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and Staudinger as caricaria, probably also the Saghalien (Matsumura) should be referred here. Differs from 
leuraria Prout (Vol. 4, p. 69) in its smaller size and much longer hindtarsus. — chinensis Sterneck, described as chinensis. 
a race of immutata with the 1st line of the hindwing more proximally placed and the terminal dots better deve¬ 
loped, especially on the hinclwing, is evidently the first-brood form of klaphecki. Paratypes from Pekin, June 
and early July, show no appreciable difference therefrom excepting their considerably larger size and at Tientsin 
cliinensis occurs in June and typical klaphecki in August. Sterneck records also one 3 of chinensis from Ta- 
tsien-lu. 
S. immutata L. ( = caespitaria Bsd.) ab. atra Rid. Upperside almost completely blackened, only a utru. 
longitudinal dash (containing the cell-dot) and the dentate subterminal remaining white. Progar, Slavonia, 
the type unique. —- ab. coarctata V. Schultz. Antemedian and median lines so closely approximated as almost coarctata. 
to form a narrow band. Luneburg Heath, a 3- 
S. contramutata Protit (5 b). Smaller than immutata (21 — 24 mm), hindtarsus of the 3 relatively some- contramu- 
what longer (about % tibia). The characteristic shape of the hindwing somewhat more accentuated. Colour 
more tinged with ochreous, lines fairly thick, the dentate form of the postmedian and its inward curve between 
the radials always well noticeable. Forewing beneath less uniformly infuscatecl than in most immutata, the 
markings standing out more distinctly. Founded on a series from Chabarovsk, Ussuri Railway, June, July 
and August. Others since seen from the Amur-Ussuri district. 
S. corrivalaria Kretschmar (Vol. 4, pi. 4 k). This local species has also been found in Belgium (Hautrage), corrivala- 
Marne, S. W. France and Upper Austria and there is one record for Zurich. The egg has been carefully describ¬ 
ed and figured by Rucker (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1920, p. 175). — Bentinck has described the Limburg race 
in detail. “Brownish bone-white, finely dusted with black; the lines clay-brown. The underside of the forewing 
is strongly dark-dusted. The colour of the wing in the N. German examples is much browner, or even yellow- 
brown, not bone-colour; the lines are darker, the underside of the forewing less strongly dusted." This Lim¬ 
burg form may be named — limburgensis form. nov. It should be added that a specimen from Hengelo (Over- limburgen- 
ursel) agreed entirely with the name-typical North German race. —- eccletica subsp. nov. (5 b) has also generally sis - 
a yellow-brownish tone; the underside shows several distinctions from the European forms, though the varia¬ 
bility renders a diagnosis difficult; cell-dots nearly always enlarged, median shade generally near them, the 
space between median and postmedian widened; proximal subterminal shade macular or very weak, distal 
always slight. Ussuri. 
S. pseudocorrivalaria Wehrli (5 b) is described as very similar to corrivalaria, but with the 3 genitalia pseudocor- 
specifically distinct from that, from ignobilis, immutata and nigropunctata and its forms; smaller aird greyer rivalaria. 
than corrivalaria with only a faint yellowish tone, more strongly grey dusted, the lines likewise grey, the me¬ 
dian shade of the forewing distinctly more oblique, which is shown still more strongly on the underside. An¬ 
tennal ciliation shorter than in corrivalaria (= 1); tarsus about equally long. Shanghai, Lienping, Kwanfung, 
Mokanshan and Kiangsi. 
S. pallida Warr. perhaps occurs also in Szechuan. Sterneck lias recorded, but with some doubt regard- pallida. 
ing the determination, 2 9$ from Ta-tsien-lu; as, however, they lack the cell-dot. of the hindwing they wall 
probably prove to represent a different though nearly related species. 
S. nitidissima Prout (5 c). Larger than pallida, purer white and still more glossy; lines almost obsolete, nitidissi- 
the postmedian and sometimes the median discernible with attention; cell-dots as in pallida ; terminal dots ma - 
wanting or minute. Kashmir Valley and Kulu, at altitudes of about 7000 feet. 
S. coniaria Prout. This South Japanese species is also very doubtfully recorded from West China; in coniaria. 
any case the 3 hindtarsus (as in this Kwanhsien relative) is about half as long as the tibia. I am inclined to 
regard the true coniaria as a straggler from the Indo-Australian Region; for I believe that the insect from the 
Riu-Kiu Islands described as S. okinawensis is really identical with it, or at most a race. 
S. epiorrhoe sp. n. (5 c). Smaller (the typical series 24—-25 mm), antennal ciliation of 3 perhaps slightly epiorrhoe. 
longer in proportion, hindtibia of 3 long, with strong pencils, tarsus extremely short ( 1 / 5 or less). Wings with 
the irroration rather more regular and more brownish (in coniaria with some black-grey admixture); cell-dots 
less minute, sharply black; median and postmedian lines browner, rather more sinuous, the postmedian with 
somewhat deeper lunules; terminal markings more evenly expressed throughout (in coniaria inclined to fade 
away posteriorly); postmedian on underside farther from the termen. Satsuma, May 1886 (Leech), 2 33 and 
2 2$ (in the British Museum). A few others merely labelled “Japan”, the largest 3 (here figured) only 2 or 
3 mm less in expanse than the smallest coniaria. Second-brood examples, from Tsu-shima and Kagoshima, July, 
August and perhaps still later (in the Tring Museum), are very small, 20—-21 mm. 
