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18. Zygaena Meliloti. 



Alee anticce sublanceolatce, subdiaphance, nitidce, grisescenti-vires- 

 centes vel cyanescentes, maculis quinque rubris ; posticce 

 rubrcB, margine virescenti-nigro ; antennce clavatce. 



Zygaena Meliloti, Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. ii. 43, 11. Boisd. Man. 



Zyg. 51, pi. 3, f. 5. Dalm. Act. Holm. 1816, 222. Duponch. 



Suppl. Hist. Nat. Lep. France, ii. 62, pi. 5, f. 7. Chenu, 



Enc. dHist. Nat. Pap. 249, f. 434. Herr.-Schceff. Samml. 



Eur. Schmett. Suppl. ii. 35, 23, 1, Zyg. pi. 8, f. 63; pi. 11, 



f. 78. Eversm. Faun. Volg. Ural. 95, 7. 

 Zygaena Viciae, Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 1, 238, 1405. 

 Sphinx Viciae, Bork. Rhein. Mag. i. 638, 15. Illig. N. Ausg. 



Bess. i. 36 ; Mag. ii. 40, 2. Fuessl. 

 Sphinx Loti (Mas), Hubn. Sphing. pi. 17, f. 82. Wien. Verz. 8, 



45, Fam. G. No. 3. 

 Sphinx Meliloti, Esp. Schmett. ii. 10, pi. 39. Cont. 14, 1—8. 

 Sphinx Lonicerae (Var.), Esp. Schmett. ii. pi. 25. Sup. 7, f. 3. 

 Agrumenia Meliloti, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 116, 1259. 



Wings slightly transparent, narrow, lanceolated. 

 Germany. France. Switzerland. Sweden. 



Var. Zygaena Buglossi, Escher, Duponch. Suppl. Hist. Nat. Lep. 

 Jr. ii. 138, pi. 12, f. 4. 



Zurich. 



Var. Zygaena Stentzii, Freyer, Beitr. Schmett. 278. 

 Zygaena Meliloti, Var. Stentzii, Herr.-Schceff. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 

 Suppl. 1, Zyg. pi. 12, f. 86, 87. 



a — d. From M. Becker's collection. 



e. Var. Fore wings with six spots ; the sixth nearest the tip, 

 towards the hind border, diffused, not quite separate from 

 the fifth. 



19. Zygjsna, Dahurica. 



Nigro-cyanea ; alee anticce maculis quinque rufis, duabus basali- 

 bus y duabus discalibus, postica majore, unaque subapicali ; 

 posticce rufce, nigro marginatce. Long. alar. 14 lin. 



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