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BAPTRIA. By L. B, Prout. 



haberhaueri. T, haberhaueri Led. (7 f) is perhaps only a western form of the following species. Typical haberJiaueri 



differs markedly fi'om typical lindermamii in having the white markings more extended, especially on the 

 hindwing; this wing in haberhaueri shows on the upper surface a small, white patch placed just outside the 

 discal spot and a moderately broad, irregularly shaped postmedian band which becomes very narrow towards 

 the inner margin ; and on the under surface an extended white basal area separated only from the postmedian 

 band by a narrow dark stripe. Both species, however, show forms which are much more difficult to differentiate, 

 though the postmedian band of the forewing in haberhaueri, besides two fine white lines nearer the base, seems 

 to be more strongly bent outwards in the middle, oftener interrupted and altogether more irregular in its 

 course; proximal margin of the postmedian band on both wings more dentate. From Trichobaptria exsecuta, 

 apart from the structural characters, haberhaueri differs in the absence of the white costal margin of the cf 

 hindwing and in its regularly black-and-white-chequered fringes, especially of the hindwing. Described from 

 the mountains of Abbastuman, in the Imeritia district of Transcaucasia. The specimens before me are from 

 ledereri. Achalzich fAkhaltsikh). — ledereri SUjr., from Borjom, is a much darker race with the white markings more 

 slender, in part obsolete. I have not seen it, but it must be very similar to typical kindermanni. 



kinder- j kindermanni Brem. (7 b). Black, generally deeper and less brownish-tinged than in haberhaueri. 



Forewing with one or two fine white, slightly bent lines in the proximal half (which, however, are sometimes 

 partly or entirely obsolete) and an oblique white band from the costa beyond the middle, varying in width 

 and sometimes continued by a fine, slightly curved line to the posterior margin; often also one or two 

 submarginal white dots in the posterior half of the wing. Hindwing usually with a slender white band or 

 line from the inner margin, which rarely reaches as far as the costal margin, but sometimes widens in the 

 leechi. middle of the wdng. Fringes as in haberhaueri. — ab. leechi Stc/r. (7 b) has the oblique white band of the 

 forewing narrowed, not continued to the posterior margin, that of the hindwing reduced to a more thread, 

 often interrupted or even entirely wanting; the proximal white lines and the submarginal white dots of the 

 toi/asciaria. forewing usually altogether obsolete, the fringes more blackened. Only recorded from Japan. — ab. latifasciaria 

 ab. tiov. shows the opposite extreme, the white markings being considerably extended Postmedian band of 

 forewing as broad as in typical Baptria tibiale, both the antemedian lines distinct, submarginal dots somewhat 

 enlarged : hindwing also with a broad white postmedian band, its proximal edge nearly straight, its distal 

 very strongly projecting in the middle, where it becomes even wider than the corresponding band of exsecuta 

 ab. latifasciaria. Hakodate, 3 examples in the Leech collection; a Yezo specimen mentioned by Leech, and 

 perhaps still more extreme, is not traceable. A single example from Ta-chien-lu, W. China, with the hind- 

 wing white from the postmedian band almost to the base (except a large black discal spot) perhaps represents 

 a local race. — kindermanni inhabits Eastern Siberia and Japan and is on the wing in June and July. 



16. Genus: Baptria Hbn. 



Face appressed scaled. Palpus short. Antenna in cf slightly thickened, minutely ciliated. Leg- 

 structure normal. Wings moderately broad, apices rounded, distal margin smooth. Forewing with areole 

 double, no hair-pencil beneath. Hindwing with costal anastomosing with subcostal nearly to the end of the 

 cell, discocellulars moderately (sometimes only weakly) biangulate, 2""^ radial arising scarcely below their middle. 



Only a single species is known, which is very local in Europe and Palearctic Asia. It does not 

 differ very markedly in structure from the later Larentiid genera, but has evidently the closest affinity with 

 Trichobaptria. The older systematists confused it, on account of its black colouring, with Odezia and Stau- 

 DiNGER has allowed this error to remain uncorrected, although the two do not even belong to the same 

 subfamily. Meyrtck refers tibiale to Eustroma, which is characterized by the presence of the hair-pencil on 

 the forewing; it appears therefore that he must have had exsecuta before him and not the true tibiale. 



B. tibiale is on an average larger than the hitherto described black-and-white species and is nearly 



always further distinguishable at a glance by the uniformly white fringes. Three principal races are recorded, 



but there is so much individual variation in some localities that I am not sure whether they should not rather 



tibiale. j^g reduced to the rank of aberrations. — tibiale Esp. (= dimidiata Hbn., nee Hufn. = aethiopata Heinem., 



nee Scop) (6 c) has a moderately broad white band on the forewing but no band on the upperside of the 



hindwing. It occurs very locally in Central Europe (Piedmont to Galicia) and more commonly in Eastern 



aternma. Siberia, Korea and Japan. — ab. aterrima Btlr., from Japan, has the band considerably narrowed, though 



still retaining the leg-and-foot shape of that of the type. It forms a transition to the following race. — 



moeroraria. moeroraria Frr. (6c) has the band further reduced into a narrow streak, running to a point at the posterior 



