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CAPUSE, IOSIF. — New and rare Palaearctic Tineidae (Lepidoptera) . 


CLAASENS, A. J. M. — Notes on fleas collected in the provinces of Noord- 
Brabant and Limburg, The Netherlands (Siphonaptera) . 


DIAKONOFF, A. — Records and descriptions of South Asiatic Micro- 
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À. J. M. CrAASSENs, MSc., F.R.E.S. — Notes on fleas collected in the provinces 
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NOTES ON FLEAS COLLECTED IN THE PROVINCES OF 
NOORD-BRABANT AND LIMBURG, THE NETHERLANDS 
(SIPHONAPTERA) 


BY 


AGNRININGENASSENSEM Se E.RES 
Department of Zoology, University College, Cork, Ireland 


ABSTRACT 


Twenty three species (954 specimens) of mammal fleas and two species (12 specimens) 
of bird fleas were taken from 19 species (336 specimens, 174 infested) of mammals. Nine 
species (2997 specimens) of bird fleas and five species (13 specimens) of mammal fleas 
were reared from 204 nests (77 infested) of 45 species of birds. All material was collected 
in the provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, The Netherlands, in 1964. 

Fifteen mammal fleas and five bird fleas were found to be new to Noord-Brabant and 
two mammal fleas and four bird fleas were new to Limburg. Thirteen species of birds and 
two mammals were added to Smir's list of hosts for Dutch fleas (SMIT, F. G. A. M, 
1962. “Catalogus der Nederlandse Siphonaptera”. Tijdschr. Ent. 105: 45—96, fig. 1-8). 
New flea-host-associations were ound for 25 flea hosts recorded by SMIT. 

The ecology, host and nest specificity, sex ratios and economic importance of fleas are 
discussed. 

Mammal fleas and bird fleas are dealt with separately under their relevant hosts or their 
nests. 

In a synopsis the geographical distribution of all fleas recorded from The Netherlands 
so far is indicated. 


INTRODUCTION 


In this paper, which is meant primarily as a report on Siphonaptera collected 
from mammals and birds’ nests taken in the provinces of Noord-Brabant and 
Limburg, The Netherlands, some obiter dicta will also be devoted to host and 
nest specificity, ecology, sex ratios and economic importance of the fleas recorded, 
while a synopsis of Dutch fleas and their distribution over provinces will be 
incorporated in the text. 

SMIT (1962a) enumerated 50 species and subspecies of fleas recorded from 
The Netherlands. Of these 39 are mammal parasites and the remainder have avian 
hosts. These figures compare well with those for the British Isles whence 16 bird 
fleas and 40 mammal fleas have been recorded (SMIT, 1957b) and with those 
known from Denmark where of 53 species and subspecies of fleas recorded by 
SMIT (1954), 13 are parasitic on birds. The bird flea fauna of Ireland consists 
of 13 species and subspecies of bird fleas and only 22 mammal fleas (CLAASSENS 
& O'ROURKE, 1965). 

The number of bird fleas occurring in mentioned countries is high as 
compared with a total of about 100 bird fleas known to occur in the world while 
the total of described species and subspecies of fleas amounts to nearly 1800. 


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The difference in the number of bird fleas in the four countries may be due 
partly to insufficient study, but must also be accounted for by the difference in 
ecological requirements of some host specific fleas. The species Ornithopsylla 
laetitiae Rothschild, occurring on Manx shearwater, Procellaria puffinus puffinus 
Brünnich, and the puffin, Fratercula arctica grabae (Brehm), has so far only been 
recorded from the isles west of the coast of England and Wales, and off the 
coast of Ireland (SMIT, 1957b). The house-martin fleas, Frontopsylla (Orfrontia) 
laeta (Jordan & Rothschild) and Callopsylla (Orneacus) waterstoni (Jordan), 
have been recorded only from nests of cliff building house-martins, Delichon 
urbica (Linnaeus), in Scotland (ALLAN, 1950; SMIT, 1952), and in Ireland 
(CLAASSENS, 1965a and 1965b). They are further known from Switzerland and 
the Caucasus (SMIT, 1957a), where they have a very limited recorded distribution. 

