392 DIPSOSPHECIA. By M. Bartel. 



dinal vitreovis mark not reacliing to the cross-vein, still shorter in $. Outer vitreous patch consisting ot 4 spots. 

 Hindwing transparent, the cross-vein scaled black anteriorly, the veins black with the exception of 5 and 1 b, 

 which are more or less scaled yellow. Fringes black, but whitish at inner margin of hindwing. On the under- 

 side the borders are yellow with the exception of the portion above the median spot of the forewing, and dusted 

 with black in $. Frons yellow. Antennae in J black, in 9 orange excepting the last two-fifths. Hind margin of 

 head yellow. Collar black; thorax also black, with yellow posterior border; margins of patagia yellow for their 

 whole length in ^, particularly anteriorly in $. Abdomen above with broad j-^ellow belts on segments 2, 4, 6 

 and 7, with narrower ones on 3 and 5; in $ with broad belts on 2, 4 and 6, and yellow transverse spots on 3 

 and 5. On the ventral side segments 2 and 3 have feebly yellow edges in ^, and are quite black in $, while the 

 other segments bear broad yellow belts excepting the first. Anal brush yellow in (^, above black at the sides; 

 in $ above yellow with the exception of the base, the side-tufts and under surface black, the latter sometimes 

 with some yellow hairs at the apex. Fore tibia yellow dusted with black, fore tarsi yellow; mid and hind tibiae 

 yellow, with the base and ap3x black, tarsi yellow, not ringed. — • Apparently nearer to ichneumonifortnis, but 

 easily distinguished from it by the the median spot of the forewing being bordered with orange proximally and 

 by the arrangement of the yellow abdominal belts. Larva in the roots of Astragalus raonspessulanus; moth 

 in July. Southern France (Bonde, dept. Vancluse) and neighbourhood of Barcelona (Montserrat). 



hhneumoni- D. ichneumonlfomiis F. (= vespiformis Esp., systrophaeformis Hbn., ophioniformis Hbn., statuiformis 



formis. p^.j.^ f^-i £j rpj^g jj^y^^ widely distributed species of the group. All the segments of the black abdomen with 

 the exception of the first with a yellow belt, the belts on 4 and 6 being broadest. Outer vitreous patch of fore- 

 wing larger in ^ than in $, consisting of 3—5 partitions. Longitudinal Avindow always present, shorter in $ 

 than in J*, almost reaching to the median band in 3*. This band brown, distally orange. Hind margin orange. 

 Antennae in ^ distally suffused with j-ellowish brown, in $ entirely yellowish brown. Differs from iiroceriformis 

 in the vitreous longitudinal patch of the forewing being present in 9 and much longer than in uroceriformis 

 in (J, in the antennae being distally suffused with yellow in ^J and entirely yellowish brown in $ (the 9-antenna 

 of uroceriformis only bears a white spot before the apex), in the more robast build of the body and the differ- 

 ent markings of the abdomen. Distributed throughout Europe with the exception of the Polar countries, occur- 

 ing also in Mauretania, Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Kasan, Uralsk, Western and Central Siberia 

 to the Altai. SrAUDixGER described a 9-form with black abdomen from North-Western Asia Elinor (Brussa): 

 lugubrii. ab. — 9 lugulr'S- — ^illustris ^e&e/ is very bright-coloured, especially in the 9, and mostly larger, and occurs in 

 illustris. M33opotamia and Konia; the antenna of the 9 is very vivid ochreous, and the abdomen bears belts of the same 

 width on all the segments excepting the first. — ^The larva is bone-colour, thinly hairy, with black-marked head; 

 length 20 mm. It hibernates only once, is usually full-fed the end of May and lives in the roots of Papilio- 

 naceae, e. g. Ononis spinosa, AnthylHs vulneraria, Dorycnium, Lathj'rus pratensis, Lotus. Centaurea, Medicago, 

 Hippoerepis, Mehlotus, but not in Genista tinctoria. Makes a kind of hose close along the main root and pro- 

 vides it with a lid, pupation taking place in this hose. The moths emerge from May until August. 



romanovi. D. romanovi Bartel. Expanse 27 mm ( j'). Differs from ichneumoniformis in the basal half of the costal 



margin of the forewing being orange, the hind margin entirely orange, the median band uniformly orange and 

 in the absence of scaling in the cells of the outer area, the outer vitreous patch extending to the distal margin. 

 Moreover, the hindwing has hardly a trace of a dark border. Head entirely yellow; the antenna yellow with 

 black apex. Abdomen blue-black, with segments 1 and 3 entirely dark and 4 entirely yellow, the other segments 

 bearing much broader yellow hind edges than in ichneumoniformis. Anal tuft yellow. — Only 1 o known; from 

 Southern Transcaucasia (Kasikoparan, June). 



megillae- D. megiliaeformis Hbn. (51 f). Distinguished from ichnem)W7iiformis, apart from the outlines of body 



ormis. g^j^j.^ wings, by the absence of yellow belts above on abdominal segments 3 and 5, b}^ the uniformly blue-black 

 upperside of the antennae of ^ and 9, the very small oi'ange spot in the outer portion of the median band of 

 the forewing and the different anal tuft. This brush is yellow above in the centre in o, black laterally and 

 at the base, with 2 broad orange-red longitudinal stripes; black in 9j slightly mixed with orange in the cen- 

 tre, with a thin orange-yellow lateral stripe beneath. On the ventral side of the abdomen only the belt of seg- 

 ment 4 is distinctly continuous, wliile none of the others are very distinctly united. Palpi in o J'ellow, with 

 long erect black hair on the outside of segments 1 and 2, in 9 orange-yellow with lighter yellow sides. — The 

 (J is very rare (only 1 ^ bred among 30—40 99). Li Saxony, Bavaria, at Wiesbaden, in Eastern Switzerland, 

 Moravia, Lower Austria, Hungary, Southern France, Greece, Eastern-Central and South-Eastern Russia and 

 the adjacent districts of Western Asia, Altai district and in the provinces of Jenisseisk and Irkutsk, from the 

 end of June until the end of August. The larva lives exclusively in the roots of Genista tinctoria in sunny stations. 

 it constructs as a continuation of the cocoon a rather long hose, much longer than in iclmeiimoniformis, in which 

 species it is not often present. 



lomttiae- D. lomatiaeformis Led. Larger than ichneumoniformis, of almost the same facies. Particularly 



jortms. 



