Addenda: ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
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cumscription to the spots and which I must deem to be an aberration, as I also have a $ in my collection 
from the Taurus without further details as to exact locality. This has faint surrounds to the spots and varies 
from the type race, of which there is a series in the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin, by having 
denser scaling, somewhat more vivid carmine red and a faint blue green gloss on the body and the dark 
portions of the wings. A $ with similar characteristics, I observed in the collection of Przegendza, labelled 
“Caucasus”, which is rather indefinite. 
8. formosa Group. 
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p. 22, line 16 from below. Z. formosa H.-Schaff. The type race from around Amasia in Asia Minor 
is well illustrated in Vol. 2, pi. 7 i. It is scarcely possible to mistake this pretty Zygaena for any other, as it 
is very constant. It has a rosy coloured collar, scapulae with yellowish outer edges, abdomen with a rosy 
belt on the usual 2 segments, occasionally being restricted to one segment and very rarely almost absent. 
Staudinger captured same on the 9th June near Kishlatshyk and a few days later on the Caraman, v heie 
it occurs relatively rarely to the beginning of July. It flies in the sunshine, generally skimming the ground 
in fairly rapid flight and is rarely found at rest on flowers. — Staudinger only found 2 specimens sitting 
on scabiosa flowers. — Staudinger also obtained a few specimens at Iverasdere. — I he larvae were disco¬ 
vered by Staudinger in May on a species of vetch. It is green with black head and in contrast to the larva 
of freyeriana has but one black spot laterally on each segment and no dark striations in the joints. The 
cocoon is very similar to that of freyeriana. Staudinger also found one cocoon of green colouration. — As 
far as I know formosa has not been found in Syria as was stated by Seitz in Vol. 2, p. 28. The neaiest 
locality would be Malatia, where the subspecies malatiana Rbl. {St.gr. i. 1.) — not Stgr.-Reb. — is found. It is 
larger and more densely scaled and has a warmer shade of red. I he illustration in Vol. 2, pi. i h shows these 
(differences q U ite well. However the collar is not white, as is shown in the illustration but rose. 
The subspecies rosinae Korb from the mountains south of Kulp in Armenia, discovered early July 
1901 by Mrs. Rosine Korb, was classified as belonging to formosa following an examination of the genitalia 
by Burgeff. It is rather larger in form than formosa and has a nice rosy red colouration. Besides the rosy 
red palpi that occur in both sexes of this subspecies, the al so has a rosy red frons. The scapulae both 
of the and $ are rosy red. The central spots (3 and 4) are always separated from the apical spot (5 and 6) 
by the blackish ground colour, whilst in formosa the upper outer angle of spot 4 is always faintly conting¬ 
ent with the lower inner angle of spot 5. — Mr. and Mrs. Korb found the larvae at the end of May and 
early June on a species of vetch (Coronilla) with yellow blossoms growing on fairly bare, dry mountain slopes. 
It is described by Korb as being pale green with black dots on the anterior part of each segment, t he 
elongated cocoons are, according to Korb, smooth, whitish, a few with green colouration. According to this 
the larvae and cocoon generally seem to be like those of formosa. In the early morning the imagines sat 
about on the blossoms of a scabiosa plant with small flowerheads. 
9. mangeri Group. 
p. 22, line 13 from below. Next to Z. mangeri Bgff. one should classify Z. rothschildi Reiss (p. 22). 
10. cocandica Group. 
p. 22, line 7 from below. Z. kavrigini Gr.-Grsh. (subsp.). Type race from Djilian-Tau and around 
Baldjouan (eastern Bokhara) in May at altitudes of 800—1200 m. Ground colour is blue-black. Scapulae, collar, 
in the $ sometimes the frons and a part of thorax are a vivid cinnabar-red. The abdomen is the same shade. 
Rarely in the more frequently in the $, the 2 first segments are not completely red. V ings have fairly 
wide yellowish fringes. The brilliant cinnabar-red spots of forewings have narrow yellowish edges, they are 
situate as shown in the illustration of kavrigini in Vol. 2, pi. 7 g. Hindwings have the same shade of red as 
the spots and a blue-black margin that varies in width and is scarcely different from that of cocandica. On 
underside the forewings are paler and the edges of the spots are less prominent. The size of the spots ot 
forewings vary, as does the thickness of the yellow circumscription, which is sometimes quite absent. It is 
very interesting to learn that Haberhauer Jr. discovered, according to a description by Staudinger, an almost 
identical population of this species at Samarkand at the end of May. Staudinger has named this rhodogastra, a 
name which at present may be deemed to be synonymous with kavrigini. Unless there is some mistake, the 
predominantly red Z. kavrigini is to be found on the lower spurs of the Hissar mountain chain at an altitude 
of 800—1200 m. 
