ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
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forewings bluish-grey, red dull and without gloss, abdomen without belt. - The subsp. grisea Oberth. (Vol. 2, gnsea. 
p 443 plate 6 h ab. cingulata) (2 g) from the Basses-Alpes (Type from Digne) is dusted whitish-grey on the 
forewings. The following aberrations have been named: ab. kiesenwetteri (. H.-Schdff.) Oberth. and ab. gueneei kiesenwet-^ 
Oberth. (see above). The $ illustrated is from Digne. — Next to it var. azurea Bgfj. ( = oxytropiferens Vrty.) guenSeL 
from the Maritime Alps (Vence, La Turbie etc.) with chief characteristic a brilliant blue superficial gloss on the azurea. 
black areas of wings. The $$ sometimes faintly dusted with grey. Specimens with hindwings more or less 
blackish are ab. pseudostygia Bgff. ; ab. albovittata Vrty. denominates specimens with a white longitudinal stripe pseudo -- 
on forewings. — A constant race var. stygia Bgff. (= kiesenwetteri Oberth. ) (2 g) with rather heavy blackish margins albovittata. 
to hindwings occurs at Bordighera, San Remo and other localities on the Litoral of the Maritime Alps. F orewmgs s t yg i a . 
are blue black or greenish with 6 black bordered spots. The illustrated is from San Remo. ab. obscura Obetth. 
denominates specimens with dusky forewing spots and black hindwings and ab. quinquemaculata Oberth. which ^cZlata. 
are five-spotted are not exactly rare here. To be mentioned still are: ab. albovittata Vrty. (see above) and ab. albovittata . 
pseudoazurae Bgff. with predominantly red hindwings. — Finally there is subsp. algarbiensis Christ. ( = roedeii P seu 
Stgr.) (Vol. 2, p. 26, plate 6 h) from South Portugal (Faro). 
Z. lavasidulae Esp. (= spicae Hbn.) (Vol. 2, p. 25/26, plate 6 g). Distribution throughout Liguria, S. lavandulae. 
France and Spain. In the type race from S. France specimens with considerably increased red on hindwings 
are named ab. pseudoconsobrina (Germ.) Bgff. (Vol. 2, plate 6 g). Oberthur designates with ab. siepii the v ^ 0 V rina 
yellow form; ab. powelli Oberth. are specimens in which the lateral black border of forewing spots is suffused s j ep q. 
(similar to ab. lampadouche Bgff. in oxytropis ) and spot 2 and 4 as well as 3 and 5 are conjoined and besides powelli. 
spot 1 and 3 are merged longitudinally with red. — The var. consobrina Germ. (Vol. 2, p. 26) (2 g) is limited 
to Marseilles, the estuary of the Rhone, Digne, Hyeres and the Pyrenees. The illustrated is from Digne. 
Specimens in which spot 4 is absent on forewings are named ab. quadripuncta by Burgeff. - In the Sierra quad ™ mida 
Espunna (Murcia) a pronounced race subsp. espunnensis Reiss (2 g, h) occurs with considerably enlarged espunnen . 
forewing spots. The insects are larger and more robust. The underside of forewings shows a completely red sis. 
surface over the spot area. The hindwings are red with a more or less heavy black margin. The $ and $ illus¬ 
trated are the types, ab. pseudolavandulae Pern refers to specimens like lavandulae, that occur rarely. A specimen v *™^ ulae _ 
with completely red hindwing in which black pigments cover the anal fold of the wings, stretching also to the 
apex midway to the discocellular are named ab. eradiata by Burgeff. The insect gives the impression of a cradiata. 
Zygaena with normally black bordered hindwings. — In Albarracin (Aragon) a race occurs halfway between 
lavandulae and espunnensis with a heavier superficial gloss, which reminds one of theryi. 
Z. theryi Joannis (Vol. 2, p. 443) (= nisseni Rothsch.) (2 h) is a genuine species distributed in Algiers theryi. 
(Hamman R’irha, Philippeville, Djebel-Zaccas), flying in May. Besides the thinner and longer antennae that 
are only slightly thickened towards the clubs and the hindwings that are quite black on the upperside, theryi 
differs "from lavandulae by the deeper blue gloss of the ground colour and also of body and the black instead 
of white fringes to forewings, which appear more rounded. The specimens illustrated are from Hamman R hha 
and from Burgeff’s collection. 
The larva was illustrated by Lord Rothschild on a pocket carbon block but was not described. The 
food plant is stated to be Coronilla spec., according to Burgeff it is a Lotus with rough edged stem with 
woolly fluff and characteristic trefoil leaves. 
IX. Subgen. Coelestis Bgff. 
Z. cuvieri Bsd. (Vol. 2, p. 26 and p. 443, plate 6 h). Distribution over Mesopotamia, Armenia, Syria, cuvicii. 
Transcaspia, Persia. Here we have ab. confluens Oberth. (Vol. 2, p. 26) and ab. totarubra Dziurz. (Vol. 2, p. 44.>). totarubia. 
— Burgeff establishes the var. libani (2 h) from Lebanon. This Syrian race is distinguished from the Persian hbani. 
and armenian races by the considerably reduced spots, of which the two outer ones seem to be each resolved into tw o, 
so that here a normal six-spotted type is indicated. The specimen illustrated was caught at Beirout and is from 
the collection of Burgeff. 
Here we should place Z. rubrieollis Hmps. (2 h) — Chitral — which according to the painted illustration rubricolhs. 
from the British Museum appears more heavily scaled and of darker carmine colouring than cuvieri. The middle 
and outer forewing spots of cuvieri have dissolved in two, the basal spot is reduced, spots 3 and 4 are inteisected 
by a vein, spots 5 and 6 are fairly widely separated. I should consider rubrieollis to be a subspecies of cuvieri. 
Z. rubrieollis is mentioned already in Vol. 10, p. 52 of the Indian Fauna as being a boundary-line insect, but it 
is as well to mention it among the palaearctic Fauna. 
Z. tamara Christ. (Vol. 2, p. 26 and p. 443, plate 7 b). In ab. rubra (Vol. 2, p. 26, plate 7 b) the author s tamara. 
name should be corrected to Stgr.-Rbl .; besides we have to name ab. daemon Christ. (\ ol. 2, p. 26, plate / b). 
Z. placida 0. B.-H. (2 h) from the Wan region (Armenia). It appears to be very closely related to placida. 
tamara. The black ground colour has a bluish gloss (about like cuvieri from the same locality), the spot marking 
