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)

Trichoplusia indica sp. n. (Plate: 6) Holotype rf: "India, Shimoga District, Karnataka, Jog Falls, 500 m, 2 March 1980, leg. Gy. Topái, No. 167", "Gen. prep. No, 713 L. Ronkay". Deposited in the HNHM, Budapest. Description : Head dark reddish-brown, palpi relatively short, with violet-brown hairs and scales on outer side. Collar and thorax violet brown, margins rosy grey, abdomen light brown with some bronze shade, dorsal crest consisting of dark brown tufts, anal tufts very small, ochreous brown. Fore wing carneous grey with metallic bronze shade, brownish and greyish irroration. Basal line double, inner side blackish-brown, outer side dark brown, fine, basal field partly covered with rosy grey, mostly on veins; in middle part with an oblique, obsolescent darker stripe. Antemedial line double, brown, strongly sinuous at costa, oblique and more or less straight below the cell, filled with pink. Darkest part of wing the medial area, mostly below cell with dark brown irroration. Filling of cell lighter, carneous grey, orbicular, flattened, oblique, encircled with pink, filled with dark brown and some blackish spots. Reniform rather obsolescent with very fine pinkish outline and dark brown spots inside. Stigma silvery white, U-shaped, outer extremity somewhat wider, filling of stigma carneous. Postmedial line strongly sinuous, double, brownish filled with pinkish and with rosy grey shadow on both sides. Subterminal line strongly waved, dark shadow on inner side wide, diffuse. Terminal field with whitish line consisting of conjoined spots defined by some darker brown spots, terminal line rosy-white with black spots inside, cilia brownish with darker spots. Hind wing ochreous white, cellular lunule very pale, transversal line consisting of some darker spots on veins, veins partly covered with brown. Marginal field wide, dark brown with a darker Une at middle. Terminal line consisting of dark brown spots defined by fine white fine inside. Cilia whitish with some dark spots. Underside ochreous, fore wing strongly irrorated with brown. Outer part of cell very dark, this field nearly unicolorous, only shadow of stigma slightly visible. Terminal line a row of dark spots, cilia whitish with darker pattern. Hind wing with dark stripe from transversal line to middle of terminal area, cellular lunule narrow, terminal line orange, cilia whitish with dark brown spots. Alar expanse 29 mm, length of fore wing 14 mm. Male genitalia (Figs 10-11) : Uncus long and pointed, tegumen high, fultura inferior a rounded, less sclerotized lamina, vinculum slender, relatively long. Valvae elongate, narrow, cucullus rounded, corona slightly developed. Clavus finger-like, long, ampulla wide-based, strong and pointed, slightly curved, sacculus short, upper part of it strongly sclerotized. Aedoeagus moderately long and thick, ventral ribbon furcate, rather strong, continued distally in a sclerotized appendage. Vesica with a basal spinulate zone and two strongly curved, large cornuti near to distal end of aedoeagus. Distribution : India. Specific differences and systematic position — The new species is similar in its appearence to Trichoplusia hedysma (DE JOANNIS, 1929) {-scelionis CHOU et Lu, 1979, syn. n.) but it is darker, its stigma is smaller, silvery and not whitish, the outer margin of the valvae without a rounded extension near to apex, the clavus is, much shorter, the vesica is with only two cornuti (hedysma has two bundles of spiniform cornuti). The new species also resembles to the species of the genus Acanthoplusia DUFAY, 1970 but the forewing of indica is shorter, less acute, the stigma is smaller. The configuration of the male genitalia is quite different the valvae are without spines on the outer edge (this character appears in the genus Acanthoplusia only in case of herbuloti DUFAY, 1982), the vesica has only two cornuti while the vesica of Acanthoplusia species have a different armature consisting of a dentated lamina, a spinulose field and cornuti. Based on its morphological characters the new species should be placed next to hedysma but the morphological distance between the two is large. Polychrysia marmorea sp. n. (Plate: 7) Holotype 9

: "Siao-Lou, Chasseurs indigenes du P. Déjean, 1903", "coll. K. Höfer", "spec. ?.", Gen. prep. No. 1661 L. Ronkay, deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien. Description : head and thorax dark red-brown, frons with whitish stripe, labial palp with dark brown scales, third joint relatively short, about 3

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5 of length of second joint. Base of collar fiery red, upper margin whitish, metathoracic tuft large, reddich brown with whitish tip. Fore wing pinkish grey with more or less strong brilliant bronze-brownish irroration. Basal line simple, brown, with very pale whitish shadow, basal field with wide brownish stripe being increasingly narrower