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a white arch and a blackish spot. Terminal line fine, blackish with some black triangles, basis of cilia whitish, outer side of it dark grey. Hind wing white or whitish, veins and a part of narrow terminal field covered with brown. Cellular lunule well discernible, cilia whitish with dark spots. Underside whitish, fore wing strongly covered with grey, cellular lunule and transversal line slightly visible, hind wing lighter with strong cellular spot. Female: ground colour of fore wing somewhat darker, elements of light grey pattern less visible, hind wing much darker, underside of wings more fumous grey. This new subspecies can be characterized by its broader shape of wings, the absence of greenish irroration and the unusual, fine

,reticulate arrangement of scales on the fore wing. The male genitalia has the same configuration as in case of the nominate subspecies but the large, subtriangular upper lobe of the harpe in more quadrangular (see Figs 26-36) and the apical cornutus of the vesica much more slender and longer. This eastern marginal race - on the basis of the series of distinguishing characters mentioned above - can be unambiguously separated from the other, geographically more diffusely varying populations of this widespread, expansive pontomediterranean species. Polymixis manlsadjiani vardikiani ssp. n. (Plate: 11) Holotype: male, "USSR, Armenia, Aragats Mts., Antarut, 1956 m, No. 201, 20.IX.

1982, leg. MERKL et RONKAY", deposited in coll. HNHM, Budapest. Paratypes: 2 6" from same locality, No. 202, 21.IX. 1982, leg. MERKL et RONKAY (in coll. HNHM); 4 S from same locality, 27-28. IX.

1983, leg. Z. VARGA (coll. VARGA); 14 6", 2 o. Armenia, Geghard, 1700 m, 3-11.LX.1975, leg. VARTIAN (coll. VAR TIA N); 1 S from same locality, 1500 m, No. 174, 14.IX.1982,leg.MERKL et RONKAY (coll. HNHM). Slide: No. 784 RONKAY ( Ó" ). Description: Alar expanse 37-41 mm, length of fore wing 16-20 mm. Head greyish with some ochreous and brown hairs, palp dark grey with whitish tip. Thorax blackish grey with some yellowish hairs on collar and thoracic tufts. Ground colour of fore wing dark ashy grey, strongly covered with dark blackish grey and slight yellowish irroration mostly in medial area and at subterminal line. Transversal lines sinuous, double, filled with light grey. Orbicular a small, rounded spot, slightly lighter than ground colour, its dark outline usually not visible. Reniform large, elliptical, consists of whitish and greyish spots, outline of it usually absent. Subterminal line a row of blackish triangles, cilia yellowish white with dark brownish-grey pattern. Hind wing pure white with some darker shade on marginal field and outer part of veins, cellular lunule a pale shadow. Terminal line dark brown, cilia whitish with more or less strong darker line at middle. Underside of fore wing pale greyish with darker irroration at margins, costa with blackish-brown spots. Cellular lunule a brownish spot in whitish field, transversal line well visible at costal margin, lower part deleted. Underside of hind wing pure white with some darker scales at margins, cellular lunule and upper part of transversal line darker grey. Male genitalia (Figs 37-38): Uncus short and pointed, 'tegumen moderately high with wide lobes of peniculi, fultura inferior a rounded, subtriangular lamina, vinculum short, V-shaped. Valvae wide-based, relatively short, sacculus large, clavus reduced. Harpe a long stick, ampulla relatively long, finger-like. Pollex long, subcylindrical, cucullus narrow, corona reduced. Aedoeagus elongate, slightly sinuous, distal end with two arcuate laminae, vesica with a bundle of long, spiculiform c ornuti

. The new subspecies in its appearence differs from the nominate race both with external and genitalic features, it can be separated very easily from the typical manisadliani (Staudinger, 1881) by its much darker and unicolorous fore wing and narrower dark marginal field of the hind wing. The male genitalia of the manisadliani vardikiani has also good distinguishing characters, as follows: cucullus of it much narrower than in case of the nominate race, pollex stronger, ampulla smooth, distal laminae of aedoeagus much wider (Fig 39-41). The Polymixis blschoffi-culoti group The species, bischoffi was described by HERRICH-SCHÁFFER (1848; II., p. 265, Figs 440, 449) based on one male (Fig. 440) and one female (Fig. 449) of which only the latter was preserved in the FRIVALDSZKY collection (HNHM). Judged from the figures, the male and the female specimens could not belong to one and the same species. Very probably the male belonged to an Apamea species (perhaps the dark, bluish form of A. zeta Treitschke, 1825 flying on Uludagh by Brussa;