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locality from Staudinger’s Catalog. It could hardly refer to peterseni? In any case an essentially Mediter¬ 
ranean species. - millierata Stgr. (= expressaria Mill., err. det., nec H.-Sch., pauxillata Mob., err. det., nec 
pauxillaria Bsd.). I am not prepared to say that this is a separable form from typical ericeata, but it should 
be borne in mind that these names belong to the juniper-fed ericeata, distinguishable in some forms of the 
larvae, so that it is possible a divergence of species is beginning. Bastelberger found no difference in the 
genitalia. — albiplaga Spitz (17 k) was erected as a very distinct form of sobrinata, but Reisser has recently 
pointed out that it belongs to ericeata, presumably to the juniper-feeding form millierata, as it was bred among 
sobrinata, in the proportion of about one in three, from a very large number of collected larvae. Its occurrence 
in Lower Austria — the type series came from Hundsheim near Hamburg — is an interesting addition to the 
range of the species and some geographical variation may be looked for; but the light-grey (not brownish) 
tone and the extended pale outer patch of the forewing, on which Spitz relied, are characteristic of most $<3 
of typical ericeata. We figure a Hundsheim $. 
E. peterseni F. Wagn. Near oxycedrata (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1), with about the same brownish-grey colour 
and similar markings, the forewing less narrow, with more rounded apex, the outer line rather less oblique, 
the lines which bound the central area more a’ngulated near the costa; but especially characterized by the 
outward course of the median line posteriorly and the very conspicuous, strong, dentate white subterminal 
line. Hindwing without discal dot. Really, as the genitalia show, nearer to abbreviata. Larva on Juniper in 
April, similar to that of oxycedrata, green or brown. Pupa dark amber yellow with greenish wings, or uniform 
yellowish brown. The larvae were discovered at Hammam-Lif, near Tunis, 1913. The moths appeared at the 
beginning of September. I have no record of further captures. 
E. oxycedrata Rmb. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1) seems to have been unknown in Morocco until 1920 1921, when 
Powell found it at Beni-Amar; more recently LIartert and Young took it in the Reraya Vallay, Great Atlas 
and Reisser in the Riff Mountains. — provinciata Mill. (= provincialis Siepi) is said by Milliere to be larger 
and usually washed with reddish, but admittedly not always distinguishable; the larva — feeding on Juni- 
perus oxycedrus 25 or 30 days later than typical oxycedrata — quite different, not carinated, anteriorly hardly 
attenuated, colouring generally more brown, pattern more chequered, etc. Dietze shows that this variation 
is only seasonal and inconstant, but in view of his remarks elsewhere (see under tamarisciata) it is not quite 
consistent to drop the name entirely. 
E. rhoisata Chret. Forewing less elongate than in oxycedrata, more rounded at apex, not washed with 
violaceous, its pale parts more ochraceous-yellow, especially at costa, median lines not strongly divergent 
posteriorly. Colour and pattern perhaps more as in well-marked abbreviata, though without whitening outside 
the cell-mark; pale band outside the postmedian quite narrow and simple, only becoming broader and double 
(divided by a fine line) towards hindmargin. Hindwing whiter proximally than in oxycedrata. Single-brooded, 
appearing in October from larvae found, October to December, on Rhus oxyacantha. Biskra and Gafsa. 
E. phoeniceata Rmb. (Vol. 4, pi. 121, 13 o). This has also been added to the Moroccan fauna, but only 
at present tentatively as the single specimen (Izilan, Riff Mountains, 8 June, Reisser) is worn and the deter¬ 
mination uncertain. The date would suggest that it was an aberration of oxycedrata. — ab. albescens Dietze, 
founded on 2 bred from Hyeres larvae, is “albinotic, perhaps anaemic”; ground-colour very light earth-grey, 
the sparse markings sepia. Similar but much more strongly marked specimens from Catalonia are also known. 
— ab. multistrigata Dietze has additional dark lines developed, after the manner of Horisme tersata. Hyeres, 
1 captured; the character was inherited by its offspring. — ab. uniformis Sohn-Rethel is unicolorous black-grey, 
almost unmarked, only conserving the blackish saddle on the abdomen and the black at base of hindwing. 
Capri, occasional; probably also elsewhere. —- mnemosynata Mill. (17 g). The larvae of this large, heavily 
marked form can probably, according to Schwingenschuss and Wagner, feed also on Juniperus phoenicea, 
as cypress was very rare in the place where they collected the form in South Dalmatia. 
E. adscriptaria Stgr. Besides (N. W.) Asia Minor to Transcaucasia, the distribution which was known 
in 1914 (see Vol. 4, p. 296, ed. angl.), this species occurs in Inner Anatolia, where it was discovered by F. Wag¬ 
ner in 1930 at Akschehir, in small numbers, end of April and beginning of May, mostly in good condition. 
E. rosmarinata Mill. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 o). Oberthur has added Morocco to the known distribution. 
E. lariciata Frr. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 g). A record for Albarracin (Zapater and Korb) is considered by 
Zerny to be most probably erroneous; lariciata is otherwise not known from the Peninsula and even Gedre 
(Rondou) is apparently a rather isolated habitat. — ab. nigra Prout. Uniformly sooty black, with deeper 
black cell-marks and veiqs. Scarcely distinguishable from other melanic Eupithecia except by shape and 
structure. Warwickshire. — ab. ferrearia Nitsche. “Strongly darkened with iron-grey”, presumably transi¬ 
tional to the preceding. One specimen among typical lariciata from Tamsweg (Lungau). — ab. uniformis Dietze 
millierata. 
albiplaga. 
peterseni. 
oxycedrata. 
provinciata. 
rhoisata. 
phoeniceata. 
albescens. 
multistriga¬ 
ta. 
uniformis. 
mnemosyna¬ 
ta. 
adscriptaria. 
rosmarinata. 
lariciata. 
nigra. 
ferrearia. 
uniformis. 
