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ADDENDA AD BRACHYGLOSSINA. By L. B. Prout. 
fulta. 
culoti. 
staudingeri. 
to the time of year; the $$ scarce, larger, sometimes with less irroration and more recalling those of paroranaria. 
though not so reddish. Also (rather larger) at Bou Saada, 20 April to middle of May (4 <$<$ from V. Faroult. 
who took 2 paroranaria $3 there a little later. 20—30 May). A from Lambese, May 1912, probably likewise 
belongs here. 
B. fulta sp. n. (= oranaria? Piing. in coll., nec B.-Haas) (6 (J$) is a trifle larger than the first-brood 
dd of vindicate (24 -27 mm), the ground-colour on the whole less yellowish or more obscured by the rather 
dense dark irroration. Face perhaps deeper blackish. Antennal teeth not projecting very strongly anteriorly. 
Hindtarsus generally extremely short (% or 1 / 5 ), but sometimes reaching nearly y 3 . Markings almost as in 
vindicata, though the antemedian of the forewing shows an acute angulation near the costa and always makes 
a sharp bend or angle inward at the fold; costal edge sometimes darkened to beyond middle; median area not 
or slightly broader than in vindicata , the postmedian generally a little farther from termen than in paroranaria; 
topotypical series with the cell-dots large, the median line (except in one small and aberrant specimen) obsolete 
or extremely faint, but the outliers, which are generally rather paler (especially the El Kantara $), fail to support 
these two characters; postmedian usually complete, strongly dentate, beneath sometimes stronger than I have 
observed in any vindicate!,; subterminal and its shades about as in vindicata , except that the distal shade is gener¬ 
ally almost as strong (or as weak) as the proximal; fringe-dots fairly strong and large. The strong irroration 
and darkish terminal region bring about an approach to the coloration of culoti, though the ground-colour 
lacks the reddish tinge of most culoti; the irroration is not so coarse and the strong median shade of culoti and 
other details render any confusion improbable, quite apart from the genitalia and the geographical distribution. 
The genitalia have much in common with those of vindicata in the shape of the valve, the formation of the uncus 
and the strongly chitinized anellus; but the latter, instead of ending in simple narrowing “anellus-lobe”, has 
the lobes irregularly spatulate, the curiously twisted plate to which they broaden being an arresting feature 
directly the genitalia are exposed to view. On the aedoeagus, only two small cornuti, in addition to the large 
proximal one, have yet been observed, but it may be that the number is not absolutely constant. Hammam 
Meskoutine, 28 April to 15 May (Rothschild and Jordan), about a dozen Ac?; Batna (3 dd) and El Kantara 
(1 d), perhaps — or at least the latter — distinguishable racially; Lambese, singly in June, August and Sep¬ 
tember, smaller specimens, presumably representing a summer generation. 
B, culoti Wehrli (= pseudoranaria Zerny , oranaria Sterneck in lift., nec B.-Haas) (7 b). Generally 
rather large and broad-winged, more copiously irrorated than any other Brachyglossina, unless an occasional 
aberration of vindicata or of fulta. A few of its characteristics have been noticed in differentiating those species. 
All the lines present, but rarely very outstanding on the darkened ground; median shade broad or moderately 
so, present also on the underside; the distal subterminal shade as complete as the proximal, so that the entire 
outer area may be described as darkened, traversed by the broad and irregular subterminal line. Decidedly 
variable; a probable aberration (§) from Iminene Valley (Great Atlas), with somewhat better developed tongue, 
was referred by Zerny, though only “provisionally”, to S. oranaria , and a few Jrj with the hindtarsus almost 
Y 3 instead of x / 5 are also somewhat surprising. Apart from these structural irregularities, the variation consists 
chiefly in the exact width of the wings, amount of reddish in the ground-colour, size of cell-dots, absolute and 
relative strength of the transverse markings. Dr. Sterneck has called my attention to an interesting distinction 
in the 3 antenna, as compared with vindicata , the only near neighbour known to him. The cilia are set on hyaline 
appendages, in vindicata merely on small tubercles. Valve very characteristic: curved, the basal third (or 
slightly more) quite broad, then tapering suddenly and remaining evenly narrow almost to the apex; this part 
(the “cucullus”) two-pointed, the (literal) tip forming a not very long but sharp point, the other point lateral, nar¬ 
rowly triangular, well chitinized. Anellus highly chitinized, forming 2 columnar processes much as in vindicata. 
but produced dorsally into a small, but strongly chitinized vertical projection. Aedoeagus with the principal 
cornutus less long than in vindicata (about % as against K) and more distally placed, 2 (or occasionally 3) short 
ones on the vesica. Somewhat distributed in Marocco, chiefly in the Atlas Mountains; also known from Sebdou 
and perhaps other Algerian localities. 
B. staudingeri Prout. According to Amsel, this is common at light (Jerusalem to Jericho), the $$ 
greatly preponderating; it varies very little in markings, but more in size. It probably forms a section apart; 
to p. 68 I might have added more expressly that it lacks the large cornutus; the small ones are at the extremity 
of the vesica. 
Postscript. The following key to the genitalia which 1 have studied may serve to focus attention 
on some of the easily observable distinctions. 
1. Aedoeagus with many (about 12) cornuti. mauritanica; mzabensis 
Aedoeagus with 6 large cornuti. tantalidis 
Aedoeagus with no large cornutus. staudingeri 
