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Gozmány, L.: A new Microlepidopteron from Montenegro

A New Microlepidopteron from Montenegro By L. A. GOZMÁNY, Budapest PSYCHIDAE Oreopsyche montenegrina sp. n. Alar expanse : 19—22 mm. Antennae 2/3, bipectinate, deep tawny black ; bairs on body dense, stiff, bardly wooly, blackish brown with patches of whitish shine on back ; hairs on base of wings white. Forewing elongate yet broae, apex blunt. Hindwing broad, rounded. Both wings hyaline, costa of forewing finely black. Larval case 24—28 mm long, swollen, barrel-shaped, sometimes almost globular, made of grass culm parts, irregularly glued to surface of sack ; densely covered with white, cobwebby silk when fastened on surface of rocks for pupation. The species is a near ally of pyrenaeella HS., and Birói Rbl., from the point of view of their larval cases. All other species of the genus make very different cases, mostly of a tubular shape, and they are never covered by white silk. However, pyrenaella HS. is browner, to wit, the hairs on its body ; it is also smaller, antennae decidedly brown ; known only from the Pyrenees. Birói Rbl., though with a similar larvas case, is much larger, its forewing exceedingly elongate, its antennae larger with longer pectination. Holotype male : „Mt. Medjed, Mts. Durmitor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia 27 June 1958, leg. Dr. Gozmány"; 3 Paratype males from same locality and of subsequent dates till 4 July 1958 ; 5 unfinished larval cases (young, the caterpillars having perished during voyage). The species is dedicated to commemorate the international entomological expedition to the Durmitor Mountanis, sponsored by the Government of Montenegro, Yugoslavia, in the summer of 1958. The types are deposited in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum.