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figured a small, weakly marked Nikko specimen (coll. Pungeler) as“? sophia Btl. (simplex Btl.)”, thus spon¬ 
soring the latter name, as from 1910. — ab. griseipars nov. Forewing with median area almost uniformly griseipars. 
suffused with grey, excepting a small white patch between subcostals and 2nd radial just outside the cell; 
hindwing with proximal half grey, weakly traversed by one or two whitish lines. A $ from the Pryer collec¬ 
tion, received through Leech. Apparently an extreme form of this variable species. 
E. sinicaria Leech (18 a). I still know only the type (a <§, here figured), but do not now think it can sinicaria. 
be a giant form of sophia (see above). The hindwing seems too elongate, with the lines stronger, more den¬ 
ticulate or punctuated but almost lacking the cell-dot; the white of the forewing is more extended, but more 
sprinkled with blackish dots. 
E. subicterata Prout (14 1). Comparable to the greyest forms of icterata, in which the brown admix- subicterata. 
ture is not very bright and almost confined to the triangular area at the end of the median and along its 1st 
branch and the 3rd radial. Palpus rather longer (nearly twice diameter of eye). Forewing with the angle of 
the postmedian at the 2nd instead of the 1st radial and with some other differences in its course; black 
longitudinal dashes along the fold sharp, though extremely fine. Hindwing with termen slightly less convex 
than in icterata, the markings rather stronger. Takao-San, W. of Tokyo, 1 §, 2 May; a specimen from “Japan” 
is figured by Dietze (fig. 862) without a name. 
E. icterata Vill. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 h) cognata Steph. A specimen of this or perhaps (if the two differ) of cognata. 
ligustigata Donz. is recorded by Wehrli from the Sierra Nevada, cpiite fresh on 12 July, almost entirely grey, 
sharply marked, with no rust-colour except the central veins “below” (behind) the cell-dot. Probably one of 
the less extreme examples of the sub-aberration excelsa Dietze. — ab. melaena Dietze is much suffused with melaena. 
blackish, almost melanic. The original was bred at Hochstadt, near Hanau. oxydata Tr. is recorded from oxydata. 
Tachdirt, Great Atlas, by Zerny, 1 $, 1 July, with the forewing too much mixed with reddish to allow one 
to think of tarfata D. Luc. 
E. succenturiata L. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 h). Apart from the distinctions in colouring, the ES of this sjiecies succenturia- 
can easily be separated from those of icterata by the considerably narrower plate of the 8th sternite; its two 
posterior (caudad) prongs taper to a narrow ending, while in icterata they are much squarer. — ab. extrema extrema. 
Dietze is founded on an unusually large, exceptionally light $ from Kuldja, even the dark distal borders weakened. 
exalbidata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 h). Djakonov records this as common in Kamtshatka and says concerning exalbidata. 
its range that it is distributed throughout palaearctic Asia with the exception of the Amur-Ussuri district. 
- ab. malaisei Djakonov, 1 from Petropavlovsk, is a remarkable aberration with wholly white forewing, malaisei. 
strongly darkened costal margin, large black cell-dot touching the costal shade, a dark shaded median and 
strongly chequered fringes; hindwing likewise white, the base somewhat shaded, the fringes as on the forewing. 
E. denticuiata Tr. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 i). Lhomme calls attention to a record from Cauterets by Oberthur denticulata. 
and awaits with interest a confirmation of its presence in France. — ab. famelica Dietze is what Dietze calls 
a “hunger-form”, small and with the median area not very sharply defined. Hungary. 
E. lacteolata Dietze (Vol. 4, p. 288) sublacteolata Wehrli (18 a). At first glance might be taken for a quite sublacteola- 
white, dark bordered sulmmbrata but has the areole not divided; the pure white ground-colour, with silky 
gloss, the white thorax and abdomen and obsolescence of lines, the pattern being more broken up into dots, 
are distinctive. Dietze figured a specimen, from the N. W. Caucasus, as “? lacteolata” , but it differs there¬ 
from in its smaller size (18 : 21 mm, tip to tip), has more distinct cell-dots and darker costal and terminal 
borders. Antennal ciliation of the <$ about *4 diameter of shaft. Minussinsk. 
E. impurata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 i). A fine specimen taken at Laroche-en-Ardenne, settled on a window, impurata. 
is recorded by Derenne as confirming previous reports of a wider distribution than was given in the old books. 
South-eastward its known range has been extended by the capture of a $ at Beshtriq, Albania, the first known 
from the Balkan Peninsula. 
E. lithographata poecilata Pang. (18 a). This can hardly be more than a race; Schawerda and By- poecilata. 
tinski-Salz provisionally separate it from the Russian name-type by its less reddish tinge. Corsica and Sardinia. 
E. unitaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 h). The distribution was given by Dietze as Andalusia, Murcia, unitaria. 
S. Oran and Tunis, but the context, as well as subsequent collecting in Algeria, suggests that he here included 
his desertorum. Typical unitaria, in any case, belongs chiefly to Spain and perhaps Morocco (Riff Mountains). 
desertorum Dietze (= roseocinnamomaria Rothsch.) (17 i). The note on the early stages (Vol. 4, p. 289) desertorum. 
refers to this race, the larva having been discovered at Gafsa by Chretien ; I have before me one of his bred 
examples. The distribution in Algeria is wide, the flight-time March and April or even into the beginning of 
May. Dietze mentions “Pont Caid” and suggests that this may be a mistake for Port Said (!), but I presume 
it is Bordj du Caid, near Setif. 