The relatively poor representation of mammal fleas in these countries is due 
to the scarcity of mammalian host species. The bird fauna in the same countries is 
much richer and hence bird fleas have access to a great diversity of hosts and 
nesting sites, two ecological requirements necessary for different species of fleas to 
thrive under the given climatic and geological conditions. Phylogenetically, bird 
fleas are derived from mammal fleas and this secondary evolution together with 
the wide distribution of many birds may be responsible for the catholic tendencies 
among bird fleas as regards their adaptive radiation, host specificity and geogra- 
phical distribution. 

Although bird fleas show a lesser degree of monoxenous parasitism than mam- 
mal fleas, some are restricted to definite hosts or their nests, but it is difficult to 
determine, in most cases, whether the nest, or the host in providing the nest, lies 
at the root of this predilection. 

Until 1962 only four bird fleas and eight mammal fleas were recorded from 
Noord-Brabant (SMIT, 1962a). The fleas of Limburg were fairly well known by 
that time, especially the bat fleas for the study of which the southern part of 
this province offers a unique opportunity. Moreover, this part of the country has 
many geological, floral and faunal peculiarities all of which of necessity lure 
naturalists of all kind to visit it and discover its secrets. 

From the many mammals and birds’ nests collected mainly during the months 
of October, November and December, 1964, the author recovered 23 species of 
mammal fleas and nine species of bird fleas. Records of 15 mammalian and five 
bird fleas were found to be new to Noord-Brabant and two of the former and 
four of the latter were new to Limburg. In the following synopsis of the recorded 
Dutch fleas all provinces from which a species was reported are given, while the 
provinces from which new records were made by the author, are marked with an 
asteric. The abbreviations used for the provinces and islands are as follows: G. = 
Groningen; F. — Friesland; D. — Drente; O. — Overijsel; Gld. — Gelderland; 
U. — Utrecht; NH. = Noord-Holland; ZH. = Zuid-Holland; Z. = Zeeland; 
NB. = Noord-Brabant; L. — Limburg; T. = Texel; V. = Vlieland; Ts. = 
Terschelling; A. = Ameland; S. — Schiermonnikoog; R. — Rottum. 

For the exact geographic position of the localities within the provinces from 
where fleas were recorded, see SMIT (1962a) on whose paper this synopsis is 
based and whose classification and nomenclature of Siphonaptera are used. The 


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geographical position of the provinces and islands of The Netherlands is shown 
in figure. 

We collected fleas from the following localities. 

Noord-Brabant: Beets, 51.43 N. 5.52 E; Boxtel, 51.35 N 5.20 E; Cuyk, 51.43 N 
5.53 E; Goirle, 51.31 N 5.04 E; Grave, 51.45 N 5.46 E; Loon op Zand, 51.38 
N 5.05 E; Mill, 51.41 N 5.49 E; Oisterwijk, 51.35 N 5.12 E; Schayk, 51.44 N 
5.28 E; St. Hubert, 51.40 N 5.50 E; St. Michiels Gestel, 51.38 N 5.21 E; Stra- 
brechtsche heide, 51.25 N 5.39 E; Tilburg, 51.33 N 5.07 E; Vught, 51.39 N 
5.18 E; Wanroy, 51.39 N 5.49 E. 

Limburg: Schinnen, 50.57 N 5.53 E; Venlo, 51.22 N 6.10 E; Venray, 51.32 N 
5.58) E. 


Belgium 


Provinces and islands of The Netherlands 


SYNOPSIS OF THE KNOWN DISTRIBUTION OF DUTCH FLEAS 


HYSTRICHOPSYLLIDAE 
Hystrichopsyllinae 


Hystrichopsylla (Hystrichopsylla) talpae talpae (Curtis, 1826), F. O. Gld. U. NH. 
ZARNZINBBE 
Typhloceras poppei Wagner, 1903, F. Gld. U. NH. *NB. L. 


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Doratopsyllinae 
Doratopsylla dasycnema dasycnema (Rothschild, 1897), Gld. *NB. *L. Ts. 


Ctenophthalminae 


Palaeopsylla soricis soricis (Dale, 1878), F. O. Gld. U. ZH. *NB. L. Ts. 

Palaeopsylla minor (Dale, 1878), F. O. Gld. U. NH. ZH. Z. NB. L. 

