Kovács I. (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 78. (Budapest 1986)
Ronkay, L.: On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palearctic and Indo-Australian Plusiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 78. Budapest, 1986 p. 205-218. On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic and Indo-Australian Plusiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)* by L. RONKAY, Budapest Abstract —• Descriptions of three new species, Macdunnoughia hybrida sp. n., Trichoplusia indica sp. n. and Polychrysia marmorea sp. n., notes on the taxonomic status of Autographa khinjana, sp. bona and Diachrysia chrysitis generosa ssp. bona. Records of Plusiinae species from Korea, India, Vietnam, Ceylon, Australia and New Guinea from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum are given. With 1 photoplate and 30 figures. 1. DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW SPECIES Macdunnoughia hybrida sp. n. (Plate: 1—2) Holotype : çf, "N Korea, Prov. North Pyongan, Mt. Myohyang-san, near Hotel Myohyang, No. 663, leg. Forró et Topái, 13. IX. 1980" "Gen. prep. No. 226 L. Ronkay", deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM). — Paratypes: 18 rfçf +5 9 9 : from same locality and data. 1 9 • from same locality, 12. IX. 1980. 1 0 "+l 9 : from same locality, 14. IX. 1980; 1 çf Korea, Pyongyang City, 10. IX. 1980, leg. Forró and Topái, No. 633. 1 çf; Korea, Pyongyang City, Mt. Ryongak-san, 27. VII. 1982, leg. Forró and Ronkay, No. 870. 1 9 : Korea, Prov. S Hwanghae, Sariwon, 28. IX. 1978, leg. Vojnits and Zombori, No. 423. 1 çf 4-3 9 : Korea, Prov. Kangwon, Mt. Kumgang-san, 18. IX. 1980, leg. Forró and Topái, No. 705. 1 çf : from same locality, 9-11. VII. 1977, leg. Á. Dely-Draskovits and O. Dely, No. 351. All the specimens are deposited in the HNHM Budapest. — l çf : China, Mukden, Dong Ling, 10. V. 1959, Ing. Vlad Zouhar, in the Zoologische Staatssammlung Munich. — Slides: Nos 91, 210, 213, 214, 217, 219, 220, 221, 223, 229, 1025, 1032, 1033, 1320, 1789, 1902, 1903 (males), 215, 216, 222, 224, 225, 227, 228 (females). Description — Head reddish brown with some greyish hairs, collar dark red-brown with two whitish arches and some orange-red scales. Thorax reddish brown with silvery-white margins, metathoracic tuft with orange-brown tip. Fore wing purple grey with some silvery grey shade and strong reddish-brown irroration in median field. Basal line short, fine silvery white line defined with brown, antemedial double, upper part pale, brownish, lower part strong, straight, silvery-white, outer brownish shadow wide. Orbicular small, oblique, flattened, lower part of it finely encircled with a silvery line, reniform with silvery grey outline, constricted at middle and with a silver streak above lower third, filling of reniform brownish. Darkest part of wing the medial area below the cell, deep red-brown with a velvet shade and more or less strong orange-brown irroration, strongest at lower extremity of stigma. Stigma bilobate or conjoined, large, brilliant silvery. Postmedial line double, rather pale, upper part with purplish grey shadow at outer edge, its filling grey, lower part silvery, mostly at inner margin. Subterminal sinuous, brown, upper part crossed through a bronzebrown field, defined by a dark shadow at apex. Terminal line blackish, defined by a white line from apex to vein c/^. Cilia grey with dark patch at vein /» 3 . Hind wing cupreous brown, veins covered with brown, terminal area wide, dark. Cellular lunule and transversal line obsolescent, cilia white with brown spots. Underside of wings ochreous brown, fore wing strongly covered with dark brown except at place of stigma and inner margin. Transversal line clearly visible, terminal line light. Hind wing with more or less dark brownish irroration, cellular lunule and transversal line dark, terminal area •Zoological Collectings by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Korea, No. 80. Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung., 78, 1986
