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Addenda: ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
Birchall). As the locality of the type population I name Ardrahan, Galway. Types $ $ and cotypes in my 
collection, further cotypes in the Museum at Tring. Whether specimens from english localities belong to 
hibernica, I am not at present in a position to define, as I have none before me. Here must be mentioned ab. 
lutescens. listescerss Tutt (from Galway) with yellow markings in place of red. The ab. obscura Tutt (Vol. 2, p. 18) of 
which the original specimens emanate from Carnarvonshire (Wales) has the spots of forewings and in lesser 
degree the hindwings suffused with black, faint red scales are partially visible. 
The purpuralis populations from the borders of the north german plains southwards to the alps, ex¬ 
cluding the high Alps, which differ from the type race of Seeland by their larger size, more extensive mark¬ 
ings, le&s dense hairiness of the body and thinner scaling of wings, should be denominated with the next oldest 
pythia, name after purpuralis, viz: subsp. pythia F. The locality of the existing type of pythia ex the Fabricitjs col¬ 
lection in Rid cannot be ascertained and will probably never be known. Fabricitjs simply indicated Germany 
as the oiigin. The names scabiosae Schev. (Regensburg), pilosellae Esp. (Erlangen), minos Hbn. (Augsburg) 
should meanwhile be held to be synonyma of pythia *). All the aberrations denominated in Yol. 2, p. 18 and 19 
and m Suppl. Vol. 2, p. 7 under purpuralis should be classified here. In place of the name rubrotecta Vrty. the 
omnicon- older name: ab omnkonfluens Vorbr. should be substituted and in place of plutonia Vrty. the name ab. parvi- 
parvima- maCuIata Vorbr - ■ mediointerrupta Vorbr. is. synonymous with the older name ab. interrupts Stgr. and divisa 
culata. Vorbr. similarly with ab. sexmaculata Bgjf. Guhn describes from Rudersdorf (Berlin) an alleged dwarf race 
pimpind- as var. pimpinellae : it is thinly scaled, colour paler, rose, the grey larvae feed on Pimpinella nigra. 
cracovien- Holik establishes the var. cracoviensis for W. Galicia (Cracow). Wing contour wide, truncate. Scaling 
SiS ' coarse ’ soot V fairly dense with faint superficial blue gloss, the $$ barely paler or not at all. Red markings 
and hindwings carmine. The central streak terminating in an almost straight cut outwardly, scarcely curved 
in at all not lobate. Hairs of thorax and abdomen short. The most remarkable distinguishing feature is the 
completely black fringes of the wings. 
bljevana. The var. kijevana Przeg. from Tshary near Teterew, Province Kieff, has elongate relatively narrow 
fore wings, which are accordingly correspondingly pointedly oval at apex. Scaling of is dense with chill blue- 
black gloss, the $ is more thinly scaled and has duller colouration. Markings of forewings are deep scarlet, 
very regularly shaped, but fairly narrow. Spot 6 is short and oval and is broadly attached to spot 5. Fringes 
of forewings pale. Hindwings similarly narrow. Only the sometimes has indications of a margin through 
a slight duskiness at apex. The antennae are long and in contrast to the other races, they gradually thicken 
cingulata. towards the club. Body moderately hairy. Legs strikingly black. To be classified here: ab. cingulata ( Bgff.) 
rubrotecta. Holik with red abdominal belt; ab. rubrotecta (Vrty.) Holik, spots of forewings very distended and confluent, 
the latter aberration is rare. 
Przegendza describes from Menaggio on Lake Como in July the var. erythroides. This race has very 
wide, brilliant red markings on forewings. The central streak expands fan-shape towards the margin where 
it diffuses, terminating in a wide clear cut edge. The wings are narrow of dull black ground colour without 
a superficial gloss. In many (abt. one-third) of the specimens of this race the red wedge-shaped spot is much 
enlarged m both sexes, so that only a relatively small black outer margin is all that remains of the ground 
colour. The spots in the majority of cases are scarcely divided by the ground colour. Fine streak-like red 
dustings extending over the lower streak to the hind margin (similar to those of erythrus ) are striking in this 
lace. This streak is more pronounced in £ than in the The $ is much less densely scaled, corresponding 
to ab. grisescens Bgff., markings otherwise being as in Antennae are relatively short. 
f rom the Carnic Alps, Sappada, 1300 m altitude, var. carnica Vrty. is denominated. According to 
Lie desciiption it is an intermediate form between nubigena Led. and pluto 0 ., Verity compares it to carsiea 
Rocci from KarM, which however is not diaphanous. Margins of hindwings are about as those of Corsica Rocci. 
sareptensis. p. 8, line 10 from below, subsp. sareptensis was first described by Krulikowsky (= sareptensis i. 1. 
!%/•., sareptensis Rbl.) from specimens from the central Urals, Ufa, Kasan, Sarapol and Saratov To jud'o-e 
by specimens before me from Werchne-Uralsk and Kalkanowa in the S. Urals, sareptensis is scarcely larger 
than pythia 1. and has distinctly more thinly scaled, paler forewings with normal spots. The hindwings espe- 
‘ !a '^- v ate pale red, almost rose and without any margin. The red often seems to have an admixture of yellow. 
In the $9 the dark patches of the forewings are more or less whitish grey or with a yellowish hue. Sometimes 
theie are traces of a white collar and of whitish edged scapulae. Specimens from Sarepta and the other localities 
*) In the register of labels of Fabricius, which is still in existence, he has 
and pilosclla Esp. as synonyms of pythia F. 
quite rightly enumerated scabiosae Schev. 
