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also without darker edging. (4) An uniform orange-brown form, with no 

 markings clearly-defined except the white spot in both sexes ; from Zeller 

 coll. (5) An excellent pair from " Bremgarten, Frey coll," the J of a very 

 deep red form, with very pale outer line and a very intense white central 

 spot, oval basal mark, the hindwings rather duller red-brown, with trans- 

 verse line ; the $ equally red, transverse lines and median spot less 

 conspicuously marked, no shade on hindwings. (6) One 2 ,bred 15-8-80, 

 from the Zeller coll., has quite a deeper median band in spite of its being 

 fairly dark in colour, the rather paler outer and basal areas being separa- 

 ted from the more ruddy median band by paler ochreous transverse lines. 

 (7) From "Sarepta, Zeller coll.," there is also a very small smooth male, 

 with well marked outer transverse line and median spot, but no inner 

 line ; hindwings with a very faint transverse line. The basal mark 

 in some specimens suggests that of Lachneis lanestris in shape, in 

 others it forms quite a basal patch bounded by a distinct line. 



a. ab. (et. var.) medicaginis, Dr. F. J. A. D., i- Bork.'s Rhein. Ma<^.," i., pp. 363 

 — 4 (1793); Ochs., " Die Schmett.," iii- , p. 264 (1810) ; Germ., " Bomb. Spec," ii., p. 

 47 (1812) ; Hb., " Verz.," p. 186 (? 1822) ; Curt., " Brit. Ent.," expl.pl. 181 (1827) ; 

 " Guide," p. 142 (1829) ; Stphs., "111.," ii., p. 40 (1828) ; " Cat. Brit. Ins.," p. 46 

 (1829) ; Meig., "Eur. Schmett.," ii., p. 197 (1830) ; Wood, " Ind. Ent.," p. 21, fig. 

 42 (1839) ; Dup., " Cat.," p. 78 (1844) ; Evers., " Fauna Volg.-Ural.," p. 153 (1844) ; 

 Wllgra., "Skand. Het.,"ii., p. 65 (1869) ; "Horae Soc. Ent. Ross.," vii., p. 117(1870); 

 x i v -> P- 357 (1879) ; Staud., " Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 68 (1871) ; 3rd ed., p. 121 (1901) ; 

 Kirby, "Cat.," p. 828 (1892); Auriv., "Iris," vii., p. 151 (1894); Reutti, "Lep. 

 Bad.," 2nd ed., p. 57 (1898). Trifolii, Esp., "Eur. Schmett.," hi., pi. xv., fig. 2, 

 ? (1783); Panz., " Fn. Ins. Germ.," xix., pi. 23 (1794); God.. "Hist. Nat.," iv., 

 pi. ix., figs. 3 — 4 (1822). — Phalaena Bombyx medicaginis. Alis reversis luteo 

 cinereis, superioribus puncto albo, lineaque repanda albida. Esp., tab. xv., fig. 3, die 

 Raupe. Rarer than B. trifolii. g . Yellow-grey, brownish at base, the thorax 

 also yellow -brown ; the ? generally paler, often entirely dirty-yellow. The larva, 

 as also the cocoon and pupa, differs from that of the last species {trifolii) — Bork., 

 "Nat.," iii., pp. 89 — 90; Fuessly, " Neu. Mag.," iii., pt. 2, p. 151,110 80. The 

 insect is called Bombyx medicaginis because the larva is very fond of Medicago 

 falcata and Onobrychis (Dr. F. J. A. D.). Distribution :— Asia : Asia Minor, 

 Armenia, Tura (Staudinger), Smyrna (Speyer). Austko-Htngarv : Bukovina, 

 rarer than type (Hormuzaki), Taufers and Innsbruck, the prevalent form 

 (Weiler), Epiries, rare (Husz), Upper Carinthia, Salzburg (Nickerl), Buda. rare 

 (Speyer). BULGARIA: Varna, with type (Lederer). FRANCE: Commoner round 

 Paris than the type (Berce), Haute-Garonne, rarer than type (Caradja), Loire-Inlcr- 

 ieure, with the type (Bonjour), Auvergne (Sand), Puy-de-D6me (Guillemot), Aix-les- 

 Bains, very common (Agassiz), Gironde, rare (Trimoulet), Alpes-Maiitimes, replaces 

 type (Milliere). GERMANY: North-west Germany — Hanau, Giessen, Trier, Elberfeld, 

 &C. (Jordan) ; Wurtemburg — Stuttgard, rare, Tubingen and Reutlingen, common 

 (Seyffler), Lower Elbe (Zimmermann), Erfurt, the var. only (Keferstein), Zeitz- 

 011 - the - Elster (Wilde), Rudolstadt, rarely with the type (Meurer) ; Meck- 

 lenburg — Neustrelitz (Schmidt), Dresden, with type (Steinert), Thuringia, 

 rarely with type (Krieghofi) ; Baden, as common as the type (Reutti) ; Prussia 

 — Dantzig, rare (Schmidt), Upper Lusatia (Moeschler) : Alsace— Val de Ste.- 

 Marie-aux-Mines (Peyerimnoff). Greece: Parnassus, Milos (Staudinger). Italy: 

 Dominant form in centre, and south, and in Sardinia and in Corsica, not infrequent 

 in north (Curd), Lombardy with type (Turati) ; Sicily — Madonie, Palermo. Messina, 

 Ficuzza, and usually supplants the type (M ina-1'alunibo and Failla-Tedaldi), Roman 

 Campagna— Sassoferrata, rarer than the type (Calberla). Roumania: very rare, 

 with type (Caradja). Russia : Volgadist. — Sarepta, hut not frequent (Eversmann), 

 southern Russia (Moeschler), Podolsk (Assmuss). Switzerland: Distributed with 

 the typical form (Frey), Berne, commoner than type (Benteli , Zurich, very common 

 (Nageli). 



Staudinger diagnoses the form as : " Alis plus minusve flavido- 

 irroratis," too generalised a description to be of much service, and 

 hardly agreeing with the original description already quoted. Schmidt 

 observes that, by breeding in Mecklenburg, he obtained the var. 



