OLDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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C. homophoeta Front (13 i) differs from homophana in that the antenna is somewhat dentate, with homophueta. 
ciliation about L> the length of the segment, the median band of the forewing less irregular in shape, the distal 
area with a bright brown suffusion behind the twin-spots, the hindwing whitish in its distal half, more as in 
h. petri than in the Kashmir form of homophana. Kashmir: Gulmarg and Yusimarg, 7500—8500 feet, in July 
and August. 
C. Champion! Prout (13 i), from Kumaon (Nainital and Muktesar), is likely to be discovered in more championi. 
purely Palaearctic localities and therefore deserves mention here. Larger than homophoeta, f'orewing with 
termen more oblique, median band much less dark and with less discrepancy between its anterior and its pos¬ 
terior part, hindwing not paler distally than proximally. 
C. apiciata Stgr. (13 h). This, as already intimated in the note at the head of Xanthorhoe sect. B, was apiciata. 
misplaced in Vol. 4 (p. 227). We figure a $ from Aidere, Transcaspia. Much paler than neogamata, somewhat 
more pointedwinged. 
C. fortificaria B.-Haas (Vol. 4, p. 239, as fortificata). The locality (Juldus or Yuldus district, E.Tur- fortificaria. 
kestan) was omitted from the German edition. I have no further light on the determination. 
G. nebulata Tr. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 i) ab. senilaria F. Wagn., occasional among the type-form on the Vienna senilaria. 
Schneeberg, is more dusted with brownish, recalling (even when fresh) the appearance of worn specimens; 
markings obsolete, with the exception of the median band, which is slightly strengthened. — ab. contraria contraria. 
Nitsche is diagnosed as having the generally vague scheme of markings of the typical form darkened, standing 
out distinctly, the median band of the forewing especially pronounced. Pounded on a $ from the Plocken di¬ 
strict of the Carnic Alps, determined by Rebel as referable here. albicans Sohn-Rethel (13 k), from the Abruzzi, albicans. 
erected as a race, seems rather to be an aberration, occurring with more typical examples both there and in 
Savoy. White, the median area not darker, wanting the cloudy brown-grey irroration; all the markings very 
slender, scarcely indicated except by dark vein-dots. - pirinica Zullich , on the contrary, is a more sharply pirinica. 
marked mountain form, believed to be racial in the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria (Spanopole and Banderica 
Valley, 1800—2000 m). 
C. achromaria Lah. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 i). Rondou, in his new “Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Pyre- achromaria. 
nees" doubts the correctness of the citation of that district. I, probably also Culot, took it from Staudinger's 
Catalog and unless or until the record can be traced to its source it had better be omitted. — ab. albomarginata albomargi- 
Hirschke has the distal area of both wings pure white both above and beneath. Founded on a q, presumably nata 
Austrian; but no locality given. — gen. aut. autummalis Dannehl. According to Dannehl, a second broad autumnalis. 
occurs regularly in southern districts, except in high alpine localities; sometimes (e. g. on Lake Garda in 1929 
and 1930) he has even found it commoner than the gen. vern. Considerably smaller (18—21 mm as against 
23—26), the markings sharper, simpler, the irroration being never patchy or obsolete. Early August to Oc¬ 
tober. — calcearia Welirli (13 k) is a light race from the Swiss Jura: chalk-white, rarely with a faint yellowish calcearia. 
tinge, the irroration sparse, clear grey, the median band sharp, darker grey, relieved with white in its central 
part. — ab. fasciata Wehrli denotes the extreme form of calcearia , in which only the median band and basal fasciata. 
patch remain on the white wing. Wehrli points out that Laharpe’s original was the darker grey form, such 
as he has from Martigny. — saxicolata Led., described from the environs of Vienna, would seem to represent saxicolata. 
an intermediate form between achromaria and calcearia, but as no racial distinction from achromaria has been 
demonstrated it is probably better to keep it as synonym thereof. tenebrata Dannehl, from moderate alti- tenebrata. 
tudes in the S. Tyrol, is said to be distinguishable by its stronger black-brown irroration. Type locality: Mt. 
Baldo, 600 m. 
C. ibericata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 a, as alfacariata). The name alfacariata Rbr. was not preoccupied, as ibericata. 
Staudinger assumed; but as it was not binomical, the name Cidaria ibericata (1871) is the oldest valid for 
it. Stertz reports that Pungeler bred both this and numidiata from the egg and found them identical in their 
early stages. I have not, however, seen any published account of the life-history of either. The specimens 
which I have seen from Syria, and which it is customary to refer to ibericata, look to me slightly longer-winged 
but otherwise quite similar. — numidiata Stgr. (13 k), which is now known to be locally abundant in Algeria, numidiata. 
March-May and September to November (or even December), is very variable and I doubt whether it is al¬ 
ways racially differentiable from the pale, yellowish tinged ibericata of Spain and Sicily; but as the great 
majority conform to the characterisation already given, the race-name may be retained. The only example 
before me from Tripoli (15 February) is pale and quite weakly marked. — ab. convergaria Stdttermayer has convcrgaria. 
the median band darker and more sharply marked than normal numidiata, much narrowed posteriorly. Founded 
on 3 $$ from Guelt-et-Stel. — ab. costimacularia Stdttermayer, also from Guelt-es-Stel (1 (J), has lost entirely costimacu- 
the posterior part of the band, which reaches only from costa to posterior end of discocellulars. 
C. reclamata Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 13b). The reference to the figure was accidentally omitted from p. 240 reclamata. 
of Vol. 4 and should be added. Wehrli records 4 and a 9 from Marasch, varying in the distinctness of 
