190 JOURNAT, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol, XX VII. 
Sub-family—Geometrine. 
18. CasBERA PUSARTA, Linn. 
Phalena Geometra pusaria, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. 10), i., 522 (1758). 
Enzeli, N. W. Persia, sea level, 1 ¢, 21st June 1919, 1g and 12, 30th June 
1919 (P A. B.). 
19. Macarta notata, Linn. 
Phalzna Geometra notata, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) i., 523 (1758). 
Enzeli, N. W. Persia, sea level, 192, 24th April 1919 (P. A. B.,. 
20. Macaria sIGNARIA, Hb. 
Geometra signaria, Hb., Samml. Eur. Schmett., 1V., t. 61, £. 313 (1800-08). 
Talysh, Persian 8. W. Caspian, sea level, 1¢, 9th July 1919 (P. A. B.). 
New for Persia, though known from Armenia. 
21. MAaAcaRIA STIMARIA, Hb. 
Geometra estimaria, Hb., Samml. Eur. Schmett., IV., t. 64, f. 333 (1800-08). 
Amara, 19, 15th June 1918 (P. A. B.). 
By the shape,»tone and underside I think this example really belongs here 
and not to the following, which is evidently the common Macaria of the region. 
22. MACARIA SYRIACARIA, Stgr. 
Macaria estimaria var. syriacaria, Stgr., Cat. Lep. Eur. (ed. 2) 160 (1871). 
Kut al Amara, 392 2, 18th June 1915 (1918), 18th and 28th June 1918, also 
one labelled ‘‘ Mesopotamia” and undated (Br.); 29 2, 8th and 9th August 
1918 (P. A. B.); Amara, 5¢ ¢, lst May, 28th June (2), 10th and 26th August 
1918; 129 2,23rd April (“common”), 25th April, 9th June, 2nd and 4th July. 
Sth August, 9th August (2), lst September, 6th September (“2 among weeds 
in garden”) 30th September and 28th October, all in 1918 (P. A. B.); 1d. 
3lst August 1918, at light (W.E.E.) 
Previously recorded from Syria, Cyprus, Armenia and Transcaspia and in 
the form tenwiata, Stgr., from N. Persia. Standinger regards the last named 
as a possibly distinct species, but unless he would treat the whole of the 
material before me as referable to it—which is gainsaid by his diagnosis—I think 
it is syriacaria which is the species, with tenwiata as an ab. The distal margin of 
the hindwing is somewhat less crenulate than in @stimaria and there are other 
appreciable differences. 
The series is variable. One 2 (25th April) belongs to the extreme aberration 
tenuiata, a second (25th April) is almost as extreme and the earliest J (1st 
May) in large measure corresponds, though the dark postmedian line is finer 
and reaches the costa. It is thus suggested that this form may be characteristic 
of a first generation or of the earliest emergences. The specimen taken by 
Capt. Evans is a pretty aberration with strong bands, on the hindwing accom- 
panied distally by a large, irregular dark spot in the middle. 
23. TEPHRINA DISPUTARIA, Guen. 
Eubolia (2) disputaria, Guen., Spec. Gen. Lep. X., 489 (1858). 
Amara, cultivated ground by the Chahala Canal, 1d, 24th August 1917 
(W.E.E.). 
