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black. Hinclwing with the base, borders and veins red. Fringes of both wings smoke-grej'. Antenna longer 



and thinner ($) than in tabaniformis, yellow-red, with black scaling before the apex. Head and vertex oehreous, 



collar, patagia and nie.sothorax orange, but the tip of the patagia and the metathorax blue-black. Segments 



4, 5 and 6 of the blue-black abdomen entirely yellow on upperside, beneath only the liind margins yellow. Anal 



tuft black, yellow above in the centre and at the sides. Legs black, with broad yellow rings, fore coxa oehreous. 



C'yprus and Amasia, probably widely distributed in Asia Minor, but rare. Varies very much in the extent of 



the vermilion colour on the wings and body. The following forms have received names: In v. subfervida Stgr. subfervida. 



the abdomen is entirely black beneath, but bears above 4 — 6 yellow belts as in the name-typical form. From the 



Eastern Taurus and Mesopotamia. — • transcaucaslca Stgr. has the abdominal segment 2 only yellow above in transcau- 



the posterior half, while segment 4 is entirely yellow on both sides. Moreover, the costal margin of the forewing casica. 



and the distal margins of both wings black, this colour altogether more extended at the veins and on the 



patagia. From Southern Transcaucasia (Kasikoparan). — In the form pontica Stgr., from Amasia, the fourth ponlica. 



abdominal segment is almost entirely yellow above and bears only a yellow hind margin beneath, the rest 



of the abdomen beiiig black. Anal brush extended yellow in the centre. ■ — ■ Only $$ have hitherto been found 



of all tiiese forms. Time of appearance: end of May — ■ middle of July. 



D. splendida Stgr. Forewing deep red, with the narrow outer margin and distal portion of costal mar- splendida. 

 gin black; veins suffused with black distally. Hindwing with red veins, and red spot on the cross-vein. Antenna 

 of (J slightly serrate, glossy blue-black like the rest of the (3*-body. In the $ the head, thorax and anteiina more 

 or less suffused with red, the antenna rarely almost entirely black in the $. Palpi black in the $, often mixed 

 with yellow. Abdomen glossy ^black-blue as in <J, likewise the legs. Tarsi now and again with yellowish rings. 

 — Eastern Taurus (Hadjin). 



D. stiziformis H.-Schdff. (52 a). Forewing blue-black, with a small red spot near the base on the pa- stiziformis. 

 tagia; the inner portion of the liind margin and a rather large spot beyond the centre on the cross- vein red. 

 Hindwing hyaUne, with narrow black margin. Body blue-black ; anal tuft only yellow in $ at the tip on the sides. 

 The abdominal .segments 4, 5, 6 and in o also 7 yellow above. Legs black. Only from Amasia (middle of 

 June), the Taurus Mts., Mesopotamia and Northern Persia, very rare. — melasoma Stgr. is a form with the mdasoma. 

 hindwing almost entii-ely darkened with black atoms, and the abdomen uniformly black. Transcaucasia and 

 Northern Persia. — The o.of the first-described form most probably has the hindwing always darkened, in 

 which case the only distinction of melasoma would be the uniformly black abdomen ; but perhaps the difference 

 between tnelasomn and stiziformis is only sexual. 



8. Genus: diamae^^pliecia Spul. (1910). 



Differs from Syninthedon according to Spuler in that the veins 10 and 11 of the fore\ving converge 

 towards the margin, usually being conincident in the last third; vein 1 is a chitinous vein in the basal area 

 and for the rest a mere fold in the wing-membrane. On the hyaline liindwing the inner branch of the submedian 

 vanishes suddenly a short distance from its origin; veins 3 and 4 on a short stalk. The proboscis strongly 

 developed in the species examined. The vitreous patches are only absent in exceptional instances, the longitu- 

 dinal patch never reaches quite to the discal spot and is sometimes completely obsolete, especially in the $$, 

 in wliich also the wedge-spot is sometimes very short. — The larvae hve in the roots (more rarely the stalks) 

 of herbage, particularly Euphorbiaceae and Rumex. Unfortunately the life-history of many species is still 

 entirely unknown, and it is therefore not yet possible to arrange the heterogeneous contents of the genus in 

 natural groups and subgroups. — Type: empiformis Esp. 



Ch. doryliformis 0. (51 k, 1). The hind margin of the head, inner edges of the patagia, and the mid and doryli- 

 hind tibiae and tarsi yellow in (J, red in $. Anal tuft of ? predominantly red, that of (J yellow in the centre forrrns. 

 and at the sides. Antennae onlj^ more or less extended black at the base and before the apex, otherwise brownish 

 in $, with white spot in centre in c?- Patagia with wliite shoulder-spot near the base of the forewing. Tliis 

 wing with the hind margin'and transverse band black-brown ; the latter dusted with red scales. In $ the forewing 

 more rounded, the outer vitreous patch somewhat narrower, and composed of 5 spots as in cJ. Median spot 

 of forewing beneath orange distally, red in ?. Underside of abdomen dusted with yellow in ($, with red in $. 

 Breast with a light lateral spot near the wing-bases. In Andalusia, Granada, Portugal, Algeria and Morocco. 

 — The smaller form teriolensis Stgr., of which a single (J has been found at Bozen the end of June, has the teriolensis. 

 hind margin of the forewing brownish and the black median band provided on the outer side with a small 

 orange spot, which is smaller than and not so bright red as in euglossaeformis. Veins yellow in the brown outer 

 area. Antenna black, slightly suffused wdth yellow outwardly. Otherwise similar to euglossaeformis, only 

 the hind tibia not so densely hairy. — The larva lives in the roots of Sorrel (Rumex). Moths from May to July, 

 locally common; they fly frequently about the foot-plant, at whose seeds rest the much rarer $$, but they also 

 fly about the flowers of thistles. 



