markings, but larger, forewmg 



of cj more (>longate, body and forewing ivory white, slightly dusted with brown, with brown discocellular spot, 

 which continues almost to the centre of the hind margm as a greenish brown shadow. The hmdwuig of ^ 

 dark greyish brown, with broad whitish fringes. — From Armenia. 



hipunclaia. D. bipunctata Stgr. (= colon Christ.) (551). Very easily recognisable, usually considerably larger than 



the preceding and than the small specimen figured. Entirely ivory-yellow. The forewing has one black dot above 

 the middle of the hmd margin and one or two at the apex of the cell. — Asia Mhior, Armenia, Palestine. 



laceriuta. D. lacertula Stgr. (52 k). Almost as large as the preceding, but dirty dark greyish brown in colour. 



In the cell there is nearly always a distinct lighter wedge-shaped spot on a slightly darker ground, and around 

 the cell there is a larger or smaller number of small light spots. Hindwing with lighter base. Fringes of both 

 wings chequered. — From Ferghana and Tianshan. Staudingeb obtained this species together with and from 

 the same locality as agilis. 



aijilis. D. agilis Christ. (55 k). Very closely allied to the precedmg, but cUstuaguished by the antenna of the 



