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jN^^Louis B. Prout on the 
tinct; Guenee”, says that in the latter the ground-colour, 
proximally to the postmedian line and as far as to the base, 
is washed with reddish, and this is nearly always the case, 
though the depth of the reddish shading varies greatly. 
I formerly called those in which it was strongly developed 
ah. rhomharia, Guen., in this following some examples so 
determined in the British Museum and Oxford University 
collections; but I find Guende founds his rhomharia on 
the shape of the forewing—apex less falcate, elbow at end 
of more pronounced—hence probably it should rather 
supplant (ah. ?) lignlifera, Warn* The ab. seriaria, 
Guen., properly speaking, occurs only in the $; it is 
characterised by the presence of dark spots on the lines 
of the forewing, which may be smaller (Guenee’s type 
form) or larger (his var. A); it is connected with gladiaria 
by intermediates, minute spots appearing, in every degree 
of development, on the postmedian. Walker’s nxiaria is 
synonymous with ab. seriaria ; his telysaria is determined 
by Schaus (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1896, 644) as rhomharia, 
Guen., but I would rather refer it to the extreme form 
of gladiaria ^ which, as noticed above, I formerly called 
ab. rhomharia. Walker’s nazadaria is a pale, weakly- 
marked ^ aberration, the ground-colour much less yellow 
than in the type ; ealhisaria, Walk., is another aberration, 
fawn-colour, not yellow, the markings as in ab. seriaria, 
to which therefore it bears nearly the same relation as 
does the form maldama to typical gladiaria. The form 
ennomaria. Warn, may possibly become in some localities 
(e. g. San Juan) a local race of the but, as I have 
already pointed out, it occurs among typical forms at Pal¬ 
mira. Schaus’ maldama is the brownish form (? seasonal) of 
gladiaria, the lines rather weak in the strong in the 
but the two sexes agreeing in colour. As heterolocha, the 
firm of Staudinger sent me a ^ from Bolivia, intermediate 
in colour between typical gladiaria and the form maldama, 
the postmedian line rather nearer the termen than usual, 
both lines of forewing with very small dark dots on the 
veins. As regards lignlifera, Warr. (? = rhomharia, 
Guen.), I have seen only the type and hesitated to 
sink it to gladiaria, on account of its less falcate apex and 
its slightly ditferent aspect. Yet it is clear that Mr. E. D. 
* I find, after writing this, that M, Dognin (in litt.) also siiggests 
this synonymy. 
