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ADDENDA AD RHODOMETRA — LYTHRIA. By L. B. Pkout. 
Aedoeagus with only 1 large cornutus (smaller ones, if present, never exceeding 4 in 
number) . 
2. Anellus strongly chitinized. 
Anellus not chitinized. 
3. Anellus strongly spatulate at extremity . 
Anellus not spatulate. 
4. Valve with a thorn-like process close to tip. 
Valve not so . 
5. Valve slender, with a long spine. 
Valve very long, at base broad, tapering, with a bluntly pointed process at about - ;j 
Valve broad, without spine or pointed process . 
3 
5 
fulta 
4 
culoti 
vindicatei 
macracantha 
paroranaria 
seit.zi 
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p. 70, to Rh. antophilaria Hbn. Amsel transfers here the “ab. excaecaria A. Fuchs" which, following antophilaria 
its author. I cited under sacraria (Vol. 4, p. 154). I assume that this is done intentionally, although no explanation 
is given of the new synonymy. In any case, the present species occurs about Jerusalem; but, like myself, Amsel 
has never seen a Rhodometm completely devoid of markings and he observes that even Fuchs's type shows 
the postmedian line, though unusually weakly developed. — consecraria Rmb. A A has recently been taken 
at Uras, Aristano; new for Sardinia. 
p. 71, to L. plumularia Frr. The life history has been worked out by Dr. Draudt (Intern. Ent. Zeitschr.. plumularia. 
Vol. 29, p. 391, 1 December 1935). The egg is a good deal flattened, on the upperside copiously pitted, the hol¬ 
lows hexagonal, their edges sharp. The newly hatched larva is slender, transparent greenish, with broad dark 
subdorsal stripe and pale brownish head; full-grown, it is dorsallv rust-yellow to cinnamon-brown, with paler, 
finely blackish-edged mediodorsal line, on the sides broadly greenish white-yellow, ventrally pale brownish. 
It was fed on Rumex. Gradl has just published a notice of the occurrence of plumularia in Vorarlberg, its 
most northerly limit, together with some account of its distribution. 
p. 71, to L. purpuraria L. To this species and the following, still more than to any others, my prefatory purpuraria. 
remarks to these “Addenda and Corrigenda” are applicable. My manuscript was prepared early in 1935 and 
the proofs were passed for publication in the August of that year, but the publication did not follow until April 
1937. In the interim, there has been a truly remarkable outburst of activity among our lepidopterists regarding 
the aberrations and their nomenclature, and really important contributions have appeared from such prominent 
workers as Urbahn (October- -November 1935), Kitt (November—December 1935), Obraztsov (February 
1936; preprints October 1935; supplement April 1936), Lempke (February 1936) and Heydemann (July 1936). 
purpuraria proves to be very rare in northern Europe, and most of the supposed records for that territory 
(e. g., Zetterstedt s) certainly belong to purpurata. No confirmation of its occurrence in Scandinavia has 
been obtained and it is not impossible that the work of the “first reviser - ’ (Laspeyres) was erroneous and 
that Linne had before him merely a A of our purpurata to represent purpuraria. There is. however no 
A in his collection, the label purpuraria standing on a $ purpurata; the actual type was perhaps in Udd man's 
collection, as Linne cites that author ("69” is a misprint for 63). who describes both sexes from an unknown 
locality, and it is best to assume that they were the species which Laspeyres and subsequent revisers have 
called purpuraria. What is certain is that only one Lythria is present in Linn us collection to represent his 
t w o species and that the labelling in his collection, besides having been subjected to many later vicissitudes, 
was not undertaken in 1758 (for instance, Phalaena amata L. is labelled amataria) and therefore cannot be 
adduced against the other considerations. Uddman and Linne concur in regarding our purpuraria as yellow 
C'flava" or “lutea”). while purpurata L. is diagnosed as greenish (“virescens”). purpuraria is apparently rare 
even in North Germany, though Heydemann has succeeded in finding a colony near Molln, Schleswig-Holstein 
(Intern. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 29, p. 251); perhaps, as he suggests, a partial clue to its assumed rarity lies in its 
frequenting waste ground — “for what collector would deliberately visit a stubble-field at the beginning of 
August to collect Lepidoptera”? One record from Esthonia (Kauri) is confirmed. Reisser has recorded a 
gvnandromorphous specimen from Sierra de Gredos, the right side <§, the left side —- ab. porphyraria H.-Sch. porphymria. 
Heydemann, on account of the greater variability and stronger prevalence of purple aberrations in purpurata. 
wants to re-transfer this unique form, overlooking, besides the arguments adduced on p. 71. the slender post¬ 
median line, the rosy apex beneath and the locality “S. Russia ". If S. Russia possesses really a subspecies of 
purpuraria (and one only), porphyraria will be the oldest name for it; see staudingeri below. — ab. mevesi merest, 
aicct. (nec Lampa). If a yellow', g r e y - banded aberration actually exists in purpuraria , which at present 
seems somewhat doubtful, it will be necessary to give it a new' name. Lampa's original, like all the now' known 
Scandinavian examples, certainly belongs to purpurata. — ab. trilineata Urbahn (= trilinearia Obraztsov) (7 c). 
Long before my “unique type” thus named was published (p. 71). it had ceased to be “ab. nov. ” and ceased 
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