Cienophthalmus (Ctenophthalmus) bisoctodentatus heselhausi (Oudemans, 1914), 
G. O. Gld. NH. ZH. Z. NB. L. 

Ctenophthalmus (Ctenophthalmus) agyrtes agyrtes (Heller, 1896), G. F. D. O. 
Glass: 

Cienophthalmus (Ctenophthalmus) agyrtes smitianus Peus, 1950, Gld. U. NH. 
ZH. Z. NB. L. 

Ctenophthalmus (Euctenophthalmus) assimilis (Taschenberg, 1880), G. F. Gld. 
GEEN ENZ Zs NBA 

Cienophthalmus (Euctenophthalmus) congener congener Rothschild, 1907, G. 
O2Gld. ZNBT. 


Rhadinopsyllinae 


Rhadinopsylla (Actenophthalmus) pentacantha (Rothschild, 1897), F. *NB. L. 
Rhadinopsylla (Actenophthalmus) isacantha continentalis Smit, 1957, Gld. 


LEPTOPSYLLIDAE 
Leptopsyllinae 


Leptopsylla segnis (Schönherr, 1811), G. F. Gld. U. NH. ZH. *NB. L 
Peromyscopsylla silvatica (Meinert, 1896), Gld. *NB. *L. 


ISCHNOPSYLLIDAE 
Ischnopsyllinae 


Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) elongatus (Curtis, 1832), Gld. NH. ZH. *NB. 

Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) intermedius (Rothschild, 1898), F. O. NH. ZH. L. 

Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) octactenus (Kolenati, 1856), Gld. U. NH. ZH. 
“NB. L. 

Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) simplex simplex Rothschild, 1906, L. 

Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) simplex myticus Jordan, 1942, L. 

Ischnopsyllus (Ischnopsyllus) variabilis (Wagner, 1898), L. 

Ischnopsyllus (Hexactenopsylla) hexactenus (Kolenati, 1956), G. Gld. U. ZH. 
*NB. L. 

Rhinolophopsylla unipectinata unipectinata (Taschenberg, 1880), L. 

Nycteridopsylla eusarca Dampf, 1908, Gld. 

Nycteridopsylla longiceps Rothschild, 1908, U. ZH. I. 

Nycteridopsylla pentactena (Kolenati, 1856), O. Gld. U. ZH. L. 


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CERATOPHYLLIDAE 


Ceratophyllinae 


Paraceras melis melis (Walker, 1856), Gld. 

Tarsopsylla octodecimdentata octodecimdentata (Kolenati, 1863), O. Gld. 

Dasypsyllus gallinulae gallinulae (Dale, 1878), Gld. NH. ZH. NB. L. 

Nosopsyllus fasciatus (Bosc, 1800), G. F. Gld. U. NH. ZH. NB. L. 

Malaraeus (Amalaraeus) penicilliger mustelae (Dale, 1878), Gld. 

Megabothris turbidus (Rothschild, 1909), G. F. D. ©. Gld. ZH. *NB. L. 

Megabothris walkeri (Rothschild, 1902), Gld. 

Monopsyllus sciurorum sciurorum (Schrank, 1803), D. ©. Gld. U. NH. ZH. NB. 
IG, 

Ceratophyllus hirundinis (Curtis, 1826), G. Gld. NH. ZH. Z. *NB. *L. 

Ceratophyllus rusticus Wagner, 1903, G. NH. Z. *NB. *L. 

Ceratophyllus farreni farreni Rothschild, 1905, G. Gld. NH. Z. *NB. *L. 

Ceratophyllus styx styx Rothschild, 1900, F. O. NB. L. 

Ceratophyllus gallinae gallinae (Schränk, 1803), F. D. O. Gld. U. NH. ZH. Z. 
NB. L. 

Ceratophyllus fringillae (Walker, 1856), Gld. NH. ZH. Z. *NB. L. 

Ceratophyllus rossittensis rossittensis Dampf, 1903, NH. 

Ceratophyllus columbae (Gervais, 1844), Gld. NH. ZH. *NB. L. 

Ceratophyllus garei Rothschild, 1902, Gld. NH. ZH. NB. Z. *L. 

Ceratophyllus borealis Rothschild, 1907, ZH. 


