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EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Protjt. 
Lhomme's excellent Catalogue for Mont Cousson (Homberg), Digne and La Grave (Chretien), but I suspect 
drupisaria. the form indicated is our setaceata and the setaceata of the same Catalogue an aberration (?). — drupisaria 
Petersen (= clrypidaria Dietze, drypisaria Dietze) (18 c). It is probably better to conserve this name for the 
well-known race of the Majella Mountains, at least until more assurance is reached regarding riparia H.-Sch. 
At any rate Dannehl has so decided, or rather, he has registered “ drypisaria ” as though it were a separate 
amarensis. species, in erecting the following aberration. — ab. amarensis Dannehl. White-grey, almost without markings; 
of the macular markings only a tiny punctiform remnant is conserved. Mt. Amaro, Gran Sasso, among what 
sproengertsi. Dannehl calls “the normal mountain race of the S. Abruzzi and Gran-Sasso, 1500—2000 m”. — sproengertsi 
Dietze. This name is also apparently regarded by Dannehl as only doubtfully a form of graphata; he finds it 
indcscripta. “extraordinarily variable" in the Majella and names the following 2 aberrations of it. — ab. indescripta Dannehl. 
infnlata. Considerably lighter, especially the the lines weak, at times evanescent. S. Majella. — ab. infulata Dannehl 
is a modification of indescripta. with a broad white band proximal to the distal area, bounded on each side by 
an indistinct grey line. Type from Scanno; not very rare among the Montagna Grande race. 
indigata. E. indigata Hbn. (Vol. 4. pi. 12 d). E. Lange notices the habit of this little moth and some of its 
treetrunk-resting allies (especially in the $$), of flapping or vibrating their wings for some time before flying 
tristrigata. off on being disturbed. — ab. trlstrlgata F. Fuchs. Both wings with 3 sharply expressed black lines. Frequently 
limbofascia- captured and bred on the Rhine and in the Taunus. — ab. limbofasciata Dietze. About three-fourths of the 
. Jl'' distal area of the forewing uniformly darkened. Waidbruck, Tyrol and 1 specimen from Innsbruck. — turfo- 
sata Draudt. In his valuable work on the Eupithecia eggs (1905). Dr. Draudt treated as indistinguishable those 
of the two races of indigata; but Petersen (1924), recording i. turfosata from Esthonia, adds a footnote 
that a subsequent letter from Draltdt reported that some differences had been found in the sculpturing. 
pimpinelki- E. pimpinellata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e). Djakonov records 1 $ from Klutshi, Kamtshatka, collected in 
ta. a birch wood, 20 June. An unexpected locality, habitat and date; can there be some mistake regarding the 
determination or the exact status of this Kamtshatkan specimen? We have no record of the species for E. 
affinis. Siberia. — - ab. affinis Dietze, as far as can be made out from a poor figure unelucidated by any accompanying 
description, has the cell-spots weaker, the forewing more evenly traversed by weak, waved lines. Juldus. 
retheli. retheli nom. 7iov. (= elongata Sohn-Bethel M.S., Dietze, nom. praeocc.) (17 g). As the name elongata was 
long previously used by Haworth for a member of this genus, a new name is required for this Italian form of 
lantoscata. pimpinellata (see Vol. 4. p. 292). - lantoscata Mill. (17 i). The more whitish hindwing and underside, as com¬ 
pared with typical pimpinellata, are perhaps more distinctive than the reduction of brown shading on the 
forewing, I can scarcely concur in the opinion of Vorbrodt that lantoscata is an “unimportant” alpine deviation 
from typical pimpinellata, though his wide knowledge of the Swiss Lepidoptera entitled his views to respect. 
Admittedly the brownish tint is often weak even in lowland specimens, but the general difference is in my 
variata. experience considerable. — variata Schwingenschuss, the only form yet known from Africa, is variable, but in 
the aggregate distinguishable by its larger size and more variegated forewing, with heavy markings, commonly 
with more extended black costal maculation. The ash-grey ground-colour is strongly mixed with white, the 
hindwing and underside also with much white. Great Atlas: Tachdirt and Tizi n'Tachdirt, 2300—3200 m. 
Sometimes approaches retheli in shape; in any case nearer to lantoscata than to typical pimpinellata? 
subsequarict. E. subsequaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 i) was unknown to me when Vol. 4 was prepared and it seems 
that I entirely misplaced it. The areole is double and it should probably be placed nearer to subumbrata, etc. 
Wehrli has pointed out that dubiosata F. Wagn. is for all practical purposes a synonym and that Dietze has 
dubiosata. figured a “ subsequaria ’ from Akschehir. “Herrich-Schaffer’s type came from Arnasia. — ab. (? syn.) dubio¬ 
sata F. Wagn. (17 k). As our figure of subsequaria was quite unrecognizable, I figure one of the dubiosata para- 
tvpes kindly given me by Herr Wagner, who took a series at Akschehir. Rebel subsequently recorded it 
from Ankara. If Herrich-Schaffer’s type really lacked the cell-dot (as his description indicates) this 
form is not quite typical, though the dot is weaker than in cauchiata, which, as Wagner says, it superficially 
resembles. Palpus rather short; antennal ciliation short. 
euphrasiata. E. euphrasiata H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e). As this species found its way into the pages of Klocker's 
useful handbook “Danmarks Fauna”, Vol. 17, it is well to make equally prominent Wolff's recent correction. 
An examination of the genitalia, undertaken by the last-named entomologist, has shown that the specimen on 
u-eissi. which the Danish record was based is merely pimpinellata. — weissi subsp. ?wv. ( = euphrasiata Weiss) (17 k). 
Much greyer, with scarcely a tinge of brown, the dark lines on the whole stronger, in part coarser, interrupted 
subterminal maculation generally developed. Albarracin, August and early September. 
bytinskn. E. bytifisKii nom. nov. (= prouti Byt.-Salz d> Brandt, nec Zerny) (18 c) on the whole larger than furcata, 
markings standing out more contrastingly, white element purer and broader, etc. Keredj, Elburs Mountains. 
