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characteristic red-brown spots; tubercles throughout with long setae; last segment above with 2 brownish, 
sometimes confluent-spots. Very sluggish. 
C. pectinataria Knock (Vol. 4, pi. 9 a). Cockayne has described and figured an interesting pathological 'pectinataria. 
aberration taken in Sutherland: along the costa of the forewing perfectly normal, the rest silvery grey with 
pale grey markings representing the usual black areas; under the microscope it is seen to be perfectly fresh, 
but with the scales unpigmented and sparse, showing the wing-membrane between, while the grey effect is 
due to normal black scales, greatly reduced in number. — ab. constricta Prout. Culot (13 c) has recorded and conslricia. 
figured a $ from Bourg-en-Bresse (coll. Oberthur), here reproduced. — ab. rosea Wehrli. All the green changed rosea. 
to yellowish rose. The type, from Fringeli, Bernese Jura, is perfectly fresh, not a result of fading. — ab. 
haemataria Henriot is a further development, the ground-colour reddish brown with the normally black mark- haemataria. 
ings deeper red-brown; in ab. rosea they retain their black colour. Lacave (Lot), 1 <$. — ab. harcynica Boldt. harcynica. 
Ground-colour white instead of green. One example bred from Galium harcynicum in the Taunus. Boldt 
had earlier met with the form in good condition in the Radautal, near Harzburg, in sufficient numbers to make 
him believe it was not a mere case of fading but a genuine local modification. — gen. aest. aslae Agenjo. Much aslae. 
smaller than the type (7 to 9 mm against 12 to 14) and — probably attributable to humidity at the time of 
emergence - lacking the beautiful green colour of the forewing. Arceniega (Alava), rare in August at light. 
Second-brood pectinataria are generally small and I suppose the name, if used at all, should apply irrespective 
of the colour. 
C. turbata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 a). Seifers has made a further attempt (see Int. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 23, turbata. 
p. 444) to elucidate the biology. He obtained eggs from a captured $ and describes them as long-oval, flat¬ 
tened, yellow changing to rose-red. The larvae hatched in about a fortnight and were brown with darker head. 
Unfortunately they accepted neither larch (among which the moths were taken) nor any of the low plants, 
lichens nor algae which were observed growing in the locality. — ab. latifasciata Schwingenschuss, a $ from the latifasciata. 
Triglav district, has the median band unusually broad, the rest of the forewing predominantly white (notably 
so the area between basal patch and median). — ab. blachierata Culot, also a $, is somewhat analogous to blachierata. 
latifasciata in the weakening of the markings of the antemedian and distal regions, but very distinct in the 
curious smoky light-brown coloration of these parts and has the median band of about normal width, blackest 
at its edges; hindwing somewhat darkening from base to postmedian line, then suddenly pale, the terminal 
border narrow. Plans-sur-Bex (Alpes Vaudoises). — pyrennaearia Oberth. (12 e, f). F. Hoffmann has taken ex- pyrennaea- 
ception to my diagnosis, which was quoted from Staudinger’s Catalog. The special characteristics of the rm - 
forewing, particularly well developed in the $ 9, are the whiteness of the ground-colour and a tendency for 
the central stripe of the median band to become markedly pale or white. On the hindwing the dark 
border is usually a little broader than in the other forms, but not at all constantly so. — ab. rondoui Culot is rondoui. 
a pretty modification of pyrenaearia with the dark median band greatly narrowed, succeeded distally by a much 
broadened white band. altaicata ( Stgr ., M. S.) Djakonov is a local race from the Altai and the vicinity of altaicata. 
Minussinsk, clear grey to black-grey, not mixed with olive-brown, markings on an average much less sharp, 
especially in the distal area, in which only the subterminal is developed. 
C. kollariaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 b). Ova were obtained by Dr. L. Muller from 2 $$ which were kollariaria. 
taken at light in June 1932 and the species successfully bred by Sigmund Hein. The larvae hatch in about 
8 days. In the first stage they are light yellow-brown, without definite markings; such begin to assert them¬ 
selves in the 2nd stage and in the 3rd the markings (under magnification) consist of dark red-brown dorsal, sub¬ 
dorsal and supraspiracular lines, the latter on each of the middle segments curved upwards, spiracular line 
broad, whitish, subventral strongly thickened in the middles of the segments. In the adult larva the light lateral 
stripe is still more sharply bounded above, dorsal line interrupted on the 5 middle segments by dark wedge- 
markings. Very sluggish, feeding only at night. They were fed on the blossom of Valeriana tripteris and would 
not take the leaves. Commenced to pupate, on the earth and in moss, on the 28th August, the pupae hibernating. 
Dr. Schawerda gives, as the ascertained range of kollariaria in Austria and eastward, the Sclmeeberg and Diirren- 
stein districts, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, the Tyrol and Bosnia. For his further notes and comparisons with 
laetaria, see under that species. — ab. bicoloraria Culot, the original pair from the Austrian Alps, in the Ober- Mcoloraria 
thur collection, represent one of the well-known phases of Larentiid variation, the dark scaling of the forewing 
concentrated almost entirely in the basal patch and median line, leaving the other areas dirty whitish, with 
the lines obsolete. - feusteli Dannehl, according to a series of 13 <$<$, 7 $$, is a constant race in the Nons- feusteli. 
berg district, S. Tyrol, large, scarcely greenish-tinged, all the markings rather blurred, median band not pro¬ 
minent, hindwing whitish silver-grey; recalls caesiata. In the Dolomites, according to Dannehl, the form 
is k. kollariaria, but a single specimen brought thence by Dr. Jordan happens to be almost a feusteli. 
C. laetaria Lah. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 b) is now very generally recognized as a good species. It has been studied laetaria. 
a good deal by Ehinger in its haunts in the southern Black Forest and bred both from the egg and from col¬ 
lected larvae and the early stages have been described in the “Archiv fiir Insektenkunde des Oberrheingebiets'"' 
