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EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. 
cugiai. 
strigatissi- 
mci. 
tenellata. 
deserticola. 
sobrinata. 
scotica. 
luneburgen- 
sis. 
expressaria. 
confluens. 
conjuncta. 
nigrofascia¬ 
ta. 
achromata. 
rittichi. 
latoniata. 
castiliana. 
corticosa. 
terminal area beneath, which has the almost continuous blackish border marked with large or smaller white 
spots which represent the subterminal. My specimens from Amara (Iraq) belong definitely to it, as also a few 
from Karachi (T. R. Bell). Some Algerian also closely approach it. 
E. cugiai Trti. (18 e). On account of its much larger size and whitish ground-colour (on the fore- and 
a part of the hindwing above irrorated with “cinereous-rusty”) I am strongly inclined to follow Titrati in 
keeping this separate from ultimaria, but I can point to no distinction in structure or markings and the ground¬ 
colour really does not differ greatly from that of arenicola. From the similarly coloured tenellata deserticola it 
is of course easily separable by the very different face, as well as some details of wing-shape, etc. The under¬ 
side has very strong cell-marks, moderate postmedian line and weak subterminal shades; otherwise it is very 
clean-looking. Cyrenaica: Cfiarabub. 
E. strigatissima Trti. (17 k) bears some resemblance to pale grey forms of ultimaria , but is relatively 
much longer-winged, the lines of the median area about as strong as those that bound it, the underside less 
strongly marked than even in typical ultimaria. Cyrenaica: Giarabub, the type a $. 
E. tenellata Dietze (= gelinaria D. Luc.) (17 g). This species is now well known and its synonymy in¬ 
disputable, though it is very variable. The reference to gelinaria on p. 280 of Vol. 4 was of course altogether 
out of place and must be removed; Commander Lucas's description was good, except that he entirely over¬ 
looked the remarkably protuberant face. — deserticola Trti. (17 i) seems to be a paler or greyer form of tenel¬ 
lata, founded on a $ from Maaten Giofer, Cyrenaica. Actually I cannot distinguish it from the forms from 
some localities in southern Algeria, but as I have not compared Dietze’s type I do not exclude the possibility 
that there is a racial difference, though he calls the forewing “earth-grey”; gelinaria is in any case browmer 
than deserticola. 
E. sobrinata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1) was recorded from Mostar (new for Herzegovina) by Schwingen- 
schuss in 1922 and has since been found in the Alibotus by Drenowsky and in Albania by A. Winnegltth. 
Oberthur's addition of Morocco seems to need confirmation. For albiplaga Spitz see under ericeata. — ab. 
scotica Dietze (ex B.-Haas, M. S.) is a dusky form from Aviemore (nor “Archimore” as printed), almost cer¬ 
tainly too variable for the name to have any definite use. — ab. luneburgensis Dietze. Small, dark, weakly 
marked, nearly like scotica. Luneburg Heath. Presumably in the same rank of superfluities as scotica. — ab. 
expressaria H.-Sch. Sharply marked, at least as regards the darkening of the boundaries of the median area. 
On a single specimen, of which the locality is not given, its author considered it a separate species, with nar¬ 
rower wings and without yellowish on the veins, and drew up an elaborate differentiation; but later authorities 
have been inclined to agree with Staltdinger, who writes “vix nominanda”. Dietze figures it from Stainz 
and says “sometimes among typical examples”; Dannehl finds it chiefly in the Dolomites. — ab. confluens 
Dietze. This name was first employed for two similar aberrations, both figured (Biol. Eupith., fig. 689, 690) 
from Stainz and with no further description than “median area almost entirely darkened”. Afterwards, the 
two were separated, as follows. — ab. conjuncta Dietze (with fig. 690 cited). “Median area nearly, but not 
completely, occupied by blackish”. — ab. nigrofasciata Dietze (fig. 689 cited). “Median area of forewing com¬ 
pletely blackened”; 3 specimens. In the index, both these new names are referred to fig. 689 (!) but the 
text must by followed, and conjuncta sunk to confluens. — ab. achromata Dannehl is a quite light form, recal¬ 
ling the race anglicata; white-grey, the markings considerably reduced, mostly indicated only by weak strigu- 
lation, in extreme individuals almost obsolete; in the latter case, even the cell-dot is much weakened. Tipper 
Bavaria and the S. Tyrol. — ab. rittichi Dioszeghy presents the same type of variation as ab. nigrofasciata 
and ab. confluens in that the median area is darkened, but it is apparently a brighter form: reddish grey, median 
band reddish brown with dark brown costal and postmedian maculation. Borescul mare (Retyezat Mountains), 
2160 m. — latoniata Mill. (17 i), described as a species and common at St. Martin Lantosque (Alpes-Maritimes), 
has usually been sunk to the similar (and variable) Swiss graeseriata or, apparently in Dietze, overlooked. 
F. Wagner, however, thinks it a good local race, distinguishable by its purer grey or even bluish- grey 
colour (not so dark and brown as graeseriata ); he and other collectors have taken it in numbers at Albarracin, 
August to October. Milliere called the originals “vinous grey”, which seems to me more exact, but the sharp 
though slender markings do make a different impression from the ordinary graeseriata; cell-dot of forewing 
large. Our figured is from Albarracin. — castiliana (Stgr.) Dietze, figured from “Castile”, was merely described 
as having the dark markings more sparing than in guinardaria and was subsequently suppressed, perhaps to 
matertera (see Vol. 4, p. 283). 
E. corticosa Prout (Vol. 4, p. 296). Palpus unusually long (“gewohnlich” is a misprint for “ungewohn- 
lich”). Although Dietze founded this species on a and 3 it has not become at all generally known. I 
cannot understand why he placed it between sobrinata and ericeata. 
E. ericeata Rmb. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1). I have not seen specimens from “North Africa”, but obtained the 
ericeata. 
