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tion that I venture to figure one as representing it, though possibly a race with less contrast between the 
greyer ground-colour and browner border. They differ from cassandrata in tone, weaker median line, developed 
cell-dot, more oblique antemedian line, etc. 
E. carpophagata (Rmb.) Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 25 e). Authors are somewhat at variance as to the arrangement carpophuga- 
of the races. Dannehl, in erecting his new race, sinks teriolensis to cassandrata ; I have too little knowledge 
of the latter to pronounce an opinion. — cassandrata Mill. (14 g). As our copy (Vol. 4, pi. 13 f) of the type figure cassandrata. 
has not come out very satisfactorily, I have asked Dr. Wehrli's assistance in providing a fresh model, 
benacaria Dannehl. A contrast to cassandrata, without the characteristic reddish suffusion, on the contrary benacaria. 
with dark olive-grey irroration; “the watered band before the termen” (i. e., the subterminal) stands out clearly. 
Bred from larvae from hugh altitudes (1800—2000 m) on Monte Baldo, while the low levels of the Lake Garda 
district produce typical teriolensis. 
E. venosata F. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e). Recently recorded from Morocco (Riff Mountains) by Reisser. Dietze venosata. 
says that all that he has seen from England differ from the continental in tone, but the material before me 
does not confirm this; a specimen from “Lewis, England” which he figures as intermediate between venosata 
and fumosae is presumably from the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. — ab. confluens Dietze. Median line of fore- confluens. 
wing thickened; in part confluent (or connected by some black shading) with the antemedian. Transbaical 
(type and another); an asymmetrical one ( confluens on the left wing only) from the Isle of Wight. — ab. cir- circumjusca. 
cumfusca Kitt. Black lines of forewing in part thickened, especially at costa and inner margin, distal area 
somewhat suffused. Evisa, Corsica, 1 bred $. Should probably be merged with the preceding aberration. 
— fumosae Gregson (14g). We figure a characteristic §, bred from Shetland pupae. fumosae. 
E. schiefereri Bohatsch (Vol. 4, pi. 12 m). This also occurs in the Riff Mountains, by no means rare, schiefereri. 
The specimens are large (length of a forewing 12 —14 mm, with the larger specimens in the majority), a shade 
darker than the Styrian, the bands not essentially lighter than the ground-colour, the hindwing mostly very 
well marked. The distinctions are not considered adequate for the establishing of a local race. — ab. con- confluens. 
fluens Dietze. A small $ from Meran, S. Tyrol, analogous to venosata ab. confluens, in the partial confluence 
of antemedian and median lines. — ab. degeneraria Dannehl has all the lines more or less reduced, sometimes degeneraria. 
altogether obsolete. Eisaktal, Tyrol. It may be here remarked that although, by courtesy, we are quoting 
Dannehl’s aberration-names, few (if any) of his recently published ones are strictly valid; “T. schiefereri”, 
U T. silenicolata” and the rest are not binomials without any generic name at the head. — ab. tendicularia Dan- tendicularia. 
nehl is said to correspond exactly to silenicolata ab. tendiculata (see below) and to have been observed repea¬ 
tedly in the S. Tyrol; type from Sigmundskron. 
E. silenicolata Mab. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 m as sileniculata). F. Wagner records a very large form taken silenicolata. 
at Akschehir (Inner Anatolia), not uncommon. — ab. degenerata Dannehl (14 g). Pallid light-grey, without degenerata . 
violet tone; all the lines more or less reduced, sometimes obsolete; hindwing proximally almost unmarked. 
Fairly common in the mountains of Middle Italy, always with the name-typical form; type from Mt. Sirente, 
ca. 1000 m. Dannehl says that although these come freely to light they present the appearance of being 
under-nourished or “perhaps even weakened by parasites”. — ab. tendiculata Dannehl. ‘ The outer of tendiculata. 
the median lines forms with the cell-streak a distinct oval ring.” Rare, but met with in various mountain 
localities in Italy; type from Tivoli. — perdistincta Wehrli (14 h). Lighter, of a more grey tone, somewhat perdistincta. 
as venosata or schiefereri, much more sharply and strongly marked, the cell-streak thicker, the $ mostly larger 
than the European form. “Has nothing to do with the smaller, more delicately-built E. achyrdaghica Wehrli, 
which is anatomically different”. Northern Lebanon: Becharre. 
E. carpophilata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 f). Statjdinger's suggestion that this Ussuri species might be a carpophilata. 
form of alliaria has been proved untenable, particularly by Petersen's investigation of the genitalia. On the 
other hand, the misidentified “ carpophilata ” of Aragon actually is a form of alliaria (see notata below) and 
it was a confusion of these two species which led to the double mistake. — collega Dietze, from Aksu and per- collega. 
haps Korla, is paler than carpophilata, of a clayey earth-colour, approaching cingulata Christ. ; all the black 
lines, with the exception of 2 basal, placed beyond the cell-spot. On account of the strongly elongate q ab¬ 
domen, Dietze formerly regarded collega as a separate species; later he treated it as a desert-form of 
carpophilata. 
E. extinctata (Stgr., i. 1.) Dietze. Length of forewing 11 *4 to 13 mm. Said to be easily recognized when extinctata. 
one has seen it but hard to define in words, on account of its variability and weak markings. An approximate 
dea of it may be obtained by thinking of a much enlarged distinctaria, of slighter build, with long fringes 
and washed-out markings; the lines arise from costal spots, the first nearer to the base than to the median area 
(which is narrow), the antemedian near the cell-streak and giving rise to 2 characteristic dark lines. Koko- 
nor, founded on 5 <$$. The genitalia suggest that it may be placed near the carpophilata group. 
