454 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



p. 51, pi. iii., fig. 5 (1829); "Icones," p. 56, ? pi. liv., fig. 6(1834); Dup., 

 " Hist. Nat.," supp. ii., p. 62, pi. v., fig. 7 (1835) ; Evers., " Fauna Lep. 

 Volg.-Ural.," p. 96 (1844) ; H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii., p. 35 (1845) ; Assmn., 

 "Besch. Schmett. Schles.," ii., p. 9 (1845); Kayser, " Deutsch. Schmett.," 

 p. 168 (1852-9) ; Speyer, " Geog. Verb. Schmett.," i., p. 345 (1858) ; Hein., 

 " Schmett. Deutsch.," p. 161 (1859) ; Wallgrn., " Skand. Het.-Fjiir.," p. 97 (1863) ; 

 Nolck., " Lep. Fn. Estl.," i., p. 99 (1868) ; Stand., " Cat.," p. 46 (1871) ; Tugwell, 

 "Entom.," vi., p. 184; Lewis, Ibid., p. 238 (1872); Barr., " Ent. Mo. Mag.." 

 ix., p. Ill (1872) ; Knaggs, " Ent. Ann.," p. 40 (1873) ; Briggs, " Ent. Mo. Mag.," 

 x., p. 116 (1873) ; " Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond.." pp. xiv-xv (1875) ; Curo, "Bull. Soc. 

 Ent. Ital.," vii., p. 196 (1875) ; Sand, " Cat. Lep. Auv.," p. 22 (1879) ; Frey, " Lep. 

 der Schweiz." p. 67 (1880) ; Peyer., " Cat. Lep. Als.," p. 47 (1880) ; KiAy, " Eur. 

 Butts.." etc.. p. 90, pi. xxi.. fig. 9 (1880) ; Oberth.. " Lep. des Pyr.," p. 32 (1884) ; 

 Hofmn., "Die Gross-Schmett.," p. 34, in part (1887); "Die Raupen," etc.. p. 36 

 (1893); Gregs., " Young Nat.," viii., p. 229 (1887) ; Tugwell. Ibid., ix., pp. 53. 99. 

 131, 174 (1888); Briggs, Ibid., ix., pp. '82, 108, 153, 188 (1888); Auriv., " Nord. 

 Fjar.," p. 53 (1888); Keuter, " Macr.-Lep. Fin.," p. 20 (1893); Barr., "Lep. 

 Brit. Isl.," ii., p. 24, pi. lix., figs. 1 a-c (1894); Meyr., "Handbook," etc., p. 448 

 (1895) ; Tutt," Brit. Moths," p. 355 (1896) ; Reutti,"Lep. Bad.," 2nd Ed., p. 44 (1898). 

 necMeliloti, Hb., "Eur. Schmett.," fig. 58 (71805); nee Wood, "Index Entom.," 

 p. 11 (1839). Lonicerae var., Esp., " Die Schmett.," ii., pt. 1, p. 195, pi. xxv., fig. 

 3 (1781). Loti, 7 Schiff. and Denis, " Sys. Verz.," p. 45 (Cat. name) teste 

 Ochsenheimer (1776); Hb.,"Eur. Schmett.," ii., fig. 82 (1803), corrected to riciae, 

 Ibid., text, p. 89 (71805). Buylossi, Dup., " Lep. France," supp. ii., p. 138(1835). 

 Ytenensis, Briggs, " Young Nat.," ix., p. 82 (1888). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. S. riciae. Griinlichtschwarz ; die Vorder- 

 fliigel mit fiinf rofchen Flecken ; die Hinterfliigel roth, schwarz 

 gesiiurut. Nigrovirescens ; alis anticis maculis rubris quinque ; 

 posticis rubris, nigromarginatis. Um die Halfte kleiner als die 

 vorige Art [A. jilipendulae (including A. lonicerae)'] [Schrank, 7''<'.W//'.s 

 Neues Mag., ii., p. 208 (1785)] . [In bringing forward viciae, Schrank, 

 as the correct name for this species, modern authors have un- 

 doubtedly been guided by the fact that it was recognised by all their 

 early predecessors Borkhausen, Hiibner, Illiger, Ochsenheimer, 

 Boisduval, etc., as applying to the same species that Esper described 

 under the name melilotki. In those days, however, the law of priority 

 had no existence, and each author chose any he pleased of existent 

 names, or, as in the case of Retzius, named the species anew. "\Yo 

 have followed Kirby, largely, however, on the evidence of Illiger, who 

 says in his edition of the Vienna Catalogue [Sys. Verz., pp. 36-37 

 (1801)] : " Schrank's description of viciae (made from the insect in 

 the Vienna collection) is very incomplete. As a supplement to this 

 diagnosis the species may be further described as half the size of 

 lonicerae, similar in markings and colour, but the ground colour of 

 the fore-wings not so distinctly steel-blue, and the red less bright, 

 more carmine ; the wings not so pointed, the apex more bluntly 

 rounded, two basal spots similar, but the central pair notably different, 

 3 being round in lonicerae, and divided from 4 by a nervure, whilst 

 3 forms a long oval or thick comma in viciae (the rounded part point- 

 ing to apex), and separated more widely from 4 ; spot 5 has a different 

 direction, lying obliquely to 4 and nearer apex. The antennae in viciae 

 are blunter," etc.] 



IMAGO. Anterior wings 22-32 mm., dull greenish in colour, thinly 

 scaled, five small reddish or carmine spots. Posterior wings red, 

 dark marginal border very narrow. [One of the best detailed descrip- 

 tions made from continental examples of our British species is that by 

 Boisduval, Hon. des Zyy., pp. 51-52.] 



