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small, so that the size is hardly correlated with the epoch of appear- 

 ance. 



Ancona (Aug. 25th, 1897). — Acidalia rubiginata, Hfn., A. subseri- 

 ceata, Hw., and A. emiitaria, Hb. (small); one specimen of each. 



Trieste. — Minoa murinata, one example, rather worn, but unmis- 

 takably referable to the interesting blackish var. (et ab.) cyparissaria, Mn. 



Turkey (1878, mostly, I understand, from the neighbourhood of 

 Gallipoli). — Acidalia ochrata,, Scop., thvee ; A. rufaria, Hb., four ; A. 

 turbidaria, H.-S., five ; B. siibsericeata, Hw., one; A. sodaliaria, H.-S., 

 one; Zonosoma pupillaria, Hb., two; Larentia riguata, Hb., one; 

 Gnophos sartata, Tr., two large females; G. stevenaria, B., male; 

 Phasiane glarearia, Schiff., male. Some of these species are new to 

 my collection, and all are very welcome, as I had previously no Turkish 

 material at all ; apparently not many specimens of the eastern Gnophos 

 stevenaria find their way into our British collections — at any rate, that 

 at the British Museum contains only one poor example of it. 



Corfu. — Acidalia elongaria, Rbr., one, dated Sept. 24th, 1897 ; and 

 three nice specimens of the interesting little Eilicrinia trinotata, Metz- 

 ner, all dated Aug. 11th, 1897. 



Platea. — Oulobophora (Stgr. o\im = Lobophora, Stgr. Cat.) intemata, 

 Piing. = macedonica, Stgr. A lovely male of this very interesting and 

 recently (1888) erected species, taken on March 8th, 1898 ; the locality 

 seems to be new, as Piingeler and Staudmger only record it from Asia 

 Minor (one male) and Macedonia. Staudinger, in describing this 

 species (as macedonica, vide 'Iris,' v. p. 219, pi. ii. fig. 19), proposed 

 the generic name of Oulobophora for it and externata, H.-S., chiefly 

 on account of the absence of the "lobes" in the male; authori- 

 ties are divided as to the legitimacy of employing secondary sexual 

 characters for the separation of genera, but the superficial aspect of 

 the species in question strongly suggests that they are not very close 

 to the true Lobophoras, &c., and I quite expect that further study will 

 reveal fully sufficient characters to justify the retention of " Oulobo- 

 phora'' as a valid genus. 



Athens (July, 1898). — Acidalia marginepimctata, Goeze, male, 

 rather pale ; Rhodometra (Sterrha) anthophilaria, Hb., a long and inter- 

 esting series (eleven males, five females) of the var. (or subspecies)* 

 rosearia, Tr., varying much inter se — ten are predominantly rosy, six 

 yellow. 



Crete. — A worn Acidalia, without precise locality, taken in May, 

 1897, ? sodaliaria, H.-S. Also from Canea (June, 1897) : — Acidalia 

 ochrata, Scop., ten ; A. consnnguinaria, Led., four ; A. consolidata, Led., 

 female, worn; A. politata, Hb., one, of the ab. abmarginata, Bhtsch. ; 

 A. imitaria, Hb., one, of the aberration with light ground colour; A. 

 ornata, Scop., two, male and female ; Rhodometra sacraria, L., two 

 males; Anaitis plagiata, three; Camptogramma bilineata, L., a pretty 

 aberration. And from Suda (June 16th, 1897) : — Acidalia ochrata, 

 Scop., six; and two doubtful little Acidalias, one apparently A. elong- 

 aria, Rbr. 



* I have no right to a definite opinion, but I strongly suspect that 

 Treitschke, Guenee, and others were right in making this a species, and that 

 Staudinger's query " sp. propria? " should be answered in the affirmative. 



