Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1952)

Gozmány, L.: New Hungarian Microlepidoptera

Holotype : Vörs : Diássziget (Com. Zala), Hungary, 12. July, 1950, leg. Dr. Kaszab; Allotype : Sukoró : Meleghegy (Lake Velence) 12. July. 1951, leg. Dr. Kaszab; Paratype : with data as holotype ; there are other specimens from Lake Velence (8 females), Szár (Com. Fehér); Guggerhegy, Budapest; Kaposvár (Com. Somogy), leg. Pazsiczky (determined by Rebel as Prays curàsellus aberr. !). Holotype, allotype , paratype, and the majority of the other specimens in the Collection, of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, the others in the collections of the Mssrs­D r. Issekutz, N a 11 á n and Pazsiczky, who sent their specimens for determi nation to me last year. The distribution of pannonicus is as known to this date strictly Transdanuvian. flying in wet places or in the vicinity of humid terrains. Life history unknown, appearance of the moth in July. Aristotelia (Xystophora) lepidolampra sp. n. (Gelechiidae) Alar exp. : 15—16 mm. Face, head, and thorax of a light ivory color. Antennae ivory, 3/4. Labia palpi very long, 3,5 the diameter of eye, recurved, ascending, 2nd joint with small tuft of appressed scales, third joint 1/1, slender, pointed ; all ivory but the second joint (on the outside dark brown). Abdomen darker ivory with a light greyish tint. Legs ivory, tibia with long hairs. Forewings long, pointed, scintillating. The ivory is unconspicuosly darker along costa. Pattern : one brown spot in fold at 1/3, one at end of cell at 2/3, and some brownish irroration under apex, along termen and tornus. Cilia of the same color. Hindwings light grey, 1/1, cilia on dorsum 1,5/1, with a light reddish tint. Lepidolampra belongs to Group Л of Heinemann's Dorypliora (II. /1. p. 299), or Spuler's Xystophora (p. 374). It is easily distinguished from all its relatives by being the biggest of all. Flavicapitella Chr. and piilveratella H. —S., are dark brown, without any pattern at all ; charchariella Z., smaller, of a much darker clayish-yellow color, its pattern weak and washed. Holotype (abdomen broken away) : Vörs : Diássziget, (Kis-Balaton), Western Hungary, 14. July, 1950, leg. Dr. Kaszab; Paratype : Izsák (Com. Pest), Central Hungary, 19. July, 1910, female, leg. Schmidt. Both in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Subeidopliasia Kovácsi sp. n. (Plutellidae) Weber described (Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges,17. p. 218) the new genus Subeidophasia as the connecting link between Eidophasia and Plutella with the species annulatella Curt., incarnatella St eu d., senilella Zett., relagated to it, to which also bicingulata Zell., may be added having attained the status o-f bona species by now. Dr. Kovács caught 3 male plutelloid specimens at the Kisbalaton in the first part of October, 1950, which was followed by a veritable swarm of this species in the following weeks. 91 specimens were caught altogether by Drs. Kovács, Székessy, and J. Bunday. The new species has a remarkable similarity to annulatella Curt., and more especially to bicingulata Zell., and passes very well into this group, with exactly the same venation that Weber (loc. cit.) gives for Subeidophasia. Alar exp. : 18—20 mm. The new species can best be defined by comparing it with bicingulata Zell. Kovácsi is the smallest of all Subeidophasia. Its forewings are broader, and shorter than those of bicingulata Z. Termen by far not so oblique, broad, the wing being therefore nut club- but rather wedge-shaped, its color is more uniform, with sparser light coloring, the strongest mark is the bi-undulated black longitudinal streak. Of the strong and very conspicuous white costal striguláé there is almost nothing to be seen, or they are very meekly expressed, especially the two big white preapical 143

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