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Staudinger only records ochroleucata under its own name from the Canaries 
and a few Mediterranean countries, referring to most of the N. African and Asiatic 
localities under “‘ remotata, Guen. (preec. sp. forma Darw. ?)” It is certainly all 
one and is doubtfully distinct, even racially, from minorata, Bdy. (S. Africa, 
Madagascar, Mauritius, etc.) 
6. SrerrHA Poxurrata, Hb. 
Phalena Geometra politata, Hb., Vig. u. Schmett. p. 5, £. 1 (1793). 
Enzeli, sea level, 2 5 5, 28th May, 13, 8th June, 1 2, 29th June 1919 (P. A. B.) 
All are referable to the form abmarginata, Bhtsch., which seems racially constant 
in some places (e.g., Hungary), while in others it occurs with the name-type. I 
am not sure, however, that these Persian specimens may not form a separable 
race from the European—slightly less glossy, more tinged with straw-colour, 
costal markings rather weak, subterminal line broad (in the sole 2 almost reach- 
ing the distal margin), underside rather sharply marked. 
7. STERRHA ELONGARIA, Rbr. 
Dosithoea elongaria, Rbr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., II, 38 (1833). 
Kut al Amara, 22 9, 9th August 1918 (P. A. B.) 
Obscurely marked specimens with a strong sandy tone of colour, somewhat 
doubtfully referred to this widely distributed and variable species, which perhaps 
still comprises more than one not yet satisfactorily differentiated. 
Subfamily—-Larentiine. 
8. RHODOMETRA SACRARIA, Linn. 
Phalena Geometra sacraria, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) I (2) 863 (1767). 
Baghdad, 33 ¢, 19, 23rd September 1917 (P. A. B.) 
Amara, River Tigris,4 9 9, 11th May, 14th June, 16th Juneand 20th June 
1918, P. A. B. 
Shahroban, Dyala River (close to Persian border) 1 ¢ , 30th July 1918 (P. A. B.). 
Kut al Amara, 1d, 9th August 1918 (P. A. B.) 
Not very variable, all referable broadly to the name-typical form. On an 
average small, especially the Baghdad specimens. 
9. LYTHRIA PURPURARIA, Linn. 
Phalena Geometra purpuraria, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) I, 522 (1758). 
Qazvin, N. W. Persia, 4,000 feet, 13, 30th July 1919 (P. A. B.) 
Belongs to the form lutearia, Vill., which seems prevalent in the summer gene 
ration in eastern localities. New for Persia (?). 
10. LirHosTEGE BUXTONI, Prout. 
Lithostege buxtoni, Prout, Nov. Zool., XX VII, 312 (1920). 
Kangavar, Hamadan, N. W. Persia, 5,000 feet, 1 ¢, 6th December 1918 (P.A. 
B.), the type of the species. 
Shergat (Asshur), Mesopotamia, 1 ¢ , 27th December 1919, at light (H. D. P.) 
A very interesting new species, forming (together, perhaps, with “ Anisopteryx” 
chaoticaria, Alph., which is unknown to me) a new section of the genus, characteri- 
zed by the long ciliation of the ¢ antenna. Apparently variable, the second 
specimen darker than the type, with the longitudinal curved white stripe of the 
forewing more sharply expressed. 
