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Addenda: ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
2. tamara Group. 
, I 5 ', 21 ’™? 16 4 ?r bel ° W ' Z - tamara Christ Tlle ori g inal specimens of this very pretty Zygaena were 
captured by Miss A. Kitbistec early m August presumably in 1888 and in large quantities of both sexes 
near Ordubad Also the ab. daemon Christ, emanates from Ordubad. It would appear therefore that tamara 
IS on y to be found m that locality. Head, antennae, thorax and abdomen are glossy blue-black the legs 
are dusky in consequence of black scales on femora. Collar in the $ is pale orange-yellow, similarly’occasion¬ 
ally also the scapulae. The 3 penultimate segments of abdomen are a brilliant bright red. The anal seg- 
ment is black with short terminal hairs. The colour of forewings is steely glossy blue-black although through 
the expansion of the 3 pale orange-yellow spots, this ground colour is only visible as narrow transverse bands 
and partly as margin of the wings. The anterior basal spot (1 and 2) occupies the first third of the wing 
m its entire breadth including costa and inner margin; the obtuse conical central spot (3 and 4) only allows 
the black ground colour to appear through on both sides, thus creating narrow transverse bands The large 
obtuse and irregularly triangular apical spot (5 and 6) no doubt created by the merging of two spots ends 
almost as a nghtangle at apex of wing. Hmdwings of are usually unicolourous pale orange-yellow and 
somewhat transparent, sometimes however showing a trace of pale red. In the ? the predominant shade 
is a pale light red in which frequently longitudinal yellow streaks are visible. On underside the yellow of 
the spots is somewhat paler and the two anterior spots more or less merge. 
. d J LC d ? lgnatl0n alj ' rubra R bl. (not Stgr.-Rbl.) can only refer to $$ with pale red hindwings The 
5 ^ fr0 “ °“> ** dark^ground colour dLncty 
p. 21 line 2 from below. Z. placida 0. B.-H. is well illustrated on pi. 2 h of Suppl. Vol. 2 but un¬ 
fortunately the vermilion red scapulae, which appear in both sexes, are not visible. In its great resemblance 
to tamara one might consider same to be a subspecies thereof. In Suppl. Vol. 2 on p. 22, line 4 from ton the 
Wn f ° nl 5 )ef0re T>° llld ,! )e deleted ‘ The le § s of 'idacida are yellowish red. Like tamara it occurs in 
August and was sent to Bang-Ha as together with cuvieri Bsd. which was flying in the same locality. 
p. 22, line 6 from top. Z. escalerai Pouf. 3 male specimens were captured by Escalera in Julv 1899 
on e upper course of the Karan in the Chindaar valley in Persia. The arrangement of the orange coloured 
spots of forewing is similar to that of tamara and placida. In other respects escalerai also fairly strongly resembles 
these two Zygaena apart from its more delicate build and somewhat reduced spot markings ' Head and 
legs^^elknvisli aCklSh ’ palpi ’ collar and sca P ulae are minium red. Anal clasps are laterally black and 
sliwenensis 
3. sedi Group. 
p. 23, line 18 from below. Z. sedi F. (= sedi Freyer), type race from Sarepta. The $ with whitish 
cohar winch is sometimes barely indicated. The fairly widely confluent spots of forewings are notable In 
° f iej R C ff, Iy ’. m i he 1 ? m ° St dlstmctl y encircled b y yellowish white. I have specimens of a popul- 
ation from Bogdobergm the lower right bank of the Volga, halfway between Zaryzin and Astrachan, which 
is almost identical with the type race. — The var. sliwenensis Reiss (= fraxini Haberhauer i. 1., sedi Bgff ) 
from Sliwen (Slivno) m Bulgaria in comparison with sedi, shows a reduction in the spots whilst the yellowish 
v li e circumscriptions of the spots are wider in both sexes. Z. sedi and sliwenensis have a third basal spot 
3 aud W 4 ? T v to ™ rdS the inner ^ In the <? of sli ™nensis the much reduced spots 
Sad 4 are only attached by their yellowish white surrounds. In the $ the spots of forewings, as compared 
are also redac ed, but not to the same degree as in the The confluent spots at base (1 and 2), 
a so ic middle spots (3 and 4) and the apical spots (5 and 6) appear to be separated from one another bv 
their^ heavy yellowish circumscriptions. Sometimes also spots 3 and 4 are daintily separated from one another 
> the interspersion of yellow scales m the ?. — Staitdinger mentions that sedi was captured by Kinder- 
thV 7°^ at , an n d by Lederer on the Boz-Dagh in Asia Minor. It is unfortunately impossible to check 
this owing to lack of opportunity. It should be mentioned that in several collections there are specimens of 
s di with the locality label •Armenia , which according to the particulars given by Bitrgeff and also according 
to the material at my disposal, do not differ from sliwenensis. These may have been captured by H-vber" 
hai er m Bulgaria and because they were classified as fraxini, they may have been simply labelled “Armenia” 
t 11 subsequent species in the Caucasus, allows one to assume that the sedi group may 
dmbtf I 1 lb e 5- S °1 1 ° f t ie Caucasus and l° in U P Biere with the fraxini group. This is however very 
doubtful, as according to a specimen m the Staudinger collection fraxini occurs at Manglis in Georgia and the 
on y possi n \y w ou d seem to be that the two groups mingle in Transcaucasia. The presence of the basal 
spot - a on forewmgs in the specimens before me that are labelled “Armenia” entirely precludes their be- 
ongmg to the fraxini group and clearly characterises them as belonging to the sedi group. I have further 
I \ , 1 Merv 111 Turcomama, Tancre, which scarcely vary from my south russian sedi. I add this 
doubtful locality to encourage further investigations. 
