CIDAR1A. By L. B. Prout. 
verberata. 
bifasciata. 
juscofascia- 
ta. 
j urassica. 
ronclo ui. 
rcverdini. 
jndicariae. 
molliculata. 
killi. 
j urassica. 
etcocretica. 
viduata. 
neogamata. 
homophana. 
petri. 
sustenta. 
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but interrupted and irregular, recalling that of dark caeruleata. Hindwing dark, with the pale postmedian 
band correspondingly conspicuous. Forewing beneath dark, with traces of the principal markings; a black 
postmedian costal spot, succeeded distally by a white one; hind wing less dark than above, with the markings 
more distinct. Mt. Omei, at 11 000 feet, 17 July 1931 (G. M. Franck), a $ in my collection. 
Subgenus Coenotephria Prout (see Vol. 4, p. 238). 
As has already been indicated, this is a somewhat loosely-knit assemblage, but is conserved provisionally. 
The absence of the “special organ’’ (“calcar” of Pierce) which characterizes Fntephria is of course only of 
negative value, especially as the genitalia of the group, and even the homologies of the so-called calcar, have 
not yet been studied exhaustively. 
C. verberata Scop. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 h). Forbes points out that this differs from the rest of Coenotephria 
in the smooth face and short palpus, which are usually of taxonomie importance; he regards verberata as an 
Oporinia, transitional towards Venusia. Several aberrations, chiefly individual, have received names since 
the appearance of Vol. 4. — ab. bifasciata Stauder, founded on 7 strongly marked specimens (Salzkammergut), 
has, in addition to the postmedian of the hindwing, “a further, very distinct curved median band, besides faint 
indications of a third (subterminal) one”. Wagner very reasonably doubts whether the name can stand; Scopoli 
saw “two, approximated” in his type, but as his figure shows only the postmedian the other was probably very 
weak; in Stauder’s they are of ecpial strength. — ab. fuscofasciata Osthelder is a very rare form, with a brown- 
dusted median band. Kochel (S. Tyrol), 2 — ab. loc. jurassica Wehrli (13 g), from the higher altitudes 
of the Solothurn Jura, has the irroration grey, not brownish, all the markings very strongly expressed. Best 
characterized in the but even the $$ are more strongly marked than in the type. — ab. rondoui Culot (13 h) 
has the forewing smoky, with only the subterminal and the narrow, divided band on each side of the post¬ 
median pale. Hindwing also darkened, especially a distal border. Type from the Hautes-Pyrenees. — ab. 
reverdini Culot (13 h), a unique from Zinal (Valesian Alps) collected among typical verberata, is totally in- 
fuscated. — judicariae Fiori, founded on ample material from a restricted district in the upper Rendena Valley 
(Mandron and in the zone of the lake S. Giuliano), has the white ground-colour of the forewing in the q very 
finely but very copiously irrorated with grey, the basal and terminal areas and the median band intenser grey, 
the hindwing also rather strongly marked. Even the $ is more heavily marked than the typical form. The 
expanse (continental system) is 32—34 mm; $ 25 mm ". 
C. tophaceata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 h) ab. molliculata Guen. (13 h), from St. Sauveur (Hautes-Pyrenees), 
is not only dwarfed but, according to Culot's figure of the type, appreciably darkened. — ab. kitti F. Wagn., 
which seems to be a recurrent aberration in the Oetztal, is probably at least as dark as molliculata , but quite 
normal in size and shape. My few specimen, from Locarno are also strikingly dark, the $$ large. — ab. loc. 
jurassica Vorbrodt &• Mull.-Ruiz (13 h). We give a figure of this form, which was already characterized in Vol. 4, 
p. 238. I gather that Wehrli, in repeating this name for other Jura forms, aims at giving a kind of “norm 
coll.” for a characteristic fauna rather than a zoological appellation; but as some, at least, are probably well- 
defined races, I fear he will be obliged to find distinctive names for them. 
C. etcocretica Rbl. (13 h). A figure of this little-known species has been provided in Ann. Mus. Wien. 
Vol. 30, pi. 4, fig. 11, magnified; we reproduce it here, reduced to life size. 
C. viduata Stgr. (13 h). We now give a figure; the description will be found in Vol. 4, p. 238. 
C. neogamata Pung. (13 i). We figure a $ from Aksu. Not unlike petri, but, apart from the different 
$ antenna, shows a different formation of the median band. 
C. homophana Hmps. (13 i). Very similar to the albigirata group, especially to those members of it 
in which the postmedian is the least profoundly indented behind the middle. Easily distinguished by the almost 
simple (only minutely ciliated) $ antenna. The band of the forewing is on an average broader, with its proximal 
boundary more irregular (the indentations at both the folds generally deep, the lobe between them consequently 
pronounced), the hindwing on an average darker. Described from Simla and Dalhousie, it reaches Kashmir 
(Srinagar and elsewhere). — petri Prout (13 i). Possibly — on account of its slightly slenderer build — a separate 
species. In any case a good race; both wings with the ground-colour whiter, cell-mark of forewing somewhat 
elongate, etc. Bokhara, Ferghana and, in a larger, somewhat transitional form, N. Zerafshan. Type locality: 
Garni, Peter the Great Range. — sustenta subsp. nov. Build and dark coloration of name-typical homophana, 
from which the chief differences are in the subterminal region: proximal dark shade of forewing almost con¬ 
tinuous and of nearly equal intensity throughout, the only interruption being a very narrow one in front of 
the 1st radial and the only noteworthy darkening the paired spots between the radials; subterminal of hind¬ 
wing almost obsolete in its anterior part. W. China: Tse-kou, type and another $ and 1 $ (all in Mus. Brit.); 
Wa-shan, 1 $; Pu-tsu-fu, 1 Tchang-ku, 1 
