Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 57. (Budapest 1965)

Gozmány, L.: Tineid moths collected by Dr. Szunyoghy in Tanganyika in 1960 (Lepidoptera)

Fig. 3. Perissomastix ochropsamma (MEYRICK, 1908), lcctotype male, laterally, gen. prep. 10, 313: Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) years after the publication of its description. VIETTE also published a figure of the genital organ (Arkiv for Zoologi, 8, 1954, p. 533, Fig. 1), but, since it was imbedded in a ventral aspect, (gen. prep. 2864, VIETTE), it did not reveral the all-important lateral structure of the uncus. I have remounted the organ in a lateral position, and found that ZELLER'S taxon represents also two of ME Y RICK'S tineid taxa,namely ochropsamma and marcescens, both described on the basis of a single specimen, from Natal and Kenya, respectively, and also on the same page (Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1908, p. 739). I have examined both types in the British Museum (Natural History), and found their conspecificity established (gen. prep. 10.313 and 10.312, respectively). To complete the ventral aspect of the species as figured by VIETTE, I give herewith the lateral view, of ochropsamma MEYRICK, 1908 (Fig. 3). As is to be seen, the species belongs to the subgenus Crassicornella AGENJO, 1952. Porissomastix ehristinae sp. n. — Alar expanse: 28— 30 mm. Head orange, antennae greyish yellowish-white, scapulae, thorax, fore wings shining (sericeous) ivory yellow; costa of fore wing from base to x

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4 as well as cilia of both fore and hind wings light yellowish ; hind wing whitish grey. Female genital organ (Fig. 4.): genital plates with strong spines; introitus vaginae small, ductus relatively narrow, not sclerotized. without any special structure, bursa small. The taxon stands nearest to P. adamasta (MEYRICK, 1909) from the Transvaal, but its introitus is much longer, the ductus almost twice wider. Type material: Holotype female: "Nata, B. E. Africa, Tanganyika, 22. 11. 1960 (gen. prep. 1975)"; paratype female: "Seronera, B. E. Africa, Tanganyika, 28. II. 1960". In a material received from the German Entomological Institute, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, I found 2 male specimens of the new taxon, sent to the above institute by DR. J ANSE from Pretoria. The specimens have been identified as "Tinea tragoptila MEYRICK" by Dr. Janse. I include them as paratypes in the present description, and characterize the male sex as follows : Male genital organ (Fig. 5.): uncus deeply forked distally, ventral branch softer, hairy, dorsal branch lower, strongly chitinized, attenuating to a sharp point; uncus flaps bearing a shorter, strong, spiniform process medio-dorsally inside, and a conspicuous straight line from almost tip of ventral branch to middle of uncus also inside; lower (proximal) half of uncus semicircular, projecting dorsally; aedeagus long, narrow, attenuating, dorsal branch supporting anal opening; valvae narrowly subtriangular, apically pointed. The data of the two paratype males are: "3 (and 5, respectively), I. 18, Umtali, Rhodesia, A. J. T. JANSE; T. tragoptila MEYR. (gen. prep. 1995)". Holotype and paratypes in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and one paratype in the German Entomological Institute, Berlin-Friedrichshagen. I dedicate the new taxon to my daughter for her assistance rendered in the clerical work connected with my revision of the tineids of the Ethiopian Region. Episcardia RAGONOT, 1895 (= Cylicobathra MEYRICK, 1920; Voyage de Gh. ALLAUD et R. JEANNEL en Afrique Oriental, II, Microlepidoptera, p. 100), syn. nov.