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and extended. Type from Baden; also mentioned from Thiiringer Wald. — ab. triangulata F. Wagn. Median i riangulula. 
band narrowed, broadly interrupted, forming merely a small costal patch and a hindmarginal triangle. Berlin, 
one specimen, bred from the larva. chinensis Sterneck , if it be a geographical race or a separate species, will chinensis. 
require a new name, as there is already a Cidaria chinensis (Leech, 1897). It is said to differ from luctuosaria 
(which it approaches in the uniformly darkened proximal and median areas and the sharply defined proximal 
edge of the distal area of the forewing) in having a smaller, more rounded postmedian projection of the central 
band, more sinuous proximal edge of the distal area (so that the white postmedian band is of almost equal width 
throughout), darkened proximal area of the hindwing above and beneath and lack of the white spot in the 
marginal area of the fore wing beneath. Founded on 3 ES from Ta-tsien-lu. 
C. luctuosaria Oherth. (15 c). I think this and the following must be regarded as species, not forms of luctuosaria. 
unangulata, although the differences in the genitalia are but slight; the most easily observed are in the valve 
and the uncus; the latter in this species and cineraria tapers rapidly to its rounded and convex (not “indent") 
end; the part of the valve beyond its dorsal process is longest and narrowest in luctuosaria. 
C. cineraria Btlr. The uncus is shaped about as in luctuosaria , not (as in unangulata) nearly parallel- cineraria. 
sided and terminally “indent” (Pierce). The part of the valve beyond the process is at least as short as in 
unangulata. 
C. coangulata Prout (Vol. 4, p. 247). Sterneck refers here, but with a query, a pair from Sunpanting. coangulata. 
W. China, which differ from picata and brunneimixta in the long, single prong of the postmedian of the forewing, 
which is not dentate; that of the hindwing beneath regularly rounded, not produced centrally. I have not 
seen them. 
C. ochreata Moore (15 h) was founded on a $ from Darjiling in the Atkinson collection and it now ochreata. 
seems certain that the name was misapplied by Hampson and others to the common N. W. Indian Euphyia 
which we figured in Vol. 4 as ochreata (see submarginata below). The true ochreata is unfortunately not represented 
in our British collections, but a second Darjiling $ from the Staudinger collection has been kindly lent me 
by the Berlin Museum. Although it is not known to occur in the Palaearctic Region, we give a figure of it to 
allow of a comparison with the following form and to stimulate further investigation. It gives the impression 
of a separate species, but may be a race or conceivably (though I feel it to be extremely improbable) a mere aber¬ 
ration. Larger, the hindwing and underside considerably darker, the forewing with the area proximal to the 
median band less darkened, the dark band between median and basal sometimes evanescent, the outward 
prongs of the median band stronger, etc. brunneimixta Th.-Mieg ( = picata Leech , nec Him.) (15 c). Hindwing brunneimix- 
pale, fore wing intermediate in appearance between ochreata and submarginata. $ genitalia perhaps nearer to 
these of unangulata than to picata and submarginata . the arm (called costa by Pierce, but apparently in reality 
no part of the valve but springing from the tegumental ring) bifid at end, with the two projections about equal, 
valve with a distinct costal projection. West China, distributed; also in almost identical forms from the Kliasis. 
C. submarginata Warr. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 i, as ochreata). On an average smaller; more soberly and uniformly submargina- 
coloured. generally more grey than greenish. genitalia with the arm narrow and scarcely befid, valve with ta 
a bulge on the lower edge, thus more associated with picata than with unangulata. Warren's type, a $ from 
Kashmir, is slightly aberrant in having the border and the hindwing a little darker than usual, but the species, 
which is very common in the Punjab and Kashmir and enters Afghanistan, is not on the whole particularly 
variable. 
C. picata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 b). The references to Chinese forms (Vol. 4, p. 247) and the inclusion of picata. 
China in the area of distribution must be deleted, as they refer to the erroneously determined material in the 
Leech collection and belong to brunneimixta Th.-Mieg (see above). 
C. luctuata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 d). Two specimens have been taken in England, one in N. Kent in luctuata. 
1924, the other in Essex, not recorded until 1928; they were probably, however, accidental introductions. In 
the Taunus and in the lowlands, according to Boldt, the species is always attached to Epilobium, in the Black 
Forest to Vaccinium myrtillus. — ab. atrolata Schawerda. Subterminal line almost entirely obsolete, median atrolata. 
and distal bands strongly blackened, proximal area of darker grey than in the type form. Founded on a $ from 
San Martino di Castrozza (Dolomites). Other examples are known; it should perhaps be merged in ab. denigrata 
Gillmer (Vol. 4, p. 248) and differs little from the prevailing northern forms ( borealis Petersen). — ab. dobayi dobayi. 
Dioszeghy , from the Retyezat Mountains, is said to be intermediate between borealis and the black-hindwinged 
obductata Mdschl. Subterminal line obsolete, white band of forewing rather less bent than usual, that of hind¬ 
wing rather narrow, sharply defined proximally. Probably another superfluous name. — ab. separata Roma- separata, 
niszyn is said to differ chiefly in the development of a prominent, distinct, uninterrupted, sinuous black line 
which bisects the white band. One of each sex, from different localities in Poland. A fuller account, in Polish. 
