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line uninterrupted, in places rather deeply lunulate. — fasciata Trti. and Veritij is darker grey with the white fasciata. 

 bands belter marked, more complete. Pyrenees and Maritime Alps. — The larva is sUmipy, reddish yellow with 

 the segmental incisions lighter and sometimes with indications of reddish longitudinal lines; head dark brown. 

 In seed-pods of Siiene nutans or occasionally S. inflata. The pupa hibernates. Local and uncommon in Central 

 Europe, Russia, Armenia, etc., flying in May and June. — flexuosaria Boh., founded on a single cf from Blekinge, flexuosaria. 

 S. Sweden, recorded also from Carniola, is treated by Staudinger as probably a form of hydrata, by Aurivillius 

 as a species. Smaller and paler than typical hydrata, genitalia distinguishable. Lampa compares it with the 

 ? of affinitata rivinaia but says that the dark central band is brown-grey, not yellowish, its distal projection 

 between the medians broadly lanceolate, not blunted at the tip, a pointed tooth also noticeable near the hind- 

 margin; terminal line broken up into dots; fringe apparently not white-spotted ; hindwing nearly white, with 2 

 indistinct greyish bands. 



C. lugdunaria H.-Sch. (13 e). Closely similar to hydrata but with the costal margin of the forewing lugdunaria. 

 more strongly arched before the apex; brown-grey, subbasal and antemedian stripes straight, dentate, the latter 

 ending in a blackish spot on the hindmargin; the dentate whitish band distally to the postmedian is obsolete 

 in the posterior half; apex divided by two thick white teeth; subterminal line indistinct. Hindwing with very 

 indistinct pale postmedian band. Very local, S. France, the southern part of Austria-Hungary, Sarepta. 



C. bifaciata Haw. (= scitularia Bhr), as described by Haworth, is the lighter, more sharply marked bifaciala. 

 form of this species, the ground-colour being cinereous while both the bands (subbasal and median) stand out 

 sharply in fuscous. Rambur's scitularia, from Corsica, seems to be synonymous with this varied form. — ab. 

 unifasciata Haw. (= aquilaria H.-Sch., linulata Guen.) (10 g, as bifasciata) is darker, the subbasal band in tmi fasciata. 

 consequence scarcely differentiated, the median band still darker and rendered prominent by the white line 

 which follows it, often also by one which precedes it. — euphrasiata Mill. (= odontata Mill), described from euphrasiata. 

 Alpes Maritimes as a variety of bifaciata or perhaps a distinct species, is quite different from any form which. 

 I have seen, tlie figure almost more recalling some forms of minorata. Smaller that the name-type, ground- 

 colour whitish, the brown central band of about the same width as in minorata but with rather dentate edges, 

 a distinct waved line proximally to the subterminal, the fringes with distinct dark dots on the hindwing only. 

 — I^arva on Bartsia, at first burrowing into the seeds, but later resting on the outside; it is stout, attenuated 

 at both ends, in its adult stage brownish or brown-grey, sometimes tinged with green, dorsal line grey, sub- 

 dorsal ochreous or whitish, with a rather oblique dark grey dash at each segmental division; lateral stripe 

 broad, whitish, dark-edged. It pupates in the late autumn. Pupa short and stout, greenish yellow with 

 abdominal segments red-brown. It does not emerge till the following July or August and frequently remains 

 two, or more rarely even three or four winters in the pupal state. Rambur gives June for scitularia on Corsica. 

 Central and S. Europe. 



C. parvaria Leech (=; ablegata Stgr.) (7 k) somewhat recalls a small bifaciata ab. unifasciata but differs parvaria. 

 from all the allied species in the 5 or 6 not dentate white lines on the black-grey or brown-blackish forewing. 

 Forewing beneath blackish grey, the outer lines of the upper surface weakly reproduced, only at the costa 

 whitish ; hindwing lighter than forewing, with dark discal dot, postmedian line and an ill-defined band before the 

 lighter distal margin. Discocellulars very feebly angulated. Palpus rather short. Japan) ?), Amurland and Korea. 



C. haasi Hedem. (10 f) is a very distinct species, with long, strong palpus. The sharply whitish sub- haasi. 

 basal band, large dark discal -dot and waved dark line on the hindwing beneath are mentioned as distinctive; 

 the specimens which I have seen have broad white bands on both sides of the median band, the band 

 differently shaped, both it and the basal patch mixed with white, etc. It is, however, said to be tolerably 

 variable. Amurland. 



C. contrita spec. nov. Perhaps near haasi but with the palpus normal (about as m bifaciata), the wings contrita. 

 somewhat more fully rounded, the discal dot of the forewing obsolete, the markings more blurred, the median 

 band being scarcely black-edged except at the costal and posterior margins and the white areas vaguely 

 suffused with brownish; proximal area of forewing more as in bifaciata, though less sharply marked, median band 

 narrowing at hindmargin, becoming black at the margin itself; subterminal line interrupted, apical dash fairly 

 apparent. Hindwing above uniform dark smoke colour, beneath much more weakly marked than in haasi, 

 the postmedian band being less white and the dark line which bounds it proximally almost obsolete, cf 

 antenna (as also in bifaciata, etc.) very minutely ciliated (in haasi much less minutely). Central Amurland 

 (Korb), type cf in coll. POngeler. 



C. minorata Tr. (10 g) is another inconstant species and shows some local and some individual minorata. 

 variation. The name-typical form, as it occurs in the Alps, the mountains of Germany, Austria, S. France, 

 etc., is the larger, paler race, the ground-colour being clear white, the markings often paler than in our figure, 



