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RHODOSTROPHIA. By L. B. Prout. 
taeniaria. 
languida. 
coacta. 
violettaria. 
cypriaria. 
subsangui- 
nea. 
transcauca- 
sica. 
cretacaria. 
tabidaria. 
tenuistriga- 
ta. 
suavis. 
vibicaria. 
adulterina. 
strigata. 
augustini- 
aria. 
rectilinea- 
ria. 
roseata. 
rosans 
m inuia. 
bicolor. 
plesiochora. 
taeniaria Frr. ( = muscosa Bastelb., 6 g). I accept Caradja's opinion that these dull-coloured aberrations should all 
be united under the one name. — ab. languida Dannehl may possibly be maintained as separate from the pre¬ 
ceding, on account of its rosy suffusions. “Groundcolour approaching light-grey, the band dull rosy-grey; in 
extreme specimens looking almost unicolorous”. South Tyrol: Atzwang, Terian, etc.; Mezzolombardo. — ab. 
coacta nov. (3h). Antemedian and postmedian of forewing approximated, connected in the submedian area. 
A T from Mount Pacanaglia (Ob., Et. Lep., fig. 464 b). — ab. violettaria Vorbrodt is darker, more clay-yellow', 
the forewing and anal part of hindwing densely dusted with grey-violet, the markings violet-grey. Pte. Brolla. 
cypriaria Bbl. (= cypria Prout ) (3h as cipriata) is the race from Cyprus, generally smaller, forewing with con¬ 
spicuous cell-dot, though smaller than that of tabidaria, antemedian line nearly always slender, often obsolete, 
postmedian band narrow, hindwing without cell-dot. Ground-colour very variable, generally less bright than in 
typical calabra. — ab. subsanguinea nov. has the forewing entirely suffused with purple from the base to the 
postmedian band, the hindwing more weakly suffused with the same in its posterior two-thirds. Aghirda, Cy¬ 
prus, May 1916, a pair in Tring Museum. — transcaucasica Prt. is in general almost as brightly coloured as 
in normal calabra, the postmedian band not very broad, but rarely so narrow as in cypriaria, both wings 
with a sharp cell-dot, though smaller than in tabidaria. Transcaucasia, the type from Borjom. 
Rh. cretacaria PM. (3 h), briefly mentioned in Vol. 4 (p. 38) under calabra, was subsequently described 
by Rebel as a race of sicanaria, but is certainly much nearer to calabra and tabidaria. Generally smaller, 
cell-dots present, lines on hindwing further apart than on forewing. In a which I saw in the Vienna Mu¬ 
seum I noted that the club-shaped proximal spur of the hindtibia was similar to that of calabra, but less 
thickened; subsequently Carad.ja has independently made the same observation. 
Rh. tabidaria Z. (Vol. 4. pi. 2 k). The genitalia are sufficiently distinct in some constant characters to 
stamp this as a separate species. The distinctions of the <$ hindleg, first noted by Zeller, are slight, but they 
are quite appreciable in the material which I have examined. Dr. Sterneck tells me that among 15 $$ in 
a Palestine consignment, 2 have only 3 spurs on the hindtibia, an interesting corroboration of Guenee. 
ab. tenuistrigata qttrad. has the postmedian band dissolved into two fine red lines, analogous to calabra se¬ 
parata. — ab. suavis Carad. is a large pale-yellow §, with glossy greenish-grey bands, analogous to calabra ab. 
taeniaria . (6 g). This and the preceding aberration are from Roumania, the types in the collection of Prof. 
OSTROGOVICH. 
Rh. vibicaria Cl. Heydemann has recently redescribed Clercks type (Sweden) and matched it with 
normal Central European forms. He challenges the correctness of uniting the non-banded aberrations which 
occur among this race with true strigata. — ab. adulterina Heydem. (Vol. 4, pi. 2 k, fig. 2) is erected for these 
nonbanded aberrations of Central Europe, which have the same bright coloration and sharp markings as the 
name-type. — strigata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 2 k, fig. 3) is on an average larger, is of a more greyish yellow and 
more weakly marked, the markings more dulled with grey, the fringes not or scarcely mixed with pink, etc. 
Andalusia (loc. typ.), N. Africa, Sicily and perhaps Transcaucasia and Central Asia. —- ab. augustiniaria Fer¬ 
nandez, from Sierra Nevada, is banded from the median line to the postmedian and only a little less so from 
thence to the termen. In other words, it seems nearly to represent in strigata the aberration intermedia 
Kernpny of vibicaria. — ab. rectilinearia Meves is an ab. of the name-typical race with the red median line 
of the forewing straight, crossing the cell-spot. Varmdo, near Stockholm. — ab. roseata Ersch. (6 g). We give 
a reproduction of the figure of the type, a $ from Irkutsk. Even if the colouring is inexact, the suppression 
of the lines shows that it is quite different from the European forms which have been referred to it. The latter- 
are figured (3 h) from a specimen from Wehrli’s collection, but as this Eiu'opean form claim a new name 
we call it rosans nom. nov. — minuta Heydem. (3 h) is a dwarf race from the North Frisian Islands. Fore wing 
13—17 mm long, narrow and pointed, particularly in the $; tone slightly more olive, markings strongly car¬ 
mine-red, basal of forewing always well expressed; underside on the whole with more red scaling than in the 
type. Founded on a series from Amrum, but the pretty form from Fano, which has stood in my collection as 
fanoensis and is here figured, probably belongs to the same race. I am indebted for it to my friend Mr. Niels 
L. Wolff, of Copenhagen. 
Rh. bicolor Warr. (3 h). On account of the variability mentioned on p. 40 of Vol. 4 and the removal 
of rhoda, which I find intergrades with the previous form (the subspecies borealis of cinerascens) in the Kulu 
district, it is important to figure the actual type specimen of bicolor; this bore the label “Kukli”, a name 
which I cannot find in any of the maps or gazetteers, but it is very accurately matched by examples from 
Thundiani (Kashmir). 
Rh. plesiochora Prout (= pelloniaria Leech, nec Guen.) (3 i), from West China and Chinese Tibet, 
erroneously referred to meonaria in Vol. 4, has the antennal pectinations shorter than in that species (scarcely 
over twice the diameter of the shaft), the wings shorter, particularly in the the colour somewhat more 
ochreous and more glossy, the postmedian of the forewing rather less oblique and more proximally placed, 
