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CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
the cell-mark (see juvenilata Zerny, below) and Zerny 2 fresh from the northern Lebanon. Wiltshire 
has also captured and bred the same or something very similar in the latter district, but his material in the 
group still requires detailed analysis. 
senectaria. C. senectaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 i). An excellent article on this rarity was published by Rebel in 
1917 (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 66, p. 137—41). My account in Vol. 4 (p. 240) was fairly correct, though 
I should not now describe the antennal ciliation as “long”, for it certainly does not exceed the diameter of 
the moderately slender shaft. Herrich- Schaeffer's figure, a probably from Fiume, though the text only 
mentions a $ supposed to come from the “Tyrol”, represents a very weakly marked form, no doubt belonging 
metoporina. to the 1st generation. — gen. II metoporina Schawerda, which appears about September, is smaller (length of 
a forewing 11 or 12 mm against 14 or 15 for the spring brood), more sharply marked and on the whole with 
decipiata. the yellow tone less strong. - decipiata Stgr. (13 k). According to a communication from Pungeler, quoted 
by Schawerda, this differs so little from senectaria as to be scarcely distinguishable. My experience accords 
with this and it appears that the suggestion made bv Statjdinger himself, that this is at most a “Darwinian 
species” of senectaria , was justified. On the whole a little browner and more strongly marked than lst-brood 
senectaria. F. Wagner considers that some, at least, of his specimens from Akschehir (Anatolia), 26 April to 
middle of May, agree with Staudinger's description of name-typical ludificata. He obtained from eggs a 
much smaller 2nd brood in July. The full-grown larva is grey to reddish grey, somewhat flattened, with strong 
folds; head relatively large, somewhat lighter; each segment with 4 black posterior tubercles; supraspiracular 
ludificata. line somewhat darkened; venter with a dark longitudinal line. It readily accepted Galium. — ludificata Stgr., 
which was unfortunately published before the principal form decipiata, was probably merely an aberration, as 
both forms are recorded from Greece and I do not see any clear colour-distinctions in the Asiatic material 
known to me. Under the name of ludificata, Zerny has added the northern Lebanon to the range of the species. 
juvenilata. C. juvenilata Zerny (13 k). Extremely near the preceding, but with the $ anteimal ciliation decidedly 
longer (1%), the forewing still more pointed, its colour a peculiar gamboge-yellow, the head clean pale yellow 
(in ludificata with dark irroration); markings quite as in senectaria, but more uniform in expression, no tend¬ 
ency observable to a darkening of the median area, no distinct discal streak. Underside without the costal 
thickening of the postmedian. Genitalia closely as in that species, but with more strongly developed tegumen 
and more strongly down-curved uncus. Founded on 12 $$ from the cedar-woods above Bsharre, N. Lebanon 
(ca. 1900 m). The antenna must be about like that of reclamata, but that has more the coloration and typically 
the strong cell-mark of ludificata; I was, however, perhaps rash, in this difficult group, in uniting Syrian speci¬ 
mens Avith my Schahkuh type. 
kalischata. C. kalischata Stgr. (13 k), comparatively rare when our Vol. 4 appeared, has been taken in large num¬ 
bers in N. Africa (Morocco to Tunis), from May to July. The $ antenna is almost simple, closely lamellate or 
dcntata. “laterally compressed". derstata I). Luc. (see Vol. 4, p. 302) proves to be nothing but a slight aberration of 
kalischata, rather weakly marked (the centre of the median area almost entirely pale), with the teeth of the 
postmedian line unusually equal. It is not exactly matched in a long series before me, but does not appear to 
deserve a separate name. Much more striking, and much rarer, is a form with the median band uniformly 
rubrotincta. darkened throughout. — rubrotineta Zerny, a mountain race from Tachdirt, Great Atlas, 2200—2700 m, has 
the body and forewing above decidedly more purple-reddish, this colour on the hindwing (excepting the dis¬ 
tinctly reddish fringes) and on the underside only faintly expressed. ForeAving more weakly marked than in 
typical kalischata , hindwing of $ less dark. At Goundafa (1200 m), Zerny found only a typical — The life- 
history is described by Reisser. The egg-stage lasts about 8 days. The young larva is unicolorous dark-grey 
and rests, like several Cidaria, Avith the forepart of the body curled inward. After the 2nd moult, the head is 
yellowish, marbled with violet, the body shagreened, grey-violet, the tubercles blackish, in part pale-ringed, 
the setae short; lateral flange light yellowish grey, dark-spotted. The full-grown larva is about 20 mm in 
length, very elongate, tapered anteriorly; a continuous dark dorsal line is accompanied by rather inconspicuous 
lozenge-shaped dark spots, bordered with yellow-grey; venter yelloA\ r -grey, with broken violet-grey markings. 
The winter is passed as pupa, in a very slight cocoon under moss on the surface of the earth; the pupa is 
dark, almost black-brown. 
flavistrigata. C. flavistrigata Warr. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 h). Here should have been added the synonym pallidaria Swinh., 
as Hampson's citation thereof is evidently correct. The type of pallidaria seems to be lost, but AA T as from the 
same locality (Kalapani) as Warren's, probably a specimen from the same collector. A better position for 
flavistrigata would probably be near homophaeta, notwithstanding its small size. 
minuta. C. minuta Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 h) and the tAvo which folkw it on p. 241 of Vol. 4 ( hockingii and lacer- 
nigera) are, on the other hand, perhaps better placed in Perizoma, which often has similar palpus. 
hockingii. Co hockingii Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 k) is not predominantly Palaearctic. There is a rather large form in 
the Nagas, and I have recorded one $ (perhaps racially distinguishable) from Upper Burma. 
