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subterminal appreciably more incurved between costa and 1st radial. Dalhousie, May 1891, 2 in the Tring 
Museum. 
E. laquaearia H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 f). The old record for Belgium (Liege) is not verified and indeed laquaearia. 
seems improbable. Mr. Wiltshire, on the other hand, has added the Lebanon; he took specimens at Shweir 
late in August and bred others in early October from larvae, found feeding on a Hypericum. 
E. limbata Stgr. has been discovered at Trieste by 0. Carrara, the larvae feeding in the flower-heads limbata. 
of Eryngium amethystinum at the beginning of September and yielding the moth in July. Further European 
localities are Mostar and Macedonia. — tomillata Chret. (= occidens WehrLi) (16 k), published in 1904, was tomillata. 
overlooked by me in Vol. 4 and Dietze in his monograph gave only a figure, as ? limbata from San Ildefonso, 
citing Chretien “in litt.". It was discovered at San Ildefonso (Segovia), flying at the end of July and in August 
among Thymus, Helichrysum. Lavandula, Santolina, etc., and was described as a separate species. Wehrli later 
gave an independent account of it under the name of limbata var. occidens, based on 3 and quite fresh, 
Sierra Nevada, beginning of July. He differentiates it from the eastern race by its very large, sharply marked, 
deep-black cell-spots and the continuous reddish-brown proximal subterminal band. Zerny, in recording a 
number from Albarracin in July, finds the distinctions between tomillata and occidens quite negligible. 
E. liguriata Mill. (= bordigherata Dietze) (Vol. 4, pi. 12 d). In the absence of proof to the contrary, liguriata. 
I continue to use the nomenclature adopted in Vol. 4 (p. 276), as has also been done by Ctjlot and others. 
It is unfortunate, however, that Milliere chose for his type the unique specimen which he took at Bordighera 
(“on a wall among dry rocks”), a locality which apparently has not subsequently yielded the species, so 
that the later determinations have remained conjectural. He afterwards took others which he assumed to be 
conspecific, from time to time in his garden at Cannes. Concerning roederaria Stndf., discovered at Digne 
and published with good photographic figures, there is in any case no doubt. Culot points out that liguriata 
lacks the oblique pale subapical dash which is generally conspicuous in illuminata. Oberthur records “ roedera¬ 
ria ” from Morocco; Reisser records liguriata from the Riff Mountains (Izilan, a few in June), but some¬ 
what doubtfully, on account of the synonymic and other difficulties; they are a little more strongly marked, 
with the blackish costal spots and cell-spots very prominent and I incline to think they may be nearly the 
same as those which I have seen from the Middle Atlas and determined as a form of pantellata. 
E. pantellata Mill. (= pantellaria Mill.) (16 k). I restore the original orthography, which has been pantellata. 
lost sight of. In both this species and the preceding, the outer proximal spur of the hindtibia is wanting or 
rudimentary. We figure the dark lava-form from Catania, which is at least so near the Pantelleria type as not 
to need a separate name. — illuminata L. Joan. (Vol. 4, pi. 25 e). Our figure gives a recognizable portrayal illuminata. 
of this, the brightest and most warmly coloured race, which is prevalent in E. Algeria. The originals were from 
Philippeville. — luteostrigata Stgr. (= tedaldiata A. Fuchs), from Sicily, is similar but lighter, more inclining luteostrigata. 
to clay-yellow than to red-brown. The specimens from the Ragtisa collection are not quite so small as illuminata; 
those from the Blida Glaciers resemble the present race rather than illuminata. — lusitanica Dietze, from San lusitanica. 
Fiel, Portugal, is more black-mixed than the two preceding, intermediate towards pantellata. Similar speci¬ 
mens occur in the Sierra Nevada in May and June (not andalusica). - andalusica Wehrli (14 e). Very simi- andalusica. 
lar to illuminata but larger, the red-brown suffusions a little duller, the white markings somewhat reduced 
(unless costally), the hindwing more sharply marked than in illuminata; underside more glossy, weakly marked, 
more recalling that of liguriata. Sierra Nevada, 1500 m. Possibly a separate species. 
E. lecerfi Prout (16 k). Very similar to deverrata, but easily distinguished by its brighter sandy colour, lecerfi. 
sharper costal markings at the beginning of the lines, etc. It may however, as Zerny believes, be a race of 
the same, since two of the distinctions on which I relied (development of both proximal spurs of hindtibia 
and quite different ventral plate of $ from those of liguriata and pantellata) were conditional on the erro¬ 
neous association of deverrata with pantellata. Antennal ciliation of the <§ somewhat shorter than the diameter 
of the shaft. Great Atlas: Tinmel, S. E. slopes (zone of lavenders), flying in the latter half of May; more re¬ 
cently at Ijjoukak in June. 3 2$ from Bafcna which I referred here (only one of them in good condition) appear 
somewhat intermediate between this and deverrata , perhaps another race. 
E. deverrata Dietze (14 c) is now better known than when the original brief notes were published, deverrata. 
but has not, so far as I know, been closely studied anatomically. In any case, Dietze's suggestion that it “might 
very well be a separate species” (from pantellata) is fully confirmed; in the less short antennal ciliation and 
the hindtibial armature it agrees with lecerfi. Mr. L. Lhomme has generously provided me with paratypes. 
The larva feeds in the umbels of Pityranthus (Deverra) in November and December, the imago appearing from 
July to November; the partial or complete aestivation of the pupa seems to have been confirmed. To the 
words “underside almost markingless” (Vol. 4, p. 277) should be added “excepting the cell-marks”, which are 
as well developed as in lecerfi; the latter has, on an average, a much less weakly marked underside, deverrata 
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