Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

Phylum Arthropoda 137 gesting that the other papers cited here were used. They also incorporated data in the Hungarian National Museum on moths and butterflies collected for identification purposes by GYULA MADARÁSZ by Fertő. Some data from the authors of Fauna Regni Hungáriáé needs treating with caution, for instance for occurrences of the Apollo (Parnassius apollo) at Kőszeg, as the specimens are missing. A subspecies in the West Hungarian border region, Parnassius apollo serpentinicus, differs from the Carpathian subspecies in having smaller, yellower wings. The type locality is Borostyánkő (Bernstein), where it was common at the turn of the 20th century.

52 EDE ULBRICH collected Lepidoptera on the Austrian side of the Kőszeg Hills in June 1901 and 1902, in the vicinity of Tárcsa (Bad Tatzmannsdorf) and Felsőlövő and on Gerinc Hill (Kimmberg or Kienberg, 805 m) to the north of Borostyánkő, and published his findings in list form (ULBRICH 1904). STEPHAN AUMÜLLER published a three-part study on the Lepidoptera fauna of the Leitha Hills,

53 while HANS REISSER covered the Microlepidoptera of Lower Austria and the Fertő district.

54 The first truly reliable data come from the collections of 1936-7, where Lepidoptera were mainly the task of JÓZSEF SZENT-IVÁNY, although he was unable to join the third expedition. He nonetheless gathered a sizeable quantity of material in 1937, of which he gathered most (from the first three weeks of July 1937) with ZOLTÁN KASZAB using lamps and lures. Also important was the work by GYULA LENGYEL, also with lamps and lures, in March 1936. When it came to the processing, SZENTIVÁNY also identified earlier moths and butterflies collected for the Kőszeg Museum by ALADÁR VISNYA and GYULA VÉGH. The enumeration soon appeared in two parts, the fauna list of the first (SZENT-IVÁNY 193 7) containing 434 Macrolepidoptera, of which 300 were nocturnal species. By the time the second study was ready (SZENT-IVÁNY 1939a), there was new collection material available (for instance by ADORJÁN KESSELYÁKon July 2-6, 1938 and JÓZSEF SZENT-IVÁNY on December 5, 1937), but the author published only the records of the tabbies (Pyralidae). He augmented his work with written data (VÁNGEL 1905b). In later studies, he dealt again with the Lepidoptera of the area (SZENTIVÁNY 1939b and 1941a) and gave further data (SZENT-IVÁNY 1940b and 1943). The insect mines known in Hungary were written up by PÁL SURÁNYI (1942). His account includes several mines made by Lepidoptera (and insects in other taxa) in Western Hungary. 52 BÁLINT, ZS. 1996. A Kárpát-medence nappali lepkéi I. (Butterflies of the Carpathian Basin I). MME Könyvtára (Hungarian Ornithological Association Library series), 12, 183 pp. + xii tables. Budapest: Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület. 53 AUMÜLLER, ST. 1934. Die Schmetterlinge fauna des Leithagebirges. Burgenlandische Heimatblätter 3:1-8, 38-48 and 76-80. 54 REISSER, H. 1949. Neue oder bemerkenswerte Falterfunde aus dem Burgenland und aus Niederösterreich. Zeitschrift der Wiener entomologischen Gesellschaft 34:141-6; REISSER, H. 1959. Microlepidopteren v. Niederösterreich und vom Neusiedler See. Zeitschrift der Wiener entomologischen Gesellschaft 44:33-9.