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CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 



forming a single median band wliich is only somewhat lighter around the cell-dot; the apical dash is more 

 conspicuous than in any allied species; terminal line black, interrupted at the veins; fringe with dark dividing- 

 line and dark cliequered. Hindwing dirty grey, with narrow, curved lighter postmedian band. Uliassutai. 



numidiaia. C. numidiata Stc/r. Very similar to the following species but darker, greyer, the basal patch and 



median band of the forewing more definitely darkened, the latter generally not so narrow at its posterior end. 

 Under surface also darker (though paler than above) and decidedly more sharply marked. I can fmd no 

 difference in the structure. Staudinger thought it not impossible that it might prove a mere local race of 

 alfacariaia. Algeria and Teneriffe; one recorded also for Murcia. 



alfacariata. C. alfacariata Bhr. (^ ibericata Stgr) (13 a). On an average somewhat smaller than nebulata, the ground- 



colour entirely different, being of a light brownish grey, the median band somewhat differently shaped, strongly 

 narrowed and more or less darkened at the hindmargin. The distal area of the forewing, the hindwing and 

 the entire under surface are weakly marked. Head concolorous with wings; antennal ciliation in the cf about 

 as long as the diameter of the shaft. S. Spain, N. Africa and Palestine. 



mongoliata. C. mongoliata Stgr. is described as very similar to alfacariata and possibly a Darwinian form of it. 



Rather larger, of a less bi'ownish grey, with the markings darker than in ibericata; particularly noticeable are- 

 two narrow, waved, leaden-grey or blackish grey bands (the antemedian and postmedian), which never quite 

 unite on the hindmargin but remain separated by the lighter groundcolour; distally to the postmedian stands 

 at the costal margin the beginning of a dark macular band, which is only slightly indicated in alfacariata. 

 Under surface darker, more grey than yellowish -brown, the angled postmedian line on the hindwing more 

 distinct. Uliassutai district. The descriplion does not mention how it differs from numidiata, excepting in 

 size; perhaps still less brownish. 



reclamata. C. reclamata sp. nov. (13o). Larger than alfacariata (;33— 35 mm, English measurement), narrower-winged, 



also distinguishable at a glance by the presence on the forewing of an elongate dark discocellular mark; the 

 dark line which bounds the basal patch forms a distinct projection in the middle, angled before and behind 

 the median vein; median band variable in width, in the type narrow, in all examples — as in the allied 

 forms — much narrower posteriorly than anteriorly; distal area with a slight dark suffusion but very weakly 

 marked, in the type with indications of two thick lines between the pale postmedian band and the (obsolete) 

 subterminal; no distinct dark spots between the radials. Underside very pale and weakly marked. Antennal 

 ciliation in cf long. Schahkuh, Persia (E Flnke), type cf in coll. PQngeler. "Syria" 1 cf, ] ? in coll. Brit. Mus. 



seneciaria. C, senectaria If.-Sch. (9i) probably belongs to this group, but I have no material available for comparison. 



It is distinguished by its elongate wings, weak markings (the hindwing in the cf almost entirely unmarked), 

 long antennal ciliation in the cf, etc. Forewing dull grey, more or less mixed with clay yellowish, the median 

 band somewhat darker, distally without any strong projection in the middle but somewhat constricted posteriorly; 

 the subterminal line hardly marked; distal margin with short blackish streaks. Underside whitish grey, almost 

 without markings, a very weak cell-dot and postmedian line indicated. Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia in April 

 and September, found resting on rocks or attracted to light, but local and scai'ce. 



ludificata. C. ludificata Stgr. Forewing grey mixed with yellowish (sometimes lighter and more sand-coloured), 



traversed by a number of lines almost exactly as in dissimilata Rbr., but wilh paired terminal dots as in 

 frustata; the subterminal consists (at least posteriorly) of a series of separate white dots. Hindwing above 

 grey, becoming whitish towards the base, without any trace of discal dot but with a dark, strongly angled 

 postmedian line; distal area somewhat darkened, showing in some specimens a dentate subterminal line. Both 

 wings beneath with discal dot and with a postmedian line, that of the forewing only distinct anteriorly, that 

 of the hindwing broken up into vein-dots. Antennal ciliation in the cf nearly as long as the diameter of the 

 shaft, thus much longer than in frustata, etc.; anal clasps strongly developed, so that Staudinger formerly 



>decipiaia. referred it to Lederer's group A a. Greece. — decipiata Stgr., the commoner form, has the forewing more 

 greenish grey (less brown) and almost entirely without yellowish irroration. Central Italy and Greece to 

 Mesopotamia. 



kalischatu. C. kalischata Stgr. Narrower-winged than ludificata, forewing with distal margin more oblique, rather 



more curved, hindwing with distal margin very strongly rounded. More glossy, median band shaped about 

 as in scripturata, more sharply defined, discal dot conspicuous in a pale space, terminal line consisting of 

 lunules at the vein-ends, thus concave inwards. Hindwing grey with curved whitish, divided postmedian band. 

 Andalusia and Murcia. 



