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p. 57, to S. cervantaria. — carneotincta Zerny is essentially larger (“expanse up to 20 mm”), very (list- carneotincta. 
inctly marked and with a prevalent fleshy-reddish tinge. Higher altitudes in the Great Atlas, especially Tachdirt, 
while lower altitudes in the same range produce c. depressaria. All the races agree in the genitalia; the new 
form has perhaps passed as mauritanica (nec B.-Bak.). 
p. 57, to S. mareotica Draudt. Occurs also in Palestine, in an apparently differentiable subspecies which mareotica. 
has been registered (but I think not yet described) as S. m. judaica Sterneck. 
p. 58, to S. seriata Schrank. Thttkau apparently hybridized the $ of the canteneraria form with in- seriata. 
quinata (= herbariata) $ and the $ of canteneraria with eburnata: specimens said to have this parentage were 
exhibited before the Berlin Entom. Verein by Klemann, as reported in Intern. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 29, p. 9 
(1 April 1935). These seem astonishing results to be so casually dealt with. 
p. 58, after S. 1. jaroulti: 
S. margaritacea Trti. A Kruger, founded on 2 specimens (presumably §) from Lamluda, Cyrenaica, margaritu- 
5 June 1935, is said to be very similar to jaroulti, of about the same size; forewing with apex a little less rounded, cea - 
termen a little straighter, colour pearl-grey, with the brownish irroration sparser, antemedian faint, postmedian 
(according to the figure) without the anterior angulations; hindwing perhaps less irregular in shape; both wings 
with small black cell-dots, median line continuous, on the forewing well outside the cell-dot, on the hindwing 
oblique (its posterior part not, as in jaroulti, parallel with termen), distal area, especially of the forewing, with 
a darker greyish suffusion. 
p. 58, to S. sublongaria Stgr. Dr. Rebel suggests that a very small worn from Chalepa, Crete, which sublongaria. 
in 1916 he doubtfully referred to allongata, belongs more probably to sublongaria. If the specimen has lost the 
hindlegs, or these were not examined (compare the original inaccurate treatment of Rh. cretacaria JRbl.), I would 
suggest troglodytaria H.-Sch. 
p. 59, to S. sylvestraria Hbn. Dr. V. G. M. Schultz has recently published an account of the egg and sylvestraria. 
oviposition. It appears that both in captivity and in a state of nature the $ has a liking for laying her eggs 
on the stems and twigs of Calluna. The egg-shell has its own brown pigmentation, so that the colour is retained 
(or rather, resumed) after the emergence of the larva, as has also been recorded for S. muricata. 
p. 59. to S. infirmaria Rmb. At about the same time when Chretien's life-history of aquitanaria was infirmaria. 
published, Reisser quite independently gave us that of Corsican infirmaria. No collation of the accounts has 
been made, nor even a comparison with obsoletaria. to which Reisser considered it very similar in the larval 
state. The larva of infirmaria is extremely sluggish, grows very slowly from July to September, when — not 
yet half-grown — it hibernates till towards the end of May; only one was successfully reared, pupating on 
26 July and emerging on 5 August, an aquitanaria -like <$. At first the larvae were almost unicolorous light- 
grey with dark head; later very variable in colour: head small, almost black, on the crown somewhat incised; 
body short, very compact, somewhat tapered anteriorly, flattened, lateral flange very strong; surface granulated; 
the lozenge-shaped or rhomboid dorsal markings are open anteriorly; ventral area whitish. 
S. rhodograrrtmaria Puny. In reply to an inquiry, Dr. Sterneck informed me that he had not seen rhodogram- 
any example of this from the locus classicus (Sierra Espuna), but that he had examined the genitalia of a $ 
of a very similar Sterrka from Noguera (Aragon) which Zerny, Eos Vol. 3, S. 403, recorded provisionally as 
rhodogrammaria and that he found it certainly a different species from infirmaria, though manifestly 
very close to it; apart from small distinctions which might require verification on more material, the uncus 
is quite distinctive. As I posses no authentic rhodogrammaria, I merely record this observation, in order to 
call attention anew to the group. 
p. 61, after S. oberthuri: 
S. zernyi D. Luc. Forewing bone-colour, with the cell-dots rather distinct; four slender yellowish-grey zernyi. 
lines well visible; antemedian and median slightly oblique, enclosing the cell-dot; postmedian a little less sinuous 
and less oblique; fourth line very near the termen. Hindwing with three lines placed as those of the forewing, 
less conspicuous, the cell-dot sharp, placed between the first two. Fringes unicolorous. Underside lighter. 
Khenifra, Morocco, taken in May. “Group of oberthuri'’. Unknown to me. 
p. 61, to S. eugeniata Mill. Durck took 4 $3 in the Iminene Valley (Areg-Amsekou), 2 of them with eugeniata. 
the reddish-yellow tinge of typical eugeniata, the other 2 light straw-yellow, about as in typical aversata. New 
for Morocco. 
p. 61, after S. eugeniata: 
S. oranaria B.-Haas (Vol. 4, p. 121). Zerny records from Iminene-Tal (Great Atlas) a $ which per- oranaria. 
haps belongs to this rarity. It differs from the type in the decidedly more dentate, continuous (not puncti- 