VERMIPSYLLIDAE 


Chaetopsylla (Chaetopsylla) globiceps (Taschenberg, 1880), Gld. L. 
Chaetopsylla (Chaetopsylla) trichosa Kohaut, 1903, Gld. L. 


PULICIDAE 
Spilopsyllinae 
Spilopsyllus cuniculi (Dale, 1878), D. O. Gld. U. NH. ZH. *NB. L. 
Archaeopsyllinae 


Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826), Gld. U. NH. ZH. *NB. L. Ts. 
Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouché, 1835), O. Gld. U. NH. ZH. *NB. L. Ts. 
Archaeopsylla erinacei erinacei (Bouché, 1835), Gld. U. NH. ZH. Z. NB. L. 


Pulicinae 


Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758, F. O. Gld. U. NH. ZH. NB. L. Ts. 


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MATERIAL AND METHODS 


Trapping of mice, voles and shrews was done with eight live traps constructed 
of wire netting which, though very efficient for catching small mammals proved 
less dependable as regards keeping the animals alive. All traps were baited with 
cheese and checked every morning from October 4th until December 15th, 1964. 
Six traps made of wood were used in our house and garden. These were also 
baited with cheese and checked at regular intervals every day from June 15th 
until December 15th, 1964. All animals trapped in and near our house were 
collected alive. Three pygmy shrews, Sorex minutus Linnaeus, and one common 
shrew, Sorex araneus Linnaeus, were captured in jars used as pitfalls at Konings- 
hoeven, Tilburg. 

All catches dead or live were put in separate polythene bags and, if necessary, 
killed from the outside before they were searched for fleas. Five or six white- 
toothed shrews, Crucidura russula (Hermann), caught in our garden at Tilburg 
were anaesthetized with ether before ectoparasites were removed from them. 
They were marked at the ears and released to be recaptured. 

Rats were killed in and near farms and farm out-houses. Moles were collected 
in gardens and meadows. Squirrels, polecats, weasels and stoats were examined in 
a taxidermist’s workshop at Oisterwijk. The taxidermist put all incoming animals 
in polythene bags and stored them in a deepfreeze until they were examined by 
the author. Three squirrels were shot by the author on the estate Villa Blanca, 
Goirle. These squirrels appeared to harbour the largest number of fleas per 
individual host in the present investigation. 

Some mammal fleas were also collected from birds’ nests while some bird fleas 
were recovered from the bodies of mammals especially of animals of prey. 

Each animal was carefully searched for fleas and other ectoparasites by putting 
the contents of each bag into a deep white bowl and by brushing and blowing 
against the grain of the fur to remove parasites that had stayed on the dead hosts. 

Bird fleas were collected from nests taken in the field. Only those nests 
of which the origin was certain were kept for incubation. Several bird watchers 
and foresters were of great help by showing nests of birds known to them. 

The nests were put in separate polythene bags and kept at room temperature 
(18° C) for seven days. They were then carefully searched for fleas. The author 
is well aware of the fact that the nest material should have been kept for a longer 
period in order to obtain the maximum number of parasites that could possibly 
be bred from the pupae and maybe the larvae present. The shorter method was 
followed because of lack of time and space. 

Often fleas were seen moving up the inside walls of the bags within a day or 
two. This happened always when a nest harboured many fleas. In such cases the 
contents of the bags were searched earlier, preferably daily, in order to prevent 
loss of fleas by drowning in the moisture accumulating on the inside walls of 
the bags. Sometimes fleas were seen in the nesting material directly after col- 
lection but usually they were not seen before incubation. 

Fleas were picked up with a Leonhard forceps and stored in 70% alcohol until 
they were prepared for identification. The techniques used to mount the fleas 


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were those described by Smit (1957a) whose keys were also used for identification 
of the insects (SMIT, 1954, 1957a, 1962a). For nomenclature of the mammals and 
the birds we followed BRINK (1955), and DOBBEN (1963), respectively. 


RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 


A. MAMMALS 


In the discussion under every mammal or group of mammals some incidental 
remarks will be devoted to ecology and host specificity of the fleas occurring on 
them. The reader is advised also to read SMIT (1962a) who gave a detailed 
account of every species of flea and a complete synopsis of “Host-flea-associations” 
recorded from The Netherlands until 1962. 


