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wish than brown along postmedian line and in its posterior half. An obscure yellowish sinuous line decurrent near termen. Hind wing greyish yellow, discal spot minute, grey, placed very near to base. Whitish grey transverse lines gradually more numerous towards margin. Pattern on underside of wings sharply defined; fore wing vivid yellowish grey with a fuscous pattern, hind wing light greyish white, pattern grey. Discal spits brownish, elongated. Cilia medium long, brownish and yellowish grey shiny. Genitalia. Female: Bursa copulatrix elongated sacculiform, its wall sclerotized, hard; anterior portion lined with minute spines, otherwise spines longer and more robust. Apophyses anteriores short, posteriores medium long and thin. Papillae anales elongate, angular and not rutund as in most related species, (Fig. 1). Male: unknown. Bionomics. First stages and foodplant unknown. Aussmably on the wing at the beginning of summer: the specimen collected by the end of June was already rather worn. Distribution: Known only from the area of the Lake Balaton, Hungary. Holotype: ?, "Balatonszemes, 1960. 6.29. WETTSTEIN J." "Gen. 10.299,A.VOJNITS'.' Deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. I dedicate the new species to its collector, J. WETTSTEIN, an arduous lepidopterist who had already augmented our knowledge of our home fauna by numerous valuable data. Remarks. The new species differs strikingly from the "familiar" European - Central European forms. Somewhat similar forms occur only among the species described from Central Asia, however, even their habits are not close enough to warrant a more detailed comparison with E . wettsteini sp . nov . The present case again demonstrates that the "giant" genus Eupithecia cannot be considered as elaborated even in the European frame of reference. It is a special problem that the classification of the species within the genus is also apparently far from being solved: the new species as often as not do not fit into the traditionally circumscribed or artificially cast subgenera or speciesgroups. Not do these subgroups or group-classification reveal on what basis the various authors delimited the groups in question, not to speak of our extremely incomplete information on the Asiatic species. In my opinion, we should rest content at the present stage of elaboration with the statement that our species is an Eupithecia, and that attempts to establish relationships (that is, the evolvement of a reasonable system) can only be a task of the future . VOJNITS, A.: Űj araszolólepke Magyarországról: Eupithecia wettsteini sp. nov. (Lepidoptera) Szerző egy uj Eupithecia fajt ir le hazánkból, E.wettsteini sp.nov. néven, amelyet WETTSTEIN János Budapesti gyűjtő a Balaton mellékén fogott. Az uj faj felbukkanása rendkivül érdekes és váratlan: hozzá hasonló formák legközelebb Közép-Ázsiában élnek.
