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C. schneideraria Led. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 c). Specimens from Bscharre, Northern Lebanon, show, according scfnwidera- 
to Zerny, pronounced transitions towards the form taurica, but not much material has yet been obtained from 
that locality and it was mostly in poor condition (June and early July). — taurica Stgr. (12 g). We figure taurica. 
a perfect $ of this form, somewhat less dark than some examples, but otherwise typical. 
C. salicata Him. (9 b) with its forms and closest relatives still demands intensive study. Structural mlicata. 
distinctions have not yet been demonstrated except in the case of ablutaria , where the pectinations are (as 
P. Schultze has correctly pointed out) decidedly longer; but even there, no difference has yet been found 
in the genitalia, so that those entomologists who rely almost implicitly on these differences are inclined to 
refuse it the status of a species. Klimesch in 1928 discussed some of the forms, figuring the aberrations nigro- 
taeniata and stenotaeniata besides a dusky, black-grey dusted $ from Wascheneck, which is weakly marked 
excepting the boundaries of the median area of the forewing anteriorly. ab. rsigrotaeniata Schwingenschuss nigrotaenia- 
has the median band entirely dark, well contrasted with the lighter areas which border it, the premarginal 
region also darker than in the type form; a sprinkling of yellow scales in the basal and outer parts of the 
forewing. Founded on a $ from Grodental, S. Tyrol. The modification figured by Klimesch lacks (like all 
the salicata from the calcareous mountains of Upper Austria) the yellow scaling of the original. — ab. steno- stenotaenia- 
taeniata Klimesch, from Warscheneck (ca. 1500 m) Upper Austria, is dusky grey, the median band excessively ia 
narrow (only 1 or 2 mm in width), partly marked with black, its posterior y 3 lost in the dark ground-colour. 
- Gen. aut. autumnalis Dannehl. According to Dannehl a second generation occurs regularly in southern autumnalis. 
Europe, from the S. Tyrol onwards (except at the highest altitudes) and is distinguished by its smaller size 
and shai’per markings. In the S. Abruzzi, for instance, this occurs up to about 1200 m. — Gen. (?) aestivalis aestivalis. 
Dioszeghy. In the mountains of Transsylvania Dioszeghy recognizes t h r e e generations, distinguishable, 
apart from slight differences in tone, by their average size. I give his analysis, but am sceptical as to its val¬ 
idity in the case of the later emergences (compare ablutaria)-. gen. 1 vernalis, 25—28 mm; gen. 2 aestivalis, 
20—21 mm; gen. 3 autumnalis 17,5—20 mm. — latentaria Curt. (12 g). This name is available for the British latentaria. 
race, which, besides being on an average more uniformly darkened (see Vol. 4, p. 231), is usually smaller than 
the corresponding European forms and has the cell-spot of the forewing usually more conspicuous. The type 
came from Westmorland (Ambleside); it is found in Devonshire. Wales, N. England, Scotland and Ireland, 
chiefly in hilly or mountainous country. 
C. ablutaria Bsd. (12 g). For taxonomic purposes I give this the rank of a species, characterized (see ablutaria. 
above) by the longer pectinations of the $ antenna; even if confirmatory characters are not yet discoverable, 
it is entirely unlikely that it can ever revert to an identity with the preceding species. The browner or more 
ochreous tone, as against the grey or whitish of salicata, strikes the eye immediately in the examination of a 
series, but I can find no constant difference in the markings. It is essentially a Mediterranean species, though 
it appears that in the Balkans it and salicata meet. In N. Syria, according to Wehrli, there is an autumn 
brood, much smaller and greyer than that of the spring. This is also the case, at least as regards size, in most 
localities from which I have seen series, the small forms (when dated) generally taken in September and early 
October, or on Cyprus October to December. The first brood is on the wing in March and April. Some of the 
island forms (e. g. Cyprus, Malta and especially Capri) tend to lose the yellowish scaling and intergrade with 
probaria. The specimens which I have seen from Capri — 2 and an abundance of $$ — all incline to whit¬ 
ish, irrespective of their size and will probably require a separate name unless they are indistinguishable from 
probaria. —• probaria H.-Sch. (12 h) was published without indication of locality, but it is believed that Zeller probaria. 
(M. S.) founded it on Mann's Croatian booty; in any case the Croatian and Dalmatian coasts are its classical 
localities. - ochrearia Stgr. (= ochracearia Prout, ex err.) seems more probably an aberrant form of ablutaria ochrearia. 
than a separate race; some of mine from Syria approach it. — C. Schneider records receiving from Dannehl, 
on 6th June 1929, 50 half-grown larvae of ablutaria from S. Tyrol; they fed up very rapidly on Galium mollugo 
and by 23rd June there were 45 cocoons. 9 moths emerged on 5th —7th July, then no more; cocoons opened 
at the end of July and in the middle of September showed that their occupants had not yet pupated; but a 
number of further imagines appeared from 5th to 27th October and none went over the winter as larvae or 
pupae. 
C. flavolineata Stgr. (= oberthuri Rothsch.) (12 h). Besides its rather wide distribution in the Iberian flavolineata. 
Peninsula, the range of this pretty little Cidaria includes Central Algeria (Guelt-es-Stel, fairly commonly), 
whence it was redescribed by Rothschild. It shows little variation and I have not felt able to conserve 
oberthuri as a race. I do not see any particular resemblance to salicata; the wings are more elongate (more 
Ortholitha-like), the band differently shaped, the pectinations not “as in salicata “ but more slender, not at 
all fusiform. 
C. hispanata Fernandez is unknown to me. Said to be near flavolineata but seems to be a distinct hispanata. 
species by the white apical patch of the forewing, containing a grey central spot, by the central (in flavolineata 
more distal) pale band of the hindwing and by its different habitat and time of appearance, hispanata in 
