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ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
A very large form was brought from the North Caucasus by Korb, which is represented both in 
Burgeff’s and my collections and which I should like to mention. The red is carmine with an admixture of 
yellow, ground colour black, almost without blue sheen; hindwings fairly heavily, but irregularly margined 
with black. Underside paler, cloudy streak present between the spots. Abdomen very long and heavy. The 
specimens belong according to their appearance to transalpine!, but transition links with same are absent. As 
korbi. this interesting form deserves a name, I introduce same in honour of its discoverer as korbi (4 g). The question 
as to whether this is a subspecies of transalpina, I must leave unanswered. 
The larva of transalpina feeds on Hippocrepis comosa, Coronilla varia, montana, emerus and vaginalis, 
as well as Lotus corniculatus. 
elegans. 
sexmacu- 
lata. 
quinque- 
maculata. 
cingulata. 
splendida. 
Z. elegans Bgff. (4 g, h) (= loti Hbn., angelicae var. Aschenauer ) from the Swabian Alb (Geislingen) 
is larger than transalpina- jurassicola; wings relatively narrower with very little blue or green gloss, six-spotted, 
bright carmine. Spots 5, 4 and especially 3 taper in a point towards the base, spot 3 generally cuneiform, 
varying to the shape of a comma. The spot formation reminds one strongly of cilicica; spot 6 is conjoined with 
spot 5 by a red bar. Underside of forewings is covered by a red cloud to somewhat beyond the spot area, like 
in jurassicola although less dense. Hindwings pointed, red with narrow black margin, only bulging faintly. 
Abdomen black; antennae slender with truncate tip and scarcely thickened club. The specimens illustrated 
are from Geislingen on the Steige. Aberrations named are: f. sexmaculata Reiss (4h): spots 5 and 6 separate; 
f. quinquemaculata Reiss: Spot 5 round and without the attached spot 6 ; ab. cingulata Bgff. ( = cingulata Reiss ) 
with red abdominal belt; ab. splendida Reiss (4 li) (Hohenneuffen): Spot 1 and 2 confluent, Spot 3 and 4 
enlarged and confluent, spot 5 and 6 generally conjoined to an enlarged almost round spot. The red diffuses 
chiefly along the media from the confluent spots 3 and 4 towards 5 and 6 . Besides Spot 1 and 2 are generally 
confluens. united with 3 and 4 by red rays running chiefly along the veins. The ab. confluens Bgff. has all spots enlarged 
extrema, and conjoined by bold longitudinal streaks, being more rare than the frequent splendida; the ab. extrema Reiss 
(Hohenneuffen) has completely red forewings, only quite a narrow black margin is left on outer margin, apex 
burgeffensis. black. — The hybrid illustrated by Burgeff, elegans X jurassicola is denominated with burgeffensis Reiss. 
The larva is larger than that of jurassicola, that occurs in the same localities. It is similarly marked 
to same with distinct black dorsal stripe, that can be absent in jurassicola. The hairs are shorter, about half 
as long as in the jurassicola larva taken for comparison. Food plants are firstly Coronilla montana Scop, and 
secondly Coronilla varia L. Coccoon similar to jurassicola but larger. The insect is very alert and shy and flies 
already in June at Geislingen and at the beginning of July at the Hohenneuffen. It sits by preference upon the 
flower heads of Ligustrum vulgare. 
angelicae. Z. angelicae 0. in Vol. 2 , p. 22 and p. 442, plate 5 a, (= latipennis H.-Schdff.) from East Prussia 
(Osterode), Saxony, Bavaria westwards to the Isar, Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Poland, the northern Balkans 
to the greek frontier. Inspite of particulars to the contrary from Oberthur and Vorbrodt angelicae does not 
appear to me to be definitely known to occur in Switzerland. Ochsenheimer mentions the localities of Dresden 
and Vienna and these represent the type race. I have not yet seen specimens from Dresden, but they are not 
likely to vary from the bohemian and austrian form. Besides the aberrations mentioned in Vol. 2 , p. 22 , the 
cingulata. following occur: ab. cingulata Dziurz. (Vol. 2 , p. 442); ab. subdivisa Std. with spot 4 distinctly divided into 2 
subdivisa. s p 0 t s . The name carnea Dziurz. is withdrawn. The ab. doleschalli RvM (Vol. 2 . p. 22 ) from the Carst is 
illustrated on plate 4 h. 
isaria. The races to be mentioned are: var. isaria Bgff. so far the most western race from the Pupplinger-Au near 
Wolfiatshausen, in the Isar valley and from Deisenhofen, S.E. of Munich. They are smaller, of opaque black 
with a regular green gloss in the $$ and with almost pure carmine rose spots and hindwings. Only in a few 
individual specimens there is a trace of vermilion in the red. Colours are all dull, scaling not very dense. 
Varying from the normal larvae feed on Hippocrepis comosa in pine forests. — Then we have var. transcar- 
herzego- pathina Hormuz. (Vol. 2 , p. 22 ) from the Bukowina, The subsp. herzegowinensis Reiss (= balcani Bgff.) 
winensis. (4 pj from the Herzegowina (Type race from Ubli), Bosnia (Koricna) and Macedonia (near Hudowa) is darker 
and with wider margination of hindwings and more heavily haired. On the underside the red spots are no 
longer enveloped in a wide red cloud, but especially in the A3 they are conjoined by a narrow red band. Ihe 
A A with blue and partly green gloss, the $$ faintly blue or heavily green glossy. Specimens from Bosnia and 
Herzegowina are larger than the type race of angelicae. The type is illustrated. 
In the valley of the Danube around Regensburg (as Type race), I pper Palatinate, franconian Jura, 
rhatis- the valley of the Maine down to Gambach, we find subsp. rhatisbonensis Bgff. (= angelicae Hbn.) (4 i). Smaller 
bonensis. than the former purely 5 spotted races, six-spotted. The specimens illustrated are from Regensburg. I he 
pseudo - five-spotted form pseudoangelicae Reiss occurs fairly frequently; the ab. elegantoides Reiss has the same 
angelicae. formation of spots as elegans Bgff. with spot 6 widely attached to spot 5, forming an open angle towards the 
elegantoides. 
