118 PTYCHOPODA. By L. B. Proot. 



colour, vertex pale whitish grey. <S antennal ciliation somewhat shorter than in seriata; hindleg moderately 

 long and thin, more so than in the seriata-grou-p. A very distinct species, which might perhaps be placed 

 near pallidata. Margelan, S. Ferghana, described from 2 (^^. 



deiriiaria. Pt. detritaria Stgr. ^ antenna with the ciliation short, though apparently somewhat longer than in 



laevigata; hindleg aborted. Hindwing not so regularly rounded as in laevigata, more flattened or subconcave 

 between the radials and posteriorly, thus a little prominent in the middle. Ground-co'our about as in hi- 

 selata, degeneraria, etc., moderately thickly sprinkled with dark scales. Forewing with 3 curved blackish-brown 

 transverse lines, hindwing with 2, the median on both wings the thickest. Terminal line dark, sharply ex- 

 pressed. Fringes indistinctly chequered. Under side somewhat lighter, still more strongly dusted with brown; 

 first line of forewing wanting, a small dark cell-mark close before or on the median shade. Described from 6 

 examples from Haifa, Syria. In the figure the entire basal half of the forewing is represented as somewhat 

 infuscated. 



laevigata. Pt. laevigata Sco]}. (= renularia Hbn. =? bellata Frr. = lividellaria Peyer) (4d). Eecognizable 



at once — unless possibly in a few very weakly marked specimens of the second generation — by the dark 

 band on the posterior margin of the forewing which immediately follows the first line and extends about to 

 the median vein, becoming very faint and shadowy or almost entirely obsolete anteriorly. Wings rather 

 glossy reddish grey; forewing with first line distinct, especially on the veins, bent in the cell, postmedian 

 strong at the costal and posterior margins, slender and sometimes weaker between, but accentuated on the 

 veins; hindwing with a thick dark line or shade continuing the dark band of the forewing, a discal dot just 

 beyond tliis, and again very shortly beyond the discal dot a slender postmedian line; fringes with large black- 

 ish dots opposite the veins. Under surface very weakly marked, forewing usually with a distinct costal 

 spot, indicating the commencement of postmedian line, and a moderately distinct cell-spot; hindwing a 

 little more whitish, with distinct cell-spot, c? anteiuial joints thickened, the ciliation very short; hindtarsus 

 short. Except that the second-brood specimens are smaller, with the median band narrower and less de- 

 veloped, I have noticed little variation in the species. The larva is thick, strongly attenuated anteriorly, 

 rugose, carinated laterally; general tone a vague glaucous greenish, with fine interrupted dorsal line and 

 lozenge-shaped pattern marked in brown or blackish; subdorsal obsolete; lateral ridge pale, bounded by 

 a darker stripe. According to JMilliere's figures and a description by Rossler the most distinct part of 

 the dorsal pattern is usually a pair of blackish dashes anteriorly on each segment. Pupa rather slender, 

 shining greenish yellow. Imago in June and July and again in September. Local in tSouthern and Central 

 Europe, Syria, Transcaucasia and N. Persia. 



cxiarsaria. Pt. extarsaria H.-Sch. (= efflorata Zell.) (4d as eriopodata). Rather longer-winged than laevigata, 



slightly less glossy and of a more ochreous tone; a consi^icuous dark distal-marginal line, interrupted only 

 at the vein-ends; the band which follows the first line entirely wanting; fringes without black spots, though 

 intersected by an indistinct dark line. The cell-dot is present on both wings, though stronger on the hind- 

 wing. The hindwing is somewhat dark-suffused basally. Underside more weakly marked, forewing more or less suf- 

 fused, both wings with cell-dot and postmedian line, the latter less distinct than above, cj antennal ciliation very 

 short; hindtibia with long hair-pencil, tarsus broadened and flattened, somewhat spatulate. The type form 



eriopodata. inhabits Central Italy and transitional forms are recorded from Sicily. — eriopodata Grasl. (= inesata Mill. 

 = atromarginata Mob.) (4d as extarsaria) seems the more widely distributed form, often replacing the type 

 but sometimes occurring with it as an aberration. It differs in having the distal area of both wings almost 

 entirely filled up with reddish- or violet-grey, only a small apical patch usually remaining of the ground-colour. 

 The basal area of both wings is also more or less suffused. The names of this and the ty^jc-form are by over- 

 sight reversed on our plate. S. France, Corsica, Sicily, N. E. Spain, N. Africa. — Both the type-form and 

 eriopodata are double-brooded, the specimens of the second brood smaller and sometimes paler. 



disjunciaria, Pt. disjunctaria Stgr., founded on a single (^ from Catalonia and apparently remaining unique, may 



possibly, according to its author, be an aberration of the preceding; but as the original account describes 

 the hindleg as "fully developed" and does not mention the peculiar tarsal formation the union seems precarious. 

 Dirty yellowish, broadly suffused with violet (reddish) distally. Forewing with basal line only represented 

 by dark spots on the margins ; postmedian line, before the darker border, very indistinct, arising from a large 

 dark spot or dash on the costal margin; pale subterminal indistinct, undulate or subdentate. Hindwing 

 with these markings still weaker. A series of very large dark elongate spots at the base of the fringe, extending 

 round the apex on to the distal end of the costal margin. Underside uniform shining grey, the fringe-spots 

 much less distinct, but both wings with a small faint cell-dot and a fine dark terminal line. 



