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was published as a local race, but according to Oberthur the ab. flavomixt.a also occurs in the same locality. 
— ab. atrofasciata F. Wcign. is a very striking aberration, in effect parallel to caesiata ab. prospicuata Front atrofasciata. 
- chalky white, the forewing with black subbasal and median band and oblique subapical mark, the hindwing 
with cell-mark and blackish shade-like postmedian band. One specimen (apparently a $) from Upper Austria. 
— ab. atroflava Galv. combines the intensified bands of atrofasciata with the strong yellow admixture of flavo- atroflava. 
mixta. Founded on a U from Turrach, Styria. - acyana subsp. nov. (13 f) is much more uniform grey than acyana. 
the type, the median band less dark and less blue, the pale parts of the wing well rippled with grey, with no 
yellow tinge, and the proximal shade of the subterminal rather well developed. Founded on a good series in 
the Tring Museum from Pescocostanzo, latter half of July. Similar specimens from other localities (Savoy, 
Engadine, etc.) are rare; generally even when the blue and yellow tones are wanting, the median band remains 
darker grey than in acyana. 
C. contestata Vorbr. & Mull.-Rutz (13 g). Wehrli points out that the markings show a general agree- conlesiaia. 
ment with caeruleata Guen. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 g), while the coloration is more as in cyanata, without any yellow ad¬ 
mixture, but, irrespective of differences on the upperside, there is a broader marginal band beneath, much 
as in caeruleata and flavicinctata. 
C. bastelbergeri Fung. (13 g). We give a figure of a rather broad-banded but otherwise typical $ from bastelbergeri. 
Aksu. 
C. poliotaria Hmps. (see Vol. 4, pi. 13 n). The reference to the figure was incomplete in the English poliotaria. 
edition (p. 237) and wanting in the German. The shape of the antemedian slightly approaches that of infidaria, 
perhaps more so than in our figure but never extremely; smaller and more glossy than that species and with 
numerous other distinctions. The genitalia show it to be a true Entephria. 
C. argentiplumbea Hmps. Another very glossy species, probably nearly related to poliotaria although, argentiphim- 
on account of the smooth face, Hampson published it as an Astheniodes, with which it manifestly has no con¬ 
nection. Only $$ hitherto known. Palpus rather short. Markings less sharp than in poliotaria, the median 
band more dissolved into lines, its distal edge not very sharply defined, cell-mark strong, blackish. Best known 
from Sikkim-Tibet and Bhotan, but mentioned here because Stevens (Kelley-Roosevelt expedition) took 
3 $$ at Tu-pa-keo, Mupin; we hope to give a figure in Vol. 12. A small which may well belong here, although 
it has a smaller cell-spot (dot), has only just come under my notice; it was collected (or bred?) by Colonel 
F. Kingdon Ward in S. E. Tibet, Tsangpo Valley, 10,500 m (Pernako); antenna simple. 
C. nobiliaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 h) flavata Osthelder. Much lighter than the type, especially in the flavata. 
U, which is at times almost white, weakly marked; even the ^ much more unicolorous than in the type, yellowish 
or yellow-grey. A well differentiated race in the chalk alps of S. Bavaria, the Dolomites, etc. 
C. tzygankovi Wehrli (13 g), only known in a single $ from the Oija Range, Sajan Mountains, is a dark tzygankovi. 
species, in the markings proximallv and distally to the median band recalling some cyanata, with which it 
otherwise has no connection. Palpus very short; antenna with extremely short ciliation (% or 1 4 ); hindwing 
with discocellulars weakly biangulate. Forewing with the light yellow-grey ground-colour almost entirely 
covered by the grey-blue markings; differs from that of intermediaria , inter alia, in having the median area 
about twice as broad at costa as at hindmargin. poliotaria differs from tzygankovi in the form of the median 
band, the terminal dots and fringes and especially in the almost unmarked hindwing. 
C. intermediaria Alph. muscosaria Christ. The last sentence, “Founded on a $ from Kasbek, Caucasus”, muscosaria. 
got dropped out of the German edition of Vol. 4 (p. 237). 
C. neurbouaria Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 k). This name was wrongly spelled neurbiaria in the German edition neurbouaria. 
and the indices; this should be corrected, lest the misspelling should be perpetuated, as has happened to the 
names dissimilata and (in England) dolabraria. Palpus rather long; antenna laterally compressed; discocellulars 
of hindwing strongly biangulate. The genitalia show that this is not properly an Entephria, but I have not 
yet learned what are its nearer affinities. 
C. stellata Warr. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 i, as adjouaria). To the distribution is to be added Kashmir Valley, stellata. 
a short series collected by Colonel Ward. This species also is no Entephria by the genitalia. 
C. aurigutta sp. n. (13 g). Expanse 38 mm. Face tufted. Palpus elongate, dominantly black. Scaling aurigutta. 
and general design as in Entephria (not strongly glossy), but the areole undivided; unless this is an 
individual sport in the unique type, it may necessitate its transference to another position; discocellulars of 
hindwing rather strongly biangulate. Forewing with termen slightly less oblique than in most Entephria ; the 
irroration on the whitish ground and the usual markings dark grey, the markings nearly solid; the band which 
closely follows the subbasal almost as dark as the subbasal itself (as in some flavicinctata. caeruleata and ravaria, 
or some American Entephria), the median band reduced in width behind the radials. followed distally, between 
3rd radial and 1st median, by a white and then a conspicuous, bright ochreous spot; subterminal conspicuous, 