SORICIDAE 


Sorex minutus Linnaeus, the pygmy shrew. Tilburg, XI.1964—1 4,2 931 6, 
i Ovintested: Fleas: DIA. dasycnema "1 &: Piss sone! 1 8, 110 

Sorex araneus Linnaeus, the common shrew. Tilburg, X.1964 — 3 8,4 9; 
1 85 @ Avic Bleas: wD ds dasycnemar: We Oleh. sysoricase MINI LE 
Gab hese hamid, 1 9. 

Mill, X1.1964 — 1 &, 1 2; both infested. Fleas: D. d. dasycnema: 6 3,39. 
Vught, XII.1964 — 1 &,1 9;1 & infested. Fleas: D. d. dasycnema : 1 3; P. 
Fe GOHAN IS. 

Venlo, XII.1964 — 2 &; one infested. Fleas: D. d. Jasycnema 1 &, 2 9; 
PPS Or CC Ih. or 

Crucidura russula (Hermann), the comınon European white-toothed shrew. 
Tilburg, XI.1964 — 2 &, 4 9; 1 & infested. Fleas: N. fasciatus : 1 9. 
Goirle, X.1964 — 1 ¢ examined and found infested. Fleas: D. d. dasycnema : 
IL ASSAI RCE 
Oisterwijk, XII.1964 — 1 8, 1 9; 1 2 infested. Fleas: P. s. soricis: 1 &; 
No GIO leat en Ee 

Trapping of shrews was described in “Material and methods”. All shrews caught 
in this way were found dead in the traps except for six shrews recorded from our 
garden at Tilburg. Pygmy shrews were trapped in pitfalls, which were not baited 
and in which the shrews were found dead. Of all fleas collected from the Sorici- 
dae examined, 55% were D. d. dasycnema and 26% P. s. soricis. 

Palaeopsylla soricis soricis and Doratopsylla dasycnema dasycnema are host 
specific parasites of shrews. The latter species is a nest parasite and according to 
SMIT (1962a) this may be one of the reasons why the species has not been 
collected much in the past. Moreover, shrews tend to harbour few fleas per 
individual host. Of the two specimens of S. araneus recorded from Mill the 
female carried seven specimens of D. d. dasycnema, an infestation worth recording. 
Remarkable is also that on the bodies of the hosts male specimens of this flea are 
more abundant than females. SMIT (19622) commented that the sex ratio is nearly 


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2:1 in favour of the males. Our figures agree very well with SMIT's obser- 
vations. 

Although P. s. soricis is a body flea rather than a nest dweller, we found few 
specimens of this species on the hosts examined. 

C. b. heselhausi is a host specific mole flea and is particularly found in moles’ 
nests. Shrews are recorded as accidental hosts for this flea as well as for the rat 
flea, N. fasciatus. Shrews are secondary hosts for the flea H. t. talpae. N. fasciatus 
has not been recorded before from shrews in The Netherlands, but SMIT (1957b) 
recorded it from S. araneus in the British Isles. SMIT (1962a) lists ten species 
of fleas found in association with shrews. 

Crocidura russula was collected from live traps set out in three different locali- 
ties. Unfortunately the specimens from our garden harboured only one N. fasciatus 
and no other species of fleas. Five of the six white-toothed shrews from the 
garden were marked and released. These were all recaptured sometimes twice a day 
for about a week. After that time they seemed to have disappeared from our 
garden where they had suddenly turned up. We had hoped to see whether C. 
russula, which occupied the same shelter places as Mus musculus, was liable to 
become infested with Leptopsylla segnis, the house-mouse flea, or possibly with 
other fleas that might have straggled into our garden on passing mammals. Al- 
though many house-mice were trapped, few were found infested and straggling 
onto C. russula did not occur, at least not during the short time we were able to 
recapture them. 

All fleas, except H. t. talpae, recorded from C. russula examined by us are 
new host records. 

Sorex minutus has not been recorded before as a host for fleas in this country 
and hence all species of fleas reported from them at Tilburg are new records. Our 
attempts to catch water shrews, Neomys fodzens Pennant, near ditches and ponds 
failed, nor did we succeed in trapping the bicolour white-toothed shrew, Crucidura 
leucodon (Hermann), which may occur in Noord-Brabant. No fleas have so far 
been recorded from C. /excodon in The Netherlands. 


