Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Kovács, L.: Data to the knowledge of Hungarian Macrolepidoptera. I

more than 80 exemplars). The third, median ocellus invariably has a white pupil; the upper might have either a point or an ocellus, and the fifth (of the anal corner) a minute, pupillate ocellus. The spots of the hind wing are medium large or small, the three central ones are disjointed. On the underside of the fore wing, the number of spots, respectively ocelli as well as the size of these latter, agree with those of the upperside. On the underside of the hind wing, the number of spots and ocelli is usually 4, their size as on the upperside. The colour of the spots is a deeper red on the underside. The features by which even single specimens of the Vértes populations can safely be recognized are the reduced, medially widely interrupted band of the fore wing, and the width of the apical section of the band, being the multiple dimensions of the usually separated lower spot (or section). In this respect, both of the nearest subspecies, namely ssp. euphrasia FRÜHST, and ssp. brigobanna FRÜHST., respectively their exemplars of a reduced band, are equally dissimilar. In these subspecies, the brown, respectively rufous, spots constituting the band are considerably narrower, their ocelli smaller, especially on the hind wings. Furthermore, the spots on the underside of the hind wings are smaller than on the upperside, and also annuliform, whereas the spots of the Vértes specimens are as large on the underside as on the upperside, or eventually even bigger, and the brown spot is more an area than a ring around the ocellus. All other differences are easily discernible from the figures. I introduce the new subspecies hy the name ssp. loricarum ssp. n. into literature (the name of the mountains, in Hungarian, commemorates a famous battle fought here in early Magyar history; vért = lorica, L. = breast-plate, cuirass). Holotype male: "Csákvár, 1961. V. 9., leg. DR. Z. KASZAB". Deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Paratypes: 1. in Coll. Mus. Nat. Hung. Hist. Nat.: Szár, 26 May, 1898, 2 çf, leg. L. ABAFI-AIGNER; 1 June, 1899, 1 çf, 10 June, 1900, 1 çf, May, 1906, 1 çf, 1 June, 1913, l çf 1 $, leg.ULBRicH; 18 May, 1911, 1 $, leg. RIEDL; 28 May, 1922, 2 çf, leg. A SCHMIDT; 12 May, 1941, 1 9, leg. J. MAJTHÉNYI; 12 May, 1943, 5 çf, leg. I. GERGELY; 20 May, 1951, ï çf, 3 June, 1954, 7 Q* 2 $, 30 May, 1956, 7 çf 1 $, leg. L. ISSEKUTZ; 11 June 1955, 1 cf 1 $, leg. GY. ÉHIK, 20 May, 1951, 1 çf, leg. IMRE KOVÁCS; 24 May, 1934, 1 çf, 26 May, 1940, 1 çf, 20 May, 1951, 1 çf, 27 May, 1956, 2 çf, 24 May, 1958, 8 ^3 $, leg. GY. LENGYEL; — Csákvár: 16 May, 1961, 1 $, 28 Mav, 1963, 1 çf, leg. J. Szőcs; 28 May, 1963, 3 ^2$, leg. GY. ÉHIK; 18 May, 1961, 7 çf 4 9, leg. GY. LENGYEL; — 2. in Coll. L. KOVÁCS: Szár: 12 May, 1943, 2 çf, leg. R. SZURDOKY; 20 May, 1951, 4 çf, leg. L. KOVÁCS. The new subspecies is also ecologically distinct of both the western and the northern medusa populations. The Mts. Vértes is namely a definitely warm and rather dry area, with a number of thermophilous plants and, as was mentioned above, many thermophilous insects. Such, among the macrolepidoptera, are: Pieris ergane HBN., Euxoa segnilis DTJP., Pyrrhia purpurina ESP., and Erannis ankerarici STGR. (this latter were also found hardly 200 m away from one of the localities of the new subspecies). The imagoes fly usually in the valleys, but on one occasion I have captured some specimens also in the second growth of a deforested area on a sunny hilltop. c. In the northeastern confines of the country, our medusa specimens derive from the following localities (in a west to east direction): Szin, Jósvafő, and Tornanádaska on the Borsod Karst, Garadna on the eastern margin of the Mts. Cserehát, and Hejce, Telkibánya, Potácsháza, Istvánkút, and Pálháza in the Zemplén Bange. A part of the localities are near the border, while one or two lie about 20—25 km