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waren vielleicht erblindet? ?” Otherwise it is a perfectly normal semigraphata. — E. Lange, who first dis¬ 
covered the species in the Freiberg district, has some interesting notes on its biology (Iris, Vol. 38, p. 175— 77). 
ab. (loc.) ochroradiata Preissecker. On the forewing veins 7 and 6, the median, veins 4, 3 and 1 are broadly ochroradiala. 
light ochre-yellow; sometimes also the subcostal and on the hindwing the principal veins. Out of 20 speci¬ 
mens from the Waldviertel of Lower Austria, 18 belonged to this form, though varying in other respects. 
- ab. confusata Naufock. The numerous fine blue-grey transverse lines are blurred and evanescent, so that confusala. 
the whole wing looks to be irrorated with blue-grey; only the ante- and postmedian remain recognizable, besides 
traces of the subterminal. A pair from Istria. — ab. virgulata Dannehl has the median area darkened into a virgulata. 
band. “Seems extraordinarily rare”; the author only knows the type from Torbole and 1 from Mt. Sirente. 
- ab. extralineata Dannehl. Postmedian on both wings intensified. Type from Nago. — ab. exquisita Dannehl. extralineata. 
The slightly brownish tinged distal area differentiated by fine dark irroration; in it stand 3 large cloudy, exc / umta - 
blackish brown-grey spots, costal, tornal and “somewhat above the middle" (i. e., radial); median area, on 
the contrary, somewhat lightened, with the cell-spot large and conspicuous. Mt. Autore, Sabine Mountains, 
ca. 1000 m type; also Sirente and Montagna Grande. — ab. extraradiata Dannehl. The distal area, which is extraradiata. 
bounded proximally by a strong black line, has fine white lines along the veins. Mt. Sirente, 2000 m. — nepe- nepetata. 
tata Mab., described from Corsica. Schawerda proposes, on the strength of 2 $9 which are darker than the 
Austrian semigraphata, to resuscitate this as a subspecies. It seems doubtful whether this will prove tenable. 
porphyrata Zerny (17 g), from the Great Atlas, and the only semigraphata form yet recorded from Africa, is porphyrata. 
readily distinguished by its reddish tone, which, though somewhat variable in strength, is at least manifest in 
the seal-red shading of the principal veins. — arida Dietze (Vol. 4, p. 289), which I registered as “ab." and arida. 
for which I gave no locality, is recorded by Wehrli from Marasch as a race. The original came from Zeitun 
(Taurus), a more doubtful representative from Anatolia. 
E. tarfata D. Luc. (17 h), originally described as succenturiata var. (!), but now considered a species, tarfata. 
has been well figured by Culot, who, however, still compared it with that species and subfulvata. According 
to the specimens before me, which include a rather dark paratype from the author (here figured), the areole is 
double and the obvious relationship is with semigraphata , of which it is probably a race; darker, browner, 
more coarsely scaled, the cell-dots large, etc.; very closely like Sicilian semigraphata. I have not seen the BS. 
Le Tarf and occasional in the neighbourhood of Algiers, September and October. 
E. millefoliata Rossi. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 h). This has been added, of recent years, to the rich list of Eupi- millefoliata. 
thecia of Albarracin — new for Aragon. According to Zerny the specimens from that locality are very light, 
with sharper markings, and he says they are perhaps referable “to the form maeoticaria” . But it is now almost 
certain that the latter name cannot be applied to any form of millefoliata; see below. There are also records 
from the Great Atlas and a very large $ from “Sicily”, in poor condition, may belong here, though rather 
recalling praealta. — ab. uniformis Dietze, “an individual aberration from Vienna”, has the markings and uniformis. 
ground-colour of the forewing confluent into a uniform sepia-grey colour, only the cell-spot remaining con¬ 
spicuous. 
E. maeoticaria Bohatsch (17 g) was badly erected in 1893 on specimens from the Ukraine collected by maeoticaria. 
Alphekaky in 1875 and other old and (at least for the greater part) faded material. It was regarded by its 
author, and even by Dietze, as a form of millefoliata : “ground-colour whitish yellow, instead of brownish grey, 
in consequence of which all the markings stand out distinctly.” Dietze found no type in the Bohatsch collec¬ 
tion, but had before him for examination 7 examples from Uralsk, all caught and somewhat worn. Probably 
the name is based on a confusion. I do not know the Ukrainian insect, but two of Christoph's Kasikoparan 
“maeoticaria Alph.” (unfortunately both §), collected in July 1888, represent a very large species, with a 
forewing measurement of 14 and 13 mm respectively, the areole simple, and certainly neither con- 
specific wdth the preceding nor the following. Both are in very good condition and the paler one is here figured 
as a further contribution to the elucidation of the species. With the same object I have made very full notes 
on the differentiation from millefoliata, although a longer series may probably modify some of them. Palpus 
shorter, more as in .subfulvata , to which it may well be nearer. Tegula perhaps whiter. Forewing with cell- 
spot slightly broader, with a few pale scales in the middle; the acute-angled (median) line reaching the 1st 
radial more distally, only touching the cell-spot (behind) on its return; both this line and the next (which are 
separated by a rather clear white line) become yellow-brown just in front of the median vein and continue 
so across a slightly buff-tinged area to the black dots on the 2nd median; postmedian almost interrupted bet¬ 
ween its subtriangular costal spot and 2 very noticeable spots which are placed on radials 1 and 2; the white 
line between the postmedian white band and the subterminal, less obsolescent than in millefoliata though ill- 
formed and by no means conspicuous except costally, where it is bounded proximally by a sharper dark line 
than in millefoliata. Hindwing weakly marked, but with a relatively well-defined, irregularly and rathei 
strongly dentate, dark line bounding the whitish postmedian distally. 
