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of sortation. have placed together at the commencement all the species which have retained the double areole 
(section Eucymatoge Him.) but that one or two are variable in this character and (especially) that a large number 
have not been available for study from that standpoint; an investigation of some of the Asiatic which were 
unknown to me whan Vol. 4 appeared, and even of one or two European which Meyrick had misplaced, has 
convinced me that even Dietze made very little first-hand examination from this point of view. I therefore 
maintain the sequence adopted by the last-named authority, but mention the areole, where necessary, in 
the individual descriptions. One species, brevifasciaria Leech (vol. 4, p. 289, pi. 13 i), as I already anticipated, 
has had to be removed to Horisme. 
E. tenuiata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k) ab. coaequata Dannehl. Glossy grey, with strong brownish cast, the coaequata. 
lines obsolescent or entirely wanting, in the latter case leaving only the cell-dot, sharp terminal dashes, sub¬ 
terminal line and traces of costal spots. S. Tyrol. — ab. fuscosparsata Dannehl. Large, exceptionally broad- fuscospar- 
winged, deep brown-grey, the lines very fine, the whole of the wings watered with dark strigulae. Not rare 
at Sigmundskron, S. Tyrol. — ab. cinerae Gregs. {= cinerea V. Schultz). Dr. V. G. M. Schultz, on a number cinerae. 
of specimens bred from Aberdeen pupae, finds no support whatever for the belief in a distinguishable .Scottish 
race. As their colour changed to lighter ash-grey after a few days’ flight, he surmises that “ cinerea” ( cinerae) 
is merely a synonym for worn tenuita. 
E. inturbata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k) clujensis Draudt is a well differentiated local race, of large size, clujensis. 
with relatively longer wings and sharper apex; strongly marked and, before all, with the ground-colour much 
greyer. Cluj, Roumania, not appearing until September. 
E. nigritaria Stgr., previously known only from the Cilician Taurus, was taken by F. Wagner at Ak- nigritaria. 
schehir in some numbers in June. 
E. haworthiata Dbld. ab. coriolutea Mobius. Coloration throughout leather-yellow, the markings di- coriolutea. 
stinct; said to give quite the impression of a separate species, so that, if it had not been obtained by breeding 
it would scarcely have been recognized. Dresden. — transsylvanaria Dannehl. More inclined towards a blackish transsylva- 
red-brown, much darker than its author has seen it from any other European locality than Transsylvania; narm - 
lines indistinct, the light band outside the median area broadly undulate, the fine white subterminal clear. 
Type from the Cibin Mountains; also from Kronstadt and in the Riu-Sadaluital. 
homogram- 
mata. 
immundata. 
E. homogrammata Dietze (Vol. 4, pi. 25 h). Several specimens have been collected in Kamtshatka 
(Klutshi and Petropavlovsk), 21 June to 12 July, by R. Malaise. 
E. immundata Z. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k). Distributed, but local; France (a few stations) and through Germany 
and Switzerland to Southern Scandinavia, Russia and Hungary. C. Finke (Gottingen) has a very interesting 
note. Having noticed the assembling of a “green leaf-bug" (? Pentatomid) about the berries of the Actaea at 
the time when the larvae were ready for pupation, he discovered — at first almost by accident, confirmed by 
hours of patient watching — that they were waiting for these like a spider for its prey. The larva pushes 
itself out from the berries backwards in order to drop by a thread to the ground for pupation and the moment 
the white skin of the larva shows itself in the opening, the bug plunges its mouth-parts into the body of its 
victim and does not let go until its immolation is completed. 
E. plumbeolata Haw. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k). I have seen a few Ussuri $9 (in poor condition) which may 
belong here, but am not entirely satisfied about them. Neither can I confirm Sterneck’s record of a $ 
from Wassekou, W. China. — ab. singularia H.-Sch. has the cell-dot definitely perceptible. Rare, connected with 
the type by transitions (Dietze). —- ab. enucleata Dietze. Larger, coarsely scaled, its grey tone still less brow¬ 
nish. Oberdorf (Bavarian Allgau), in numbers in 1908. —ab. uralensis Dietze. Relatively small, with numerous 
light spots, recalling spissilineata. 3 from the Ural. — ab. flaveolata Dannehl. Uniform light leather-yellow, 
with scarcely a trace of the grey markings. Schliersee. — ab. plumbalbeolata Dannehl. Dead white-grey, the 
dark-brown and grey-brown elements wanting, thus as good as markingless and (especially in fresh specimens) 
showing a silky gloss; size normal, scaling very fine, in marked contrast to enucleata Dietze. Numerous, Schliersee 
and Beuerberg. — ab. explicata Dannehl. Demarcation of the median area strongly defined, the whole of this 
area darker than the basal and distal. With the preceding, but rarer. — ab. lividata Dannehl. Densely irro- 
rated throughout with dark-brown or black-brown, much recalling a very dark immundata , except in shape. 
With the two preceding, but rare. 
E. cuculliaria Rbl. (16 k). We figure a $ from Zengg, Croatia. 
E. spissilineata Metzner (Vol. 4. pi. 13 f). Zerny records several from Becharre, N. Lebanon, collected 
in June. New for Syria. 
E. interrubrescens Hmps., described as a Phibalapteryx Sect. II ( Collix ) but with the midtibia not interrubres- 
dilated, is clearly a close relative of pini, the areole double, as in that species. Considerably larger (3 38 mm, cens - 
plumbeolaia. 
singularia. 
enucleata. 
uralensis. 
flaveolata. 
plumbalbeo¬ 
lata. 
explicata. 
lividata. 
cuculliaria. 
spissilineata. 
