92 PTYCHOPODA. By L. B Protjt. 



gular, trapezoidal dark marks and dots. Tubercles very small, the thoracic larger. Pupa yellow-brown. Central 

 and Southern Europe to Central Asia, July — ^August. 



taurica. Pt. taurica Bang-Haas would seem to belong here, although its author does not mention its structure. 



Dr. Rebel, in determining the Herzegovina example, indicated its probable position, from the point of view 

 of structure, as between filacearia and aureolaria, but gave no detail. It is described as light ochre-yellow, 

 the basal area and inner margin of the forewing and the base of the hindwing somewhat paler. Forewing with 

 costal margin sparsely dusted with brownish. The lines brownish, waved, similar to those of consanguinaria 

 in their course but materially more distmct (thicker). Both wings with black discal dot. Black terminal 

 dots at the vein-ends on both surfaces (this should probably read "on the base of the fringe opposite the vein- 

 ends"). Under surface dirty yellowish, the transverse Imes in the distal area and the discal dots very weak. 

 Forewing rather broader than in rufaria, hindwing with distal margin rounded. The size is that of a large 

 rufaria. Described from the Taurus. A single specimen has since been taken in Herzegovina by Schawerda. 



consangui- Pt. cons^inguinaria Led. (= faillata Trti.) (4 b) closely resembles rufaria but is paler, more glossy, rather 



naria. weakly marked, the lines occasionally almost obsolete. The postmedian Ime and proximal shadiiig of the sub- 

 terminal are on the forewing still more sinuous and terminate on the posterior margin with more of a distally 

 directed curve. The discal dots are small, but black. There are usually some distinct black dots at the base 

 of the fringes, opposite the veins; in. rufaria the fringe is mispotted. The under surface is very weakly marked, 

 sometimes almost entirely without markings. (^ antennal cilia tion very minute. The larva, according to 

 Hugo May sen., is elongate, narrowing towards the head, somewhat flattened, the lateral carination distinct; 

 dorsal area light brownish or wood-colour, medio-dorsal line light, on the last 4 segments sharply margined 

 with black; tubercles strong, black; an ill-defined black-grey subdorsal stripe, on the middle segments often 

 spreading in some dark dusting so as to encroach on the ground-colour; spiracles black; ventral surface blackish. 

 Pupa elongate, the cremaster umbilicated, the bristles short. Flies in July, in captivity a second brood may 

 be obtained in October — ^November. Very local, occurring in Italy, S. E. Europe and Asia Minor; has been 

 reported from Spain, but I have no certain knowledge of any Spanish examples. 



macUentaria. Pt. maciletitaria H.-Sch. (= antiquaria H.-Sch., sylvestraria Dup. part.) (4 b). Quite distinct 



from the ocArato-group in having the ground-colour dirty whitish, only suffused with dull ochreous in the costal 

 part of the forewing, especially towards the base. The distal margin of the hindwing is appreciably concave, 

 though only very slightly, between the radials; in none of the preceding species, except perhaps rufaria, can this 

 be spoken of as appreciable, though the margin shows a tendency to be straighter or less convex. The lines 

 on the forewing do not differ greatly in their course from those of ochrata ; on the hindwing the median and post- 

 median are placed very near together and there is a rather broad, faint grey shade between the latter and the 

 pale subterminal. Discal dots about as in ochrata. Fore-\ving beneath strongly and hindwing moderately dusted 

 with coarse blackish-fuscous atoms, the median and postmedian lines very strong and dark, the latter placed 

 nearer to the distal margin than on the upperside; subterminal line more distinct than above. ^ antennal 



pukhraria. structure similar to that of ochrata. — ab. pulchraria F. Fuchs is described as having a broad dark central 

 shade on the forewing and a broad marginal Ime on both wuags. Described from a single example. — The 

 larva resembles that of ochrata. It is of medium thickness, strongly tapering anteriorly, at the segment-in- 

 cisions constricted, especially at the 5. abdominal ; greenish at first, becoming bone-coloured in its adult stage ; 

 dorsal line light, brownish-edged, on the last three segments accompanied by brownish subdorsal line, which 

 is otherwise obsolescent, though indicated by dark dots at the segment-mcisions ; head somewhat more reddish; 

 ventral surface dark grey. The moth appears in June — July and frequents dry meadows. It is local in western 

 Germany and Austria and in Switzerland, but seems commoner in France and Spam. 



determinata. Ft. determinata Stgr. (= geministrigata Fuchs) (3e). Ground-colour similar to that of the preceding, 



rather more glossy and without such marked ochreous costal suffusion. Really nearer to litigiosaria. Both 

 differ from macUentaria in wanting the concavity of the margin of the hindwing, in having shorter and simpler 

 antennal ciliation (minute in determinata, intermediate in litigiosaria), distinct black discal dots, more weakly 

 marked underside, white vertex of head (in macUentaria brown), etc. determinata is easily distinguished from 

 litigiosaria by the presence on both wings of a median line, Avhich is placed very near the postmedian. The lat- 

 ter on both wings is more irregular in its course, being twice deeply incurved. The under surface of the fore- 

 wing is dark-dusted as far as the postmedian line, distally similar to the upper surface; that of the hind- 

 wing is paler and more weakly marked than above. Hitherto only known from Sicily, Calabria and the South- 

 eastern Taurus. This summer, however, the Rev. F. E. Lowe has taken a few examples of both sexes at Sainte- 

 Baume, on a high table-land N. E. of Marseilles, where they occurred at the end of June on very dry, open 



