Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)

Kovács, L.: Data to the knowledge of Hungarian Macrolepidoptera III. New taxa from the subfamily Hadeninae

stand nearer to one another than the taxon of the Carpathian Basin which essentially differs from both. The most important characteristics of the nominate form are, according to the original description, the rufous thorax, the purplish-tinged for wings, and the very large size of the black spots (stigmatibus

... permagnis) in the median field (7). We may add that the yellow dorsal streak is vivid, not suffused by greyish scales, and that the underside of the wings show an overall pale reddish hue. This description wholly applies to a pair of specimens in our collection bearing the label "Rossia, E. FRIVALDSZKY" (originating to our date, from KINDERMANN'S collecting in Eastern Russia), and to another pair labelled "Asia centr., Turkestan, Ili-Gebiet, coll. WAGNER" further there is one pair collected in Uralsk by WAGNER resp. HABERHAUER and two males found at Kuku-Noor coll. SCHAVERDA resp. in Ili-Gebiet coll. WAGNER. Hyssia cavernosa ssp. kaszabi ssp. n. (Fig. 1, right) The other eastern, Mongolian, form considerably differs from the above features. The alar expanse is bigger, the wings narrower, with more attenuate apices, darker basic colour — the females being black and only the males retaining the purplish shade. The light dorsal streak is wide and a clear ochreous yellow. The spots of the median field are also very large and sharply defined, as also the entire pattern. The male genital apparatus displays but meagre differences against that of the nominate form (Fig. 2, B). I dedicate the new subspecies to its collector, Dr. Z. KASZAB, Academician, the foremost explorer of the insect fauna of Mongolia. Holotype male: "Mongolia, Archangaj aimak, Exp. Dr. Z. KASZAB 30. VI. 1964 (nr. 233)", deposited in the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Paratypes: "Mongolia, Archangaj aimak, 30 VI. 1964, Nr. 233", 2 çf, "Bulgan aimak, 2. VII. 1964, Nr. 253", 2çf; "Central aimak, 3. VII. 1964, Nr. 260", 2çf, "4. VII. 1964, Nr. 267", 3 çf, and "9. VII. 1964, Nr. 286", 2 çf ; "Chentej aimak, 30. VII. 1965, Nr. 333" 2 çf ; "Suchebator aimak, 8. VIII. 1965 Nr. 378", 1 cf, 5 9. All specimens identified as "Hyssia cavernosa (EVEBSMANN) 1842" by SHELJTJZKO (21). All types deposited in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Fig. 1. Left: Hyssia gozmanyi sp. n. çf and 9 from Pacsa (light trap), Hungary; in the middle: Hyssia cavernosa Ev. çf from the Hi area, Turkestan; 9 from "Russia" (coU. E. FBIDVALDSZKY); right: Hyssia cavernosa ssp. kaszabi ssp. n. çf and 9 from Mongolia, leg. Z. KASZAB