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EUPITHECIA. Bv L. B. Prout. 
variostrigata. 
constantina. 
ariemisiata. 
littorata. 
albosparsata. 
santolinata. 
bastelbergeri. 
korvaci. 
silenata. 
pseudolarici- 
ata. 
geroldicitci. 
kolari. 
dissertata. 
tions indicated above, it differs in having the postmedian band of the forewing scarcely angled near the 
costa. Tunkinsk Mountains, Irkutsk, 2000 m. 
E. variostrigata Alph. (14f). The named forms, or at least the western ones, do not seem to repre¬ 
sent very clean-cut races. In recording the species from Albarracin (new for the Iberian Peninsula), Zerny 
notes the name-type (?), artemisiata and constantina as all occurring together; they were bred in September, by 
Schwingenschuss and Predota from larvae collected on Artemisia herba-alba. — constantina B. Bak. I have 
not seen specimens from Morocco, but the Tring Museum has a long Algerian series, chiefly from Batna and 
Guelt-es-Stel. This shows the usual considerable variability in size (length of a forewing 9—12,5 mm), and 
a good deal in the sharpness of the markings; perhaps scarcely one-half show the strong contrasts which were 
indicated for constantina, of which Dietze knew only 3 specimens, topotypical (Constantine); 1 $ from Batna 
shows a remarkably clean (predominantly white) median area. None are like the heavily dark-banded form 
figured by Dietze from the Crimea, but Alpheraky's type (from Taganrog) was apparently not so extreme 
as that. — artemisiata Const. (14 g). We figure one of Constant's series from the littoral of the Maritime Alps. 
Bohatsch emphasized as distinctive the smooth scaling of this race, and inclined to unite the Alge¬ 
rian with the S. Russian and Asiatic. — ab. littorata Const. Constant, who bred this simultaneously with arte¬ 
misiata and from the same food-plant, published it as a separate species, though admitting that it might pos¬ 
sibly be a very stable aberration. The 8 specimens on which he founded it (against “more than 20” of arte¬ 
misiata) did not vary; smaller (15 mm instead of 16—18), very different in colour (whitish instead of brown- 
grey) and in the weaker and more confused markings. Dietze suggests that it is a “hunger-form”. 
E. albosparsata L. .Joan. (14g). Culot figures a topotvpe, Caesarea (Asia Minor, not “Palestine”), 
and maintains that this is a distinct species, not a form or synonym of the preceding. The median line of the 
forewing is less strongly angled about the cell-dot and the postmedian here continues nearly parallel with the 
termen or more oblique outward, instead of curving more or less strongly on approaching the costa. Unfortuna¬ 
tely the type figure (here reproduced) shows much more nearly the normal ( variostrigata ) form of the lines and 
I suspect that the “paratype” is an aberration or even a different species, but refer the question to those who 
possess the material for its elucidation. 
E. santolinata Mab. (14 g). The areole is double, a further point of contact with millejoliata, where¬ 
with Dietze — who overlooked the structural character — has compared it. Further localities are Aragon 
(Albarracin) and Sardinia. A smaller race (?), or possibly new species, has been discovered in the Great Atlas, 
but only $$ are yet known. 
E. bastelbergeri Dietze (14g). We figure a A from the Alexander Mountains. — korvaci subsp. nov. 
Smaller than the typical bastelbergeri of Naryn and Karagai, the lines perhaps on the whole more weakly mar¬ 
ked, the postmedian of the forewing rather more oblique inward at costa; costal area of forewing with a more 
definite proximal-subterminal spot; cell-dot small but sharp. Kurdistan: Malatya, 3 Figured by Dietze 
(fig. 872, 873) as probable small form of bastelbergeri and I have accepted his decision provisionally. The 
“body-plate”, which he describes from korvaci, seems to agree pretty well with that of the b. bastelbergeri 
which we figure. 
E. silenata Assmann (Vol. 4, pi. 12 h) Marschner published in Vol. 7 of the Zeitschr. Oesterr. Ent.-Ver. 
a synopsis of the known forms of this local mountain species, of which he gives the range as the Riesen- 
gebirge (a few elevated localities), the Taunus, Galicia, Styria, the Swiss Jura, Valais, Basses-Alpes, Bavarian 
Palatinate, Oberstdorf in Allgau and the Austrian Styrian Alps. He recognizes 3 forms in addition to the 
type. — ab. pseudolariciata Stgr., only quoted by Marschner from the last-named locality, as already in¬ 
dicated in our Vol. 4 (p. 279), is perhaps a seasonal form in Albania; a pair taken at Beshtriq were longer- 
winged and much lighter than the type, with the median area standing out more distinctly. — ab. geroldiata 
A. Fuchs, Uniform light yellow-brown, not lighter rippled, weakly waved, median area not defined distally, 
the light-marked stripe beyond not developed. 1 <$ bred at the beginning of May from a larva found in the 
previous August in a seed-vessel of Silene (probably inflata) in the upper Wispertal (Taunus) at Geroldstein. 
ab. kolari Marschner. Much darkened, the bands of the forewing wanting, the white subterminal remaining, 
as also the white terminal dots; a small pale spot on hindmargin indicating the position of the antemedian 
pale band; cell-spot not very distinct. Bred from a larva taken in the Blaugrund Valley, Riesengebirge. 
E. dissertata Fung. (14 g). Superficially somewhat like arceuthata but larger, palpus less long (pro¬ 
jecting beyond the eye for less than a diameter of the latter), abdominal belt slighter, wings less broad, fringes 
less distinctly chequered, underside essentially less strongly marked. On the upperside the most striking distinc¬ 
tion is in the sharp, irregularly broken (“kritzlig”) lines; distal area cinnamon-brown, the rest of the wing 
brownish ash-grey. Zermatt (loc. typ.) and Laquintal. Dietze places it near the mio-sofa-group. I have not 
seen the originals, but 2 from La Grave (Hautes Alpes) agree so perfectly with Pungeler's careful descrip- 
