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Addenda: ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
tricolor, from Transcaucasia. The specimens illustrated probably were captured at Achalzich. — ab. tricolor Reiss 
(16 m) from Helenendorf, the $ type of which ex the Staudinger Collection is illustrated here, shows on 
forewings the yellow blotches in the red and a general confluence of the spot area, edged by yellowish and 
with an equally narrow margin of blue-black ground colour at apex, outer and inner margins. Collar is 
faintly whitish, scapulae bluish black and there is a red abdominal belt on 2 segments. On underside of fore¬ 
wings the entire spot area is red. 
/ enema . ^ C. freyeriana Reiss (= ganimedes Freyer n. praeocc ganymedes Stgr., ganymedes Seitz, Vol. 2, p. 28). 
Type race from Amasia in Asia Minor. The illustration given by Freyer is well recognisable. Freyer com¬ 
pares same with fausta from Augsburg, both being of the same size. The most striking difference as com¬ 
pared with ganymedes If. -Schaff, is the grey-white colour of upperside of antennae *). All specimens before me 
from Amasia are small, scarcely larger than the central german fausta with pointed narrow wings. The red 
is rather paler, especially that of the hindwings which is not so much admixed with cinnabar as in gany¬ 
medes H.-Schdff. from Zeitun. The double collar and scapulae are a nice carmine red. Scapulae generally 
with yellowish white tips. Abdomen usually pale carmine red with somewhat vermilion admixture right 
to the tip. Sometimes the usual 3 segments of abdomen are red and the other segments only faintly scaled 
with red doisally, occasionally also the anal tip is bluish black. In one ^ before me even the thorax has 
red scales. In well preserved specimens the head is more or less red between the eyes. The spots of fore¬ 
wings, which are situate as in ganymedes and adapted to the small size of the wings, have fairly bold yellowish 
white surrounds. Fringes of forewings are yellowish, on hindwings they are darker with faint yellow sheen. 
The latter have narrow dark margins. On underside colouration is paler, the spots are clearly discernible, the 
blackish ground colour in the spot area is frequently replaced by more or less yellowish, sometimes even red¬ 
dish yellow scales. Legs are yellow. The illustration of ganymedes Seitz in Vol. 2, pi. 7 h represents a specimen 
that cannot be definitely identified as being actually from the Amasia locality, as the size, contour of wings, 
arrangement and margination of spots are not quite typical. Staudinger captured freyeriana at the end 
of June in Kerasdere and in July on the Caraman, where it was obtained up to well into August. The spe¬ 
cimens from the Caraman vary fairly considerably according to the particulars supplied by Staudinger, 
especially in regard to the white circumscriptions of the red spots and the white dusting on the antennae. 
Also the abdomen, the upperside of which is almost always completely red, is sometimes black on upper- 
side of the anterior segments, having only a red abdominal belt posteriorly on underside. Lederer mentions 
Tokat, besides Amasia, as locality. — Dziurzynski mentions in regard to ab. algarvensis that the locality 
was Algarve, later on he mentions Amasia. Further this aberration was first described as algarviensis with 
diffusing white circumscriptions to spots of forewings, then as algarvensis with white forewing spots. The 
type was not procurable. — The ab. confluens Dziurz. with more or less confluent spots to forewings is described 
from Amasia. Zach discovered small larvae early in June, while Staudinger obtained full grown larvae 
and cocoons at the end of June. The larva is described by Staudinger as being yellow-green with black head 
and two lateral black spots, the one behind the other on upper side and anterior part of each segment. In 
the joints there are dull dark transverse lines. The elongated cocoons are smooth, yellow and sometimes white. 
Vol. 2, p. 26 Z. haberhaueri Led., is typical of the mountains of Hakynda, N. E. of Ordubad in Trans¬ 
caucasia, further according to Romanoff it occurs at Hadji-Kherib, around Goktschasees (Sewanga), N. E. of 
Erivan, whilst Oberthur mentions Berud-Dagh in the Taurus. It is apparently a widely distributed moun¬ 
tain insect. The illustration in Vol. 2, pi. 6 i is a good representation in regard to size and formation of spots, 
but the ground colour of the type race is very dull bluish black with glossy sheen and the red is a much 
less vivid pale carmine red. The antennae, especially of the $ are heavily clavate and these are not well 
depicted in the illustration, the head also is too broad. — Z. haberhaueri is the most widely distributed 
representative of the olivieri group having wide somewhat truncate wings. The basal spot of forewings (1 
and 2) does not touch the inner margin along its entire length, there is an additional spot 2 a, as mentioned 
in nobilis , outwardly the basal spot has a very narrow, rudimentary whitish edge. Of the central spots, spot 
3 is always the smaller and of oval shape, not extending to the costa; spot 4 is almost round to oval, both 
are either contingent or separated by the ground colour. Spot 3 has only traces of a whitish circumscription, 
whilst spot 4 has a complete surround. The apical spot (5 and 6) has the shape of a triangle standing on 
its apex and also has only rudiments of a narrow whitish edge. The circumscription of the spots of forewing 
is sometimes completely absent. In the $ there are only traces of a carmine collar, whilst in the $ same 
is still deally discernible. Thorax, scapulae and abdomen are dull blue-black. Occasionally there are faint indi¬ 
cations of a red abdominal belt. Especially in the the entire body is fairly heavily haired. Legs are 
an impure yellow. As I have no specimens from Hadji-Kherib before me, I cannot say whether that popu¬ 
lation has any special characteristics. Oberthur illustrates a specimen from Berud-Dagh that has no cir- 
*) IIerrtch-Schaffer, who was very exact, would certainly have observed and mentioned this difference, had 
lie had specimens from Amasia before him when he was describing his gcmy7ned€s. 
