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ADDENDA AD LYTHRIA. Bv L. B. Prout. 
nibril vnca- 
ria. 
posticilinea- 
ria. 
grisearia. 
ixtrcmaria. 
signaria. 
furcuria. 
pulveraria. 
pseudo- 
typica. 
staudingeri. 
translinea- 
ria. 
gawerdows- 
kaja. 
purpurata. 
common ia- 
rea. 
tanyens. 
ruberrima. 
ochrofas- 
ciatci. 
son i purpu¬ 
rata. 
mevesi. 
pseudosuf- 
fusn. 
pulvcrata. 
hi fas data. 
inonofas- 
ciata. 
to be unique; but it remains a very rare form. Easy to distinguish from purpurata ab. trilineata by the central 
position of the second band. ab. rubrilinearia Obraztsov (= sordidaria Zerny. Prout. nec Zett.). Examples of 
gen. vern. deceptoria Till, with the red bands present on the forewing. On p. 71 1 adopted Zerny's proposal 
to call this ab. sordidaria. quite inexcusably overlooking information which I received from Wahlgren (in lift.. 
22 May 11(24) that Zetterstedt's type was a purpurata aberration. ab. posticilinearia Obraztsov. Hindwing 
above with a distinct reddish line. A $ from Jena figured by Urbahn, 2 examples ( ? locality) noticed by Kitt. 
1 o from Berikej in Daghestan seen by Obraztsov in Sheljuzhko's collection. — ab. grisearia Obraztsov. Fore¬ 
wing unicolorous greyish (“not so dark as in deceptoria "). sometimes with some traces of the rosy bands. Prob¬ 
ably an approach to ab. nigricans. This ( grisearia ) and most of Obraztsov's aberrations enumerated below 
were recorded from South Russia and should presumably be referred to his subspecies staudingcri, erected 
subsequently (see below). — ab. extremaria Obraztsov resembles grisearia but the bands are light; it corresponds 
to the spring form rubrilinearia , but is larger and of an appreciably darker colour. ab. signaria Obraztsov 
has a small red costal spot between the two bands (a frequent development in purpuraria everywhere). 
— ab. furcaria Obraztsov has the two proximal bands (of a 3-banded form) confluent in their posterior part (not 
reaching the hindmargin). Kitt. Lempke and Heydemann coll it trifurca Czekelius, but no such concept exists; 
CzEKELirs merely misquoted trifurca Hannemann (which belongs to purpurata) to which this furcaria is a parallel 
form. - ab. pulveraria Obraztsov. Forewing powdered with red scales which form small striae. — ab. pseudo- 
typica Heydem. is proposed to designate very light ochre-vellow specimens which occur occasionally among the 
spring brood. The two purple bands in the figured specimens are well developed. — staudingeri Obraztsov, from 
S. Russia, is said to form a special race, characterized by a strong reduction of the bands, extreme examples 
corresponding to ab. lutearia, which here also occars only as an aberration. As the spring brood seems to agree 
with the “ deceptoria " of other districts, and it is admitted that well banded examples (inconsistently called 
ab. rubrilinearia, although that name was erected for a spring form) do occur in the summer generation, I cannot 
find any published evidence for the validity of the subspecies, unless it be in the greater variability (see the 
aberrations noted above as South Russian) and the higher percentage of weakly red-marked individuals; but 
I have seen too little material to be justified in dogmatizing. The head-quarters are given as the Ukraine 
(Nikolajev and Kieff). the Crimea and the Caucasus. The forms from Central Asia (see p. 71) may constitute 
another race, with the reduction of the markings both above and beneath carried still further. A specimen from 
Omsk was described as long ago as 1870 by Erschoff. — ab. translinearia Obraztsov seems to belong also to 
the eastern forms, as the given localities are Pinsk, Podolia, Petropavlovsk (prov. Akmolinsk) and Askhabad. 
The underside of the forewing, which normally bears only some rudimentary costal markings, is here traversed 
by a red band. - ab. gawerdowskaja Kolossow , an antithesis of the lutearia series, has the purple stripes diffused, 
occupying the greater part of the wings. E. Russia (Viatka or Perm). Evidently an approach to ab. porphyraria. 
p. 71. to L. purpurata L. Heydemann has called attention to further structural differences from pur¬ 
puraria, partly in the $ antenna (a slight difference) and more obviously in the palpus, which is longer, with 
its terminal joint about twice as long. An additional Asiatic record has come to hand, namely Armenia (Kotsch). 
and I have recently seen a fairly large apparently rather dull and dark-marked (but worn), from Ilkaz Dagh 
(Anatolia). In the westward direction. Castile and the Pyrenees are cited by Heydemann, but probably he 
refers to sanguinaria. ab. comniuniarea Rcmaniszyn. Kitt proposed to sink this to ruberrima (see below) 
but this has been challenged, as in the present it is the entire distal area of the forewing which is yellowish, 
not merely a few subterminal spots. — ab. tangens Hannemann. Kitt considers the aberration described by 
Lempke as conjunctiva to be identical with this. It this be so. Hannemann s figure is inaccurate; but Lempke 
thinks that a different specimen may have been shown to Kitt as the “type". Heydemann figures as conjunctiva 
a spring-brood 2 and as a transition to tangens a summer-brood $ with no actual contact between the 1st and 
the 2nd 4- 3rd bands. —- ab. ruberrima Hannemann. Kitt indicates that the entire forewing is red with the 
exception of small maculae before the termen and n o t “with the exception of the base". Here again it seems 
that Hannemann’s figure may be faulty. — ab. ochrofasciata Koschabek is a further developed of ab. rubrior 
Hannemann. with the proximal red of the forewing much more extended costally and basewards. so that the 
ground-colour is only conserved in a narrow median stripe wich expands towards the base of the inner margin. 
1 9, Reehnitz. Burgenland. taken in August. — ab. semipurpurata Pfau. According to Pfau himself, this should 
sink to ab. rubrior Hannem. — ab. mevesi Lampa (= griseolineata Czekelius = griseovittata Lempke). The 
correction of the determination of Lampa 's aberration, described in 1885 from a Vestergotland specimen, results 
in this change of synonymy. — ab. pseudosuffusa (Lempke) Heydem. A darkly suffused of the spring brood 
from Holstein, agreeing essentially with the summer ab. suffusa (p. 72). has been figured by Heydemann. 
ab. pulverata Obraztsov. Outer area of forewing above powdered with red scales which form small striae. Cor¬ 
responds to the purpuraria aberration of the same name. Type 9 from Berlin. — ab. bifasciata Obraztsov. Under¬ 
side of the hindwing, instead of the usual posteriorly convergent or confluent lines or bands, with the two lines 
well separate. Berlin, in both generations. — ab. monofasciata Obraztsov. Hindwing beneath with only the 
