Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1954)
Gozmány, L.: Studies on Microlepidoptera
with black, more blackish outwards, tip white, terminal joint pointed, inside white, outside with white and black streaks. Antennae longer than 1 J 2 , blackish. Forewings elongated, bronzy fuscous with some cupreous sheen, with 5 pure white streaks ; the first three parallel, 4th and 5th oblique towards first three, with uniform distance from each other, not reaching middle of wing. Apex with black spot, no silver dot within. Cilia dark with white incision below apex ; one minute white streak under apex and a second, larger, on tornus, pointed toward third costal streak. Of the three specimens a very inconspicuous and very oblique white dorsal streak on the left forewing of Allotype female only. Hindwings half as broad as forewings, greyish with some yellowish tint. Underside of forewings brownish black, white streaks more or less visible (extreme 2—3). Abdomen greenish bronzy fuscous, anal tuft somewhat lighter. Legs of same color, tips of joints white. Holotype male : 14, May, 1951, Kislaki erdő, on Prunus spinosa, Kaposvár, SW. Hungary, leg. N a 11 á n ; paratype male : 19, May, 1951, allotype female : 3, June, 1951, localities the same. According to Mr N a 11 á n, the two latter were sitting on »grasses«. Of all Valear die Gly phi pteryx species this is the smallest of all. I have even compared it with pygmaeella Rbl., of the Canary isles but even this is 7 mm large. A curious feature is the seemingly absent characteristical white dorsal mark, then the absence of the silvery, iridescent spots along the termen, and so can only be compared with cramerella Fabr., (= fischeriella Zell.). This latter is, however, larger, with a conspicuous white dorsal streak. In the male genitalia it differs from cramerella F., in having a sharp, pointed cornutus ; aedoeagus simple, with no thorns. Besides, N. Nattán also caught cramerella F., at the same time and place (Fig. 14.). I dedicate this new species to honor Mr. Nicholas Nattán, the zealous and excellent collector in SW. Hungary, discoverer of many new and rare Lepidoptera. Holotype and allotype in the Collection of the Hung. Nat. Hist. Museum, paratype in the collection of Mr. Nattán, Kaposvár. Gnorimoschema census sp. n. Alar exp. : 14 mm. Head and thorax brown ; face bone-white ; labial palpi big, recurved, ascending, brownish, second joint brown, third joint base white, tip blackish. Antennae brown with inconspicuous light ringing. Forewings dark brown with three suffused yet rather big blackish-brown spots : one in fold at 7», two further away to apex in cell, at middle and end. The basic dark brown color abruptly ends in a vertical straight line at 3 / 4 of wing, from then on, to extreme apex, it is a smooth creamy white with some light brownish scales in middle of this light area. Ciliae light grey, lighter around apex (almost white). Hindwings grey, ciliae somewhat darker then on forewings. Underside of wings shiny brown, hindwings greyish. Abdomen dark, legs also. This species, with regard to its remarkable pattern, somewhat resembles Trichophaga tapetzella L. And though I have scanned over the whole Gnorimoschema literature at my disposal, this dreary task never presented me with any species which might resemble mine. It was caught during census work done on lepidoptera imagines by the aid of lamps near Budapest on a forest clearing
