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of the cell. Underside dull brown-grey, feebly marked. W. China and Chang Yang. In this species and the 3 

 following the 1st and 2nd subcostal veins are free. 



G. theuropides Ob. (22 c) differs in its pale ground-colour (light grey) and more definite markings, theuropidea. 

 There is nearly always a pale band distally to the postmedian line, followed by an olive-green shade which 

 forms the proximal edging of the dentate subterminal line. W. China and Tibet. 



G. mandarlnaria Leech (22 b). Also closely similar, ground-colour almost white, the dentate black mandarina- 

 lines rather thick and sharply expressed. W. China: Wa-shan. '"''"■ 



G. punctivetiaria Leech. Ground-colour almost as white as m mandarinaria but with a very slight puncfhen^- 

 violet-grey (or sometimes more rosy) tinge. Larger, the lines not quite so deeply dentate, chieflj^ emphasized 

 as black dots or dashes on the veins. Subterminal line very indistinct, not deeply dentate, its proximal oliva- 

 ceous edging weak or interrupted. W. China. 



G. fumosa Warr. is very close to ventraria Guen. (which will be described and figured in vol. 12 of the fumosa. 

 ,,Macrolepidoptera") but the forewmg is said to be more rounded at the apex; both wings sm.oky fuscous, 

 with only the central area towards the costa slightly paler; the markmgs always very indistinct. Underside 

 like ventraria but with a submarginal fascia always darker. Not variable. Japan. 



G. stevenaria Bsd. (= lapidisaria Frr.) (22 b). A rather small or moderate-sized light violet-grey species sfevmaria. 

 with large costal spots at the origin of the fine (usually broken into dots or almost obsolete) dark lines and of 

 the usually obsolete median band. Hindwing strongly crenulate, generally with a longer tooth at the 3rd 

 radial. Underside dirty whitish, strongly irrorated with grey and slightly darkened from the postmedian line 

 to the distal margin. — cataleucaria Stgr., a frequent aberration, if not a local race, in the Mardin district, cato?eMcar'ia. 

 has the underside cleaner white proxiaially and darker fuscous distally, the discal dots sharply expressed. A 

 dark form from the Crimea perhaps indicates another race, stevenaria has a local distribution from S. E. Europe 

 to Palestine and Transcaucasia. 



B. Distal margin (at least of hindwing) crenulate or undulate. Antenna in (^ 



nearly always simple (Gnophos). 



G. dumetata Tr. (= temperata Ev.) (22 c). Larger than stevenaria, more brownish, with less enlarged dnmetala. 

 costal spots, upperside usually with conspicuous discal dots, that of the forewing sometimes lost in the median 

 shade. Underside without darkened distal area, postmedian line usually indicated by vein-dots. — daubearia B. daubearia. 

 is a form with brown-whitish ground-colour, chiefly from the South of France. - — scopulata Fuclis is treated scopulata. 

 by Stattdinger as the same as daubearia, but Fxjchs denies this, as the ground-colour is more ashy whitish 

 (not brownish) and the postmedian line better developed. Rheingau. — saturata Fuchs is dark chocolate brown, saturata.. 

 with still darker borders. Hungary. — The egg hibernates. Larva somewhat elongate, without protuberances, 

 only the tubercles rather prominent; flesh-colour, darker dorsaUy, the black dorsal line broken on the thorax 

 a.nd 1st — 4th abdominals into dashes, followed, at the ends of these segments, by transverse yellow marks; side 

 with yellow spots. Reared by Milliere on Rhamnus (the form daubearia). Very local in Central and S. Europe, 

 August — October. Like eolaria and stevenaria, this species has the 1st subcostal arising from the 2nd and'ana- 

 stomosing with the costal. 



G. zacharia Stgr. is quite differently coloured, clear grey (not brown), strongly dark dusted, without zaclmria. 

 dark distal band, etc. Face concolorous with wings, not (as in sartata) black. Amasia, in the autumn. 



G. furvata Schiff. (22 b). A large, rather obscui'ely coloured species, gre^- with a tinge of brown, the jurvata. 

 median area usually somewhat darker, the discal spot of the forewing somewhat annular, approaching the 

 form prevalent in the obscurata group. The $ is generally larger and lighter than the ^. — Egg barrel-shaped, 

 with well-developed longitudinal ribs, the furrows crossed by slight ladder-like ridges. Larva stout, cylindri- 

 cal, with 2 small dorsal points on the 8th abdominal and slight anal points; yellowish or reddish brown with 

 dark dorsal line, distinct only on the first few segments. On low plants, hibernating young. Moth in July — 

 August, Central and parts of Southern Europe. 



G. approximaria Leech (22 c as approximataria). Narrower winged than furvata. m.uch more glossy, approxima- 

 darker brown with slight olivaceous tinge and with some light bluish scales here and there. Median area not '"**• 



darkened, except by a thick median line placed near the postmedian. Evidently related to the following, but 

 darker, less variegated, much less green, forewing with 2nd subcostal arising from stalk of 3rd — 5th, anasto- 

 mosing with 1st. W. China: Pu-tsu-fang. 



G. tnuscosaria Walk. ( = vitreata Moore) is a more greenish Indian species of similar shape but with muscosaria. 



the 2nd subcostal arising from the cell and usually free. Underside lighter than in approximaria, especially 



distally and on the hindwing, the postmedian line more distinct. The name-typical form has a: strong cupreous 



admixture, especially in the distal area, and the green parts are more or less olivaceous. Chiefly from 



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