eburnata. 
obscura. 
domestica. 
joannisiata. 
ibericata. 
autuninalis. 
rusicadaria. 
dimegl io- 
naria. 
sriginaria. 
tripartita. 
striolaia. 
pectinata. 
medioum¬ 
braria. 
met oh iensis. 
reisseri. 
fuscalata. 
56 STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
S. eburnata Wocke. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 cas contiguaria). As occasional doubts have been cast on the occurrence 
of true eburnata in the Iberian Peninsula, it may be mentioned that the Tring Museum has examples from 
San Ildefonso, Segovia, rather whitish and sharply marked, i. e. subsp. pallidaria A. Fuchs if tenable, but very 
like the Pyrenean and lightest Swiss forms, which are considered as name-typical. In an interesting article on 
the variability, recently published, Klimesch has pointed out that the race from Lower Austria differs appreciably 
from that of the Tyrol, the former being of a much deeper straw-yellow shade w r ith the markings more accentuated, 
while the Tyrolese, which cpiite agree with the Swiss form from the Col du Simplon, have a much paler yellow 
ground-colour and are less sharply marked, especially in the outer area. — ab. obscura A. Fuchs. To this 
moderately darkened form Culot has cited as a synonym grisescens Obth. , but I cannot find that the latter name 
has been published elsewhere. — ab. domestica Klimesch (5i). This name has been given to a very extreme form 
which appeared suddenly (6 2 $$) in the sixth generation in inbreeding from normal Lower-Austrian (Diirn- 
stein) Both wings unicolorous blackish, with white subterminal spots (those at both folds large) and 
terminal dots intenser black. The ab. fusculata is merely yellowish smoke-grey, with the markings weak, but 
not entirely obsolete. 
S. joannisiata Homberg (5 i) (Vol. 4, p. 110). We are now able to figure a paratype. The Moncayo 
which I recorded (Vol. 4, p. 106) as consolidata, although recognizing that it fitted Homberg’s description, 
belongs quite definitely to joannisiata. — ibericata Wehrli (6 i). Vertex less whitish than in consolidata, £ an¬ 
tenna darker, wings more glossy, the lines of the forewing more dark-marked at hind margin than at costa, 
the distal maculation somewhat less strong, etc. According to Wehrli (in litt.) darker, browner, in the distal 
area more sharply and copiously marked than typical joannisiata. Sierra Nevada (1500 m). 
8. consolidata Led. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 d) ab autuninalis Schwingenschuss, collected in in the autumn of 1923 
in Gravosa and no doubt a regular autumn-brood form, is smaller and somewhat whiter. 
8. lib grata Bartel (Vol. 4, pi. 3f) ab. rusicadaria Andreas. Uniform pale brown, with the median area 
of the forewing about twice as narrow, usually with the costal spots united into a large black spot. —- ab. 
dimeglionaria Andreas. Uniform dark grey-brown, the dark markings nearly obsolete, the pale subterminal spots 
strikingly conspicuous. — ab. sriginaria Andreas. All the dark markings much more sharply expressed than in 
the type form. All these 3 aberrations occur in the Philippeville district, the last-named on the promontory 
opposite Srigina I. 
8. vesubiata Mill. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 c) ab. tripartita Wehrli. Both wings strongly darkened in the distal 
area, moderately also in the basal. Found both at Col St. Martin (Vesubie) and Digue. 
S. striolata Stgr. Dr. Wehrli has examined the type of this little-known species, which is said to come 
from Beyrout. He thinks that the two following ( pectinata and medioumbraria) may possibly be forms of it. 
The wing-shape and the subpectinate $ antenna in any case suggest a relationship with the former, although 
Staudinger describes his types as dark violet-grey, comparable to the colour of eburnata var. obscura, and \ 
figures it with a forewing length of 12 mm. 
S. pectinata Sterneclc (5 i). Length of a forewing 9.5 to 10.5 mm. Colour light ochreous brown, a little 
lighter than in average obsoletaria , markings much weaker than in striolata, cell-dots present, dots on fringe 
generally wanting, though they are developed in one A before me. Antenna of <$ with 2 pairs of long, very 
slender, well-ciliate pectinations on each joint except apically. Hindtibia of $ greatly dilated, with strong 
hair-pencil, tarsus about 1 Only known from the country about the Dead Sea. 
S. medioumbraria Trti., founded on a single example (X $) from Sidi Messri, Tripoli, has about the 
size of the preceding. Compared in colour to “ turbidaria turbulentaria” (so perhaps a Scopula ?), but distinguished 
by the oblique band formed by union of antemedian and median, in which stands the minute black cell-dot; 
postmedian more crenulate, subterminal shades indicated, black terminal line distinct, fringe concolorous with 
wings. On Wehrli's suggestion, see striolata. 
S. metohiensis Bbl. (5 i) has been taken in great abundance at Zengg, Croatia, from the end of May 
to the beginning of July, and may now r rank among the well-known species. Very distinct in its glossy white 
ground-colour; subterminal line less irregular than in cervantaria, postmedian of hindwing rarely so close to 
the cell-dot; median shade of forewing not rarely obsolete in its anterior part, which explains Rebel's description 
of it as “uniting with the inner line". 
S. reisseri Prdht (= lupicolaria Beisser nec Mill.). Closely similar to some forms of cervantaria. Antenna 
of the $ with shorter ciliation. £ hindtibia a little less thickened, apparently with less strong pencil, tarsus relatively 
a little longer. Forewing with the apex slightly more acute. <$ genitalia with the valve produced into a long 
arm ventrally, appreciable distinctions also in the uncus and aedoeagus. Variable, the whitish yellow ground¬ 
colour more or less densely irrorated with dark scaling, the markings not very sharp. — ab. fuscalata Beisser 
