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to be identical with cupreata, is quite distinct from it (see below); probably Stertz's captures were true cupreata 
and his reference incorrect. — I fully believe that Wiltshire will prove to be right as to the necessity of sinking 
cupreata as a form of basochesiata, but hesitate to abandon the long-established conception until thorough ana¬ 
tomical investigations have been made. 
C. basochesiata Dup. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 a). Long before receiving Dr. Wiltshike’s valuable communication, basochesiata. 
I had found increasing difficulties in drawing a sharp line between this species and the form (or forms) cupreata 
and had begun to suspect that all belonged to a single species. Culot's “easy distinction” (the presence of 
black on the borders of the median band in basochesiata) breaks down unless both occur freely together both 
in S. France and in Algeria. Moreover, so accurate an observer as Pungeler Iras labelled an Algerian ''''basoche¬ 
siata” as cupreata and Oberthur (Et. Lep. Comp., Vol. 19) has figured a Moroccan “ cicpreata” as basochesiata. 
In any case, the basochesiata forms, as defined by Culot, occur not only in the countries named in Vol. 4 but 
also in Sardinia and N. Africa, probably also in the eastern localities. — ab. virescens Schwingenschuss, described virescens. 
from Spain as an aberration of basochesiata, has part of the inner band, costa, posterior half of outer band and 
a narrow band along the termen of the forewing metallic green, the intermediate parts cupreous. Chiclana, 1 <$. 
C. vallantinaria Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 k). Besides being larger than cujireata and basochesiata (see above) vallantina- 
this has a different antemedian and other distinctions and has altogether much of the aspect of a strongly dar- rm - 
kened picata ; basal and median areas of forewing dark and mossy-coloured, rather weakly separated. The 
specimens before me (one from Blida and one from Bone — Oberthur’s type locality) are slightly broader and 
broader-winged than the figure of the original, but there can be no doubt about the determination. 
C. putridaria H.-Sch. (15 b). The figures of Herrich-Schaeffer discussed in Vol. 4 (p. 246) should be pulridaria. 
respectively 535 (the later acutangulata) and 536, which serves as the type of putridaria. Common in the northern 
Lebanon. F. Wagner records it from Akschehir, Anatolia, together with a number of very differently coloured 
(more grey-brown and less variegated) specimens which were determined provisionally as renodata Pung., with 
the suggestion that the latter was only a form of putridaria. As I do not possess this renodata- coloured insect, 
I must leave it to the future for further elucidation and can only here say that the specimen figured by Wagner 
is quite different, notably in shape, from the true renodata, and that Dr. Hering, who compared it with Punge- 
ler’s type, declared it to have “nothing to do” therewith. The trouble seems to have arisen from the fact that 
Bohatsch had erroneously determined the present ( putridaria ?) form as renodata. Perhaps there is still another 
species awaiting definite differentiation in the group; at any rate, as my kind friend Wagner reports, I did 
not recognize it in his collection as anything known to me. — bulgariata Mill. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 a, as permixtaria). butgariata. 
In the differentiation of name-typical putridaria from this western form, the sentence was made almost un¬ 
intelligible by the omission of the word “size" after “rather larger”; the size differentiation, however, is probably 
quite unimportant and I am doubtful whether two separate names are required. The species rests on tree- 
trunks or rocks and flies wildly when disturbed. 
C. permixtaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 a, as putridaria). Occurs in Macedonia, in Turkish N. Syria permixtaria. 
(Marash) and rather commonly at Akbes; I have it also from Baalbek, which seems to be hitherto its southerly 
limit. 
C. renodata Pung. (15 c). The differentiation from putridaria has already been given in Vol. 4, (p. 246) renodata. 
and a somewhat similarly coloured form, provisionally referable to the latter, has been discussed above. True 
renodata is only known to me from a Kopet-dagh $ and apparently a few examples from N. Persia, and has 
definitely more produced apex, narrower cell-mark and browner proximal-subterminal shades (more continuous 
than in permixtaria but much weaker). 
C. corollaria H.-Sch. (= noacki Draudt) (14 a). Warnecke has carefully analyzed most of the known corollaria. 
material of this colletive species and found that, irrespective of the centralisata of Namangan, Transalai and 
Issyk-kul, there are two well differentiated forms which, as no distinction had yet been demonstrated in the 
genitalia, he regarded as local races. LTnfortunately no type locality was given for Herrich-Schaeffer's ori¬ 
ginal, but it appears to represent the form which occurs in Central Spain (Albarracin), the Spanish Pyrenees 
and again the Crimea (Karadag), possibly also in Bulgaria. This is larger and lighter than the following, with 
weaker-marked hindwing and a more pronounced tendency for the median band to contain a pale distal patch 
in its central part; moreover the central veins on the median band are more or less strongly tinged with ochreous- 
brown. Guenee gives a detailed description of a specimen from “Dalmatia” in Lederer's collection; this 
is unfortunately lost and we have no confirmatory record from the district. Misled by the survival of the er¬ 
roneous belief that corollaria and unicata were forms of a single species, Prof. Draudt recently (1935) redescribed 
corollaria as a new species. Mr. H. Noack having captured a worn $ at Angora among C. unicata , eggs were 
obtained and Draudt, who was breeding unicata at tlie same time (see below), saw that two such dissimilar 
larvae could not possibly appertain to one species. In its first stages, to be sure, the larvae, which were reared 
