114 PTYCHOPODA. By L. B. Peout. 



without first line; of hindwing somewhat lighter, the median shade (when developed) crossing the cell-dot, 

 the postmedian placed nearer the distal margin than on the upper surface. ^ antennal joints scarcely at all 

 projecting, ciliation even, quite moderate; hindtibia shortened and thickened, with strong hair-tuft, tarsus 

 extremely short. Larva similar to that of seriata, moderately elongate, tapering anteriorly, somewhat carinated 

 laterally, skin transversely folded; head small; dorsal area reddish brown, indistinctly marked, at least in the 

 single preserved larva before me; an ill-defmed slender double grey dorsal line, becoming darker and better 

 defined posteriorly; faint indications, especially on the 3. — 5. abdominals, of oblique grey lines divarica- 

 ting from the posterior margin of the segment; lateral ridge pale, followed below by a dark band; ventral 

 area again reddish brown, paler in the middle, with indications of lozenge-shaped pattern; spiracles not very 

 conspicuous. Pupa light brown, similar to that of seriata, but with the wing-veins strongly darkened. In 

 captivity Herr Pungeler has obtained three generations in the year, the moths showing no appreciable seaso- 

 nal dimorphism. Only hitherto known from S. Russia, S. W. Siberia and according to Christoph Kuldja. Dif- 

 fers from conioptera in the less emarginate hindwing, the more broumish grey colour and usually in the closer 

 approximation of the postmedian line of the liindwing to the discal dot. 



longaria. Pt. longaria H.-Sch. (= prolongata Ebr.) (4d) differs essentially from seriata in the long, narrow 



wings; in the $ the form is even more extreme than in the c?, and the ground-colour is usually whiter, indeed 

 often quite white. The lines (usually broken into rows of dots) and the slender median shade are acutely angled 

 near the costal margin and then run parallel with the very oblique distal margin ; on the hindwing they are 

 generally not traceable as far as the costal margin; on both wings the postmedian is commonly followed 

 by a narrow, vague, brownish band. Both wings with black cell-dot and black dots at base of fringe. The 

 distal margin of the hindwing is sinuous, showing an appreciable but not deep concavity between the radials. 

 Under surface more weakly marked, forewing somewhat suffused towards base; discal dots well expressed, 

 sometimes also'^the median of forewing and postmedian of both wings. Spain and Portugal, Sicily, North 

 Africa, Teneriffe, double brooded. The egg is spheroidal, with longitudinal sulci and each sulcus with polygonal 

 depressions; whitish yellow at first, later intersected with ochreous reddish. Larva moderately slender, atten- 

 uated anteriorly, lateral ridge undulate, the black-edged spiracles placed in the lower part of each curve ; head 

 dirty white, body variable in colour, pale reddish, greenish or blackish grey, always darker speckled, ventrally 

 more uniform; first two abdominal segments paler; last three with a broad dark dorsal line; tubercles black. 

 Like most of the genus, it prefers dry leaves to fresh. Pupa yellowish, spotted with black, anal extremity 

 brownish, wings green with black dots and lines. 



ailanticai Pt. atlatltica Sttn. (5 b) seems to me to be scarcely more than a dwarfed local form of the preceding, 



but as the excisions in the distal margin of the' hindwing are rather deeper and the'teeth at the first radial 

 and the anal angle stronger, and as moreover I have been unable to examine the~(J structure in longaria, 

 I leave it provisionally separate. Only the three original specimens~are before me, the (^ (type) in good con- 

 dition but without abdomen, the two $$ slightly worn. As in longaria, the ^ is greyer, the $ whiter; in 

 both sexes the area between the median and postmedian lines is almost entirely free from dark dusting, thus 

 forming in the $ a clear white band, which is not manifest in my few examples of longaria. Otherwise I find 

 no material differences in the markings, unless it be that in the ^ (and to some extent in one $) the lines 

 and median shade of the forewing arise from thicker dark costal marks ; I have not seen any longaria in which 

 the median line, in particular, is so strongly expressed on the costa. Forewing beneath somewhat more suffu- 

 sed. cJ antenna with the joints somewhat projecting, ciliation moderate; hindleg short, tarsus strongly ab- 

 breviated (about. 5 mm.). Only known from Madeira. 



sublongaria. Pt- sublongaria Stgr. (3 g) is nearly related to longaria but larger and much darker, more brownish, 



the lines better expressed, not broken up into dots, the pale subterminal well developed; postmedian line 

 fine, slightly denticulate, the teeth somewhat blacker-marked on the veins; discal dots weak, especially on the 

 under surface. The markings of the upper surface, except the first line of the forewing, are reproduced beneath, 

 though rather less distinct. (^ antenna with fascicles of long cilia; according to Staudinger the ciliation is 

 longer than in longaria. Palestine and Syria, in April. 



allongata. Pt. allongata Stgr. (3 g, ^J) is also closely related to longaria. The (^ is rather dark, the $ light grey- 



brownish, intermediate between longaria and siMongaria. The lines on the forewing are well developed, espe- 

 cially in the $, and are all acutely angled near the costal margin ; the black discal dots and a series of large 

 dots" at the base of the fringes also well developed. The median line is placed somewhat differently from 

 that of the allies, being nearer to the postmedian ; on the hindwing it crosses the large black cell-dot or follows 

 it, while in the other species it is proximal thereto, c? antenna with fascicles of long cilia. Mardin, N. Meso- 

 potamia, also from Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley in coll. Pungeler. 