TALPIDAE 


Talpa europaea Linnaeus, the mole. 
Loon op Zand, X.1964 — 1 4,1 9;1 2 infested. Fleas: P. minor: 1 6,2 4; 
Oe Ce WADE LBi @, 
St. Michiels Gestel, X.1964 — 1 & examined and found infested. Fleas:.P. minor : 
WCO Br AD 2 UE Celal De ANIA 
Mill, XII.1964 — 2 ¢, 19, all infested. Fleas: P. minor: 5 &,3 2. 
Tilburg, X.1964 — 2 4,1 9 ; 1 &,1 2 infested. Fleas: P. minor: 3 8,3 9; 
Co Ce CLO 2 8,2 @ Blonde HOE BI 
Vught, X.1964 — 2 4, 1:9, all infested. Fleas: P. minor: 4 &, 4 9; C. a. 
VND RRD I MAM As I Do 

SMIT (1962a) lists two host specific mole fleas, four secondary and nine 
accidental ‘‘flea-mole-associations’’. Of all fleas collected from moles by us, 
62% belonged to the species P. minor. C. a. smitianus and H. t. talpae are often 


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found on moles, but they constitute only a secondary host-relationship. M. turbidus 
being a host specific vole flea must be regarded as a straggler when occurring on 
moles. P. s. soricis, a host specific shrew flea may also straggle onto moles. C. b. 
heselhausi, the second specific mole flea is a nest dweller and this may explain 
why it was not found by us. The host specificity of P. minor and C. b. heselhausi 
was wel demonstrated by SMIT (1962b), who found that of the 13,330 fleas col- 
lected from 1,005 moles and 45 moles’ nests at Wilp, Gelderland, The Netherlands, 
during a period of eleven years 90% of all fleas recovered from the moles and 
only 4.6% of all specimens retrieved from the nests were P. minor while 65.5% 
of all fleas taken from the nests and only 2.4% of all fleas gathered from the 
hosts were C. b. heselhausi. In Noord-Brabant C. b. heselhausi was recorded 
from Breda, where it was found in a mole’s nest (SMIT, 1962a). We record it 
from S. araneus at Tilburg. 


MURINAE 


Apodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus), the long-tailed field mouse. 

Goirle, X—XI.1964 — 3 4,5 9;1 4,3 2 infested. Fleas: C. a. smitianus : 
DCI 

Mill, XT.1964 — 6 4,4 9; 5:34, 219 infested, Fleas: T. poppei: 9 4,3 9; 
C. a. smitianus:2 38,29; M. turbidus:2 6,1 9;N. fasciatus: 2 9. 
Oisterwijk, X.1964— 4 8,4 9;1 4,119 infested. Fleas: C. a. smitianus : 1 &, 
ORME ZAIRE 

Tilburg, X—XI.1964 — 9 4,5 9;4 4, 419 infested. Fleas: T. poppei : 2 &, 
POI CNET ANA NOI DROP ME durbıidus on 

Venlo, X11.1964 — 3a, 19; 1 3, 1 e infested. Fleas: T° poppez: 2 4, 
1 9; Ca. smitianus : 1:19; N. fasciatus:2 9; C. g. gallinae: 1 6. 

A. sylvaticus is a very common mammal in The Netherlands where it inhabits 
nearly all terrestrial biotopes. It is the mammal par excellence for the study of 
fleas of small mammals occurring in an area because it attracts the great majority of 
species of mammal fleas, even those of which other small mammals are the 
principal hosts. The author found it possible to predict what species of mammals 
could be expected in a given area after examining a small number of flea-infested 
field mice. It was also found that mammals other than field mice were caught only 
after part of the population of the latter occurring around the spot where traps 
were set out had been trapped. This was also true for the bank vole, Clethrionomys 
glareolus, which as a rule enters traps before A. sylvaticus, whenever these two 
species share a habitat. C. glareolus is to some extent also a diurnal mammal and 
may therefore seem to be easier caught than A. sylvaticus. The common shrew, 
Sorex aranens, was never trapped before field mice and bank voles were captured. 
Although mice, voles and shrews live in close proximity, they seem to avoid each 
other in the open. It is therefore a good practice to leave traps for three or four 
consecutive days on the same spot rather than to keep moving them from one 
place to another after every night. 

