STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
litigiosaria and the original description speaks of a slight “sea-greenish gloss”. I am therefore unable to restore 
the name here. Under the name of geministrigata, Drenoavski has recently recorded determinata from Bulgaria; 
jusciata. Rebel <k Zerny add Albania. —- ab. fasciata Stgr. (= kammeli Stauder) (5 g), the former described from the 
Taurus as a species, the latter from S. Italy, where the form is not rare, is a prettily handed form, correspond¬ 
ing to the ah. consecrata of consanguinaria. 
mutilata. S. mutilata Stgr. If this, as was suggested in Vol. 4, is really another form of determinata, it may help 
to solve some of the difficulties mentioned above regarding the acceptance of the name nitidulata. The yellow¬ 
ish grey tone in poor specimens might well indicate a sea-green gloss when fresh; the median line would be 
proved variable and the strong terminal dashes might in extreme cases suggest a continuous line. 
sardoniata. S. sardoniata Homberg ( = concordaria Piing.) (Vol. 4, pi. 3 f). The name of concordaria was not published 
binomially until long after sardoniata. A further Spanish locality is Albarracin. 
debitiata. S. debiliata Sterneck. “15 and 16 mm.” Related to lambessata (Vol. 4, pi. 4 b), apex of forewing somewhat 
more pointed. A antennal filiation extremely fine and short. Veins 6 and 7 of hindwing stalked to about 1 A 
Whitish grey with only a slight yellowish tinge; markings light grey, the lines weak, especially the antemedian; 
median almost straight; postmedian not dentate, oblique outward from costa, then curved, at the 3rd radial 
somewhat excurved, otherwise almost straight to the hindmargin; subterminal not very distinct, its distal 
shade only in the anterior half weakly visible; terminal line faint, but almost continuous. Hindwing with the 
markings more distinct and sinuous. Both,wings with distinct cell-dot. Forewing beneath somewhat darkened. 
The A genitalia have much in common with the lambessata group, but have an additional (third) spike or 
minute prong on the valve and a vesica more suggestive of the sericeata group. Recently discovered by Messrs. 
Zerny and Schwingenschuss in the Moroccan Great Atlas, the type series from the Goundafa district, 1200 m, 
latter half of June; a larger A from Tachdirt, 2300—2700m at the end of Jxdy. 
ftavidior. S. mediaria Hbn. flavidior Rothsch. Proposed for the Algerian form, under the impression that it was 
more yellowish than the European, but I cannot see that this holds to any appreciable extent, and if the race 
(which is not uncommon at Guelt-es-Stel) is differentiable it may very likely be on other characters. 
renataria. S. renataria Ob. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 b) is on the wing from about the 20th of April till the third or fourth 
week in May. In addition to having a wide range in Algeria, it is now known to extend as far eastward as Sidi 
Mesri, Tripoli. 
bentjasiaria. S. bengasiaria Trti. (5 g). Near renataria but more densely irrorated, forewing with a shade and a 
line between base and cell-dot, both wings with median line much less thickened, the line outside the (very 
slender) postmedian less regular, on the hindwing strongly broadened. Cyrenaica. 
sericeata. S. sericeata Hb. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 b). Very variable geographically, some of the forms so nearly intergrading 
between the type and allardiata as to suggest that the latter is nothing more than a very specialised race of it. 
albomargi- —ab. albomarginata Zervy. The brown band outside the subterminal wanting on the hindwing, on the foreAving 
nata. reduced to vein-streaks (the A type, from Albarracin) or entirely wanting (a fine 2 of the form allardiata from 
solida. Lambeze, Algeria in the British Museum, ex coll. Bleuse). — ab. solids nov. Forewing with the 3 lines of the 
median area united into an almost solid band, only with some very slight indications of the pale interspaces here 
and there; the white band beyond it rather broad, not quite so sinuous as in the type; subterminal also fairly 
strong and regular. Founded on 2 A A from Helenendorf, Transcaucasia, both in the British Museum; they are the 
only specimens 1 have seen from that district and will, I suspect, prove to be a local race or at least a recurrent 
aberration; but I have seen one somewhat similar example from Switzerland. (Vissoye) and Reisser has 
wehrlii. recently recorded one from Austria. —- ab. wehrlii Prout (= caUaria Wehrli, nec Lah.) is a large form from 
the Sierra Nevada, Andalusia (up to about 2000 m), especially Monte Calvario, with broader white bands, 
weaker-marked hindwing and generally light underside; median white band of forewing, in particular, often 
altivolaria. much widened posteriorly. — altivolaria Bubacek (5 g), from the Mountains of Corsica, also from Sardinia, is the 
antithesis to wehrlii, medium-sized or small, the white bands narrowed, particularly the one outside the post- 
extrema. median and sometimes the subterminal. — ab. extrema Bubacek is almost unicolorous brown, the white bands 
subrecta, being almost entirely suppressed. Rare among typical altivolaria. — subrecta subsp. nov. (5 g). Bands straighter, 
particularly the brown postmedian of the forewing and the white band outside it, thus approaching those rare 
forms of allardiata in which the median area is broadened and white-centred. It retains, however, the olivaceous 
tinge of European sericeata and has not the breadth of the two outer white bands (postmedian and subterminal) 
which characterizes almost all true allardiata. Morocco, the type series from the Great Atlas. 
voltoni. S. volloni D. Luc. 6s J. Joan. (= macraria Trti., nec Stgr.) (5 h) has no really near relationship to fath- 
maria, which, on account of the A hindleg structure, has to be removed from the section Sterrha; volloni, how¬ 
ever, probably also deserves a section apart, as the costal vein of the hind.Avdng anastomoses strongly with the 
subcostal, as in the otherwise unrelated African lilliputaria Warr., etc. (see Vol. 16, p. 81). The account of the 
