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In 1802 Schrank ( Fauna Boica, iip. 49) added another synonym, 
derasata, which is not quoted in Staudinger; Zeller (Verb. zool.-bot. 
Ver. Wien, xviii., p. 590) refers this name of Schrank’s to minorata, 
which must be a lapsus calami, as it is an excellent description of 
blandiata ; if it really belonged to minorata it would have precedence 
over it by 26 years. More recently, synonyms of this by no means 
variable species ( blandiata ) have multiplied, Eversmann naming it 
albidata; Zetterstedt, dilacerata ; Stephens and Wood, * trigonata [trigo- 
nata, Haw., p. 838, one only, Westerham, was probably —bicolorata, 
Hfn.] *; and Boisduval, jucundaria. I suppose the fact that the first two 
figures (Hiibner, fig. 258, and Pup., pi. 189, fig. 5) are very unsatis¬ 
factory, is largely responsible for this. Hiibner’s figure would have 
been passable but for an absurd bright orange blotch filling the space 
from the basal patch to the median band, which gives quite a deceptive 
appearance. Duponchel’s is very bad, rather minorata- like, with a 
rather wide central area; I would not like to say certainly that it even 
represents this species, with which Duponchel probably had no 
intimate acquaintance, as he only records a single specimen from the 
neighbourhood of Paris. Albidata, Ev. (Bull. Mosc., 1842, p. 557, 
pi. vi., fig. 10) was fairly normal, rather well banded. Zetterstedt's 
dilacerata (Ins. Lapp., p. 967) was described as “ white with three 
blackish spots,” and was probably the form with the inner-marginal 
half of the central fascia weak; its union with blandiata was made by 
Staudinger, 1861 (Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxii., p. 399), from a specimen sent 
him by Boheman. Trigonata, Wood (Ind. Ent., fig. 699), is less 
excusable, as our English authors had certainly recognised blandiata, 
and Wood had figured it fairly well at fig. 697, the great similarity 
between the tw 7 o figures makes it rather discreditable that the specific 
identity was not recognised; fig. 697 ( blandiata) shows the central 
band widening and becoming paler after the costal patch, fig. 699 
(trigonata) is the better figure, and shows the costal blotch rather 
more triangular. Lastly, jucundaria, Bdv. (Gen. et. Ind. Meth., p. 271), 
was admitted to be “ Statura blandiariae et forsan tantum varietas 
alpina,” and probably its author only knew blandiata from Hiibner’s 
and Duponchel’s figures, as he gives no localities; at any rate, the 
description and the type-specimen fix its identity, disproving Guenee’s 
suggestion (Ur et Plial., ii., p. 295) that it is = minorata. The true 
identification was first suggested by De la Harpe in 1853 (Faune 
Suisse, iv., p. 115 ; see also Supp., ii., p. 13). 
Like nearly all Larentiids, the present species varies somewhat in 
the breadth of its central area, and there is also some variation in the 
strength of the expression of the dark band therein ; but the only 
indications of local races, or of important aberrations, so far as I 
know, are (1) the Hebrides form, which seems usually - according to 
Barrett (Lep. Brit., viii., p. 241) and the sole example at the British 
Museum - to have the central fascia dark and complete, and may 
perhaps be worth naming; and (2) an aberration with thread-like 
central fascia, figured by Herrich-Schaeffer (fig. 291)—ab. coarctata, 
mihi, n. ab. 
* Frey (Lep. Schweiz., p. 230) erroneously suggests that Urinaria, Lah. (Supp., 
ii., p. 14, pi. i., fig. 3), is a further synonym (or, rather, aberration), ignoring the 
pectinated antennas; I believe Staudinger (Cat., Ed. 3, p. 297) is right in making 
it an extreme aberration (more so than ab. confixaria, H.-S.) of spadicearia, Schiff. 
