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costa to inner margin and has a vary narrow outward whitish yellow edge. The 2nd spot (3 and 4) seems 
to be an amalgamation of the two spots, spot 3 being the smaller and generally whitish with very narrow 
whitish yellow surround. The 3rd spot (5 and 6) is irregular and axe-shaped and only towards the base has 
a faintly yellowish white edge. However especially in the $ the circumscriptions of the spots of forewing 
can be rather more heavy than in the Hindwings are a brilliant red with relatively wide blue-black mar¬ 
gins. Fringes of forewings are yellowish, those of hindwings blue-black. Head, palpi and scapulae are blue- 
black, collar and abdominal belt, which is scarcely visible ventrally, are a brilliant red. Here subsp. libani- 
cola Bgff. (p. 23) is classified. It is a mountain race with rather heavier margins to hindwings. 
The subsp. laetifica H.-Schdff. (16 m) originates according to a d' in my collection, captured by Funke, 
from Mesopotamia. I hold the locality of the type race to be around Mardin at the northern extremity of 
the great mesopotamian plains. Herrick-Schaffer did not indicate the origin when giving his description. 
I only dare to differ from Staudinger in regard to laetifica, as the $ in my collection, as well as the descrip¬ 
tion and illustration of Herrich-Schaffer, indicate same to be the genuine laetifica, in fact this is perhaps 
the original specimen that was before Herrich-Schaffer when he made his description. Ground colour is 
bluish black. The red is somewhat paler and the antennae less robust than in olivieri. Collar, inner edge of 
scapulae and abdomen, except for the blue-black anal tip, are red. All margins of fore wings are blue- 
black. Spots of forewings, especially 3 and 4, which are only attached by their yellowish surrounds, are re¬ 
duced in size. Spots 1 and 2 are completely conjoined, equally long with yellowish edge towards the base 
in middle cell. Spot 3 is cordiform, point towards the base; spot 4 is almost quadrate, excurved towards 
base, both with yellowish surrounds. Spots 5 and 6 are quite conjoined, spot 5 is situate nearer the costa, 
an irregular square, spot 6 is nearer the anal angle and is vertically oblong. Legs are blue-black, tibiae 
outwardly yellow-grey. The red abdominal belt covers 5 segments on upperside, 3 on underside. 
According to Herrich-Schaffer, who again gives no details of the original locality, Z. ganymedes, 
which I enumerate as a subspecies of olivieri, only differs from laetifica by the following characteristics: 
Scapulae are red, only yellowish at outer edge, spots of forewings much larger, forewings less pointed. The 
conjoined spots 1 and 2 extend to costal and inner margins, spots 3 and 4 are also conjoined, spot 4 fairly 
regularly quadrate, spot 3 extends to costa and is conjoined there to spot 1. Spots 5 and 6 as in laetifica 
but larger, spot 5 generally contingent at its lower inner angle with spot 4. In the only the 1st abdominal 
segment is black, in the $ the 1st and last. This diagnosis of Herrich-Schaffer and his illustrations corres¬ 
pond best to specimens from Zeitun submitted to me by the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin 
and accepted by me as being typical ganymedes H.-Schdff. To complete the diagnosis the following particulars 
are given: Red with quite an admixture of cinnabar. Fringes of forewings yellowish, those of hindwings 
bluish black as the ground colour. Spots of forewings more or less confluent on underside. Ventrally the 
abdominal belt is not wider than in laetifica. Width of abdominal belt is not uniform; $ with wider belt. 
Under ganymedes all specimens captured in the Taurus and around Hadjin should be classified. r l herefore 
hebe Seitz from Hadjin is synonymous with ganymedes H.-Scluiff. The illustrations of laetifica Seitz and 
hebe Seitz in Vol. 2, pi. 7 g and h represent ganymedes H.-Schdff. It is necessary to correct here an obvious 
mistake of Staudinger, who held specimens from Amasia and Tokat to be ganymedes. H.-Schdff. The varia¬ 
bility of ganymedes from Zeitun must still be investigated. The subsp. ganymedes H.-Schdff. embraces generally 
speaking also the specimens mentioned by Staudinger from Armenia, chiefly from Kasikoparan. Also in these 
armenian specimens, which do not vary materially in size, colouration and formation of markings from gany ¬ 
medes from Zeitun, an increased measure of red occasionally occurs on abdomen. Further in this race the 
red of collar and scapulae of the is often reduced, becoming whitish red. the latter sometimes being coloured 
bluish black. Circumscription of spots, as in ganymedes, narrowly yellowish, sometimes whitish, margins of 
hindwings equally narrow, often quite absent. Legs almost whitish yellow, ab. confluens Dziurz. belongs, 
in my opinion, to this race. It has all spots more or less closely and widely confluent and has a red ab¬ 
domen. Romanoff mentions besides Kasikoparan, a further locality as Bechinag (on the road between Nakhit- 
chevan and Istissou). 
The armenian specimens mentioned above form a transition to subsp. dsidsilia Freyer, the type race dsidsilia. 
of which emanates from Elisabethpol and Helenendorf in Transcaucasia and broadly speaking as a subspecies 
from Achalzich, Borjom. In the the red collar and scapulae are absent or the red colouration is much 
suppressed and replaced by whitish. In the $ collar and scapulae are still red, although in the latter the red 
colouration is reduced and often the red, also of the collar, is intermixed with whitish. The red is some¬ 
what paler, not so fiery and with less yellow admixture. Spots reduced in size, 3 and 4 are only narrowly 
conjoined through the yellowish surrounds. Margins of hindwings scarcely heavier than in ganymedes. The 
red abdominal belt covers 2 segments. On underside of forewings, in the spot area and also towards the inner 
margin there is more of a silky yellowish sheen than in ganymedes, the red spots, especially in the $ seem 
to more or less merge with one another. The illustrations in Vol. 2, pi. 7 h ( olivieri) represent dsidsilia Freyer 
