Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 59. (Budapest 1967)
Gozmány, L.: New Symmocid moths (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.)
354 L. A. GOZMÁNY The new genus stands nearest to Catasphalma GOZMÁNY, 1957, but the common stalk of the bifurcating veins are considerably longer, while the external features approach, or are similar to, those of Donaspastus GOZMÁNY, 1952, to which I had erroneously relegated this Indian species in 1957. Instead of examining a photograph, I had now occasion to study the type-specimens themselves, and a thorough check of the venation revealed their status distinct from all known genera. Mylothra christophi sp. n. Alar expanse: 16—18 mm (male); female unknown. Head, thorax, scapulae, labial palpi dark to medium chocolate brown with some fawnish tinge, antennae dark grey, labial palpi above with a whitish line. Forewing largely dark fawnish with a strong admixture of chocolate brown scales ; white scales present rather in apical area; diseocellular spots confluent, together with indistinctly outlined veins in apical area dark chocolate brown; a pair of dots at 1/3 (that in fold nearer to base!); cilia greyish white. Hindwing medium grey to greyish brown, cilia light to medium grey. Male genital organ (Fig. 2) : teguminal complex of main Symmocid characters, valva elongate, apically slightly excised, no costal appendage, transtillae relatively large arcuate lobes, marked by indistinctly undulating lines, hairy, sacculus obtusely digitiform, apically hardly or only very finely pointed, aedoeagus straight, with a double row of spiniform cornuti. Holotype male: "Schahrud $ 8.6.71 + CHRISTOPH Coll. 1910-427" slide 14009 BM; 2 male Paratypes, of same data, but one from "13. 6.71" slide 14007 BM. The typespecimens are deposited in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) London, one Paratype in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. The new species is closely allied to Nestorellus meyrichi GERASIMOV, 1930, and Mylothra sheherezade (GOZMÁNY, 1963). However, the transtillae of the former are straight, the sacculi otherwise construed; while the latter is also much lighter, of a creamy ochreous colour, and the sacculi narrower, longer, constricted in the middle, with a definitely beaky apex. Pcctciiercmus walsinghami sp. n. Syn.: Symmoca molitor WALSINGHAM, 1905, partim Alar expanse: 12—15 mm (male). Head, labial palpi, scape, scapulae, thorax dark ivory, mottled with light fawnish scales, antennae dark grey. Forewing light to darkish ivory, densely irrorated fawnish ; dot in fold at 1 / 3 and small diseocellular hardly indicated and rather indistinct, occasionally absent; cilia whitish with a broad subbasal grey shadow along termen. Hindwing rather dark grey, cilia grey. Male genital organ (Fig. 3) : valva rather broad, costal appendix short, slightly arcuate and digitiform, transtillae two sinuous, narrow and parallel bands, sacculus falcate, attenuate, terminally aciculiform, valval base with a longitudinal evagination or fold of membrane, subserrate, bearing some bristles (a unique feature in th& family!), aedoeagus slender, tubiform, straight, examined specimens without cornuti.
