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STERRHA. By L. B. Protjt. 
colour and markings with the type figure of camparia (H.-Sch., fig. 465), Wehrli is able to differentiate the 
whitish, strongly marked European form and has named it f. europaea. 
undulata. S. seriata Schrk. ah. undulata Osthelder is a pretty modification of ab. obscura Mill, with distinct broad 
paleacata. pale subterminal line. — ab. loc. paleacata Guen. (= paleaceata Stgr.) (5 k). Oberthur, although he quite cor¬ 
rectly disputed Staudinger's sinking of this name to f. australis Zell., made a far worse muddle of the syn¬ 
onymy, but the identity of true paleacata has recently been cleared up by Dr. Wehrli, who now possesses 
Guenee’s type. Structurally it belongs to the form-circle of australis, but it is differentiable by the stronger, 
more direct series of postmedian dots on the forewing, which are more prolonged into dashes. I have for many 
years known this form, which is, in fact, Mann’s reputed camparia of Corsica (err. det.), but I had not as¬ 
sociated it with Guenee's description and had postponed describing it in the hope of finding some structural 
distinction. Besides Hyeres (loc. typ.), whence most of the largest collections probably possess examples, it is 
known from Marseilles, St. Maxime (Var), Cannes, Corsica, Alassio and Naples, perhaps also Sicily. 
sillemi. S. sillenii Wehrli. “Face dark grey. Vertex white. Costa slightly curved, less than in sarihularia Stgr. 
Apex rather acute. Distal margin of hindwing incised between the radials, at least as strongly as in incisaria. 
Forewing above dirty light grey-white; markings dark grey, nearest conioptera (Vol.4, pi. 7 d), but at once 
distinguishable by the much smaller cell-dot and the possession of a rather broad, weakly dentate median shade, 
continuing as first line of the hindwing, here nearer to the cell-dot, describing a curve round it. Fringes with dark 
streaks and dots at the vein-ends. Underside the same.” Panamik, Nubra Valley, 3350 m, 1 9, 10 July 1929. 
descitaria. S. descitaria Christ. (Vol. 4, pi. 3li). This species and its forms or allies have not yet been satisfactorily 
worked out. In any case conioptera Hmps. is closer to descitaria than was implied in Vol. 4 and Sterneck has 
described 2 JU from Werchne Udinsk (Trans-Baikalia) and larger $ from Ta-tsien-lu which may belong 
either to the one or to the other. 
long aria. S. longaria H.-S. (Vol. 4, pl.4d) reaches eastward through Egypt to Palestine and Syria. The only 
faroulti. form which has received a special name is — faroulti Rothsch. (5 k), founded on examples from Guelt-es-Stel, 
Central Algeria. These are unusually large, and the <$$ more whitish than in the generality of longaria 
sublonga- S. sublongaria Stgr. (Vol. 4, p. 114, pi. 3g). Dr. Sterneck (in lift.) suggests that this is probably nothing 
rm. more than the East Mediterranean race of longaria. If so, the above references to Palestine and Syria should 
be transferred here and some of the distinctions on which we formerly relied for the separation of sublongaria 
break down. 
maronita- S. maronitaria Zerny. Forewing narrow and elongate, but not so long as in longaria; termen of hindwing 
ria - distinctly sinuate at both folds. Yellowish grey, rather copiously dark-irrorated; forewing with basal third of 
costa blackish, cell-dot developed, antemedian and median lines indistinct, angled subcostally, then parallel 
with termen, postmedian strengthened with black dots on costa and veins, subterminal faint, terminal slight, 
interrupted, fringe proximally with distinct black dots; hindwing with cell-dot smaller, the first line (proximal 
to it) straight and distinct, the outer lines weaker. Hindtibia of the thickened, but without pencil, tarsus 
about %; antennal ciliation distinctly longer than in longaria, thus much longer than in infirmaria, to which 
otherwise it bears a resemblance, though the vertex is less white. Collar not darkened. Bscharre, N. Lebanon, 
founded on 5 <$<$. 
allongaia. S. allongata Stgr. (— allongaria Stgr.) (Vol. 4, pi. 3 g). The synonymy, given by Staudinger himself 
in 1901, was accidentally omitted from Vol. 4, and our text was made to read as if Mard.in w r ere the type loca¬ 
lity. Actually, however, the original description and figure (Iris, Vol. 10) were based on a fairly good $ from 
Jerusalem, of which one of the characteristics was the enlarged cell-dot of the hindwing (which, however, is 
not supported by other material). It w r as apparently forgotten two years later when its author described al¬ 
longaria quite independently on three fresh 9 $ from Mardin, which were compared with sublongaria and 
longaria and had the cell-dot of the hindwing nearly lost in the median line. The differentiated light-grey (not 
brownish) costal area of the forewing is mentioned only in the description of allongata. Whether there are two 
differentiable races, I have at present no means of deciding. The allongata of E. Palestine (and reaching Zerka, 
Transjordania), January to March, varies little in the so far as yet known; our figure gives a good idea of 
it, though missing the delicate grey of the costa, which also shows itself narrowly at the distal margin of both 
wings. The 9 can be as dark as the <§, hut (according to Sterneck in litt.) is at times somewhat lighter or 
paulusi. very much lighter. — paulusi form. nov. The Jerusalem 9 (Paulus, 1899) in the Pungeler collection, determined 
by him as belonging to allongata, is not dated, but I suspect is a summer form, measuring not quite 21 mm 
(the typical form 23—26 mm), much paler, with costa and termen virtually concolorous with the ground-colour, 
subterminal shades extremely weak, antemedian and median lines more acutely angulated. Possibly a separate 
species. —• The genitalia refer allongata to the calunetaria group, being quite unlike those of longaria. 
