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C. lacerrtigera Btlr. (14 k). We now give a figure of the type from Dharmsala. To the differentiation lacernigera. 
from hockingii I would add that lacernigera is more glossy, the median band nob formed of a pair of dark lines 
with costal blotch, the subterminal anteriorly more punctiform, the basal patch generally less oblique, the 
distal margin of the forewing perhaps slightly more sinuous; fringe sharply marked. It occurs in Sikkim and 
(perhaps a different form) in Upper Burma. 
C. debilitata Leech (14 a). We figure Leech's type $ from Gifu. It is perhaps conceivable that it is debilUatu. 
merely a remarkably weakly-marked aberration of the very variable amelia, which occurs also at Gifu. 
C. evanescens Stgr. (15 a). Good material from Vladivostok and other S. Ussuri localities is now known, evanescens. 
Discocellulars of the hindwing, as I assumed, biangulate; palpus rather shorter than in amelia; antenna of the 
almost simple. 
C. malvata Rmb. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 k) ab. balva Th.-Mieg (15 a), founded on an aberration figured by Milliere halva. 
(Iconogr., pi. 27, f. 13), is unusually dark, with the median band black. S. France, the exact locality of the 
type not specified. Our figured $ is equally dark, but without the blackened median area. — ab. albifascia nov. albifascia. 
(15 a) is a further development of ab. catenaria Rbl. (Vol. 4, p. 241), with the central band of the median area 
uninterruptedly white. The Tring Museum has 3 <$<$, collected by Holl in the neighbourhood of Algiers. 
C. mariae Slander (15 a). An interesting discovery of comparatively recent date, probably related to mariae. 
obsoletaria but with the subbasal dark area of the forewing narrowed, rather than widened, posteriorly, 
the median area also quite differently formed, its dark part consisting chiefly of a narrow band outside 
the conspicuous black cell-spot. Sohn-Rethel thinks it may be nearer to coerulata F., but I can see little 
connection. S. Italy, the originals from Calabria. — ab. wehrlii Slander is a large, almost melanic $ from wehrlii. 
Faito, at the foot of Monte S. Angelo, ca. 1200 m, collected with typical specimens. The moth, according to 
Stattder, rests on the grey bark of alder- and beech-trees and is well protected. — erichi Schawerda, from crichi. 
Corsica, seems differentiable racially, the tone being grey rather than brownish; perhaps also the average size 
is smaller, but I have only one Corsican specimen before me. One from the vicinity of Schio, Upper Italy, 
originally quoted to erichi, belongs, according to its brownish colour, to the continental race mariae. 
C. obsoletaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 a, as alpicolaria). The discovery that this group occours in the obsoletaria. 
Italian countries (see the preceding and following species) has caused me to re-examine Herrich-Schaeffer’s 
original figure, which was believed to be from a Sicilian specimen; but I still fail to see in it anything but a 
typical form of the Alps, and suspect an error as to the locality. — juracolaria Wehrli (= juravolaria B.-Haas), juracolaria. 
although founded on material from the Jura, was believed to be a phytological rather than a geological form, 
as it was bred from larvae found on Gentiana lutea, while those of the name-type feed on G. purpurea and 
punctata. Median area of forewing lighter, the dark bands mostly narrower; particularly characteristic, how¬ 
ever, are the marginal area and the fringe, the former being predominantly pale between the subterminal and 
the termen, the latter much more sharply chequered than in o. obsoletaria. 
C. reisseri Schawerda. Apparently closely related to obsoletaria. Somewhat smaller and more slenderly reisseri. 
built; ground-colour reddish ochreous instead of dirty white, the bands dark grey, the median band uninter¬ 
rupted, though with its central part paler, its posterior end strikingly narrowed, subapical dark spot somewhat 
more obliquely placed, distal area (except anteriorly) without dark markings, the subterminal line in conse¬ 
quence not shown; hindwing a little smaller in proportion than that of obsoletaria, somewhat approaching the 
proportions of an Acasis; markings of this and of the underside very slight. Founded on a $ taken at light 
in the Monte Rotondo district, Corsica, at 1600—1800 m, 31 July 1932; no others yet known. 
C. perplexaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 i). Attention should be called to the spelling of this name, which perplexaria. 
is rightly written on the plate but in the text is inaccurately given as perplexata, consequently also misquoted 
by Sterneck. The latter calls attention to a structural character which further indicates the close relationship 
to obsoletaria, namely the presence, in both, of distinct dorsal tufts on the first 4 abdominal segments. 
C. ambustaria Leech (15 a). Sterneck records several examples from Ta-tsien-lu and one from Sun- ambuslaria. 
panting and remarks on the presence of dorsal crests, about as in perplexaria, also on the shortness and conical 
thickening of the $ abdomen, in which, as well as in the wing-markings, it recalls a diminutive taezanowshiaria. 
I think, however, it is probably a Piercia; the Chang Yang before me has even a trace, on the distal part 
of the forewing, of the green tinge which is so general in that genus. 
C. taezanowskiaria Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 m). Superficially, as well as in the form of the $ abdomen taczanoiv- 
(already remarked upon in Vol. 4, p. 242), this definitely recalls Pelarga, but it cannot on our present tax¬ 
onomic system be transferred thereto. Abdomen without the crests of the two preceding. Palpus in the $ 
somew’hat longer than in the S'- 
C. lasithiotica Rbl. (15 a). It appears from the way in which its author refers to this subsequently, lasithiotica. 
that he regards it as scarcely more than an extreme form (race) of berberata. — nevadertsis Rbl. (= lasithiotica nevadensis. 
