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appear in cloraria much narrower and the , .vinculum" (,,saccus") less wide, the central portion less extended 

 anally. The figure of cloraria given by Hubnbr is unsatisfactory, and has given rise to many uncertainties, 

 but its dark costa and the curve of the postmedian line (though exaggerated) show that it is intended for the 

 present species. This was pointed out long ago by Zbllbr, and the name ought to be restored. — ab. rosea rosea. 

 Gumpp. is a form with the ground colour more or less changed to rosy, as in some of the viridata-torms described 

 above, and no doubt attributable to a like cause. — The larva of cloraria is said to be reddish, not green, and 

 to feed on various plants in June and September, the moth occurring in two generations, May and July to 

 August. The geographical range of the species is not precisely ascertained, but it is certainly common in some 

 parts of Southern and Southern Central Europe, and perhaps also reaches Armenia. 



C. obliterata Walk. (2 e) very closely approaches the two preceding, and is probably the species recorded obliterata. 

 by Staudinger and others from the eastern Palearctic Region as viridata. The colour is slightly more yellowish, 

 the scaling perhaps somewhat smoother, the postmedian line of the forewing somewhat differently formed, 

 and the abdomen has two or three anterior segments dorsally coloured red. Shanghai to Japan and Ussuri. 

 The obliterata of Leech is probably amphitritaria, certainly not the present species. 



C. pulmentaria Guen. (= cloraria Dup., nee Hhn.) (2 e) has sometimes been confused with the preceding pulmentaria. 

 group, but is very distinct in the rounded hindwing, longer palpus, wings finely strigulated with whitish, and 

 other characters. The white lines are seldom sharply expressed ; that of the hindwing is bent. — palaestinensis palaestinen- 

 Fuchs, from Syria, is smaller, the white lines obsolete or extremely faint. According to Pungeler (in litt.) "*• 

 Ftjchs' actual tj^es belonged not to pulmentaria but to faustinata, but as I possess a long series from Syria 

 agreeing entirely with his description and referable, in my opinion, to pulmentaria, I hesitate to transfer the name 

 at present. If they are really referable to faustinata they represent a very different form from the Spanish, 

 there being no trace of dark lines, though some specimens show a very faintly darkened cell-spot. — The larva of 

 pulmentaria is even more slender than those of its allies, green and yellow or whitish (adaptive to the colour 

 of its food-plant) with a broad, dull carmine dorsal line. It feeds on various Umbelliferae, but will also accept 

 plants belonging to other orders, and is easy to rear, feeding up very rapidly in the summer. Pupa slender, 

 greenish-grey; wing-cases dark- veined; dorsal line and spiraoular spots blaok. The moth is double-brooded, 

 and is locally common from southern Europe to Central Asia. 



C. faustinata Mill. ( ? = palaestinensis Fuchs) (2 e). Nearly related to pulmentaria, but with the lines faustinata. 

 indicated (usually rather obscurely) by a darker green shade than the ground-colour, a very faint darker green 

 discal spot usually present on each wing. Egg, according to Millierb, azure blue. Larva slender, cylindrical, 

 dull bluish green, with a more or less vinous, interrupted dorsal line, partly divided into white-encircled spots. 

 Feeds on Rosmarinus officinalis in a succession of broods. Pupa greenish, dark-spotted, the wing-veins dark. 

 Occurs in Spain and Syria, and is perhaps not specifically distinct from the widely-distributed African stibo- 

 lepida Btlr. 



C. amphitritaria Ob. (2 e) has the hindwing somewhat angled, approaching the normal Hemithea form amphitri- 

 the second to fourth abdominal segments red dorsally. Distinguished by its delicate, translucent sea-green '^"""■ 

 colour, the costa of the forewing pale yellow, both wings with dark green cell-spot, the antemedian white line 

 weak, the postmedian sinuous, parallel with distal margin. Occurs on Askold in June and July, also in the 

 Ussuri district and Japan. 



C. pretiosaria Stgr. (= gelida Btlr.) (2 c). Rather recalls Hemithea distinctaria except in the absence pretiosaria. 

 of dorsal pattern or crests, but is of more slender build, lighter, less bluish green, the postmedian line on the 

 forewing usually obsolescent towards the costal margin, on the hindwing even straighter than in distinctaria. 

 The tjrpical form is relatively small, with the antemedian line usually absent. — gigantaria Stgr. (= anomala gigantaria. 

 Warr.) is a much larger form, with the antemedian line present. It seems to be a local race, but its distribution 

 is so mixed up with that of the type, that until more precise information is available as to altitudes or other 



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