["Zygaena hilaris" ssp. "galliae" Oberthür, 1910] (7k) has no black but only light dots (remnants of the edging), and lastly ab. "unicolor" Oberth. ["Zygaena hilaris" ssp. "galliae" Oberthür, 1910] (7k) in which the wings are uniformly red, being narrowly bordered with black. Larva very short and thick, yellow, anteriorly greenish, with dorso-lateral rows of thick black dots; head brown. In June on Ononis. Pupa brown, in a yellowish grey or brownish wrinkly cocoon. The moths fly especially in the morning till 11 o'clock and again in the afternoon from 4, on dry sunny hills and on the cornfields situated between the mountains. They always whiz about quite low, about 20 cm only above the ground, resting with preference on clusters of Thyme. They vary strongly, Oberthur recording, besides the above-mentioned forms, also aberrations with coffee-brown wings. These moths have two generations (bivoltine) from May to July and from August to September. Adults fly from late June to July. The larvae feed on "Dorycnium" species and on various "Ononis" species ("Ononis repens", "Ononis natrix", "Ononis pinnata", "Ononis minutissima", "Ononis aragonensis", "Ononis diffusa", "Ononis procrens", "Ononis speciosa", "Ononis spinosa", "Ononis arvensis").