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and antemedian lines of rectantemediana ; I rather suspect, however, that further material will show the Japanese 
to be a distinguishable race. 
C. mecoterma sp. n. (12 d) is also similar to designata but with the antennal ciliation shorter, the valve mecoterma. 
without the projecting arm of that of designata. Forewing more elongate than in designata and rectantemediana. 
termen more oblique; subbasal and antemedian as in the latter, median band in both sexes rattier narrow, post¬ 
median weak, at least in posterior half, its sinuosities slight; distal area and hindwing weakly marked, similar 
in tone to designata. Kashmir Valley, 8500 feet, 14 June 1903 (Colonel Ward), type $ in the Thing Museum; a 
$ from Thundiani, larger but perfectly agreeing, in the British Museum. 
C. bigeminata Christ. (13 c). As I have not been able to obtain any material of this species, I add to bigeminata. 
the description given in Vol. 4 (p. 228) a copy of the type figure; the original, a was taken on rocks, together 
with acutangulata, presumably in May. It will be seen that the “two narrow fuscous bars” of the forewing are 
pairs of lines, hence the name; Christoph points out as a further distinction from designata the more strongly 
(almost rectangularly) bent antemedian. 
C. modestaria Ersch. (13 c). Here also we are only able to reproduce the already published figure, modestaria. 
As Wehrli says, the lack of teeth or projections in the postmedian line is alone sufficient to preclude the pos¬ 
sibility of a union with rectantemediana. 
Subgenus Nycterosea Hulst (=- Percnoptilota Hulst). Antenna of <$ with paired fascicles of cilia. 
Hindwing in both sexes with the 1st median at least connate, nearly always stalked, with the 3rd radial. 
C. obstipata F. (E = quaerendaria Costa, brunneipennis Hulst) (Vol. 4, pi. 9 e). Although the distribution 
was known to be almost world-wide, I believe Japan was not added till 1915. Raebel in 1927 published some 
notes on breeding the species; he obtained 3 generations in 3 months (22 July to 21 October). — ab. interrupta interrupt a. 
Schawerda, like other Larentiid aberrations of the same name, has the median band interrupted behind the 
middle. Founded on a <$ from the Croatian coast. Reisser has recently recorded one from the Riff Mountains. 
- ab. purpurea Dannehl. $$ deep purple-red without the black-grey median band or grey-brown shades; AS purpurea. 
with a strong red suffusion are also referred to the same aberration. South Tyrol. — ab. albicinctaria Haw. albicincta- 
( = marginata Mathew). Haworth's name has been much overlooked, but certainly belongs to obstipata and ria - 
I think supersedes Mathew’s marginata. 
Subgenus Orthonama Hbn. Structure as indicated in Vol. 4, p.228 (section C of Xanthorhoe). 
hindwing with 1st median separate. 
C. lignata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi 9 f) ab. molarum V. Schultz. White- brownish, with all the markings much molarum. 
lighter than in the type. Lippe. — ab. micro vittata Strand, an undersized £ from Ignalino, Lithuania (length microvittata. 
of a forewing 11 mm), was considered provisionally worthy of a name in case the dwarfing were a racial tend¬ 
ency, since Nolcken also noted the Baltic specimens known to him (2 only!) as small. — ab. loc. (? subsp.) 
infumata Warnecke. More or less strongly darkened with a brown suffusion, the markings remaining distinct, infumata. 
Apparently constant in the Petrosawodsk district, Russian Karelia. 
Subgenus Colostygia Hbn. (= Calostigia Hbn.) (see Vol. 4, p. 229). Of the two spellings given 
concurrently by Hubner, Aurivillius has preferred the former and I find this is supported by Hubner’s own 
“Anzeiger”. 
C. albigirata K'oil. (Vol. 4, p. 229). The synonymy given in previous works, including my own, is in- albigirata. 
accurate; albigirata Roll. (Masuri) = signata Moore (Darjiling) = thomasata Warr. (Thundiani) is a common 
Himalayan species (Kashmir to Upper Burma), with the antennal pectinations rather long, the postmedian 
line as described in Vol. 4, on the hindwing also more or less angulated in the middle. — serpentinata serpentinata. 
Led., founded on a $ from the Altai, also has, according to Alpheraky, long pectinations in the and is probably 
a race of the same, apparently with a less extreme inward angle of the postmedian, but I have seen no material 
for forming a definite judgment. 
C. jameza Btlr. (= askoldaria Oberth., jamesa Alph.) (Vol. 4, pi. 9 b, as albigirata) has the pectinations jameza. 
only about *4 the length (scarcely twice the diameter of the shaft), the irregularities of the postmedian line much 
less profound. Oberthur, in erecting his askoldaria on a single $ from Askold, found some small differences 
from the type figure of the Japanese jameza (Hakodate), but 1 must at present follow Alpheraky and Stae- 
dinger in uniting the two names. A small form from Szechuan probably also belongs here. — viperata Alph., viperata. 
founded on a from Myn-dyn-scha, 4 June 1890, may well be a race of jameza, a possibility which its author 
did not overlook. The antennal differentiation used serpentinata for comparison, the colour-distinction which 
we quoted in Vol. 4 (p. 229) holds as against jameza also and the dark lines on the median area are hardly in¬ 
dicated in viperata-, Alpheraky adds that jameza differs from both viperata and serpentinata. in the more strongly 
marked hindwing. 
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