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lata. 
roseooliva- 
cea. 
C. furcata Thnbg. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 k). Distinguishable structurally by the shorter palpus and by the furcata. 
remarkably differently shaped uncus. The other European species, together with the great majority of the 
Nearctic, have the palpus moderate or long, the uncus bifid. Vorbrodt has a puzzling note that pupae found 
in the winter produced moths from 14 April onward. As they were found on the borders of an alder thieket, 
one wonders whether there was a misidentification. As would be expected with so excessively variable a species, 
furcata has been a favourite plaything of the name-givers and no doubt many synonyms and superfluous names 
have been imposed upon it; in accordance with the promises of the present work, I have made an attempt to 
record faithfully the described characteristics of the so-called aberrations, but I have not been able to spare 
the many hours which would have been necessary for the (almost futile) task of correlating them all and working 
ont a synonymy, and must leave that task to others. — ab. lucifasciata Meves. Light rust-brown, with dark lucifasciata. 
antemedian band and subterminal line, immediately inside the latter a white band from the 2nd submedian 
about to the 5th subcostal, where it is cut off by a short, thick black longitudinal streak. Rosersberg and Stock¬ 
holm. — ab. monetata Meves. Pale grey-white, feebly marked, except a large, round, pale spot distally to the monetata. 
discocellulars, surrounded with black, and a similar semicircular spot between the round spot and the costa. 
Rosersberg. — ab. albomaculata Kiefer. Forewing black; median area bounded by narrow reddish bands, in albomacu- 
the middle of which a black stripe (? line) stands out distinctly; in the median area are two white spots, preceded 
cost-ally by a white 1 u n u 1 e pupilled wit h b 1 a c k. Miihlau, 1 $. — ab. roseoolivacea Schawerda. 
Hindwing normal, forewing with basal area, a costal spot before apex and a broad median band, rosy red the 
rest banded with light and dark olive-green; the whitish subterminal spot normal. Vucijabara, Herzegovina. 
- ab. stragulata Wehrli. Dark specimens with the light (whitish) median area broadly interrupted with black stragidata. 
so as to form isolated, broadly black-margined, light spots, analogous to variata stragulata. Delitsch and Gempen, 
Basle district. — ab. contrastata J. D. Schroder (= contrasta B.-Haas ). Ground-colour black, the normally conirastata. 
dark bands light in colour. The original description compares it in the general arrangement of the markings with 
our figure of ab. obscura Beyer. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 k as infuscata), but whether there is a complete reversal of the 
lighter and darker parts or some differences in their width is uncertain. Bremen. — ab. suffumata Finke and the suffumata. 
three which follow were bred from Vaccinium larvae in the Harz, about 800 m altitude. Olive-brown, with 
the fine black subbasal line, sharply developed subterminal (not interrupted by the usually conspicuous white 
spot) and a roundish black spot in the anterior third of the broad median area, which again is broadly black- 
edged proximally. — ab. marmorata Finke. Analogous to fuscoundata in the seal-red or rust-red ground-colour, but marmorata. 
the bands (apart from the subbasal) restricted to two; median area with a white-centred spot which reaches the 
costal margin. — ab. radiata Finke is said to resemble ab. obscura Peyer. in that it shows no regular arrange- radiata. 
ment of bands and (approximately) in its “black-blue” ground-colour, but is characterized by having outstand¬ 
ingly sharply marked veins (subcostal to 2nd median). — ab. meinheiti Finke, represented by 3 SS and 2 $$ has meinlieili. 
the distal margin, boundaries of median area and narrow circumscription of basal area moss-green, standing 
out sharply on the black-blue ground-colour; median area narrow, showing 3 separated lighter spots. A striking 
form, which at first glance would scarcely be recognized. — ab. czekelii Dioszeghy. Ground-colour brown-grey, czekelii. 
the markings of the forewing darker, grey-brown; these form bands which are broader than the ground-colour, 
so that the latter appears only as numerous fine, sharp lines separating them; only in the posterior part of the 
subterminal region does the pale colour become more dominant. Cioca, 1400 m, Retyezat Mountains. — ab. 
albidaria Nitsche. Ground-colour whitish, fringes of both wings lighter than in typical forms. Oberharz. — ab. albidaria. 
albipunctata Nitsche. Much darkened with black-bro wn, the light spot in the subterminal band of the forewing albipunc- 
conspicuous. Norway (the type), Suhl (Thuringia) and Oberharz. — ab. albonigrata Nitsche. Deep black-brown, 
with sharply contrasting white markings, namely: the basal area, a central spot and 3 costal spots; towards 
the termen the black shows a seal-red bordering. Suhl, 2 examples. — ab. fasciata Nitsche. Ground-colour fasciata. 
brown, the arrangement of the markings as in ab. tricolorata Schrank, which has the ground-colour green, 
ab. centrinotata Nitsche. “In the median band of the forewing or in the roundish median [? mid-subterminal] cenirinotata. 
spot of the forewing with a darker filling-in.” Tyrol and other Austrian and German localities. — ab. pluri- pluripunc- 
punctata Nitsche. In addition to the central distal spot, a band-like subterminal series of white-centred spots, iata - 
so that in some cases there are two pale bands, median and subterminal. Hanover, etc. — ab. tricolorata Schrank. tricolorata. 
Nitsche gives a long list of localities for Central Europe and Latvia, which naturally could be extended, 
ab. (?) shibuyae Matsumura, a $ from S. Saghalien, published as a new species and the type of a new subgenus shibuyae. 
Karacidaria, looks (from the rather crude figure) likely to be an aberration of furcata, notwithstanding that the 
“long” palpus is somewhat against the suggestion. “Differs from Lyncometra Prout in having long palpi, simple 
filiform antennae, not projecting frons, not crested metathorax”; terminal spurs of the hindtibia very small. 
Greyish, the bands fuscous, wavy, the postmedian strongly so, becoming narrower posteriorly, it and the sub¬ 
terminal nearly meeting behind; space between antemedian and median bands somewhat infuscated. - nexi- 
fasciata Btlr. (16 c), from Japan, is probably, on account of the different antemedian band, a separate race, of 
not a good species, but I still know very few examples (only the 2 originals from Tokyo, from Yokohama and 
1 from Hokkaido plains). The furcata from Szechuan look to me to be /. furcata, but Sterneck, with probably 
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tata. 
albonigrata. 
nexifasciata. 
