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ADDENDA AD PHYLLOMETRA — PINGASA. By L. B. Prout. 
hindwing straight, not or scarcely incurved; cell-spot of hindwing small, punctiform, in $ often indistinct, 
that of the forewing beneath small or evanescent; hindwing on outer margin in arterior half narrowly black 
bordered, with or without a black line accompanying it. Saghalien: Konuma. Also from Honsyu: Simasina, 
17—22 May. This does not at all agree with the Ussuri form, so far as I know it; the latter is more like sajana. 
p. 2, to Phyllometra: 
proutiana. Ph. proutiana Trti., founded on a pair from Cyrenaica in beautiful condition, is regarded by its author 
as quite distinct from argentaria B.-Haas , which, however, he only knows from the original description and from 
our figure and description of the form planaria Chret.: in any case “entirely distinct from gracilaria Bsd.”, of 
which he has carefully compared examples from Cuenca and Albarracin. Slightly larger, a little broader- and 
rounder-winged; ground-colour less bright, more brownish in the unmarked parts, the hindwing without mark¬ 
ings, except the slender, interrupted terminal line, which it shares with the forewing. Eorewing with “pre- 
distal" line a little convex towards the middle of the wing, neither concave nor rectilinear; postmedian composed 
of slender concise dots and small dashes; “predistal" area not white, but somewhat powdered with brownish 
atoms. The $ only differs from the q in its smaller size and simple antenna. 
p. 3, to Drepanopterulo: 
limaria. D. limaria Christ. (18 f 9)- The acquisition of good (as here figured) by my valued friend Dr. Wehrli 
has led to the interesting discovery that it belongs not to the Geometrinae (see Vol. 4, p. 342) but to the Oeno- 
chrominae. He noticed the presence of the 2nd radial of the hindwing and that it did not agree with any genus 
with which he was familiar and very kindly lent it to me for study. In structure it agrees closely with D. zanoni, 
including the prominent face; antennal ciliation slightly longer, costal vein of forewing, at least in the specimen 
before me, touching the first two subcostals at the point where they begin their anastomosis. Termen of fore¬ 
wing longer than in zanoni, but with the same sinuosities; coloration and scheme of markings the same, the 
brown shade proximal to the postmedian narrower, dark shading between postmedian and subterminal some¬ 
what intersected at the veins. Underside rather coarsely irrorated. The figured specimen is from Ordubad at 
5000 feet, 8 June 1934 (Rjabov). Perhaps the genus shoult sink to the Australian Taxeotis (Vol. 12, p. 15); 
limaria is remarkably similar thereto, even in colour and markings. 
p. 3. after Drepanopterula : 
5. Genus: Uliolqiis Warr. 
(See Vol. 4, id. 5.) 
pilosa. U. pilosa Warr. A re-examination of the wretched type of this supposedly Oenochromine genus raised 
grave doubts as to whether it belonged at all to the Geometridae. It is now proved to be a form of the Lyrnan- 
triid Ocneria (?) signatories Christ, and must be rejected from the present volume. 
meridiona- p. 4 to 0. atrata. - meridionalis Reisser. White of the apex reduced. Reisser differentiates from it 
i,s ' pyrenaica Gmpbg. by the brown tone of the latter and it is probably less extreme than the ab. nigerrima Th.- 
Mieg and less undersized than dalmatina Stauder. S. Spain: Sierra de Gredos, etc. 
virescens. p. 4, to D. virescens Marumo. This species must be removed from Doratoptera and that genus, in conse¬ 
quence, from the Palaearctic fauna. Through the kindness of Dr. Bytinski-Salz the British Museum has 
acquired a 3 of it or an extremely closely related species from Hori, Formosa, 26 April 1934 (L. Gressett). It 
is evidently a Prosopolopha, perhaps slightly less robust than P. simplex Btlr. <$, certainly narrower-winged; 
the only subcostal anastomosis on the forewing is a short fusion of 1st subcostal with costal; the 2nd radial 
of the hindwing is obsolete (as is shown in Marumo’s figure but not implied in his description); the prominent 
face and strong frontal tuft are characteristically developed. Prof. W. T. M. Forbes (in litt.) informs me that 
the $ from the same source has the 2nd radial of the hindwing developed, though a little weakened. Probably 
the species is scarcely Palaearctic. 
p. 5, to Archaeobalbis : 
sinapiaria. A. sinapiaria Pouj. (Vol. 4. pi. 3 c) is apparently common at Siao-lu and is. as I already suggested, quite 
close to ochreipicta Swinh. 
lahayei. p. 6, to P. lahayei Oberth. We are gradually discovering that this has an extremely wide distribution. 
Besides N. and W. Africa, its has been received from Bulawayo, from Arabia (Mecca and Taif) and S. Persia 
and I am now satisfied that multispurcata (p. 6) is nothing more than a dark form of it. 
pallida. p. 7, to Ps. pruinata ab. pallida Rocci (= canditata Stauder). A synonym, presumably, is albida Kolos- 
sow. recorded as very rare in Viatka among typical pruinata. merely diagnosed as outstandingly white. — ab. 
