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for mis F., t'orewing golden yellow instead of red, wedge-spot divided by a dark vein, longitudinal area entirely 

 filled up with yellow, outer patch smaller, hindwing with the basal area and hind margin dusted with golden 

 yellow. Body greenish blaok, antenna dark, frons wlutish yellow, palpi, vertex and hind tibia golden yellow, 

 abdomen with paler yellow belts on segments 2, 4 and 6, on underside with the hind edges of segments 4 — 6 

 yellow, anal brush dark, beneath golden yellow at the sides. Proboscis atrophied. The ^ which doubtless be- 

 longs here has the forewing much less yellow, with the longitudinal patch only partly scaled, the frons wliitish, 

 the head otherwise black, palpi very strongly hairy, antenna distinctly notched and ciliate, abdomen with al- 

 most white median belt, there being also traces of the other two belts in one of the (^^. Anal brush laterally 

 orange. — ■ East Turkestan, Aksu (capital of the ancient empire of the Uigures), 2 $$, 2 (J(J (Ruckbeil)". 

 Type in coll. Pungeler. 



D. sareptana spec. nov. (50 i). Expanse 27.5 mm (1 $). Related to wagneri, but the margins and base sareptana. 

 of the forewing greenish black, the hind margin and distal area orange, the median spot black with broad orange 

 outer border. The longitudinal patch shorter, the outer vitreous patch 5-partite, the first spot being very 

 short. Base of hindwing orange, likewise the veins in the proximal area; cross-vein less incrassate anteriorly 

 and orange posteriorly. Head and thorax greenish black. Palpi orange, black on outside, antenna entirely 

 black. Abdomen black, with a brown tone; on segments 2, 4 and 6 yellow belts, of which the middle one is 

 the broadest and ventrally continuous. Anal brush dark. Legs black-blue, the hind tibia entirely orange, the 

 fore and mid tibiae orange with black basal and apical rings. Proboscis atrophied. — From Sarepta (July). 

 Type in coll. Pungblek. 



D. wagneri Piing. (50 h, i). Also in this case Herr R. Pijngeler kindly lent the type and provided us wagneri. 

 with the following diagnosis : "Expanse 26 mm. $: Forewing with 3 well-developed vitreous patches, blackish, 

 the median spot with a very thin golden red outer border, longitudinal patch partly scaled golden red, 

 outer patch 5-partite, golden red distally, bases of both wings golden red. Body stout, greenish black, mthout 

 markings, abdomen above brownish, without belts, antenna brownish in the lower portion, hind tibia golden 

 red, proboscis atrophied. Central Asia, Hi district, 2 $$ (Rtjckbeil); a tliird has black hind tibia and the red 

 at the bases of the wings vestigial. A ^ caught at the same time probably belongs here; it has the bases of the 

 wings not red, the longitudinal patch golden red, the outer patch 3-partite, broadly bordered with golden 

 yellow, the abdomen with a sharply marked continuous yellowish white belt on segment 4 and a slight, open, 

 wliitish belt on segments 2 and 6, hind tibia and the tarsi red, palpi reddish, with black hair, antenna distinctly 

 ciliate". Type in coll. Ptjngeler. 



D. alaica Pilng. (50 h). Like the preceding sent by Herr Pungeler with the following description: alaica. 

 "Expanse 24 mm. ?: Forewing completely scaled, red-lead colour, distal and costal margins and a long 

 triangle contiguous with the median spot black. Hindwing with the basal area strongly dusted with red and the 

 median spot covered with red scaling. Body not so stout as in wagneri and bohatschi, colouring as in the latter, 

 abdomen on segment 2 with a weak belt open beneath and on 4 a sharply marked closed belt, anal brush red 

 on the sides, mid and hind tibiae red, proboscis atrophied. (J: very similar to bohatschi- (^ , wedge-spot longer, 

 divided by a black vein, outer patch 3-partite, abdomen as in $ with 2 whitish belts, differs from tvagneri-^ 

 on the narrower distal marginal border, the absence of a terminal belt, the belt of segment 4 not being 

 continuous beneath, and in the tarsi and palpi black. — • Central Asia, Alai Mts., 2 (J$, 1905 (M. Korb)". Type 



in coll. PiJNGELER. 



D. bohatschi Pilng. (50 i). Slenderer and more elongate than chrysidiformis, with similar, anteriorly bohatschi. 

 somewhat incrassate antennae, the palpi black, with the end-segment considerably longer and the hair rougher 

 and longer, the frons only in $ slightly pale between the antennae, and the thorax uniformly black-blue. 

 Proboscis atrophied. Abdomen blue-black, in ^J slenderer and longer than in chrysidiformis, on segment 4 with 

 a sharply marked yellowish wliite belt which is very narrow beneath in (^ ; in $ the belt not continuous beneath. 

 Anal tuft black, red-yellow at the sides, in (J also red-yellow beneath in the centre. Legs not so strongly hairy 

 as in chrysidiformis, entirely black in $, only bearing indistinct red belts on the hind tibia, in (J mid and hind 

 tibiae extended yellowish red; base and costal margin of forewing blue-black, the costal border broader than in 

 chrysidiformis, likewise the median band, which bears a small red-yellow spot on outside. Hind margin red- 

 yellow, longitudinal patch absent, wedge-spot very short, almost absent in $. Outer vitreous patch higher 

 than broad, 4-partite in c?, 3-partite in $, distally merging into the yellow-red colouring of the outer area, 

 upon wliich follows a bro^mi-black outer band. Veins of liindwing with reddish scaling at the base, median 

 area dark, shghtly pointed posteriorly. Marginal band brown-black, sharply defined. Fringes smoky brown. 

 The $ is clumsier, with the red colouring more reduced, a broad black hindmarginal area and entirely black 

 veins on the hindwing, the palpi less hairy and the abdomen stouter. Differs from wagneri-'^ in the darker 

 forewing, the almost obsolete vitreous spots, the black basi-abdominal margin of the hindwing, etc. The <? 

 is distinguished from wagneri-^, which is smaller, by the longer and thicker antemia, very short wedge-spot on 

 the forewing, narrower belt on segment 4, absence of light belts on segments 2 and 6, and by the entirety 

 black palpi and tarsi. — Sarafshan district (Sary-ob, July 6). 



D. vidua Stgr. Related to azonos Led. and like this entirely black. The outer vitreous patch of the fore- vidiui. 

 wing only indicated by the black scaling being thinner. Hindwing with the black outer border unusually 



