cretacaria. 
discopunc- 
tata. 
excellens. 
dissoluta. 
cuprmaria. 
peripheres. 
indicataria. 
moratci. 
sufflava. 
wiltshirei. 
220 ADDENDA AD RHODOSTROPHIA — SOMATINA. By L. B. Protjt. 
p. 24, to Rh. cretacaria Rbl. Petersen, in the memoir just referred to, does not consider this separable 
(as a species) from calabra. 
p. 24, to Rh. tabidaria. - discopunctata Amsel. This, the Palestinian race, is distinguished by its larger 
size and the strikingly large cell-spots above and beneath. The very broad rosy marginal band reaches nearly 
to the postmedian, generally leaving free only a narrow line of the ground-colour. Very common in many places, 
rarer in the desert districts. It also reaches Syria. 
p. 24. after Rh. bicolor. — Rh. poliaria (Vol. 4, pi. 7 a) excellens subsp. nov. (18 h). 43 mm. Larger 
than poliaria from Kashmir and of a more yellowish grey tone (between the tilleul-buff and pale olive-buff 
of Ridgway), the costal margin of the forewing beneath of a more pronounced yellow. Forewing with cell-dot 
smaller, the band outside the postmedian weak (sometimes almost obsolete), even the dark line which bounds 
it distally quite weak; terminal line fairly well developed. Hindwing also with the cell-dot weak. Underside 
somewhat less warmly coloured and more weakly marked than in typical poliaria. N. E. Hindu Kush: Nuksan 
Pass, alpine meadow zone, 3500 to 4000 m, July (H. E. Kotzsch), type and others in coll. Wehrli. 
Rh. dissoluta sp. n. <$, 39 mm. Closely related to the preceding, but I can scarcely think it a remarkable 
aberration of the same. The pectinations appear a trifle shorter. Forewing with termen slightly straighter and 
more oblique; greyer, without either the yellowish tinge of p. excellens or the more vinaceous or rosy of p. poliaria: 
cell-dot still smaller than in the former; lines shadowy, the postmedian sarcely traceable except in its posterior 
half, the praesubterminal chiefly visible anteriorly; subterminal not lightened; terminal very faint. Hindwing 
with only the praesubterminal developed (very weak), slightly more incurved centrally than in poliaria. Nuksan 
Pass, with the preceding; type in coll. Wehrli. 
p. 25, to Rh. cuprinaria Christ. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 a). Moderately variable. The name-typical forms have a 
rather light fawn or avellaneous tone, with the border not, or scarcely at all, darker than the rest of the wing, 
though commonly differentiated from it by the pale yellowish line outside the postmedian. Type locality: 
Sharud; distribution considerable. peripheres subsp. nov. (17 c). On an average larger, ground-colour some¬ 
times more pinkisli-buff, occasionally more grey; constantly with a darker grey terminal shade, especially well 
defined on the underside. Elburs Mountains, 1700 m to above 2500 nr, the type series in the Tring Museum, 
from Hashtar, Demavend. 
p. 26, to Somatina: 
S. indicataria Walk. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 a). The type came from “N. China”, which (as has been pointed out 
elsewhere) is to be interpreted, in the case of Walker's descriptions, Shanghai or its vicinity. In any case such 
forms (slightly tinged on the forewing with yellowish and with the median shade rather heavy, more suffused 
with brownish) prevail in E. and S. E. China and are apparently scarcely modified as far as Szechuan (see Vol. 12, 
in the press). — morata subsp. nov. (17 b). I find the Japanese race, notwithstanding its (seasonal?) dimorphism, 
is different; paler, the small forms more weakly marked, the larger, especially in the with a heavy median 
shade which brings about a resemblance to i. indicataria , though it is generally fuscous rather than brown; 
in both forms, the band of grey spots outside the postmedian of the hindwing becomes more abruptly narrowed 
or weakened in front of the 1st radial; in the large, strongly-marked forms the thickening of the median shade 
on the forewing is usually accompanied by an increase of the outer dark shades of that wing, which is not notic¬ 
eable in the other races. Type in the British Museum, from Tsu-shima. — sufflava subsp. nov. (17 b), from the 
Ussuri district and probably Corea, is large and striking in its very decided yellowish tone (cream-buff with 
a tinge of pinkish) from the base to the postmedian of the forewing. Possibly only an “ab. loc.”, with transitions 
to i. indicataria , but all the Ussuri specimens to which I have access are quite definite. Type in the British 
Museum, from Narva. 
S. wiltshirei sp. n. (17 c). An extremely interesting little species, quite unlike any hitherto known, in 
a measure linking Somatina with Scopula. Some slight suggestion of the Indian Somatina cana F. is lessened 
by the narrower wings with the termen of the forewing much more oblique, the terminal line r u n n i n g 
round the apex exactly as in Glossotrophia and a few Scopula. Antennal fascicles of cilia very long. 
Hindtibia long, with hair-pencils, tarsus very short. Forewing with areole simple, 5th subcostal arising at or 
close to its apex, not (as in Problepsis) well stalked with 2nd—4th, 2nd radial from a little before middle of 
discocellulars, 3rd discocellular somewhat incurved; the buff-tinted, somewhat reniform cell-spots, with circum¬ 
scription of coarse (on the hindwing slighter) black punctuation (slightly mixed with silvery scales) recalls 
S. cana , but the course of the lines is much more as in Glossotrophia. Underside whitish, especially of the hind¬ 
wing; postmedian line present, though not strong, forewing also with traces of a subterminal shade. Rowanduz 
Gorge, E. Kurdistan, 1800 feet, 16 July and 28 August 1935 (S. P. Wiltshire), 2 CGl also a specimen from 
Berserini Gorge, 9 October. More recently (1937) Mr. F. H. Brandt has discovered wiltshirei in Farsistan, 
between Ardekan and Talochosroe, ca. 2600 m. 
