Addenda: ZYGAENA. By H. Reiss. 
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and antennae, which is not shown by any other known meliloti race. r l he red is carmine rose. Generally on hind- 
wings there is a more or less distinct yellowish antemargin between the red ground colour and the light 
margins. The dark and fairly long fringes contrast sharply from same. On underside of forewings the area 
beyond the spots is strikingly uniformly scaled with yellowish. Those specimens with the yellowish inteiposuie 
on liindwings show this most markedly. In these cases the upperside of forewings also shows a heavier yellow 
gloss. This yellow scaling on underside of forewings is much more pronounced than in the typical races of 
meliloti. The yellowish interposure is also distinctly visible on underside of hindwings. Abdomen without 
red belt. Spots of forewings are arranged similarly to those of meliloti and are just as variable in size. 
p. 32, line 11 from below. I possess the var. mongolica Ml. (= mongolica Stgr. i. 1.) from Urga in Mon¬ 
golia and similar specimens from the Baikal mountains (Province of Irkutsk) captured in July. The latter 
closely resemble var. dahurica Bsd. from Daurien in eastern Siberia. The var. dahurica, according to the 
description, is one quarter larger than meliloti with heavier antennae, more rounded forewings with five spots, 
which resemble those of meliloti. It is also more densely scaled. Hindwings are somewhat paler red with wider 
black margins. 
The subsp. confusa Stgr. that is typical of Ala-Tau (collected by Haberhauer) occurs, according to 
Lederer also in the Altai. I have received a few similar specimens from Saissansk, Saur mountains, I arba- 
gatai. A small number of some 200 specimens submitted to Staudtnger for classification and description, 
looked like meliloti-. ab. pseudomeliloti ab. nov. The majority however had confluent spots. Frequently only j^eudome-^ 
spots 3 and 5 and then again spots 2 and 4 were confluent, rarely the spots of forewings were confluent 
approximately as in brizae. 
p. 32, line 5 from below. Z. niphona Btlr. The distribution spreads from the Ussuri and Amur 
territories through Corea on the main land and over the entire Japan to Formosa. The type race originates 
from around Yokohama in Japan. Specimens that I have from Nagasaki correspond best to the description 
given. The populations of S. Japan will be the same as typical nipliona , except for those that occur high 
up in the mountains. The northern japanese populations appear to have greater resemblance to christophi 
Stgr of the main land. The southern japanese niphona nearly all show rather heavily enlarged spot markings 
on forewings, which become more or less confluent in pairs. The apex of forewings is rounded off. Ground 
colour is a dull metallic green. Spots 3 and 5 of forewings are finely conjoined along the vein. Spot 6 is 
small, inclined to be suppressed and is contingent to spot 5. Also spots 2 and 4 are more or less inclined 
to become confluent. On underside of forewings there is a pale yellowish silky gloss extending over the 
spot area and beyond same almost to apex of wing. On hindwings there is a blackish, often almost obsolete 
margin, which is widest at apex. In the $ this margin of hindwings is even less pronounced than m $ In 
contrast to the dark green thorax, the abdomen appears to be a deep blue with a delicate reddish sheen. 
It has a pale carmine red belt on 2-3 segments. In ab. qumquemaculata Reiss spot (3 of forewings is either 
completely absent, or only just visible on upperside. 
The subsp. christophi Stgr., the type race of which is found at Raddefka in the Amur and Ussuri christophi. 
territories, differs materially from typical niphona. It has more pointed wings, a more pronounced blue and 
less green gloss on forewings and thorax. The reduction in size of spots 1 to 5 and their brilliantly contiast- 
ing red colour and further the distinct increase in size and prominence of spot 6, which only very rarely 
is absent, serve to distinguish same. Besides the margin of hindwings is rather heavier and certainly more 
distinct, especially in the — ab. quinquemaculata Reiss (see above) also occurs, as does — ab. cotiiluens Reiss m qmnquemcc 
which spots 2 and 4, as well as 3 and 5 become completely confluent. A rare form is when only one of these ( , onflueHS _ 
pairs is confluent longitudinally. 
var. coreana Reiss denominates specimens captured end July to early August at Sei-shm m X. Corea. 
The main characteristic of this race is that spot 6 of forewings more or less diffuses and becomes rudiment¬ 
ary. Spots 3 and 4, as in christophi, are more or less distinctly separated. Spot 4 is cubiform, rarely as 
large as in niphona. Five-spotted specimens are not rare. Here also ab. confluens Reiss occurs. In very few 
specimens (generally $$) spot 6 is more or less closely conjoined to spot 5, as occurs m the majority of 
typical christophi. This form is named: ab. pseudochtistophi Reiss. 
coreana. 
pseudo¬ 
christophi. 
p. 32, line 3 from below. Z. cilicica Bgff. The specimen illustrated on pi. 3 li is a The types 
(2 d'd') of Herrich-Schaefer originated from around Amasia. Specimens from the Taurus, to which also 
the illustrated specimen belongs, appear more robust and seem to have wider wings than the type from Amasia 
figured by Herrich-Schaefer. 
p. 33, line 13 from top. Z. filipendulae L. Guhn has denominated as purpuraloides specimens of 
subsp. pulchrior captured around Berlin having spots 3, 5 and 6 confluent. This seems to be synonymous with 
ab. confluens Oberth., the types of which originate from England. The form pseudotuth Guhn denotes a 
