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luxuriosa. is so destitute of markings that scarcely anything but the dark cell-spot remains visible. — ab. luxuriosa Dietze 
strigata. shows the opposite extreme, being more copiously marked than usual. No locality is indicated. — ab. strigata 
Dietze recalls egenaria (Vol. 4, pi. 13 g) in its scheme of markings and its large size. One specimen, without 
mcdiofascia- locality. — ab. mediofasciata Dietze has the median area of the forewing darkened. — ab. bifasciata Dietze 
bifasciata' ^ as en ^ re basal half of the wing (as far as the cell-spot) darkened. The type came from Saxony; no others 
mediopal- are mentioned. — ab. mediopallens Dietze. Median area of forewing, from the cell-spot outward, broadly paler. 
lens ■ Singly among typical specimens; Wallis and Saxony are cited as localities in Europe; in the Sajan district 
and Transbaikal it seems to occur in a higher percentage, 5 among 20 known to Dietze from those places be¬ 
longing to it. It is pointed out that if the enigmatical residuata Him. represents lariciata at all it must be the 
present form and that this would then become the name-type of the species. I cannot, however, reconcile 
Httbner’s figure with any known form of lariciata. It looks, notwithstanding the narrowed median area, less 
unfitting for a faded bilunulata Zett. and as Herrich-Schaeffer had before him the evident type, I incline 
to accept his determination; but as Hfbner's manuscripts are at present being overhauled, it would be prema- 
mesodeicta. ture to resuscitate the name without awaiting further possible light from that source. — mesodeicta subsp. 
7iov. (? sp. div.) (18 e). Larger than most lariciata , the raised posterior spot of the thorax rarely at all conspicu¬ 
ously whitened. Palpus and $ antennal ciliation possibly a trifle longer. Forewing with cell-mark very heavy; 
a conspicuously pale space (though generally bisected by one line) between the median group of lines and the 
postmedian; postmedian generally very uniformly thickened throughout (excepting the small tract between 
5th subcostal and 1st radial). Genitalia essentially as in lariciata', ventral plate beginning to narrow earlier 
(a very rough analogy to the divergence in shape noticed in oxycedrata as compared with that of phoeniceata 
or of ericeata), sacculus process (a key character in Petersen’s analytical tables) somewhat sharper. Kashmir: 
Gulmarg, in July (T. B. Fletcher), a short series of both sexes in the British Museum; also a rubbed $ from 
Scind Valley in June (Leech). 
lavicaria. E. lavicaria A. Fuchs. This name, as lias been pointed out by Strand, was wrongly transcribed in 
Vol. 4 (p. 297) as lavicata. I have no further information about the supposed species. A study of the type may 
well show it to be an aberration of lariciata. 
propagata. E. propagata Prout (18 e). Palpus about 1 y 2 . Antennal ciliation of the $ minute. Abdomen with a 
black lateral line, which is interrupted on the first few segments. Forewing with a slight ochreous tone about 
the median and the proximal part of its 1st branch and of the 3rd radial, much as in lariciata and some others; 
the lines outside the cell-dot (as far as the postmedian) are rather well expressed, their angulation opposite 
the cell-mark not quite so acute as in lariciata, the shadings of the postmedian generally more irregular than 
in that species, strengthened about the radials. Founded on a good series from Muktesar and district (Ku- 
maon), but I refer here also some undersized specimens bred by Hocking at Dharmsala from Cedrus libani 
(= deodara). 
E. emanata Dietze (= korbi Dietze). Dietze’s handling of this little-known species was very unsatis¬ 
fying. Although from the first he doubted its belonging to lariciata, and in 1908 quoted with approval Punge- 
ler's opinion that it was probably a good species, yet even in his beautiful monograph of 1910—13 he con¬ 
tinued to write “ lariciata f. emanata”, at the same time noting the appreciably longer antennal ciliation (ad¬ 
duced in our Vol. 4, p. 296) and a distinction in the ventral plate of the 8th abdominal of his “type” <§ (neallo- 
type). His original publication of the name emanata (Iris, Vol. 19, pi. 2, fig. 11, 1906) is not even cited in the 
later and fuller accounts. Moreover, the suggested name of korbi is an absolute synonym, proposed in 1908 
as a substitution “should emanata be a good species”. The type is a $ from Radde, Amur, 15 July 1903. My 
mention of Hokkaido (Yezo) as a further locality was based on the assumption that sordidata was a synonym 
and this, though not impossible, is not yet proved; a specimen in the Pungeler collection, from Nikko, was 
mentioned by Dietze as “perhaps” belonging to eynayiata and may probably be referable also to sordidata. 
sordidata Wileman (18 e). Considerably larger in both sexes (forewing length in emanata only 9 to 10 mm), 
perhaps less dark, the longitudinal blackening of the 2nd median vein and the fold not intense, mostly broken 
into isolated dashes. The termen of the hindwing is sinuous but, except near the apex and anal angle, not at 
all convex. Founded on one of each sex from Tobetsu, prov. Ishikari, Hondo plains, 6 and 8 June. 
tantillaria. E. tantillaria Bsd. (= laricis Spr.) (Vol. 4, p. 297). E. Lange observes that this species, when at rest 
on tree-trunks, is extremely shy and an approaching footstep or a shadow cast on it is sufficient to disturb it 
nigricaia. and put it to flight. — ab. nigricata Vorbrodt. Blackish grey, sharply marked examples, collected by Dr. Wehrli, 
7—19 May, near Gempen and Blauen (Switzerland). Said to form a “transition to tantillaria”. 
unistrigcda. E. conterminata Z. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 k) ab. unistrigata Dietze. Both wings with a dark median stripe, 
touching the cell-spot; other markings wefik. Helsingfors. 
emanata. 
sordidata. 
