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ADDENDA AD STERRHA. By L. B. Prout. 
form) postmedian and the presence of a broad, ill-defined dark median shade (on the forewing just outside the 
cell-dot, on the hindwing baseward thereof), with the addition, on the underside, of a large cell-dot on the fore¬ 
wing. It is, however, not impossible that it may be an aberration of Brachyglossina pseudoranaria, although 
the tongue looks to be better developed. 
p. 61. after S. ostrinaria: 
purpureo- S. purpureomarginata Blitsch. (18 1). We figure a $ from the Lebanon. Amsel records from Palestine 
margmata. y ^ (Waldheim, near Haifa), with “maikings much more distinct than in the type" and states that an exam¬ 
ination of the genitalia by Dr. Sterneck has confirmed its relationship to ostrinaria. 
teutobergen- p. 62, to S. inquinata. — ab. teutobergensis V. Schultz is a fine melanic form, suffused with black, the 
sls ■ black maikings more or less perceptible, the whitish-ochreous subterminal line (as in other melanic Sterrha 
forms) retained. Described from 6 specimens, Lippe. 
affinitata. p. 62, to S. affinitata B.-Haas. Mr. E. P. Wiltshire has bred this from the egg at Beirut. Ova laid 
in clusters, 7 May, hatched in 8 days. The larva is fairly stout, roughened, olive-grey or greenish, suffused with 
black except on the last 3 or 4 somites; a paler, ridged lateral line; spear-head maiks dorsally, each having 
a white tip; dorsal line fine, whitish, dark-edged, narrowing to form a black shaft for the last spear-head. The 
moths (2nd brood) emerged 31 July and early August. Zerny's observation is confirmed, that the claikening 
of the base (particularly of the forewing) is somewhat exceptional. 
holliata. S. holliata Homberg. Although the distinctions, as given on p. 62, are not very salient, they seem ad¬ 
equate for separation from affinitata and bred specimens make the impression of a separate species. Moreover, 
the larvae from which Wiltshire bred them were of a light wood-colour, very different from those of af¬ 
finitata. 
fathmaria. p. 62, to S. fathmaria Oberth. Rothschild and Reisser have added Morocco to the known distribution. 
The moths, according to the latter, fly freely to light in June in the Riff Mountains, for a short period only, 
immediately after dark, the $$ greatly preponderating. They oviposit very readily in confinement and were 
successfully bred. Egg round, yellow, showing very little change in colour before hatching. The young larva 
is short and stumpy, carinated laterally, reddish (especially on the sides) and with dark-brown head, dorsally 
more greenish-yellow, with 4 fine red lines, the skin shagreened and finely canaliculate transversely; later it 
becomes more yellow-grey or red-grey and the sinuous subdorsal line tends to form dorsally a light rhombiform 
pattern. In the hibernating stage it is somewhat variable, some larvae almost markingless, others showing 
the pattern of longitudinal lines, the subdorsal ones blackish, running obliquely backwards and producing a 
latticed appearance on the dorsal area; lateral carination strong, spotted with black; ventral surface dark grey 
with light rhombiform markings. Like most of its relatives it is very sluggish. 
improbata. S. improbata Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 3 i). Chretien in 1917 recorded 2 d 3 from Gafsa, taken in May. I have 
seen a few Algerian Brachyglossina which may perhaps be referable to it. 
calunetaria. p. 62, to S. calunetaria Stgr. Zerny writes (Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc, No. 42, p. 78) that this species 
or indeed the entire dorycniata group — is still in dire confusion, but his careful discussion of the forms 
known to him does not alter essentially the account given in this volume. He corrects Reisser's treatment 
of baeticaria as a synon y m of the N. African episticta and accepts its belonging to the type race; he also 
rightly rejects a tentative suggestion which I put forward in the Lepidopterorum Catalogus to the effect that 
juscularia. fuscularia might be the same form as episticta. - fuscuiaria Trt. It was perhaps not quite accurate to say 
(p. 62 ) that this is “about as dark” as episticta: it may well be that, when allowance has been made for indi¬ 
vidual variability, it ought to be described as “darker”; Zerny is apparently not very familiar with episticta 
in natura. 
dorycniata. p. 63, to S. dorycniata Bell. Zerny records a form of this from the Great Atlas as “larger than Spanish 
dorycniata (forewing length 11 mm) and the postmedian line of the hindwing decidedly more strongly dentate". 
griseata. p. 64, to S. biselafa ab. griseata Preissccker. A $ from Montferland (North Holland), treated as neallo- 
type, has just been recorded by Heydemann. 
filicata. p. 64, to S. filicata Hbn. Amsel records the form from Palestine as f. albonitens Sterneck, but this is 
evidently — like mareotica judaica and subsaturata orientis — a manuscript name either suppressed or awaiting 
further elucidation. 
fuscovenosa. p. 65, to S. fuscovenosa Goeze. It appears that this has escaped detection in Belgium until the present 
year (1938), when Legiest has recorded a good series captured at light at St.-Idesbald by Major Vander- 
gucht. Lhomme gives many French localities, chiefly, however, southern and western. Zerny adds some 
