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LEPISTA; GNOPHRIA; PHRYGANOPSIS; COSCINIA. By Dr. M. Dragdt. 
S. szetschwana Braes, very like tricolor Wkr. (Vol. 10, p. 181. pi. 16 d) but not only the apex of hind- 
wings, but the entire margin is widely black; only the scapulae but not the collar are yellow; otherwise the 
wings are golden yellow, forewings with large coppery red marginal spot that is edged with black. Szechuan. 
Genus: Geplsta Wllgm. 
L. arabica Rebel. This species that actually does not belong to palaearctic territory, occurring at Ras Partak 
(on the southern coast of Arabia) has erroneously been illustrated on pi. 6 a. 
30. Genus: Gnophria Steph. 
canescens. 
parva . 
G. rubricollis L. (Vol. 2, p. 70, pi. 13 e). - canescens Strd. ( = ab. 1 Hmps.) has pale grey hindwings. 
Locality is not stated. parva Schaw. is a very small high altitude form from Sellajoch having wing expanse 
of only 23 mm, not varying otherwise. 
30a. Genus: Phryganopsis Fldr. 
An african Genus that is dealt with in Vol. 14, p. 86. it differs materially from Lithosia by the abs¬ 
ence of the proboscis. The only palaearctic species has been dealt with in the place just cited. 
Ph. unipuncta Hmps. (Vol. 14, p. 86, pi. Ilf) is again illustrated here (6a). Head and thorax are 
brownish ochre, front und first pair of hindlegs brown-black, abdomen yellow white. Fore wings ochre-yellow 
with brownish dusting, with small round black cell end spot. Hindwings yellow-white. Algeria (Hammam 
es Salahin). 
4. Sub-family Micrarctiinae. 
bipunctata 
32. Genus: Coscinia Hbn. 
o P- 72, pi. 13 f). V arnecke has taken the trouble to classify the forms of this 
are adopting his classification. He separates: 1, paler forms: pallida Btlr 
( = xanthoptera Oberth., bipunctata auct„ nec Stgr.) (Vol. 2, p. 72, pi. 13 f) with yellow and yellowish white fore¬ 
wings, the dark streaks on forewings completely extinct, only 1 or 2 dots at close of cell retained; hindwings 
somewhat less blackened than in normal specimens. - laetifica St dr. are $ specimens also of yellowish white 
colour m which also the dots at end of cell are absent. Hindwings are ochre-yellow with faintly indicated central 
streak and marginal band. — 2, adumbrated forms: — intermedia 8pul. (Vol. 2, pi. 13 f [not'“b”]) with darker 
hindwings, specimens forming a transition to melanoptera. — melanoptera Brahm (Vol. 2, pi. 13 f) (6 b) has 
completely black hindwings. — nigrociliata Schaw. are melanoptera in which the otherwise yellow fringes are 
also black. — funerea Warn. (= funerea auct. nec Ev.) are the rare completely black specimens in which the 
abdomen however retains the yellow ringlets. nigra Spul. (= aterrima Gaede) are similar black specimens 
but with completely black abdomen without yellow ringlets; described from the neighbourhood of Berlin. 
- 3, compound forms: pfeifferi Stdr. has quite white forewings without streak markings and without cell 
end spots with approximately normal hindwings, which may, however, be slightly adumbrated. Only found 
among specimens from the Karst. — commerelli Stdr. is marked similar to the former or laetifica on forewings 
having, however, completely black hindwings; a very striking form from Istria. — albida Schulze has the entire 
yellow colouration of wings and body on upper and undersides replaced by white with normally retained streak 
markings. Established from specimens from Spreewald, but probably occurring occasionally everywhere. — 
incompleta Oberth. closely resembles the preceding pallida form but forewings are quite white, whilst pallida 
inclines slightly to yellowish on fore wings. — extrema Bocci described from Piedmont exceeds pfeifferi, fore¬ 
wings the same but hindwings with only a very small pale cell spot. 
C. bipunctata Stgr. ( Vol. 2, p. 72) is according to Warnecke certainly a genuine species and not merely 
a form of striata that occurs also in the Amur territory, being of regular size with typical striata markings, 
forewings somewhat paler yellow, hindwings more heavily black. According to Staudinger’s original diagnosis 
bipunctata was decidedly smaller than striata (wing expanse: 29—35 mm), ground colour paler, generally yellow- 
white. at all events the basal area of forewings was paler; 2 large well separated black spots at end of cell 
one above the other, occasionally united forming a lunule; the black streaks are partially somewhat obscured, 
generally only in disc, at their extremities they appear as separate black striations, in front of which there 
11 e the black outer marginal streaks as separated extensions. Hindwings with very wide black costal area, 
filling oiit the entire cell, beyond same a yellov r patch, which at lower edge is separated from the remaining 
yellow ground colour by a black streak; also the submedian nervure is streaked with black in the basal area! 
C. striata L. (Vol. : 
pallida, species systematically; we 
laetifica 
nigro¬ 
ciliata. 
funerea. 
nigra. 
pfeifferi. 
comme¬ 
relli. 
albida. 
incompleta. 
extrema. 
