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but brown-black and inwardly not so sharply defined. Cross-vein of hindwing more thinly scaled, posteriorly 

 very fine. Palpi white, in $ the end-segment dark, and in (J the hair black on the outer surface. Vertex 

 with yellowish hair-crest. Patagia without light shoulder-spot. Thorax and abdomen black, with aeneous green 

 sheen, without pale belts. Anal tuft in (J red in centre, in $ red above and black beneath. Anterior coxa of 

 1^ blue-black, of $ glossy white; legs black, mid and hind tibiae with extended vermilion hair in the centre; 

 tarsi of J yellowish. The black median band very rarely entirely scaled red; in rare aberrations ths red 

 replaced by silvery white. Lower Austria, Hungary. Dalmatia, Piedmont, Sicily, Roumania, Balkan Pen- 

 insula, Crete, Southern Russia, Kasan, Volga-Ural district, Transcaucasia, Northern Asia Minor, Syria and Tau- 

 rus; from May until August. — In ab. expleta Stgr., from Crete, Macedonia, Brussa, Angora, Taurus, Meso- explela. 

 potamia and Syria, the outer vitreous patch of the forewing is entirely and densely covered with red scaling, 

 the brown-black distal margin broader, and the vertex without yellowish hair-crest. 



Ch. schmidtiiformis Frr. (recte schmidtii) (52 e). Always considerably larger than chalcidiformis, but schmidiii- 

 with the green-black costal margin much narrower and the distal marginal band brown-black, narrower, and /"'■"*'*• 

 sharply defined on both sides. Cross-vein of hmdwmg much more broadly scaled black. Vertex with light 

 yellow hair. Abdommal segment 4 above with a narrow white hind margin, which is sometimes absent. 

 Fore coxa entirely white in both sexes; tarsi aeneous. Palpi of ^ usually more white, black on outside. The 

 outer vitreous patch is frequently covered by dense vermilion scalmg ; it is very rare in this species that the ver- 

 milion colour is replaced by silvery white or pale yellow; there are 2 exceptionally pale yellow $9 in coll. 

 PUNGELER received from Konia together with normal ones. Croatia, South Hxnigary. Dalmatia, Sicily, Bulgaria, 

 East Roumelia, Turkey, Northern and Central Asia Mhior, Armenia. — In the paler ab. albotarsata Rebel, albotarsata. 

 from Sicily, Central Asia Minor (Konia) and Armenia, the dark costal border to the forewing has almost dis- 

 appeared, and the tarsi of all the legs are whitish yellow. — Rebel believes the food-plant to be Salvia ver- 

 ticillata. Moth in June. 



Ch. elampiformis H.-Schuff. (52 e). An exceedingly slender species, with the body entirely glossy green- elampi- 

 black, the costal margin of the forewLng of the same coloiu' and somewhat widened in the centre; median band /"">"«• 

 and hind margin of the forewing entirely red. Outer margin brown-grey, proximally red, not sharply defined. 

 Fringes brown-grey. Cross-vein of hindwing not strongly scaled and like the other veins thinly smoke-brown. 

 Palpi and ventral edge of head red ; vertex and hind margin of head yellow. Thorax with some red hair poste- 

 riorly at the sides. Anal tuft red with black sides. Lsgs aeneous, tarsi yellowish ; hind and mid tibiae extended 

 vermilion in the middle. Wedge-spot of forewing small ; outer vitreous patch not very promment, composed of 

 3 — 4 very small spots with whitish scaling. — Brussa, Amasia, Ordubat in Southern Transcaucasia, Shahrud 

 and Astrabad in Northern Persia, and Hadjin in Mesopotamia, in June on Rumex. 



Ch. masariformis 0. (51 g). Median spot of forewing not edged with orange on outside as m ichneumoni- masurifor- 

 formis and allies, at most with a very slight yellowish border. Antennae black, finely yellow outwardly '"^'• 

 before tlie apex, with very short cilia in (^. Palpi orange-yellow, on outside (in (J) and at the apex usually 

 blackish, at the base often whitish. Hind edge of head orange. Patagia with broad orange inner borders, thorax 

 without median stripe, on metathorax two orange tufts of hair; shoulder-.spot near base of forewmg orange. 

 Segments 2, 4, 6 and in tj also 7 of abdomen with broad deep orange belts which occupy almost the entire 

 segments. Segments 3 and 5 above usually with an obsolescent stripe in the centre. On the sides of the seg- 

 ments, with the exception of 1 and 3, there is an orange-yellow stripe. On the underside segment 2 entirely 

 whitish or orange-yellow, while segments 4 — 6 and in ^ also 7 have broad orange posterior margins. Anal 

 segment above at the base and in $ also beneath always black. Anal tuft of $ orange, black at the sides 

 and beneath, being frequently mixed with orange beneath in the centre; in ^ with 2 narrow orange-yellow 

 lateral tufts separated from one another, slightly mixed with blackish at the apex, beneath whitish in the centre. 

 Fore coxa of $ orange-yellow, of c? white or yellow with dark edge on inside. Tibiae and tarsi orange; the 

 former with very thick scaling, more or less black at the base, and with a sharply defined broad black-blue 

 subapical ring; tarsi with dark dusting on upperside. The vitreous spots of the forewing are more or less 

 dusted with yellow, especially in the 9; longitudinal patch of (^ distmctly reaching beyond middle, in 9 vesti- 

 gial ; outer hyaline patch broader in (J than m 9> composed of 3 — 5 spots, of which the first and last are usually 

 filled in with orange. The distal area, which varies much in extent, bears more or less distinct orange-yellow 

 streaks. Marginal band of hindwing narrow, brown; cross-vein pointed posteriorly, rather strongly scaled an- 

 teriorly. This pointed discocellular bar distinguishes the species easily from annellata and its forms, in which 

 the scaled discocellular bar of the hindwing is of even width ; moreover, in annellata the streaks in the outer 

 area of the forewmg are never so distinct and bright, the colourmg of the belts and tibiae is never deep 

 orange, and the antenna of the ^J is much more strongly notched and ciliated; thorrx of aw«e//«<rt with median 

 stripe, and the yellow belts on abdominal segments 2, 4 and 6 much narrower. — The form odynerifortnis odynerijor- 

 H.-Schdff., from Greece and Crete, differs in the more yellow colouring, tiie iiyalme spots of the forewing being ""*• 

 dusted with yellow, the frmges distally edged with yellow, and the abdomen bearuig on segment 5 a broad 

 additional yellow belt. — Ch. masariformis is distributed from South-Eastern Germany, Switzerland, the TjtoI, 

 Moravia, Lower Austria to Hungary, Dalmatia, Central and Southern Italy, East Roumelia, Turkey, Greece, 

 Southern and Eastern Russia, Asia Minor, l Syria, Central Asia (Kuldja). The larva lives m the roots of 



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