STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
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to associate them. The very small size is not important, for we now known that a large number of Sterrha pro¬ 
duce pygmies in the 2nd or 3rd brood; moreover, I have before me 2 $<$ from Limassol, Cyprus, with a 
forewing length of 9—10 mm, collected in April, while the minute forms from the same locality are dated 
August to November. The best character, in addition to shape, gloss and obsolescence of lines, is in the $ 
hindleg: tibia with pencil, tarsus subtriangularly expanded, much as in jilicata, to which, in spite of its very 
different appearance, it is probably related. Antennal ciliation of <$ rather short. Forewing beneath, at least 
in the first generation, suffused with grey. In the Vienna Museum I saw this species standing as ‘ uniformis 
Stgr.”, but it has nothing whatever to do with that species (see Brachyglossina staudingeri, below). Wehrli 
mentions the occurrence of a reddish aberration in the Amanus or Antitaurus Mountains; these and the Le¬ 
banon are the best-known localities, the reputed type-locality (Crete) awaiting confirmation. Culot has figured 
as troglodytaria, from Mesopotamia, a small and obscure grey $ of the obsoletaria- group. The Syrian “ mono,- 
daria”, mentioned by mein Vol. 4 (p. 126) were, at least in part, poor specimens ($) of the species now deter¬ 
mined as troglodytaria. 
S. oberthuri I). Luc. (7 b). “Expanse 16 mm. The wings rounded, bone-colour; nearly unicolorous, with obertkuri. 
very fine but distinct discoidal dots. Fringes rather long, of the ground-colour. The costal region is a little darker. 
The characteristic lines of Acidalia (Sterrha) are indistinct, though the specimen described is quite fresh; they 
are faintly perceptible in the outer part of the wings. Underside unicolorous, yellowish white; discoidal dots 
indistinct.” Founded on 2 from Kairouan, Tunis, September 1910. Culot considers it “very near troglo¬ 
dytaria and distinctaria.” 
S. ruficostata Z. (= grisea Th.-Mieg). The collective species which is generally called incarnaria H.-Sch. ruficostata. 
was described 3 years earlier by Zeller, from “Tlos, Asia Minor” ( ? Tilos, in the Aegean). — gen. autumnalis auiumnalis. 
Schivingenschuss , collected in the autumn at Gravosa and believed to be the 3rd brood, is distinguished only 
by its smaller size (as 7: 10). It occurs in both the type form and ab. incarnaria. — ab.( ?) distinctaria Bsd. (7 a), distinctaria. 
The type and a quite similar example “ex Mus. Guen.” have been examined by Wehrli who reports them 
manifestly incarnaria, scarcely different from gen. autumnalis. Unfortunately both have lost the abdomen. 
The figure does not sufficiently bring out the lighter costa which is shown by the type; the terminal line of the 
underside is developed. 
S. eugeniata Mill. ab. loc. speudodegeneraria Wehrli (= pseudodegeneraria Wehrli) is a grey, slightly speudodege- 
hrown-tinged form, with blackish band between antemedian and median lines of the forewing above and beneath, neraria. 
somewhat recalling degeneraria Hb. ; i. e. a less reddish sub-aberration of ab. jacobsi Prout. Founded on 2 CS and 
1 $ from Granada, in the vicinity of the Alhambra, where grey rather than reddish eugeniata are in the ascendant. 
— algeriaca Culot (7 a), the Algerian race, is variable, bub generally large, almost always brown rather than algeriaca. 
reddish or grey. The banded aberration, corresponding to ab. jacobsi , is of occasional occurrence amongst it. 
It should be added that I have seen some equally large examples from Portugal, but these generally retain the 
red colour of the type form. 
8. helianthemata Mill. ab. depravata nov. (6 d). I have examined a long and variable series from the depravata. 
Constant collection and can fully corroborate the statements of Milliere quoted in Vol. 4, p. 121. Except¬ 
ing the less perfectly rounded hindwing, the less pure white vertex and perhaps the less glossy scaling, some 
examples could easily he mistaken for very warmly coloured aberrations of obsoletaria. Ignoring minor variation 
in ground-colour, I refer all which have the black median band obsolete to ab. depravata. 
S. substramiraata Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 7 d). Further Spanish material is now known, particularly from subsirami- 
Albarracin, July and the beginning of August. Dr. Seitz discovered it at Philippeville, Algeria, in mid-June nata. 
1913, including an example similar in colour to helianthemata ab. depravata, and it has since been taken in a 
few other Algerian localities (Blida Glaciers and some parts of Oran) and perhaps in Morocco. 
S. ostrinaria Him. ab. purpuraria Trti. (= oenoparia Pung.) (Vol. 4, pi. 3 h, as oenopararia). This almost purpuraria. 
unicolorous purple aberration was, as is definitely stated in Vol. 4, p. 122, described by Turati prior to the 
publication of Pungeler’s description; the appearance of a non-binomial figure in 1912 does not validate the 
name oenopararia, much less oenoparia. — ab. lutea nov. is pure yellow, hindwing quite uniform, forewing with lutea. 
the postmedian slender, the dark shade beyond it very weak and restricted. Teddors, Morocco a $ in the 
Tring Museum. -— ab. eucrines nov. (6 d). Ground-colour also rather pale, but with complete dark borders, that eucrines. 
of the forewing intensive, that of the hindwing broad. El Biar, Algiers, a $ from the Holl collection, now 
at Tring. 
S. korbi Pung. (= korbiae Arnold), founded on a $ from a pine-forest near Cuei^a (Castile) and pro- korbi. 
visionallv referred to the vicinity of ostrinaria, though the palpus is much shorter, is ash-grey, densely scaled, 
with very fine black irroration; cell-dots distinct, lines thick, blackish, weakly dentate, antemedian of forewing 
bluntly broken near costa, postmedian almost straight, continued on hindwing, fringes grey, with dark dots. 
Underside lighter grey, with weaker cell-dots but darker fringes; postmedian present. More robust than cap- 
naria Pi'mg., cleaner grey, with much thicker lines, distinct cell-dots, etc. 
