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C ID ARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
Boldt notes that the fluctuata larvae found on cabbage are green almost entirely without markings, while 
abstersata. those which feed on wild crucifers are much less green and more variegated. — ab. abstersata H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, 
p. 223). Dr. Wehrli, who was evidently at the time unacquainted with Herrich-Schaeffer's Deutschl. Ins. 
(pi. 165. 2), challenged my application of this name to a fluctuata form, being very excusably misled, by a mistake 
of the compiler of the Alphabetical List with references on p. 425, into a confusion with abstersaria H.-Sch. 
Laharpe, it is true, considered abstersata (Austria) to be disjunctaria, but I still believe it to represent an ex- 
hnmaculata. ceptionally well banded fluctuata. — ab. immaculata Tutt. F. Wagner has figured under this name an inter¬ 
esting S from Transsylvania with the markings copious but indistinct, the anterior half-band of the median 
area reduced to a loop round the cell-dot and I have seen an almost identical specimen in the Zeller collection 
and a photograph of one from Breslau in the Hamburg Museum. Tdtt's form, however (Ent. Rec., Vol. 1. 
p. 322), was described as “pure white", with the median band entirely obsolete (compare B. Stonell'p record 
ycomeHa. in “The Entomologist", Vol. 68, p. 233). — ab. geomella Woodforde (14 c) is a remarkable-looking development 
from ab. abstersata, the band unusually broad, grey, with some white markings on the veins, both it and the 
basal patch only blackened at their edges, the postmedian line anteriorly less sinuous than usual, the distal 
ucapolisaia. area and the hindwing suffused with grey. The unique type, a <$, was taken near Dunbar. - neapolisata Mill. 
In Vol. 4 (p. 223) this name was applied to the aberrations, more or less frequent in many localities, in which 
“the ground-colour is much darkened with brown-grey”. This, however, it not correct according to the original 
description and figure. It is dark grey “faintly washed on the forewing with greenish”, the figure is quite unlike 
anything that I have seen, its author also considers it so curious as to suggest a different species, and he re¬ 
peatedly emphasizes that it is at least a constant local form, peculiar to the volcanic country about Vesuvius, 
especially the vicinity of Pompeii. He further asserts — and his figure seems to confirm — that the $ antenna 
is more strongly pectinate; but this may be an error of observation. I cannot find that the question of its status 
syriacata. has been reopened of recent years. — syriacata Prout. I unfortunately published this name in 1896 on very 
inadequate material, founding it on a trade designation and stating that “if it proves to be a marked local 
race at all, it will be distinguished through the weakly marked ground-colour and whitish hindwing, perhaps 
also by the lack of some of the abdominal spots”. I do not now think that these forms from Palestine and Syria 
are worth naming, but as the name exists it is necessary to call attention to it. 
uciitanijuld- C. acutafigulata Christ. (13 b). We now figure this very distinct species, which differs appreciably from 
ta - fluctuata in the shape of the $ abdomen and the somewhat less developed pectinations. 
disjunctaria. C. disjunctaria Lah. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 f). Locally plentiful from the Algiers district eastward and reaching 
multistrUja. Tunis. Extremely variable, some examples nearly approaching the form oxybiata (12 a). — ab. multistriga Oberth. 
(12 c) seems to be a quite unusually dark $ aberration, on the underside with the costal spots at the origin 
of the ante- and postmedian lines rather strongly developed. In any case not a Cataclysme, as was tent- 
jucundula. atively suggested (Vol. 4, p. 265). - gen. aut. jucundula Stauder (12 a) is smaller than the type form and on 
an average paler and more weakly marked, often with an admixture of white in the median area. The type 
series was collected on Sicily (Palermo, etc.), October to the middle of November, but the autumn specimens 
in Algeria (where emergence commences in March and there are probably three broods) are also small. 
lutescens. ab. (?) lutescens F. Wagn. Three specimens from Albarracin, September and October, were treated as provis¬ 
ionally a race, on account of their clay-yellowish ground-colour, hue 1 doubt whether the distinction will prove 
constant; the only Albarracin specimen before me, though also belonging to the autumn brood, is not at all 
hcrculcana. yellowish. I have no Andalusian, so cannot compare iberaria Rmb. — herculeana Zerny , from the Moroccan 
Great Atlas, is a large race (length of forewing 14 —16.5 mm), smooth-scaled, grey-white, the grey median band 
seldom sharply contrasting, posteriorly often indistinct (recalling fluctuata), the black cell-streak always very 
oxybiata. distinct. - oxybiata Mill. (12 a). In France this interesting and beautiful form reaches Bouches-du-Rhone. 
restrict a. It is also now well known from the Dalmatian coast. — ab. restricts Schwingenschuss , founded on a $ from Gravosa, 
taken in October, has the white areas greatly extended, the median band of the forewing much narrowed, ir¬ 
regular, not reaching the costa, interrupted behind the 2nd median, resumed only as a small spot at hindmargin. 
tauaria. C. tauaria Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 a). According to a communication from Mr. Bang-Haas. his infernaria 
is nothing but a large, unicolorous form of this species. 
alcxandra- C. alexandraria Stgr. (= alexaria Meyr.) (12 a). We figure a $ belonging to the Tring Museum. Some- 
Ha. times the median area is considerably broader. The whitish subterminal line is present also on the underside, 
though weaker and more interrupted than above. 
jidonaria. C. fidonaria Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 c). In this immediate vicinity belongs icterica Djakonov, described on 
p. 232 of Vol. 4; its discocellulars are not, as in didymata, biangulate and I am not yet certain that these variable, 
bright ochre Xanthorhoe represent more than a single species. 
incursaia. C. irscursata Him. (Vol. 4. pi. 9 d). Regarding my remark on the variability of the hibernating stage, 
Boldt records that the only larva which he has reared pupated in October and produced the imago in May. 
