EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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nae). Kurdistan: Malatya, 6 — 10 April 1932 (Prof, de Ajtaai Korvac), 7 and 3 99 i n the British Mu¬ 
seum; 1 $ in the Wehrli collection. 
E. staudingeri Bohatsch. I omitted to notice that Dietze, besides the typical form, figured (PI. 77. staudingeri. 
fig. 659, 660) as “? staudingeri forma grisescens ”, two specimens, respectively from Zerafshan and Askhabad, 
of which he gave no description beyond that which is indicated by the name. I have no further information 
about them, but if they represent a local race or a species they must be renamed to avoid collision with 
innotata grisescens Petersen. 
E. wehrlii F. Wagn. (14f). Near staudingeri but with some considerable differences; perhaps a 2nd wehrlii. 
or 3rd brood thereof, as Wehrli suggests. Somewhat more robust, the wings broader and of a purer, darker grey; 
the two lines which bound the median area of the forewing, in staudingeri wanting or only 
indicated, are here very distinctly expressed, the outer double, leaving free a lighter 
space which is divided by a fine black line. Cell-dots large and strong. Still more striking is the very 
light underside of both wings. Marasch, 700—900 m, September, 2 99> unfortunately somewhat worn. 
E. exiguata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 m) is well distributed in France, certainly not confined to the “south- exiguata. 
west’'. — muricolor subsp. nov. Extrenlely distinct in colour, of an exceptionally cold grey, the general tone muricolor. 
scarcely, if at all, more tinged with brownish that the “mouse-grey” of Ridgway; markings rather strong, 
particularly noteworthy being the black admixture in the dark spots at the bases of abdomen, of fore- and of 
hindwing and the conspicuous fuscous or “chaetura-grey” (really again brown mixed with black) subterminal 
patches. E. Aberdeenshire, bred by Dr. E. A. Cockayne from larvae on Pyrus aucuparia, the type in his col¬ 
lection. Although not many have yet been bred, they seem quite constant and to point to a well differentiated 
local race. 
E. mesogrammata Dietze is misprinted as nesogrammata in Vol. 4 (p. 278), German edition. mesogram- 
mata. 
E. insignioides Wehrli (14 c). Larger and darker than insigniata (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e), ground-colour more insignioi- 
brownish (not grey-white), maculation much less sharp. Palpus scarcely as long as diameter of eye. Fore- “ es - 
wing with the proximal markings quite different from those of insigniata, the median and postmedian lines 
also more sharply angled; subterminal line present, though not strong; terminal line more strongly interrupted 
than in insigniata. Shanghai, only the type 9 known. 
E. valerianata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k). This widely distributed species, so much overlooked unless valerianala. 
especially worked for in the larval stage, has been recorded for Sweden by Nordstrom (Ent. Tidskr., Vol. 42, 
p. 165) in a useful article which brings up to the date 1920 our knowledge of the Eupithecia of that country. 
E. palustraria Dbld. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 f). Grabe, who obtained larvae in abundance in the Ruhr district palustraria. 
by gathering the food-plant, Cerastium triviale, worked out the life-history afresh and found it regularly 
double-broaded, the moth flying chiefly in May and July. — ab. pseudozibellianata Dietze (= pseudozibellinata pseudozibel- 
Dietze). The type came from Kuusamo, N. Finland. — ab. grabei Cornelsen. Light fawn-colour, weakly glossy, 
the posterior white subterminal spot developed on both wings; underside much lighter than in the type, with 
distinct lines, the distal area of both wings darker than the rest, light smoke-brownish. Herne, Westphalia. 
E. caliginea Btlr. (18b). We figure this blackish, weakly marked form, which, so far as I known, is caliginca. 
confined to Japan. — zibellinata Christ. (181), the Amur and Ussuri race, is slightly less long-winged, a little zibelUnata. 
browner, the whitish markings generally somewhat less obsolescent above; beneath, the distinction is more 
pronounced: postmedian band double, subterminal present as whitish dots, proximal part of hindwing pale 
with dark irroration and lines (in caliginea predominantly dark). D .j akonov records it from Kamtshatka. 
E. undata Err. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k) ab. nigerrima Dietze, from the Stilfser Joch, is a melanic form, unmarked nigerrima. 
except for an indication of the blacker cell-spot. — abruzzensis (Solm- Bethel, M. S.) Dietze is essentially lighter abruzzensis. 
than typical undata , looking almost exactly like a graphata form. Majella Mountains, at 1800 m, probably a 
race; Dietze had seen also a similar specimen from the French Alps. Ventral plate as in typical undata. 
puengeleri Dietze probably occurs also at Marasch. Wehrli provisionally thus determines a 9 from the Pfeiffer puengeleri. 
expedition, but the determination is not quite certain. 
E. melanochroa Wehrli (14f). Antennal ciliation of the shorter than in undata (only about 14 dia- melanochroa. 
meter of shaft), but denser. Palpus not quite twice diameter of eye. Darker, only surpassed (excepting the 
actually melanic forms) by palustraria and caliginea. Veins of forewing with interrupted black streaks; mar¬ 
kings indistinct, the most conspicuous being the fine, regularly dentate subterminal, which sometimes ends in 
a small pale spot, somewhat as in tripunctaria. Hindwing above almost without markings, excepting the sub¬ 
terminal. Forewing beneath with sharp cell-streak, other markings indicated, excepting the first line; hind¬ 
wing lighter, with about 5 lines. The genitalia show definite relationship with undata. In addition to the distinc- 
