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dark posterior marks well defined, fairly broad but short, even the 3rd one not, in the topotypical series, cros¬ 
sing the 2nd median; basal irroration rarely reaching the conspicuous cell-dot; tips of fringe less chequered 
with whitish than in uber. Underside with corresponding dinstinctions. Yaregong and Yargong-Zambala 
(P. Soitlie), 13 dc?; a l so a very slight modification from the Ta-tsien-lu collectors (1 <$) and Moenia, Tibet 
(2 with faint and interrupted traces of the 3rd line as far as the 1st median vein or even towards the 3rd 
radial. All in the British Museum, ex coll. Oberthur. • 
C. excentricata Alph. (Vol. 4, pi. 8 1) occurs also in Szechuan. Sterneck records a $ (Ta-tsien-lu) 
which has retained the proximal areole — distinct, though small, considerably more so than the distal. 
C. virginea Alph. (15 k). Sterneck points out, as further evidence of the specific distinctness from 
excentricata, the materially longer palpus and more strongly tufted face. He adds Sun-pan-ting to its range. 
C. kezonmetaria Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 b) altivaga subsp. nov. In addition to the distinctions noted in 
Vol. 4 (p. 256), this has the hindwing beneath very weakly marked or unmarked. S. W. Szechuan (Capt. Bai¬ 
ley): Tsemala (type) and W. of Kiala; all in the British Museum. 
C. tristata L. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 e). This and the, rest of the most typical Epirrhoe (genotype alternata Mull.) 
are not arranged in the best sequence; Dr. Heydemam suggests the following: hastulata, pupillata, fulminata, 
tristata, alternata, rivata, galiata. Before dealing with the numerous tristata aberrations which have recently 
been described, I would record that Pungeler (in litt.) suggested that the puzzling — ab. continuata A. Fuchs 
(Vol. 4, p. 256) might be a subhastata form, parallel to s. moestata ab. undulata Strand, but I have been quite 
unable to reconcile its description with that, and must leave it here. — ab. brunnea Nessling has the normally 
dark parts light yellowish brown, the white parts normal. Described from Finland. — ab. actinaria Dannehl 
is a washed-out form, the dark markings indistinct and effused, the dots in the white bands only indicated by 
slender rays along the veins (in extreme developments wanting). Mendel and Penegal, founded on 8 do and 
6 — ab. interrupta Heinrich was merely diagnosed (on a $ from the Wendelstein, Bavaria) as having “the 
black band of the fore wing interrupted with white”, but presumably referred to the same form as that which 
was later called interrupta E. Lange (Rechenberg, 1 §) and further elucidated by a figure from Galvagni (an 
Allentsteig $) and descriptions from Hellweger and Osthelder. The interruption, as would be expected, 
is in the submeclian region. — ab. divisa (nom. coll.) nov., with the band white-centred throughout, is a much 
rarer form, but Galvagni has a specimen from Turnitz. — ab. hastatoides Nitsche (= hastadoides Osthelder ) 
has the white postmedian band broadened and the mid-subterminal white spot extended into a complete has¬ 
tate mark which strongly recalls that of hastata. Type from Ramingstein, Lungau; several from S. Bavaria 
mentioned by Osthelder. — ab. luctuolata Klem. Brownish black, the median area not marked with white, 
bounded by narrow white, black-dotted bands. Muszyna, Galicia. An almost identical specimen has been 
figured by Kautz, Zeitschr. Oesterr. Ent.-Ver., Vol. 16, pi. 2, fig. 12, from Mariensee. — ab. pseudoluctuata Vor- 
brodt. Much blacker than typical tristata, confusingly similar to hastulata. The typical series (13 GS and 2 
from Novaggio) seems to have represented a rather more extreme form than luctuolata, the forewing being 
almost solidly black as far as the postmedian, the outer white band bisected by thick dots or a connected line, 
the subterminal vestigial; the characteristic (longitudinal) red-yellow terminal marks of ab. liunbosignata Nolck. 
discernible. 
C. hastulata Him. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 e) ab. effusa-radiata Galv., the name compounded of two of the well- 
known nomina collectiva, has the proximal boundary of the black distal area blurred and throwing out dark 
rays on the veins proximally. Sonnwendstein, Lower Austria, only the type known. — reducta Djakonov, from 
Kamtshatka, has the black markings reduced, particularly in the median area, the cell-spots enclosed in a 
white ring, as in the parallel form stibhastata clarior. 
C. pupillata Thnbg. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 e, as funerata). C. Schneider 12 years ago recorded this as new 
for Wurttemberg. The same author emphasizes that it is by no means restricted to peat moors and the like, 
but is found, e. g. in the Swabian Alps, on dry mountain pastures with a xerotherm character. Warnecke, 
more recently (1932) analysing its known geographical distribution, notices a great gap between its western 
localities and its reappearance in Moravia; in Scandinavia too, though widely distributed it is remarkably 
local, in Denmark confined to the dunes of West Jutland. Sterneck recognizes no racial difference in the 
Szechuan form, but we have little reliable information about the scattered oriental localities from which it 
has been recorded (? orientalis Osthelder). — ab. defasciata Hirschke. The white bands lack the dividing-line 
and the outer one is much widened, nearly reaching the subterminal, on the underside still further extended, 
especially on the hindwing where it continues on to the fringe. — ab. radiata-effusa Kitt is strictly parallel to 
hastulata ab. effusa-radiata Galv., described above; indeed it should probably bear that name, as Galvagni used 
it in mentioning the parallelism; and as I believe Kitt's note was still in the press at that time, Galvagni s 
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excentricata. 
virginea. 
altivaga. 
tristata. 
continuata. 
brunnea. 
actinaria. 
interrupta. 
divisa. 
hastatoides. 
luctuolata. 
pseudoluc¬ 
tuata. 
effusa-radia¬ 
ta. 
reducta. 
pupillata. 
defasciata. 
radiata- 
effusa. 
