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think Spain should be deleted from the list of localities, while Algeria (at least some eastern stations) may be 
added. In Oran and Morocco the forms are generally more reddish and coarsely marked, temporarily referable 
to isabeilaria, perhaps a new race, perhaps (as Wehrli has indicated) phases of philipparia Prout. But a very 
large series of the African forms, and from very many localities, will need to he brought together and analyzed 
before their great variability can be clearly understood. Ghretien took larvae frequently at Gafsa, feeding on 
the leaves of Fagonia cretica, Anarrhinum brevifolium and even Salvia aegyptiaca, and confirms the absence 
of the free tongue-case of the pupa which is found in rufomixtata. — asellaria H.-Sch. (= insularis Wehrli) asellaria. 
(5 f), from Corsica, is small, sharply marked, grey-brownish. Herrich-Schaeffer’s figure, which was long 
misidentified (see Vol. 4, p. 107), seems to represent an aberration with the median line strongly angled near 
the costa. Sardinien specimens are slightly transitional towards romanaria. ■ — semitata Prout. The suggestion semitata. 
that this might be a separate species has not hitherto been substantiated. Similar forms occur on Cyprus. Variable. 
— - taurica Wehrli is considerably darker, the scaling not “fluted”, but agrees with semitata in its strong black taurlca. 
costal spots. Marasch, Taurus. 
G. tripolitana Trti. “Expanse in A and $ 23 mm.” Apex of forewing rather acute in the distal margin tripoUtana. 
more rounded in the $. Whitish, with extremely fine yellowish irroration (less intense than in romanaria), mark¬ 
ings sandy ochreous, the irregular subterminal shades less strong in the $ than in the dd- “Antenna finely 
ciliate in the <§.” Hindtibia of the d with a single, long spur. Tongue moderately long. Founded on 2 dd and 1 ? 
from Sidi Mesri, April 1925. Excepting the reduced irroration and the “brown, not black” cell-dots, mentioned 
by Tfrati, and apparently the lack of black costal spots at the origin of the lines, I can point to no distinctions 
from asellaria, of which it may well be a further race. 
G. romanarioides Rothsch. (5 f). We figure one of the original series from Oued Mya, Central Sahara, romanarioi- 
All the known examples are small, the length of a forewing in the largest $ being 9.5 mm. An additional distinc- rles - 
tion from asellaria , not mentioned in Vol. 4, p. 416, is that the face is pale, while in most Glossotrophia it is 
strongly irrorated or almost entirely covered with dark scales. 
19. Genus: Holarctias Prout 
In addition to the characters on which this genus was founded, Dr. Sterneck (in lift.) separates it 
from Scopula by the lack of the cerata (horns of 8th sternite in d) and by the socii (lateral arms of the d uncus), 
which are here broad, with parallel sides, longish, rounded.” 
H. rufinaria Stgr. (= rufociliaria Brem.) (5 f). Dr. Sterneck has pointed out sufficient differences in rufinarla. 
the uncus to justify our regarding this as a separate species: central point not erect, socii less dentate, shortly 
rounded and without pronounced lobe on the outer side (vestige of gnathos?). The name of rufinaria , given in 
place of the preoccupied rufularia Ev., has 3 years' priority over rufociliaria. We figure a d from Apfelgebirge, 
Transbaikalia. — rufinularia Stgr. appears to agree almost exactly in structure with rufinaria, but has the d rufinularia. 
hindtarsus about as long as the tibia, while Sterneck's measurements give “about 2/ 3 ” f° r sentinaria and rufi¬ 
naria-, as, however, tibia and tarsus are of almost equal length in all the Holarctias which I have examined, I 
suspect some mistake here. 
20. Genus: Oar Prout. 
0. pratana F. oppressa Walk. (= obscuraria B.-Bak.) (5 f.). This dark form, in which should probably oppressa. 
be merged nigrescens Hmpsn. and mortuaria Stgr., was described under the name oppressa in 1870, thus 24 years 
prior to the name obscuraria. The type was from the Egyptian Sudan, obscuraria type from Egypt, nigrescens 
from Aden, mortuaria from Palestine. —■ occidens subsp. n. (5 g) is of a brighter brown than pratana, the shade occidens. 
proximally to the subterminal of forewing stronger and broader, so as to reduce the white boundary of the 
postmedian to a mere line. Perregaux, Oran, October 1915, the type series in the Tring Museum; also from 
Taoixrirt, July 1918. 
21. Genus: Stigma Alph. 
Here again the d genitalia supply further structural distinctions from the adjacent genera. As in Hol- 
arctias and Oar, the cerata are wanting, but the fibula are of the “ Ustocidalia ” type and the valve and uncus 
show a combination of characters which has not yet been met with elsewhere. 
S. kuldschaensis Alph. negrita Th.-Mieg (5 g). We figure a d of this form from Juldus. negrita. 
22. Genus: Cinglis Guen. 
Notwithstanding its specialised venation, it seems clear that this genus belongs with the present 
group; in any case certainly not with Cosymbia. The mappa and cerata are present as in Scopula, indeed most 
ol its anatomical characters may be found in one or another member of that genus, though the short fascicle- 
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