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STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
expandata. 
inquinata. 
incompta- 
ria. 
mediofas- 
ciata. 
adherbaria- 
ta. 
banghaasi. 
affinitata. 
holliata. 
ronieii. 
fathmaria. 
caluneta¬ 
ria. 
baeticaria. 
episticta. 
fuscularia. 
maxima. 
dorycniata. 
S. circuitaria Him. ab. expandata Dannehl. Median band much broadened outward, reaching the post- 
median line; pale subterminal line reduced to quite small dots. All the brown parts appear deeper in colour than 
in the type. Founded on 3 specimens from Mt. Sirente, ca. 1100 m. 
S. inquinata Scop. (= herbariata F., pusillaria Hbn., microsaria B-sd.) (Vol. 4, pi. 4e, as kerbariata). 
I have re-examined the question of the status of Scopoli's inquinata (1763) and conclude that Werneburg is 
right and that the said name, with 35 years'priority, must supplant Fabricius - more distinctive name. Although 
at home chiefly in the Mediterranean countries, it continues to reach the Netherlands, Great Britain, etc., 
periodically among dry plants and is only too easy to breed. F. Auerbach has recorded breading it ex ovo in 
a pill-box 5 cm in diameter X 2 cm in height and A. Schmidt added a note on the way in which it breeds itself 
indoors (Int. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 19, pp 305, 345). More recently (1931) its biology and morphology have been 
more fully treated of by Candura. - — ab. (?) imcomptaria Bsd. should be mentioned here, in accordance with 
a reference in Staudinger’s Catalog of 1871. “Somewhat related to microsaria. Both wings whitish yellow, 
somewhat irrorated, with 4 very sinuous parallel bands and an apical strigula fuscous; underside unmarked”. 
S. France in June. — ab. mediofasciata Bubacek, described from Corsica, has a more definitely developed 
dark-brown transverse median band on the forewing. — adherbariata Stgr. Turati and Zanon, in recording 
this race ( ?) from Cyrenaica, treat it as a species, but perhaps by mere oversight, as no explanatory comment is 
made. Wehrli notes 3 from Syria (Marasch and Akbes) which agree essentially with the types, but show a 
(very weak) postmedian beneath. 
S. banghaasi Prout (= fimbriata B.-Haas, nec Warr.) may probably have to be sunk to adherbariata. 
S. affinitata B.-Haas (6 d) Dr. Zerny records this as not rare at Bscharre (northern Lebanon) at the 
end of June and beginning of July. The darkening of the basal half of the forewing proves to be inconstant. The 
genitalia are indistinguishable from those of inquinata , of which Zerny thinks it may be a form. —■ f. (?) hol¬ 
liata Homberg (7 b), of which Zerny collected 6 <$<$ and 1 $ with affinitata, shows, according to his series, only 
the following differences: ground-colour dirty white or yellowish white rather than clay-yellow or clay-brown, 
decidedly thicker and more distinct costal marks as beginnings of the 2 lines and more distinct whitish sub¬ 
terminal. My two Akbes holliata, one of which (here figured) is a paratype kindly presented by the author him¬ 
self, bear out the colour distinction but show a quite distinct subterminal and one of them (a small aberration) 
the thickened costal marks. A slip in the German translation of Vol. 4 (p. 125) has made it appear that the <$ 
hindtarsus is much “more” aborted than in inquinata, whereas the opposite is actually the case. 
S. romeii Trti. (6 d). Only known to me in the $; shoidd the $ prove 2-spurred, it may be placed next 
to merklaria, with which its author compared it. Longer winged, the hindwing with sinuous termen; colder grey, 
the white bands narrower (better described as lines), the very long fringes with a white line at base and another 
in the middle, the grey area between marked with fairly strong dark dots. Areole well developed, 2nd radial of 
forewing from before middle of discocellulars. Cyrenaica: Sidi Mesri, etc., chiefly in March and April. 
S. fathmaria Ob. (= millieri Rothsch.) (Vol. 4, pi. 4 d). It was by some oversight (or perhaps an assump¬ 
tion that it had some real relationship with volloni, with which it has sometimes been associated, or even con¬ 
fused) that this species was placed in the section Sterrha (Vol. 4, p. 96). Actually, the hindleg of the <$ is quite 
short and weak, without spurs. The early stages are unknown (see volloni). millieri Rothsch. ( Tephroclystia), 
from Guelt-es-Stel, seems absolutely synonymous. 
S. calunetaria Stgr. (= callunata Rmb.). Careful attention has recently been given to the group where¬ 
of this may be considered the type and it has been pretty well disentangled by Dr. Wehrli in particular. The 
original, from Chiclana, Andalusia, differs from the species which has so long borne the name (see dorycniata) 
in the lack of the dark collar, the less extremely oblique antemeclian line, etc. — The Algeciras examples known 
to me are all very white, ab. (?) baeticaria Zerny (6 cl), while the name-typical form showed a grey admixture. 
—- episticta Wehrli (6 c), founded on a large series from Algiers and a <$ from Chabat el Hamma, Morocco, 
also known from Oran, is a darkened race, more recalling mareotica, from which it is easily distinguishable 
by the much shorter antennal ciliation, shorter hindtarsus, more strongly bent postmedian and differently 
shaped hindwing. — fuscularia Trti. (6 e). Postmedian and subterminal less irregular, thus still more similar to 
mareotica-, as the antennal ciliation seems appreciably stronger than in episticta I suspect it may lie a separate 
species. About as dark as episticta, lines less accentuated by vein-marks. Cyrenaica. 
S. maxima ( Obth., indescr.) Wehrli (6 e), from Mrassine, Morocco, is perhaps only an exceptionally large 
and strongly marked form of calunetaria ;structure the same. Superficially more like incisaria ab. incisarioides, 
antemeclian more oblique, median less strong, further distinguishable by the less incised hindwing. 
S. dorycniata Bell. (= calunetaria auctt., nec Stgr.) (6e). In its typical form small and sharply marked, 
distinguishable by its excessively oblique antemeclian line, which, after its acute angle in the cell, runs almost 
