398 CHA1\LA.ESPHECIA. By M. Bartel. 



icteropiis. Ch. icteropus Zell. (50 i). ^ considerably slenderer than in doryliformis, on the forewing with black 



median spot which does not bear a small red spot distally or is at most dusted with some ochreous scales. 

 Hind margin orange-yellow, outer area reddish brown; the longitudinal patch and the outer vitreous patch 

 narrower. Anteruia uniformly blue-black above, whitish outwardly. Palpi yellow, the two first segments bear- 

 ing black hair on the outer side. Shoulder-spot of the patagia very small. Abdomen deep black, with the hind 

 margins of segments 2, 4 and 7 whitish, and transverse belts on these segments as well as on 5 yellow, the 

 belt of 4 being the broadest. Anal tuft similar to that of doryliformis. Anterior coxa black, margined with 

 yellow on the outer side; tibiae and tarsi yellow, those of the mid and hind legs with an obsolescent blackish 

 ring at the base and apex. Breast with a small yellow side-spot beneath the wing-bases. The $ is very 

 different, as is the case in euglossaeformis ; it is darker brown than the latter and also differs in the base and 

 costal margin of the fore\ving being bright vermilion, the antenna entii'ely dark, the vertex ochreous, the 

 brown and narrower belts of the black-blue abdomen, the anal tuft beneath entirely dark, the femora black- 

 blue, the tibiae bright orange-yellow and at the apex spotted with black, tarsi dark, underside of abdomen 

 unicolor. black-blue. Only from Sicily in June. The $-ab. unicolor Rngusa has a dark abdomen without light- 

 coloured belts, but, as Zeiler has already mentioned, 2 or even 3 abdominal belts may be present. — The 

 larva lives in the roots of Rumex, particularly in R. lunaria. 



euglossae- Ch. euglossaeformis Luc. (51 1). Mostly smaller, and the (J slenderer, than in doryliformis, the $ darker, 



/ormis. Median band of the forewing vriih a vermilion spot on outside, its proximal edge also vermilU on ; the costal 

 margin black-brown. Longitudinal patch of $ just vestigial, wedge-spot shorter; outer vitreous patch narrower 

 than in doryliformis, especially much narrowed in the $, the first spot as well as the last one sometimes absent. 

 Base of hindwing yellow in (J, red in $, the fringes of the abdominal margin of the liindwing likewise yellow in 

 (J and reddish in $. In the $ the palpi and the inner margins of the patagia orange; shoulder-spot of the 

 patagia absent in $, distinct in cJ, yellow. Antenna of ^ blue-black, outwardly yellowish, with a yellowish 

 spot above before the tip. Palpi yellow, first and second segment with black hair on outside. Vertex and frons 

 mixed with yellow hair; laind edge of head and the broad inner margins of patagia also yellow. Abdomen blue- 

 black, with a more or less distinct row of golden yellow dorsal spots, ^ with the hind edges of segments 2, 

 4 and 7 above yellow and further down white; on the sides of the last 4 segments small yellowish spots which 

 extend somewhat on to the underside. Anal brush similar to that of doryliformis, a tliin median mark in the 

 centre on upper side reddish yellow. In the $ the abdomen blue-black, with yellowish and whitish belts on 

 segments 2, 4 and 6, and yellow spot on the side of 5, similarly as in (J, the anal tuft vermiHon above, 

 and sometimes may laterally striped with red on the underside. Legs in <J almost entirely yellow; the mid 

 and hind tibiae \\ath bushy hair and at the base a blackish ring. In the $ the legs black-blue, the anterior 

 coxa margined with orange on the outer side, the fore femur yellow inside, and the mid and hind tibiae with 

 conspicuous vermilion hair; tarsi blackish. ■ — Algeria, in May and June; in Oran already the end of March. 



ceriae- Ch. ceriaefomiis Luc. (50k). Only the $ is before me; it differs from euglossaeformis in that the 



formis. body and all the appendages are uniformly black blue, only a few hairs at the tip of the patagia, the centre of 

 the anal tuft above, and the mid and hind tibiae, with the exception of a basal and apical ring, vermilion; 

 no coloured spot on breast. The base of the forewing, its hind margin as far as the median band and a spot 

 in the outer part of this band vermilion. Discocellular spot and base of the hindwing black, likewise the fringes 

 of the liind margin. Underside of wings nearly as in euglossaeformis Luc. — ■ A ^ which may belong here is 

 similar to euglossaeformis Luc, but like the $ h3,s no yellow lateral spot on the breast, and the vertex and hind 

 margin of the head are slightly yellowish. The yellow colouring at the inner margins of the patagia, in the 

 anal brush (in the centre, at the sides, beneath prodominant) and at the inside of the mid and liind tibiae is 

 light yellow. The femora dark, the tibiae with blackish basal spot, the mid tibia also bearing a distinct apical 

 spot. The tarsi blackish. Antenna of (^ with a white spot before the apex, outwardly dirty white. — Algeria 

 (Alger, Lambessa, Biskra), May-June. 



miniani- Ch. mlnianiformis Frr. (recte miniacea) (511). Most easily distinguished from chrysidifortnis by the 



formis. median spot of the forewing being narrowly edged with vermilion proximally and distally. The brown-black 

 colouring of the outer area of the forewing proximally shading into vermilion. Base of liindwing not black, 

 but yellow in (J and orange in $. Palpi yellow in (J, with black hair on outside, in ? entirely orange. Pa- 

 tagia with pale inner border and yellow shoulder-spot. Abdominal segments 2, 4, 6 and in tS also 7 Avith 

 wiiitish or yellowish posterior edges. Anal tuft of ^J above entirely black or with a tliin red median streak, not 

 red at the sides ; in $ above in the centre with 2 narrower red stripes. Tibiae vermiUon, the mid and hind tibiae 

 distally spotted or striped with black-blue, the tarsi of the $ with dark scaling. The outer vitreous patch is 

 sometimes entirely absent, being filled up b}' red scaling. Balkan Peninsula, Southern Dalmatia, Asia Minor, 

 Taurus, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, and Northern Persia (Astrabad), May to July; at Smyrna already observed 

 pepsiformis. the middle of April. — The smaller ab. pepsiformis Led. is paler, the red colouring pale, yellowish, reduced. 

 destiluta. From East Rumeha, Turkey and Bithynia. The ab. destituta Stgr. (50 i), from the Taurus, has hardly any 

 vermilion scaling on the forewing, the distal marginal area being entirely dark and the middle of the anal 

 brush yellowish; the yellow colouring how'ever reduced. Only 2 ^^. 



