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ADDENDA AD SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
emutaria. p. 45, to S. emutaria Hbn. Warnecke has worked out the distribution in N. W. Europe in considerable 
detail: England (coastal counties from Dorset to Essex), W. France (Vendee, Morbihan), Holland (Dornburg 
infrarosea. to Bergen-op-Zoom). Texel I, Borkum and Sylt. — ab. infrarosea Agenjo. Underside with a rosy irroration which 
becomes more intense on the forewing towards the inner margin and the median and terminal areas and on the- 
hindwing over the anal, extrabasal and median. One example at Arceniega (Alava) among a number of typical 
emutaria. 
albidaria. p. 45, to S. albidaria Stgr. (18 i). The examination of the genitalia by Bytinski-Salz has shown this 
be a good species. Bulb at blind end of aedoeagus much larger than in jlaccidaria, sacculus much stouter, cerata 
sankana. more asymmetrical, the shorter one sigmoid, only % the longer. sankana form. nov. (18 i). A trifle less broad¬ 
winged. termen of forewing perhaps slightly more sinuous (though in typical albidaria it is perhaps slightly 
more so than in jlaccidaria ), hindwing with the tail somewhat less developed; tone much more brownish; median 
shade rather less diffuse, on forewing well beyond cell-dot; postmedian, at least on the hindwing, rather more 
markedly incurved between the radials; hindwing with cell-spot scarcely so large. Sanka, Tian-Shan, 2500 to 
3500 m. Notwithstanding its superficially different aspect, which is more reminiscent of some of the nigro- 
punctata group. I suspect that the anatomy will prove it a high altitude form of albidaria. 
iranaria. S. iranaria Bytinski-Salz. Intermediate between jlaccidaria and albidaria: yellowish white, the dark 
scales sparse; markings as in jlaccidaria but less conspicuous, cell-dots and postmedian dots very small, the 
former often absent in forewing. Superficially nearer to albidaria, except in the smaller cell-dot of the hindwing; 
in the genitalia nearer jlaccidaria but quite distinct. Keredj, Iran, 1400 m, Hying in the second half of May. 
dcpunda. — ab. depuncta Bytinski-Salz. Cell-dot wanting in both wings. 1 
kukiberica. p. 46. to S. decorata leukiberica Wehrli. Zerny applies this name also to the form from the Great Atlas 
and Middle Atlas. 
pratana. p. 49, to 0. pratana F. A small dark form (in 3 examples) has been taken at Agadir, quite different 
from the subspecies ( ?) occidens Prout. Probably the extent of the geographical, as distinguishable from 
the individual, variability of this very inconstant species has been overrated; Amsel, from plentiful and extra¬ 
ordinarily variable Palestinian material, is decidedly of that opinion. 
plumularia. p. 50, to A. plumularia Bsd. The earliest stages have just been made known by Reisser. The eggs are 
easily obtained from captured $$ and are relatively large — perhaps 1*4 times those of normal Sterrha. The 
larvae readily accept the leaves of various flowers; but especially rose-leaves. Half-grown they show the normal 
Sterrha habitus: head small, round, body flattened, compressed, the segments broadened posteriorly, laterally 
prominent, the skin shagreened, hairs whitish; very variable in colouring. 
ramosaria. p. 50, to C. ramosaria Vill. Chretien obtained eggs at Biskra, 18 March, which hatched on the 27th; 
there were 3 moults (4th, 10th and 16th April), the first larva spun up on 25 April and moths emerged in May 
and June. The young larva is slender, brown blackish, the last segments dark grey; tubercles prominent, sur¬ 
mounted — the trapezoidals at least — with single short setae. Adult: 14 mm; attenuated anteriorly; segment 
incisions pronounced; rugose, the most salient of the roughnesses forming dorsal and subdorsal lines and lateral 
flange, the latter whitish, marked with frown; head flattened in front, bilobed; spiracles inconspicuous. Pupa 
grey brown, spiracles ('especially the last ones) prominent, more reddish. 
mediofascia- p. 52, to S. sericeata. — ab. mediofasciata Homberg. Base of the forewing very clean as far as the ante- 
median, the pearly white ground-colour being very little irrorated except at the costa; median area, on the 
contrary, almost completely filled with light brownish, only a very small pale patch persisting about the disco- 
subrecta. cellulars. Ardeche: La Voulte, 1 <$. — subrecta Prout. Zerny (Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc, No. 42, p. 74) has 
an interesting note on the form (or forms) of sericeata, sens, lat., in the Atlas, presumably all referable to sub- 
recta, though some closely approach the Sierra Nevada calvaria Wehrli. He reports that Dr. Sterneck finds 
the genitalia, as well as the wing-markings, intermediate between those of sericeata and alJardiata, so that we 
shall probably not err as if we treat all as races of one species. 
dyraria. p. 53. to S. dyraria Zerny (6 h). Sterneck has found sufficient distinctions in the armature of the 
aedoeagus to justify the view that this is a separate species and not, as was originally assumed, a subspecies 
of typicata. Zerny (loc. cit.) gives figures which bring out the differences. 
p. 53, after S. ludovicaria: 
bimaculata. S. bimaculata Trti. <£• Kruger. A small species (“18 mm”, i. e. with a wing-length of nearly 10 mm), 
carefully described except that the venation and the sex are not given and that it is called an “ Acidalia ”. If, 
as the elongate abdomen of the figure suggests, the unique type is a it may well be a form of ludovicaria, for 
the liindtibia has terminal “spurs” and the facies agrees very well. Slightly rosy white, with brownish irror- 
