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may probably have been one of his own S. Russian captures; it represents one of the most sharply banded 
of the darker forms, such as I am inclined to associate with Transcaucasia. The more dusky and indistinctly 
marked forms from Central Asia may be separable racially, but the variation seems considerable everywhere. 
ab. asinata Frr. (- assinata Frr.). As Freyer published both spellings simultaneously, I take it that the ashmta . 
revisers have been justified in adopting the more correct orthography, although normally the text would take 
priority over the figure. It represents a paler and more weakly marked form than coassata. The type was from 
Odessa. - stepparia Bsd. “A pair in. good condition; represents the light, sharply banded S. Russian stepparia .. 
form, the ground-colour lighter than in Hbn. 491; 1 have the same form also from Uralsk” (Wehrlt, in lift.). 
The type came from Odessa or the foot of the Caucasus. multiplicata Stgr. should probably be treated as multiplicata, 
a synonym or very slight modification of stepparia. “Somewhat larger than asinata Tr. (coassata), the lines 
of the forewing standing out much more strongly, especially in the $; in the light area between the tw r o dark 
bands (mentioned by Treitschke) a further fine black line; but especially there is, at U, a sharply marked 
line (in one specimen double in the middle), which is sharply angled outward in the cell.” Sarepta, 1 $: Cau¬ 
casus (almost certainly), 2 1 9. Staudinger thinks Hubner’s unsuccessful figure 491 may represent it, 
so it is perhaps rather less light than average stepparia. 
p. 84, to L. fissurata Mob. A possible subspecies, or in any case a closely allied form, occurs in Arabia fissurata , 
and will be dealt with in Vol. 12. 
L. pallescens Stgr. (18 g). I am now able to provide a figure of this little-known species, from a $ re- pallescens . 
ceived from Munko Sardyk, Sajan Mountains. In structure it is a quite normal Lithostege. 
'L. castiliaria Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 6 e). The Oberthur collection contained a specimen from Geryville, castiliaria . 
Algeria, captured by Mr. H. Powell. It is not in perfectly fresh condition but, except that it is rather large, 
I do not see any reason for suspecting that it may represent a separate race. 
p. 84. to L. bosporaria H.-Sck. A synonym of bosporaria , actually published in the same year (1848) bosporaria . 
is porcataria Bsd. This name has been almost entirely overlooked; although Guenee apparently received some 
of the originals (collected by Kindermann) and mentions them under bosporaria he has, by some confusion, 
cited them as stepparia, (see under coassata above) and made the further incorrect statement that Boisduval 
mentioned it “sans la decrire”, which applies neither to stepparia nor to porcataria. An original of the last- 
named, from the Oberthitr collection, is labelled “Odessa” but may probably, like others from the same 
source, have come from the foot of the Caucasus. As Herrich-Schaeffer figured his bospomria, though not 
binomially, in 1847, I assume that his name should take precedence over Boisduval 's, which at the earliest 
cannot have appeared before August 1848. 
p. 84, to L. usgentaria Christ, (18 k). I have now seen 2 specimens of the small, name-typical form usgentaria . 
from Transcaspia, one without exact locality the other from Aidere, and learn, too late, that both our 
figures appertain to the larger and more heavily marked Usgent race ignorata (usgentaria Stgr. MS., nee Christ.). 
The confusion arose from the fact that the archetype of our first figure (Vol. 4, pi. lib) was received at the 
British Museum as usgentaria and with the (presumably erroneous) locality-label “Tura”. The lack of the 
dark, bandlike antemedian gives to the true usgentaria a very different aspect. 
p. 84, after L. usgentaria. L. dissocyma sp. n. (17 b). Duller and much less variegated than amoenata dissocyma . 
Christ, (Vol. 4, pi. 12 b), between which and excelsata Ersch. it may be placed. Forewing with the pale parts 
less clean white, the lines (except the subterminal) double; subbasal and antemedian only distinct anteriorly, 
chiefly in the cell, the former curved, not angled, the latter angled in the cell, yet not quite so acutely as in 
amoenata; postmedian complete, sinuous, but far less strongly than in amoenata; subterminal line waved; apical 
dash slight; fringe not quite so sharply spotted as in amoenata. Hindwing very weakly marked. Both wings 
beneath with small blackish cell-dot and sinuous whitish postmedian line. Table Mount, Dvala Gorge, N. E. 
of Bagdad (E. P. Wiltshire), 1 
p. 84, to L. notata B.-Haas. Has been taken also in Iraq and in Arabia, in forms scarcely distinguishable notata. 
from those of N. Africa. 
p. 85, to Ch. Isabella Schawerda. A few specimens have been taken in the Great Atlas, chiefly at Tach- Isabella . 
dirt. New for Africa. 
p. 85, to Ch. rufata ornata Heydem. Warnecke disputes that this form is a race in the North Frisian ornata . 
Islands and adds that in any case the oldest name for the form is bombycata Hbn. 
p. 86, to Ch. Jeorbi. taurica Wehrli, subsp. nov. (8 i). “Larger, much paler, on the forewing a median taurica. 
line indicated by 3 vein-dots. Marash, Taurus, in numbers (Pfeiffer).” 
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