indistincta. 
undifraga. 
discomelai- 
na. 
mollugina¬ 
ta. 
completa. 
regressata. 
obscurata. 
inusitata. 
constricta. 
divisa. 
kendeffyi. 
undulifera- 
ria. 
albostriga- 
ria. 
geraea. 
bilineata. 
fuscofascia- 
tci. 
virgata. 
150 CIDARIA. By L. B. Prout. 
is given in Motyli Polski, Vol. 1, p. 439. — ab. indistincta Osthelder (= effusa L. Mull.). Outer white band blur¬ 
red. without sharp dividing-line or sharply defined boundary. S. Bavaria, Austria, etc. Each author bases his 
name on the “nom. coll.’' conception. 
C. undifraga nom. nov. ( undulata Leech , nom. praeocc.) (Vol. 4, pi. 13 c, as undulata). It was over¬ 
looked that the name undulata was a secondary homonym, as there exists also a Gidaria undulata ( Warr .), 
dating from 1888. undifraga perhaps belongs chiefly to S. E. China; I have it from Wenchow and the other 
localities from which I have seen it (Chekiang, Kiukiang — the type — and Ichang) leave some doubt whether 
it lias much claim to be regarded as a Palaearctic species. 
C. discomelaina Wehrli ( undulata Sterneck, nec Leech ) (14 a). Smaller than undifraga , less black, 
the white markings more regular, the additional ones much weaker, the white apical spots wanting. Underside 
at least as sharply marked as upper. The $ is larger than the <$. Pekin, not rare. Perhaps more nearly related 
to the Indian contortilinea Warr. than to undifraga. 
C. molluginata Him. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 f). Belgium has recently (1933) been added to the known distribution 
of this species. Although its variability is not very great, numerous aberrational names have been inflicted 
upon it. - — ab. completa Wehrli is the form with the median area of the forewing completely filled with dark 
brown-grey, as in our $ figure. It is rare in its extreme form (Wehrli mentioned only 1 from Zermatt and 
l from the Jura) but is connected by all transitions with the type. — ab. regressata F. Fuchs is very dark, 
obscurely marked. Rhine: Vogesen. This was assumed by A. Fuchs to be the true molluginata , hence the synonym 
poecilata A. Fuchs (see Vol. 4, p. 248) was created for the light form which is prevalent in the Jura, etc. - 
obscurata Schaiverda (a black-grey form, “about the colour of dark salicata”), described from Obersee, N. 
Austria, may have to supplant regressata ; both were published in 1914, regressata on 11 July, obscurata probably 
in March or April. — ab. inusitata Guen. (14 a). A figure is given by Culot of Guenee’s Hyeres type. We 
reproduce it here, for comparison with the somewhat more extreme forms last discussed. — ab. constricta Wehrli 
was not quite adequately described in my brief addendum (Vol. 4, p. 420), which was taken solely from the 
references in Vorbrodt and Muller-Rittz ; those authors wrote “abgeschnurt”, not “eingeschnurt”, and the 
original account (Mitt. Thurgau. Nat. Cfes., Vol. 20, p. 45) expressly gives the median band as “broadly inter¬ 
rupted with whitish in the middle, divided into an upper and a lower half”. The locality of the type was Wellen- 
berg, Frauenfeld district. It has been considered a pathological aberration, but this phase of variation is well- 
known in many perfectly healthy Larentiids. — ab. divisa Osthelder. Median band in its entire length inter¬ 
rupted by a lighter band". Described from S. Bavaria. Strictly speaking, however, this appears to be the form 
figured by Hubner. — ab. kendeffyi Dioszeghy (perhaps almost teratological) has the forewing somewhat nar¬ 
rowed. with acute apex, the hindwing also slightly reduced; median band dark, narrowed, its boundaries not 
very sharply defined, subterminal shade dark, blurred proximally. Retyezat Mountains, I <$. 
C. unduliferaria Motsch. ( = eliela Btlr.) (Vol. 4, pi. 10 h, as albostrigaria). There seems to be sufficient 
local variation in this very distinct species to justify the employment of racial names. There can be no reasonable 
doubt that the generally large and more greyish tinged eliela of Butler, from Japan, is the same which Avas 
much earlier described (also from Japan) by Motschulsky as unduliferaria , the oldest name for the collective 
species. The form from Corea seems to be nearer to this than to the following. —- albostrigaria Brem., from the 
southern Amur district, is smaller and (very) slightly paler (more yellow-brownish) than typical unduliferaria 
and there are other very slight differences which help to give it a somewhat different aspect. geraea subsp. 
nov. (14 a), from W. China, is about as large as unduliferaria but still more greyish, white lines nearly always 
slender, generally inclusive even of the more band-like postmedian; 4th white line (the first which is continued 
on the hindwing) generally less irregular, gently curved, on hinclwing less band-like than in the other races. 
Distributed, the type series from Kunkala-Shan. 
C. bilineata L. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 h, i). Carl Schneider (Ent. Anz. Vol. 10, p. 31) doubts whether there 
is ever a second brood; in spite of very careful and protracted investigations he has never found the later larvae 
nor obtained ova until the late summer; probably we have here a parallel case to that of some Agrotids. Very 
many names, some more important, some less, have been given to aberrations of this extraordinarily variable 
species, although a few authors (e. g. Cockayne in Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc., Vol. 17, plate) have been content 
to figure aberrations without giving them separate names. — $-ab. fuscofasciata Aleves has the rvhole of the 
median area and a part of the outer intermediate area yellowish black-brown, except only the costal margin 
as far as the 5th subcostal and a quite narrow light-yellow stripe in the middle of the median area and almost 
interrupted between the 2nd submedian and the 1st median. The dark brown colour covers the usually white 
lines on each side of the median area, so that they are only visible at the costa. Described on a $ from Varmdo. 
ab. virgata Hawkins lacks the lines of the intermediate areas of the forewing (i. e. between median band and 
basal patch resp. terminal line) and even the terminal line is faint; median band, on the contrary, almost solidly 
