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CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
hilar\cda. described from Stvria, lias “the normally grey markings of the forewing yellow - ’. — ab. hilariata Schwingen- 
schuss (13 e). from Heiligenblut, founded on 2 $$ ( one more extreme than the other), has the forewing, except 
the (less strongly suffused) basal and median areas, wholly suffused with gold-yellow. Probably this is a synonym 
klemensie- (better described) of grossi. — ab. klemensiewiczii Pritffer. Median band of forewing black-brown, standing 
iviczU. ou t sharply from the ground-colour; hindwing darkened, especially at the distal margin. Polish Tatra. — ab. 
divisa, divisa Osthelder. Median band bisected by a pale central stripe. S. Bavaria. — ab. flavopriva Schawerda (= flavo- 
flavopriva. p r j va ta B.-Haas). Very dark, with blackish median area; the yellow scaling scarcely at all visible without 
subcaera- a lens. Founded on a few specimens from the Campolungo Saddle, Dolomites. — ab. subcaeruleata Rondou. 
Icata. qq ie y e p ow sca ii n g entirely wanting. Gedre, occurring together with the type form. I consider the name super¬ 
fluous and would call all similar forms flavopriva, whether darkened or not and whether yellow scaling is absolu- 
samnitaria. tely wanting or has merely ceased to influence the general effect of the coloration. — samnitaria Sohn-Rethel 
(13 f), from the S. Abruzzi, is small, the ground-colour silver-white, the markings much weaker than in the 
deflavata. type-form, the basal and distal areas often without darkening. — ab. deflavata Sohn-Rethel is an extreme 
form of samnitaria, without yellow scaling. Even if samnitaria is really a well-founded subspecies, I do not 
corsaria. see why this aberration of it should not have been called ab. flavopriva. — corsaria Schawerda has also no 
yellow scaling in the type $ (Monte d'Oro, 2000 m), but a second $ (Col de Vergio) shows some; otherwise 
both agree, and have “nothing to do” with flavopriva. The forewing has much more white in the proximal 
and the distal third than the type, the hindwing is also whiter as far as the dark prenrarginal band; the base 
and the narrow median area of the forewing dark, as also a shade on each side of the strongly expressed, 
altivolans. sharply dentate, pure white subterminal. — altivolans Wehrli (= bubaceki Reisser) (13 f). A rather large, well 
differentiated subspecies from the Sierra Nevada, 2000—2860 m. Markings of the forewing nearly as in /. flavi¬ 
cinctata , though with a more pronounced tendency for the median area to narrow progressively to the inner 
margin; the yellow colour lighter, not yellow-orange, its distribution different, occupying the light bands in 
varying intensity and leaving almost free the blue-grey median and terminal areas; terminal line stronger, more 
deaurata. continuous. Underside paler and more weakly marked than in normal flavicinctata. —- ab. deaurata Reisser 
(why not flavopriva ?), taken with altivolans , lacks the yellow scaling. Pungeler and Wehrli have expressed 
some doubts whether the yellow scaling in this and some other alpine moths is ever entirely wanting when 
septentrio- ithey are freshly emerged. — septentrionalis WarnecJce (13 f), founded on 7 specimens from Kongsvold (Finmark), 
na ^ >s - s very unicolorous bluish grey, the yellow scaling (which, as in altivolans, is light-, not orange-or ochreous-yel- 
low) so weak as not to present any band-like appearance; superficially suggestive of infidaria. A further point 
of contact with altivolans is in the pronounced narrowing of the median band behind the submedian vein. My 
3 Norwegian specimens (from Bossekop and Trondhjem) are, moreover, decidedly smaller than those from 
other localities. 
veletaria. C. veletaria Wehrli (13 f) has also some of the characteristics of septentrionalis, in markings resembling 
flavicinctata but smaller and slenderer, in coloration more like infidaria, but is shown by the genitalia to be 
a good species, nearest to infidaria. Differentiated from flavicinctata by the even distribution of the gold-yellow 
tinge in the median, basal and subbasal bands, the stronger subcostal angulation of the light band outside the 
postmedian and the large blackish patch in the apical region; from infidaria by the presence of a subbasal band, 
the quite differently shaped median area, etc. Discocellulars about as strongly angled as in infidaria. Sierra 
Nevada: Veleta, at ca. 2850 m altitude, in July. 
infidaria. C. infidaria Lah. (Vol. 4, pi. 9g). A detailed account of the distribution is given by Warxecke (Ent. 
Anz., Vol. 12, p. 81, 82). Its comparatively recent confirmation for Baden is there discussed, a record from the 
Taunus given and Speyer's old and almost forgotten record for the Thuringer Wald (apparently its “farthest 
variocinrju- north”) cited and confirmed by a communication from Dr. Petry. — ab. variocingulata Dannehl. Proximal and 
lata. c p s t a i areas of forewing white, with little marking except the strongly rust-yellow basal patch and yellow-red- 
mixed apical patch; median band sharply blackish-edged proximally and distally, its distal part strongly dusted 
with reddish yellow, its anterior part broadly forked, the cell-dot conspicuous in the enclosed pale space. Above 
mallaszi. Franzenshohe (S. Tyrol) at 2700 m, one specimen. —ab. mallaszi Dioszeghy. Ground-colour somewhat yellowish 
white, the irroration light-grey; the darker grey base, median band and subterminal shades sprinkled with r ust- 
r e d (not yellow) scales. Hindwing darkened as far as the postmedian and in the distal area with a narrow 
indistinct dark-grey band. Retyezat Mountains. 
cyanata. C. cyanata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 b). A synonym, or perhaps aberration or slightly differentiated geo¬ 
graphical form, is pseudocyanata Rbl., founded (as an ab. of flavicinctata ) on a $ from towards the summit of 
the Zleb, Montenegro, and diagnosed as “much lighter grey” than type ( flavicinctata ), the yellow admixture 
largely wanting, being confined to the very narrow, short basal band and traces on the median band. Sub¬ 
sequently 3 entirely conformable examples (1 2 $$) from Albania showed it to be really cyanata. As the 
name implies, Hubner's original figure (319) shows a form with dark-blue (or rather, dark blue-grey) median 
band, about as in our figure or slightly intermediate towards ab. gottrensis ; and as the pale parts show some 
gottrensis. yellowish tinge it is not very vitally different from the form flavomixta. — ab. gottrensis Fame (Vol. 4, pi. 9 g) 
