STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. gracilipennis Warr. has fortunately been re-cliscovered in the Northern Lebanon (Bscharre and Brou- grarUi- 
mana) and the Taurus (Marasch). The type, erroneously published as from “Beyrut”, also came from the Le¬ 
banon (see Zerny, Iris, Vol. 47, p. 89). Variable, the reddish irroration sometimes forming no lines, sometimes 
with median (weakly dentate, crossing the discocellulars of the forewing and ending at 3 / 5 hinchnargin) and 
similarly formed postmedian, both continued on the hindwing, and with a costal spot to represent the antemedian 
of the forewing. — ab. rubrolineata Schwingenschuss has the red-brown of the costal margin intensified, espe- rvbroli 
cially proximally, the antemedian line complete, the postmedian of the forewing and the median of the hind¬ 
wing strongly developed (the former particularly sharp), the red on the underside of the forewing likewise strong. 
S. pallidata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 d). Derenne (Lambillionea, Vol. 31, p. 114) has recorded this from pallidata. 
Belgium, a westward extension of its previously known range. As regards argilataGuen., which — on account of 
the comparison made by Bellier (see Vol. 4, p. 115) — has hitherto been associated with pallidata, we have now 
removed it to a position between nitidata and deversaria. 
S. sylvestraria Him. (= straminata Tr.). A further synonym, overlooked in Vol. 4, is grammicaria Bsd., sylvestra- 
given to escape homonymy with sylvestrata, which Boisduval unjustifiably changed into sylvestraria. Our rU1, 
figure (Vol. 4, pi. 4 d, as straminata) represents the typical form; we now figure an English A of ab. loc. cir- 
cellata Guen. (5 k). — minuta Heydemann, from Amrum Island , Rendsburg and the coast of Holland, is a small, minuta. 
narrow-winged race of a lighter bone-colour. 
S. mancipiata Stgr. Notwithstanding the amount of collecting which has been done in Spain of re- mancipiata. 
cent years, this remains a little-known species and we have not been able to obtain a figure of the name- 
typical form; in fact I have never yet seen a Spanish example. It may be added here that the second men¬ 
tion of mancipiata in Vol. 4 (p. 122) was printed, in the German edition, in the wrong type and with a marginal 
reference, thus giving a false impression that we were dealing with a second species of the same name. 
S. laevigata Scop. (Vol. 4, pi. 4d). Some further records for western Europe have been made of recent laevigata. 
years. Belgium: Molenstede, several specimens; England: Durham, larvae, evidently introduced, probably in 
cocoa-nut fibre, but successfully bred in this country. —• ab. fuscovittata Dannehl. Greyer, darkened with blackish fuscovit- 
from the antemedian line to about the middle of the median area, so as to form a dark band. Michelsberg, near 
Hermannstadt, occurring in both generations. — ab. storae Andreas is black-brown, almost without markings storae. 
and was bred in some numbers from Stora, Algeria. Perhaps a Mendelian form, but unfortunately the progeny of 
the crossings obtained by Andreas does not seem to have been analysed statistically. — ab. totanigra Andreas, totanigra. 
obtained in smaller numbers from the same source, is, as its name implies, a more extreme development, black 
instead of brown. —- ab. parvipunctata Andreas, perhaps an “ab. domestica”, was also bred in small numbers, parvipunc- 
in inbreeding from ab. storae. “Entirely markingless, of quite uniform brown colour, both wings with a fine 
discal dot”. Without a knowledge of its ancestry, this form would scarcely have been recognizable except 
by structural characters. — ab. suffusa Harrison is described as melanochroic, “strongly suffused, especially suffusa. 
towards the termen, with blackish scales.” — ab. johnsoni Harrison has the ground-colour honey-yellow, in¬ 
stead of the reddish ochre of the typical form. Both these latter aberrations were bred at Durham. —• ab. ro¬ 
seate. F. Wagn. Larger than the type, more deeply coloured, with a bright rosy gloss, markings strong. Founded 
on a bred series from Cornul, Jud. Prahora, Roumania. If, as is suspected, this is a subspecies and if the 
same applies also to dimidiata f. roseata Trti. (see Vol. 4, p. 99), the present form must be re-named. 
S. euphorbiata Balestre (7 a). Of this little-known species, ofwhich the original description wasquoted euphorbia- 
in Vol. 4, p. 139, we are now able to reproduce Culot's figure. Evidently, as the last-named author says, the 
relationship to laevigata is very close, but the antemedian line is more excurved, the median shade obsolete, 
the cell-dot weak. 
S. incalcarata Chret. (= disjunctaria Stgr., nec Walk.) (7 b). The two accounts given (at secondhand) incalcarata. 
on pp. 118 and 151 of Vol. 4 evidently refer, as Zerny has shown, to the same species. My challenge to the 
Staudinger-Rebel suggestion “praec. sp. ab. V’ was therefore justified, but it now occurs to me that “praec.” 
was perhaps a misprint for “seq .” (attenuaria). Staudinger's type must have had an unusually weakly mark¬ 
ed underside; normally, at least at Albarracin (a third locality for the species), this shows on both wings a 
very distinct, dentate postmedian. 
S. injirmaria Rmb. ab. lucia Schawerda. Upperside almost entirely carmine-red, only on the hindwing — lucia. 
especially in the basal part — with sparse black scales; lines still more intensive red. Corsica. May perhaps be 
sunk to carnearia Mann, also from Corsica, described as “flesh-reddish.” — Schawerda correctly points out 
that the typical aquitanaria Const, is yellow-grey, with bright red lines, though its author included also redder aquitana- 
aberrations among it. The life-history of this race (if such it be) has been very fully described by Chretien. ™- 
The egg is ellipsoid, short and broad', compressed on two sides, the polygonal depressions very irregular, rather 
large and deep; white, red-tinted at the micropylar pole. Larva w'hen first hatched very slender, slightly thicken¬ 
ed posteriorly, vitreous grey, with 4 reddish brown dorsal lines and rosy spiracular flange; tubercles indis- 
tata. 
johnsoni. 
roseata. 
