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line, the marginal area remaining normal. Mezoseg district. ■—- ab. catenata Horhammer. Lines weak, except catenata. 
the postmedian and first subterminal, which are connected by a chain of dark maculation between the veins. 
Leipzig district, one $. 
S. bifalsaria Prout falsifIcata Prout ( = grisescens Prout nec Stgr.) (5 a) lacks the brownish admixture falsificaia. 
of typical bifalsaria and the lines are not diffused into bands. Vrianatong, Tibet. 
S. frigidaria Mschl. This holarctic species occurs in some localities in N. Siberia, as well as in Kam- frigidaria. 
tshatka; it is, according to Djakonov, strongly variable and quite light forms occur together with the dark 
ones mentioned by Alpheraky. It is doubtful whether the subspecific name schoyeni is tenable. The specimen 
from Barracouta Bay, mentioned in Vol. 4, p. 66, under cajanderi and considered to resemble ternata in some 
respects, seems to be nothing but a slightly aberrant frigidaria. 
S. dubernardi Oberth. (6 h). Face dark brown, vertex white, collar brown, <$ antenna serrate, with the dubemardi. 
fascicles about as long as the diameter of the shaft, hindtibia not dilated, tarsus about as long as tibia. On 
account, probably, of its shape, oblique markings and weakly marked hindwing, Oberthur referred it to the 
genus (really section) Phyletis, of which the type is the African silonaria (Vol. 16, pi. 6 m). The characters 
given here were obligingly supplied by Dr. Wehrli and confirm the impression which I obtained from the 
figure, that it is a close relative of segregata Prout from the Burma-Yunnan frontiers, though decidedly larger. 
S. lutearia Leech (Vol. 4, p. 66, pi. 3 1). Known, in addition to the original localities in Central China, lutearia. 
also from several in West China, generally in slightly less yellow forms, but not, I think, requiring a separate 
name. Similar, particularly on the underside, to superciliata, to which it is probably really related; J antennal 
ciliation not quite so long, hindtarsus shorter. 
S. floslactata Haw. ab. undularia Hellweger has most of the markings weak, the subterminal exception- undularia. 
ally broad, accompanied proximally by a conspicuous dark shade. Founded on a pair from the Hottinger- 
bild, 1ST. Tyrol, the particularly striking. — ab. anastomosaria Preissecker, from Hirschberg, Lower Austria, anastomosa- 
shows the anastomosis of the antemedian and median lines to which its author applies this collective name, 
but it should here evidently be superseded by conjunctiva (Vol. 4, p. 67). 
S. superciliata Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 4 n [3]). Two males of this species, according to the determination of supercilia- 
Dr. Sterneck, have been taken by the Stotzner Expedition at Sumpanting, W. China. I have only seen ta - 
it from Japan, unless the doubful Chang Yang $$ (Vol. 4, p. 67) really belong with it. Possibly the Sumpanting 
specimens are referable to lutearia-, the figure given as albipunctata ,(t. c., pi. 4 k, fig. 4) may represent a $ 
aberration of the present species or of lutearia. 
S. confusa Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 3 m, 4 Ea^n). The antennal ciliation is not, as was perhaps implied in my confusa. 
comparison with superciliata, exceptionally long; the hindtarsus, when its base is not covered by the tibial 
pencil, is seen to be of almost exactly the same length as the tibia. The postmedian line of the forewing very 
generally shows an intensification or darkening at each sinus (i. e., at both the folds). 
S. (??) sachalinensis Matsumura (= can didata Mats., nec Schiff.) is said to be close to confusa, but the sachalinen- 
description and figure given indicate the pattern of a small Larentiid (Asthe'nid) and I can scarcely believe SIS - 
that the later generic placing is so nearly correct as the earlier reference to Asthena. Founded on 2 $$ from 
S. Saghalien. 
S. ainoica Matsumura. According to its author “possibly related to confusa”. Antennal ciliation of ainoica. 
the long, hindtibia with long pencil, tarsus % tibia. Cell-spots large, oblong, black; bands brownish, on fore¬ 
wing one, proximal to the cell-spot, broadly excurved at cell and broadest -behind median vein, on hind - 
wing two, the outer one broadest beyond the cell-spot. Mt. Daisetsu, Hokkaido, 8 August 1926. Unknown 
to me. 
S. disclusaria Christ. (5 b). <$ antenna with fascicles of cilia moderate, hindtarsus quite short (consi- disclusaria. 
derably under y 2 tibia). We figure a from Okeanskaja, Ussuri. 
S. pudicaria Motsch. Dr. Djakonov called my attention (in litt., 14 February 1928) to an interesting pudicaria. 
antennal character “not observed in any other species” of this group, the presence, in both sexes, of black 
scaling on the dorsal surface. E. China (Ningpo) can be definitely added to its range, but I am doubtful as 
to the records from Central China. 
S. nupta Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 3 1, 4 m [6]). By the genitalia (cerata shortish, equal, etc.) as well as the lack nupta. 
of the black maculation on the antennal shaft, this cannot be a form of pudicaria, as I earlier assumed. Pos¬ 
sibly I confused with it some small examples of true pudicaria. In any case not a second-brood form; the type 
is not dated, but the most typical dated examples which I have been able to examine show that it is on the 
wing in the Yokohama district in April and May. 
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