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CIDARIA. By L. B. Prottt. 
Ribbe, nec Rbl., andalusica Wehrli ) (lob). Wings slightly more elongate, the grey median band of the fore¬ 
wing somewhat broader, with much less irregular proximal edge, though more so than that of berberata. Sierra 
Nevada and Sierra de Alfacar. 
berberata. C. berberata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 m). Jensen has recently added Denmark to the range of this species. 
Cockayne has described an unusual colour variation in some larvae which were sent him from Bury St. Ed¬ 
munds ; one was of the usual brown colour, one black with some white markings, a third pale orange-brown 
with the usual markings of a slightly darker orange; the blood and fat of the first two were blue-green, the 
grisescens. blood of the orange larva colourless and its fat white. — ab. grisescens Wehrli. Ground-colour of upperside 
pure ash-grey, without brown admixture; even the bands, which are darker grey, have the brown tone reduced. 
rjriseata. Markings very sharp. Recurrent at Zermatt, probably adapted to the rocks. — ab. griseata (Oberth.) Culot, 
a $ from Genes, is similar but more extreme, the grey darker, the antemedian band slender. Probably indi- 
constrida. vidual; in any case the name is older than grisescens. — ab. constricta Vorbrodt (= interrupta Sauruck ). Bound¬ 
ary lines of median area twice confluent behind the middle of the wing, so that the enclosed groundcolour forms 
interrupta. an oval anterior and two small, round posterior spots. Switzerland, etc. — ab. interrupta Metschl, on a from 
Kehlheim, had the confluence more continuous, leaving only a small costal and a small innermarginal pale spot. 
carolinaria. Dannehl (more indefinitely) re-described (from Tyrol and Bavaria) under the same name. — ab. carolinaria 
(Oberth.) Culot is brownish, with the median area fuscous, extremely narrowed, the postmedian line being 
placed very near the antemedian, neither of them cpiite reaching the costa, the outward prongs of the former 
wanting. The unique type from Austria; an interesting approach to it has been figured by Kautz from Diirn- 
sineliturata. stein. — ab. siraeliturata Culot. Median band tinged with brown, but containing in its centre 2 transverse oval 
patches of the greyer groundcolour, the discocellular one oval, the posterior one tripartite; apical streak 
mauretanica. w anti n g. Savieze, Valais. - - mauretanica Reisser, from the Riff Mountains of Spanish Morocco, is more 
weakly marked (notably in the distal area) and much less variegated than typical berberata, the brown elements 
much reduced, the median area of the forewing appearing rather broader, partly through the stronger bend 
of the antemedian, partly through the narrowing of the proximal shading of the postmedian. In most respects 
a strong contrast to the sharply and copiously marked nevadensis, only perhaps in the hindwing somewhat 
nearer to that than to berberata. One specimen lacks the apical streak of the forewing (compare ab. sineliturata). 
€, consanguinea Btlr. (15 b). We give a figure of a $ from the Pryer collection. 
C. derivata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 m). Possibly this species and querulata (misprinted quaerulata in 
Vol. 4) should be separated off under the subgeneric (or generic) name of Anticlea Steph.: texture and build 
somewhat different, more slender, hindwing elongate costally, weakly marked, face slightly prominent but not 
tufted, palpus shortish. 
C. alhambrata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 m) ab. reductaria Stdttermeyer, from Guelt-es-Stel (1 <$) has the pale 
median area so narrowed that the dark bands which bound it touch posteriorly. 
C. beduiraa Trti ., though described — probably by oversight — as Entephria, is very similar to alham¬ 
brata. The unique type was collected at Ain Maros, Cyrenaica, and is said to have the same brown colouring 
but to lack entirely the whitish “predistal band” ( ? the subterminal), while the median fascia is strongly suf¬ 
fused with reddish; a distal ( ? terminal) brown line with 3 or 4 projections on the veins; “predistal area” much 
clouded with brown. 
C. eallidaria L. Joan. (14 a) was misplaced in Vol. 4 (p. 218), following Staiidinger's Catalog. It is 
really very close to adlata (see below) and will perhaps supplant it as a slightly different form of a single vari¬ 
able species. But that careful entomologist the late Abbe J. de Joannis, on comparing his brother’s type 
with a Palestine A adlata (Staltdinger det.) thought otherwise, and gave me the following differentiation: 
(1) costa of adlata straighter, wing more triangular; (2) eallidaria type reddish, adlata more grey with a white 
“eclaircie” in median area; (3) the postmedian line differs; in eallidaria between veins 3 and 4 it becomes ob¬ 
lique and almost straight in its course towards the costa; in adlata it has not this oblique direction, but rises 
more vertically, though with a slight retraction before reaching the costa; (4) the postmedian of the hindwing 
beneath is near the cell-spot in adlata, much more distal in eallidaria. By these criteria, a $ from Cyprus is 
probably a light aberration or race of eallidaria, while a Beyrout seems certainly a dark, rather weakly marked 
aberration of the same. Unfortunately I have scarcely any material available for further verification. 
€. adlata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 i). It is just possible that the Jerusalem species (or race?), which might 
retain Staitdinger’s name, is really separable from the Beyrout eallidaria (see above). If so, the “ adlata" 
larva recently described by E. P. Wiltshire from the latter district, presumably belongs to eallidaria. It 
feeds by night on Poterium spinosum in January and February and is stoutish, brown to pale greenish grey, 
with diamond-shape dorsal marks, edged anteriorly with purplish; in the brown form these diamonds are 
whitish. Ventral line fine, dark, widely interrupted. 
consangui¬ 
nea. 
derivata. 
reductaria. 
beduina. 
eallidaria. 
adlata. 
