Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 51. (Budapest 1959)

Gozmány, L.: The results of the zoological collecting trip to Egypt in 1957, of the Natural History Museum, Budapest. 6. Egyptian Microlepidoptera. Part I

towards termen, with dark russet brown scales in cell toward base and beyond two transverse bands in terminal area ; one almost vertical narrow and white band in almost middle of wing, very lightly broken at top of cell (at origin of r^, followed by a pale golden-yellow and broad, perpendicular band bordered on both sides by a reddis-brown hue ; five whitish striae on costa with dark brown interspaces : a white premarginal line bordered by russet Fig. 2 : A : Male genital organ (ventrally) and B : coremata of Borosia aegyptiaca sp. n. brown scales and five silvery-leaden spots backed by six black dots along termen ; ciliae yellowish-brown. Hindwing whitish brown, brown along margin, ciliae yellowish-white with a brown line. Intensity of tint, especially brown and russet areas and markings, highly variable, — there are quite light specimens, and I have one very dark, almost blackish one, too. Nearest to Cambridgei Z., which has however, a simpler pattern and nine marginal spots. Male genital organ : valva rather broad, elongated, its tip bending upwards in a rather sharp angle, costal hook very long, bent in a semicircle back into valva, almost joining base of very long, rather broad and slightly sinuous dorsal appendage ; sacculus as long as free end of valva (fig. 3 : B). Valva of Cambridgei Z. is much narrower, costal hook short, half as long as that of new taxon, dorsal appendage very thin, shorter. Female genital organ : subgenital