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scription some older (Sliven, leg. HABERHAUER, in coll. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, NHMW) and newer specimens (Prilep and Strumica, Yugoslavia, light trap, in coll. HNHM; SW Bulgaria, several localities) were recorded from central and eastern parts of the Balkans; and, surprisingly, the oldest "new" specimen from the Carpathian Basin was found in the coll. of LIPTHAY from BorosjenS (3.XH.1935, leg. DIOSZEGHY, in coll. HNHMl (= Ineu, Romania) at the foothills of the W Transylvanian Mountains. In the last years syriaca was collected both in Eastern Anatolia (Gürün, leg. FRIEDEL and PINKER, in coll. FRIEDEL, Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, coll. PINKER and VARTIAN, Vienna) and in the Armenian SSR (Mts. Aragats, leg. et coll. VARGA). On the basis of this larger material a considerable amount of variation can be observed both in decipulae and syriaca and the formerly supposed geographical hiatus between the ranges of them was eliminated by the numerous new records. Therefore the suggested specific distinction of the two taxa became doubtful. The study of the characters formerly considered to be the basis of the specific distinction pointed out they have or a more or less large overlap or they show a continuous line of variation. Figs 6-14. Brachionycha syriaca decipulae Kovács (6-7: paratypes, Makkoshotyka, 8: Sikfőkut, 9: Várgesztes; 10-11: Macedonia, Strumica, 12-13: Prilep; 14: Bulgaria, Kozuch)