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underside also much darker and more uniform in colour than in subrubescens. W. China: Pehlinting, 6000 feet, 
50 miles N. N. W. of Cheng-tu, July to August (G. M. Franck), type 3 and allotype $ in my collection, together 
with an equally large $ from the same collector, taken on Mt. Omei, 7000 feet, 17 July 1931; a smaller 3 
from Mt. Omei, 3000—4000 and $ from Kwanhsien in the British Museum. 
H. brevifasciaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 13 i). Further localities are Kwanhsien, Ta-tsien-lu and Tse-ku. Stern- brevifascia- 
eck in publishing the first two, points out that the areole is double, but does not comment on the relatively 
large hindwing as compared with normal Eupithecia. The genitalia, combined with the absence of the body- 
plate, confirms its removal (see Vol. 4, p. 289). 
H. stemecki sp. n. (18 g). Expanse 21—24 mm. Not unlike E. brevifasciaria, forewing relatively shorter stemec/ci. 
and less pointed, hinclwing slightly more ample still, rounder-margined and continuing more fully the colouring 
of the forewing; median area less band-like (merely traversed by wavy lines), pale band (double line) outside 
it less strong, distal area more regular (without the conspicuous cloudings). Pekin: Western Hills, 7—18 August 
1913 (J. S. Hughes), 2 33 > 1 $ in the British Museum. Sterneck records (without naming) 60 3<$> 26 
May-June, also from Pekin. M. Joicey received a worn 3 from Tientsin. 
H. flavovenata Leech (17 k). We figure one of a short series of 33 from Chungking. Notwithstanding flavovenata. 
the separata- like hindwing, this has none of the distinctive characters on which Anticollix has been erected and 
must be placed for the present in Horisme (certainly not Collix, as in Vol. 4, p. 300). 
H. minuta Btlr. (17 h). This also may be provisionally transferred from Collix to Horisme although, minuta. 
except in its yellow-veined underside, it shows little connection with the preceding. Good specimens remain 
a desideratum. 
H. macularia Leech (Vol. 4. pi. 11 c, p. 300, as Collix) occurs alsu, (perhaps in separable races) in the macularia. 
N. E. Himalayas and on Formosa and belongs to an Indian group which includes flavo.fasciata Moore and others. 
H. hyperythra Hmps. This Indo-Malayan species, which occurs also on Formosa and the Riu-kiu Islands, hyperythra. 
has been taken very rarely on Kiushiu, but can scarcely be considered Palaearctic and will be figured in Vol. 12. 
Smaller and much less variegated than macularia, of a warmer brown colour, the underside generally flushed 
with flesh-pink and with a very strong, band-like postmedian, which is acutely angled outward before the 
1st radial. 
H. aquata Him. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 1) brisciacensis Dannehl, said to be unquestionably a good local race, is briseiacensis 
extraordinarity large (a forewing 2 or 3 mm longer than the normal expanse), the markings intensified, especially 
the blackened postmedian of the forewing from the hindmargin to the radials and a broadened white band 
outside it; tone greyish rather than brownish. Kaiserstuhl district, Breisgau. 
H. vitalbata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 1) f. repedata nov. Much more uniformly brown than typical vitalbata, repedata. 
the anterior stripe being much less pale, the oblique band not sharply darkened. Barcelona, 1 J, 2 $$ in the 
British Museum. I have seen no other vitalbata from the district, so do not venture to pronounce upon its 
constancy. — detersata Ping. (17 e). We figure a 3 from Issyk-kul; the entire race is well separable from the deter&ata. 
name-type, even if specimens from the Ili district are somewhat more extreme. ponderata subsp. nov. Larger ponderata. 
than detersata (length of a forewing ca. 14 mm) and looking relatively a little longer-winged; antemedian line 
rather strongly bent. Ta-tsien-lu, 3 33, Yaregong. 1 9; types in the British Museum. Genitalia as in detersata. 
the bilobecl process on the sacculus (contrast Pierce's plate XNXV) probably indicating an incipient species. 
staudingeri nom. nov. (= variegata Stgr., nec Moore ) (17 d). It was rightly pointed out by Pungeler in staudingeri. 
1900 that the name variegata, erected in Cidaria, was a homonym; but he was wrong in holding that the East 
Asiatic race (the type from Amur) did not differ appreciably from the European. The sacculus process is bilobed 
as in detersata and ponderata, but the genitalia are somewhat larger than in them and in typical vitalbata and the 
scobinate patch distally on the manica (see Pierce) is more extended and less coarse than in those three. 
If the. Dalmatian form which Staudinger associated with his “ variegata” (and which has since been recorded 
by Schawerda from Mostar and is almost matched in Central Italy and perhaps on Capri) is really sufficiently 
distinct from conspicuata Hirschke (17 d), it too will require a neAV name; I leave the decision to those ento- conspicuata. 
mologists who possess more extensive material from S. and S. E. Europe. 
H. falcata B.-Haas (17 c). We figure a topotypical 3 (Munko Sardyk, eastern Sajan). Although it falcata. 
was originally likened to vitalbata, it should probably be placed next to scotosiata (17e), with which it has much 
in common, though I cannot agree with Djakonov in sinking it. Still longer winged, the hindwing less strongly 
and less irregularly dentate; colouring paler, the forewing more brownish, a slightly clearer patch in and beyond 
the cell giving the slight suggestion of vitalbata which Bang-Haas over-emphasized; fringes traversed by a 
dark line, not chequered as in scotosiata. A much worn 3 from Urga is evidently referable here. 
