TINEIGIDIA; RHODOMETRA. By L. B. Prout. 
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with 1st subcostal arising from apex of areole. A <$ from Les Pins, Oran, agrees fairly with it, hut otherwise I 
cannot match it at all. The so called “oranaria” have about the same palpus and hindtarsus as the type hut 
seem to have a more rudimentary tongue, perhaps somewhat longer antennal ciliation, no femora-tibial pencil, 
and stronger markings, subterminal shade well-developed, often also (especially in the <$<$) a strong median 
shade; the original comparison with eugeniata, though somewhat far-fetched, was much more understandable 
in relation to the type than to the other forms. I suspect two species are mixed, but am loth to impose a new 
name until the type is better understood. In any case variable, the variation in part sexual; males generally 
dark, heavily irrorated and strongly marked; females more reddish or sandy, more approaching the mauritanica 
group and generally without the median shade. Very generally distributed in Algeria and Morocco. -—- maroc- maroccana. 
cana Wehrli (7 b), perhaps an aberration, perhaps a local mountain form, perhaps a separate species, is said 
to differ in its considerably larger size (“25 mm" in both sexes); the otherwise very similar to “oranaria " in 
colour and markings, but its somewhat thicker hindtibia and still shorter tarsus suggest that we may possibly 
be dealing with a separate species; the $$ are relatively stronger-marked than those of “ oranaria” , median 
shade present on forewing, median area on both wings appreciably lighter, more yellow-reddish, than proximal 
and distal areas, fringe-dots obsolete. Founded on 2 ^9 from Mrassine, mistaken by Oberthur for Scopula 
rubellata (!), and 1 <$ from Region des Zemmours. 
B. culoti Wehrli ( = rubellata $ Ob., nec Rmb.) (7 b). Almost as large as maroccana. Fascicles of cilia culoti. 
of the antenna 1)4 times diameter of shaft. Tarsus extremely short ( 1 / 5 or 1 / 6 ). Palpus very short. Tongue 
vestigial. Face black-brown. Underside more sharply marked than in oranaria , otherwise I can find scarcely 
any constant distinction in the markings; on the whole, the postmedian line may be a little less sinuous and 
the broadenings of the subterminal line less pronounced, but I do not think this can be relied upon. The (very 
slightly) broader wings perhaps explain, though not justifying, Oberthur having confused it with Scopula 
rubellata <§. The originals came from Mrassine; a few others have been taken at moderately high altitudes in 
the Great Atlas. 
28. Genus : Tiiiei|*idia Sterneck 
Palpus minute, slender. Tongue present, though rather weak. Hindtibia weak, with neither pencil 
nor spurs. Wings very narrow, the angles rounded off; cells long, the 2nd discocellular obsolete. Forewing 
without areole, all the subcostals stalked, the 5th separating first. Hindwing with the costal anastomosing to 
beyond the middle of the cell, 2nd subcostal stalked to about y 2 , 1st median widely separate. Genitalia in 
some respects different from those of any known Sterrha; the valves, though showing the same essential structure, 
consist of a very firm, highly chitinized proximal part (sacculus), at the end of which there is a long-pointed 
“needle-shaped” process, and a smaller and very weak, hyaline distal part. Type and sole species: eremica 
Amsel & Sterneck. Students of Sterneck's article (Iris, Vol. 48, pp. 48, 48) should take notice that the cow's- 
horn-shaped process figured nearer to the base of the sacculus was misplaced and is really an anellus-lobe. 
T. eremica Amsel &■ Sterneck (7 c). Very small (12 mm from tip to tip), hindwing not emarginate. eremica. 
Brownish grey, densely irrorated with coarse dark scales; lines obsolete excepting the postmedian, which is 
oblique outward from the costa of the forewing, right-angled about the 1st radial, thence parallel with the 
termen, continued on the hindwing. Underside the same. Palestine, in the desert region of the Dead Sea, 
only a few specimens yet known. 
29. Genus: Itlioclometra Meyr. 
For the sake of readers who have not ready access to Vol. 16, we quote a few lines concerning the 
taxonomy: “On account of the anastomosis of the costal vein of the hindwing with the cell, at least as far as 
the middle, the more rigid analysts have placed it in the Larentiinae, but the genitalia and some points in the 
forewing venation show it to belong to the Sterrhinae. Pierce associates it with the Gosymbia group, but the 
‘socii’, shape of saccus and formation of the valvae seem irreconcilable therewith." 
R. sacraria L. (= sacralis Thnbg.) ab. debiliaria Rothsch. (7 c), described as a race of the African plec- debiliaria. 
taria Guen. (Vol. 16, p. 82), looks to me more like a striking aberration of sacraria , intermediate towards ab. 
sanguinaria , scarcely so striking as some forms of sacraria which have been raised ex ovo. The pink veining, 
though weaker than in plectaria, is sufficiently interesting to merit a name. Founded on 1 from Guelt-es-Stel, 
Central Algeria, collected witli sacraria in October. — ab. desertorum Stauder, erected as a race, is said to be desertorum 
on an average smaller than typical forms of sacraria , paler, fringe white, not yellowish, the line of the forewing 
slender, browner, base of costa not rosy. Founded on a series from Biskra and El Kantara, but abundant 
material in the Tring Museum shows that, though frequent, it is not truly racial. — ab. aucta Krausse (7 c) aucia. 
has the rosy stripe broadened anteiiorly and a supplementary (longitudinal) streak developed in the cell. De¬ 
scribed from Sardinia; the $ here figured is from Sidi Mesri, Tripoli, and other examples are known. In my 
