Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Kovács, L.: Data to the knowledge of Hungarian Macrolepidoptera. I

long, narrow, and pointed shape, occasionally so elongated that it almost reaches the margin of the wing and becoming twice as long as the white spot above it. On the underside of the hind wing, the frame of the ocelli are sharply defined, never tinted by whitish or yellowish scales. Similarly large forms appear only considerably further to the south, e.g. in south Tyrolian (Castel Tessino), or Albanian (Dzura, Kuci) materials, but their black striae and spots are essentially wider and their basic colour yellowish green instead of white. At any rate, the large spot between the median veins on the hind wing is rather elongated also on the Tyrolian specimens. I introduce the new subspecies under the name ssp. bugaeensis ssp.n. into literature (Bugac = one of the first known localities of the new taxon). Holotype male: "Bugac, 7 July, 19G5, leg. P. AGÓCSY". Deposited in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Paratypes: Bugac: 20—22 June, 1950, 4 çf, leg. BAJÁRI et MÓCZÁR; 7 July, 1965, 1 cf 1 $, leg. P. AGÓCSY; Kelebia, 12 July, 1965, 1 çf 3 $, leg. J. JÁRFÁS; Harta, 25 June, 1965, 3 çf, leg. J. JÁRFÁS. Deposited in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. — Tompa: 24 June, 1955, 1 çf, leg. L. KOVÁCS; deposited in the collection of the author. The specimens deriving from Bugac had been collected on loose sands, in one of the warmest areas of the country. I captured my specimen in Tompa also in a sandy region, on a wooded sand dune typical for the Plains, with white poplar (Populus alba) as the dominant tree species. A new species of the subfamily Cuculliinae from Hungary The new Noctuid moth was found, for the first time in 1962, in the materials of the nationwide light-trap network whose materials are worked up by the Identification Group in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, to support forest and plant protection research. The animals differed, both in colour and pattern, from its simultaneously appearing nearest ally, Brachionycha sphinx HUFN., hence they immediately demanded attention. The description of the new species is as follows: Brachionycha decipulae sp. n; Head gray, antennae brownish grey, bilaterally serrate, labial palps short, porrect, terminal joint bare, otherwise densely haired, tongue undeveloped, thorax brownish grey, slightly lighter than basic colour of fore wing, scapulae margined sharply black outside and inside. Basic colour of fore wing pruinose grey, with more or less blackish suffusion. Pattern consisting of moderately defined ante- and postmedian lines, embracing zigzaggy black praediscal line. Postmedian first wddely arcuate outwards, then curving inward, reaching dorsum approximately in middle of wing, where 3 main lines rather converge. Marginal field bisected by a zigzaggy white marginal line, backing black, sagittiform spots in intravenal fields, continuing on other side of marginal line as short, black lines toward termen. A fine, black line decurrent from base toward elbow of antemedian, but not reaching it. Orbicular usually represented by two fine black lines, site of reniform generally appearing as a spot paler than basic colour. Pringe grey, with short, white interruptions. Hind wing white, with grey dots, their number increasing basad but becoming rarer toward outer margin; a narrow stripe left free in front of anal corner. Boundary between alar surface and