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whitish with faint “W”, anterior to same black or brown sagittate marks, the narrow marginal area beyond, deep 
brown. Hindwings grey-brown with distinct discal lunule. Fringes whitish with dark dividing line. Canary Islands. 
spi osa. C. spinosa Chr. closely resembles solieri. Forewings black-brown to rufous on upperside, sparsely pep¬ 
pered with grey, more densely at base and inner margin. Subterminally reddish ochre. Lines indistinct, the 
anterior one oblique, undulate, edged by blackish lines on both sides; the posterior line dentate with black inner 
edge. Orbicular and reniform stigmata ochre-grey with dainty black surrounds, the latter with a grey-white 
outer edge. Claviform stigma brown or reddish ochre with black surround and conjoined with the posterior 
transverse line by a black streak. A black basal streak is somewhat angulated in centre. Subterminal line con¬ 
sists of whitish dots, anterior to which are more or less distinct rufous sagittate marks. Marginal area brown 
with small black marginal triangles. Fringes checked with whitish. Hindwings of $ whitish with browm discal 
lunule, veins black-brown; in $ brown with dark central line and marginal shade. The larva is reddish grey 
with brown markings on dorsum, ventrally grey-green. It has a very delicate white dorsal line and quite in¬ 
distinct brown subdorsal lines. It is found under stones in winter and is polyphagous. The imagines emerge 
in October. Gafsa (Tunisia). 
anilis. C. aniSis Bsd. (Vol. 3, p. 131). To judge by the latest conceptions, this seems to be a genuine species. 
Sprongerts and Wehrli, who re-discovered it, have fully expressed their opinion (compare the Stett. Ent. Z. 
1896, p. 248 and Iris 1924, p. 14), whilst Heydemann has promised a report that will confirm their contentions. 
This large whitish grey moth with its wide grey median shade cannot be mistaken for any other. Markings are 
most like those of adusta. It occurs in July and as adusta is found almost in the same immediate neighbourhood, 
conspecific relationship would seem excluded. Still less can it be placed with platinea, the type form of which 
is also found at Digne. The specimens found in the Valais have all proved to be platinea ferrea and one can 
assert that anilis does not occur in Switzerland, but only at Digne and Venanson. We are able to illustrate a 
sylvatica. beautiful specimen from Venanson (17 i) thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Wehrli. — sylvatica Bell, should be 
classified here and not to adusta, according to the investigations of Heydemann. It is the dark island race 
ncm. from Corsica and we are giving an illustration (17 i). There is a special form of this: — nera Schaw. with almost 
completely black forewings, even the whitish stigmata and transverse lines are blackish, the white marginal is 
extinct. Hindwings much darker blackish. Corsica. 
insubrica. C. solieri Bsd. (Vol. 3, p. 131, pi. 32 c, d). — insubrica Kruger are smaller, more brightly marked spe¬ 
cimens from S. Tyrol, pale grey contrasting with the bright reddish basal and marginal areas. Stigmata with 
melano- white surrounds. Hindwings glossy white with grey checked margin. ■ — • melanomorpha Trti. (17 k) has black- 
morpha. brown ground colour, still darker than the darkest bathensis. Median area between and below stigmata, deep 
black. Claviform stigma and posterior transverse line conjoined by a still blacker streak. Outer margin and 
reniform stigma barely paler. The white hindwings have a 2 mm wide dusky blackish outer margin. Sicily 
(Catania) and also from Capri. 
altijuga. C. aitijuga Kozh. appears to be nearest to melanodontaBLmps. (Vol. 3, p. 131, pi. 32 b). Forewings brown, 
dusted with black. Postmedian area pale brownish yellow, especially in apical area. Posterior to the pale 
distinct marginal line, almost as dark black-brown as the area between base and central transverse line. Reni- 
form stigma pale brownish yellow, the indistinct orbicular stigma dark brown, claviform stigma is absent and 
in its place there is a black streak. Fringes dark. Hindwings dark grey with dark discal spot and postmedian 
band, fringes pale reddish. Wing expanse: 41 mm. Sajan mountains, in July. Probably this species is syno¬ 
nymous with Sidemia doerriesi Stgr. Description and a photo that have been sent to me, seem to tally exactly. 
compitalis. C. compitalis Drt. (=• leptitanus Trti.) (17 k). This species, that was originally described as an Eremobia , 
is better classified here on account of its ciliate eyes. Forewings peppered with brownish on whitish ground, 
with black basal streak, indistinct transverse lines and somewhat paler stigmata, which have delicate dark 
surrounds and centres. From claviform stigma there is a black longitudinal streak to posterior transverse line, 
which however may also be absent. Subterminal line has a distinct “W” and anterior to same there are 
brown sagittate marks, which merge forming a subanal spot. Marginal area dark, fringes with pale intersections. 
Hindwings white with dainty discal lunule near the base and black marginal iunules and dark anal spot. -—- 
letheus. letheus Trti. (17 k) is probably only a nice chestnut-brown dark form of the above, at least I can find no other 
differences from the types kindly sent to me by the author. Berka (Cyrenaica), in November/December; Egypt, 
Cairo. 
lama. C. lama Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 132, pi. 32 d). The illustration w T as poor and a better one is given here (17 k). 
dubiosa. — dubiosa A. B.-H. has pale brown colouration of forewings that inclines to reddish, whilst lama is grey. Hind¬ 
wings darker than in lama, the $$ have still darker, more uniformly grey-brown hindwings with distinct median 
line. Yarkend (Mustag-ata). 
C. haasi Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 132). This should be removed from here, vide Supplementary Vol. 3, p. 136 
( Aporophyla). 
