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d i a n , on the underside scarcely interrupted; hindwing beneath with 2 outer lines of equal development. 
Kashmir Valley, 7000 feet, August 1903 (Col. Ward), 1 $ in the Thing Museum. 
E. rubellata Dietze (Vol. 4, pi. 25 e) ab. mediopuncta Dietze. Forewing with a black cell-dot, encircled mediopunc- 
by a white ring. Makan Desert, Aksu. ia ' 
E. distinctaria H.-Sch. (= ? caliginata Dup., err. det., nec Tr.) (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e). Meyrick, in his 1892 distinrtaria. 
classification, misplaced this, which should have gone into his Eucymatoge (areole double); I cannot say whether 
this was by oversight or whether he examined a sport with the areole simple (compare semigraphata, or gemellata), 
but the inconsistency does not seem to have been noticed. 2 collected in the Great Atlas by Le Cerf and 
Talbot (the first record of distinctaria for Africa) are large and rather dark grey, possibly a subspecies; the 
genitalia of one have been examined. Zerny adds a few specimens collected at Sidi Chamarouche, Upper 
Mizane Valley (H. Durck), without comment as to the form. — ab. famelica Dietze (nom. coll.). Small and famelica. 
poorly marked, probably a result of malnutrition. Type from Jugenheim, ex larva. — constrictata Guen. constrictata. 
Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis has made the interesting discovery that the plate of the 8th sternite in distinctaria 
assumes 3 very recognizably different forms which, although not yet absolutely constant, coincide so closely 
with the 3 principal named forms as to furnish a clear case of what Petersen called “beginnende Art-Diver- 
genz”. In constrictata, the British race, the plate is more weakly chitinized (especially its proximal part), 
less angular and ending distally in a much less produced point than in the Continental forms. — sexfiata Mill, sextiata. 
(17 h). This pale, slenderly marked S. European race has the body-plate smaller, much more heavily chitinized, 
its proximal end more weakly concave, with two even sweeps of the curve, its distal point produced. In typical 
distinctaria the chitinization plate is intermediate and it has a rather “square-shouldered"’, long-pointed form, 
though the exact length of the point varies. Herrich-Schaeffer’s type, a $ from Regensburg, was figured 
as large, probably too dark (violet-grey), with costal and discal spots of forewing heavy, and certainly repre¬ 
sents the widely distributed, well marked European form. Both it and sextiata have occurred at Digne (perhaps 
at different altitudes?). 
E. laterata Dietze. Of this also, and a number of others in which Dietze did not notice it, the areole laterata. 
is double. The topotypical specimens which I have seen are not perfectly fresh, the antennae mostly lost, but 
apparently with the ciliation a little over % the diameter of the shaft. 
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E. gemellata H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 m). Areole variable, the wall of partition generally weak, as if in gemellata. 
process of degeneration, sometimes entirely wanting; I have noted its absence in individuals from Corsica, 
N. Italy. S. Tyrol and the Austrian littoral. — ab. nigrofasciata Dietze. This name was misspelled in Vol. 4 nigrofascia- 
(p. 291, German edition). Dietze treats it as a subaberration of ab. schmidii, the ante- and postmedian lines, ta 
which in bistrigata are thickened into bands, being connected by blackish suffusion. mystica Dietze. Further mystica. 
localities from which this has been recorded are Marasch and the Northern Lebanon (Becharre). 
E. relictata Dietze. A synonym, or probably an accidental deviation from the name originally given, relictata. 
is relinquata Dietze (1910). 
E. cooptata Dietze (18 c). Areole double. A characteristic touch, not mentioned in my brief description cooptata. 
(Vol. 4, p. 291), is the ferruginous tint on the forewing from the bases of the 3rd radial and 2nd median out¬ 
ward. cooptata has also been found at Albarracin, in June and July. Our figure is topotypical (Digne). 
E. sacrimontis sp. n. (18 c). Frontal cone developed. Palpus over lh. Ciliation of d 1 antenna at most sacrimontis. 
Yo. Forewing with areole double, but not at all suggestive of any other Palaearctic species yet known to have 
that structure . Except in shape, perhaps comparable to a small, dark assimilata, at least in its large, slightly 
rough-scaled cell-mark and conspicuous white spot near tornus, though that of the h i n d wing is here minute; 
blackish costal spots, recalling the selinata group. Underside rather less dark than upper; cell-spots and rather 
thick postmedian line developed, besides traces of the subterminal shades and sometimes of the median. Mount 
Omei in July (G. M. Franck); the type from 4000 feet, in my collection, others from 7000 feet. 
E. ogilviata Warr. (17 f) is evidently misplaced in Vol. 4 (p. 291), but its true affinities have not yet ogilviata. 
been made out; possibly near aegyptiaca? 
E. graphata Tr. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 k) hesperia Wehrli (18 c). Somewhat larger than g. graphata and dis- hesperia. 
tinguishable at once by its b 1 u i s h grey colouring; graphata is more brownish, setaceata, darker, with more 
distinct bands. In markings nearer to the former, but the cell-mark of the forewing is stronger and sharper, 
the subbasal band of the forewing strikingly different, rectangularly interrupted near the costa, the fringes 
much more sharply spotted; the underside is totally different in colour from that of setaceata, very light bluish 
grey-white, and has the cell-spots still larger and sharper than above. Sierra Nevada, at about 1500 m, 1 $; 
perhaps a separate species, but awaiting further specimens. — mayeri Mann. This “lost" form is recorded in mayeri. 