Many species of fleas have been found in association with field mice. Most of 
these relationships are of a secondary or accidental nature. Typhloceras poppei and 


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Ctenophthalmus agyrtes subspecies are regarded as the principal Siphonaptera found 
in association with this mammal. Megabothris turbidus appeared to be fairly com- 
mon on the mice examined, but SMIT (1962a) regards A. sylvaticus as an ac- 
cidental host for this flea, which has the bank vole, C. glareolus, for its principal 
host. Three specimens, two males and one female, of the subspecies H. t. talpae 
were found on a female field mouse caught on the estate Villa Blanca, Goirle. 
This mouse also carried one specimen of the subspecies C. a. smitianus. The 
record of the Apodemus—H. 1. talpae association is new to The Netherlands (see 
discussion under C. glareolus). The occurrence of Palaeopsylla minor, a mole flea, 
on Apodemus is also a new host record. N. fasciatus, the rat flea, may often be 
found on small mammals whenever they share the same territory with rats so that 
exchange of fleas and other ectoparasites can easily be accomplished. 

The bird flea Ceratophyllus g. gallinae was found on several mammals during 
our survey. This flea will feed on mammals when hungry, but its association with 
mammalian hosts must be regarded as accidental. 

Special attention was paid as to whether the beetle Leptinus testaceus Müller 
(Col., Silphidae) occurred on A. sylvaticus or on any other small mammal or in 
birds’ nests in Noord-Brabant and Limburg, but no specimen was found. The 
beetle was frequently found on field mice in Ireland (FAIRLEY, 1963b; CLAASSENS 
& O’ROURKE, 1964) and in Great Britain (J. BALFOUR BROWNE, British Museum, 
Natural History, personal communication). FAIRLY (1963b) reported that 15% 
of male and 4% of female Apodemus (138 specimens) taken in Co Down, Ire- 
land, in October and November, 1962, harboured this beetle. We examined 109 
field mice in Co Cork, Ireland, and found 12% of the males and 13% of the 
females infested with this beetle (CLAASSENS, 1964). KEER (1930) reported this 
beetle from The Netherlands as occurring on field voles, Microtus arvalis, on 
rats and long-tailed field mice. SMIT (personal communication) found it on A. 
sylvaticus in various parts of The Netherlands. 

The beetle, which has also been recorded from nests of A. sylvaticus (O’MA- 
HONY, 1945, 1947), from birds’ nests (RYE, 1890; JOHNSON & HALBERT, 1902; 
LINSSEN, 1959; and CLAASSENS, 1964) and from the nests of Bombus terrestris 
(CuMBER, 1949), may also be found in rotten wood (LINSSEN, 1959) and in 
dead leaves (RYE, 1890). L. testaceus can be recognized by the long filiform 
antennae, and the absence of eyes. It is oval, small, 2 mm, very flattened, and dull 
testaceous in colour. It is still a matter of speculation as to whether the beetle has 
a parasitic, nidicolous or phoretic association with A. sylvaticus. 

Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout), the brown rat. 
Cuyk, XII.1964 — 2 &,3 9;1 4,19 infested. Fleas: N. fasciatus:3 8,5 9; 
Ce MOOD NDSS DOS 
Oisterwijk, XI.1964 — 3 4,2 ®;2 8,1 2 infested. Fleas: N. fasciatus: 1 8, 
NOs (CoB SAAN ASIO OPROER ERO Or 
Tilburg, XI.1964 — 1 &, 1 2, both infested. Fleas: N. fasciatus: 2 4,3 9; 
Gad) miens 1,8, 18 ONG, baheselhausı ade. 
Venray, XII.1964 — 18,2 2217 8, 1207 intestedSRleas: ENS andaian Re 
AV OS (Gach Uns il IRON 

Although the black rat, Rattus rattus (Linnaeus), and the brown rat, R. norvegt- 


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cus, occur in Noord-Brabant and Limburg, only the brown rat of more frequent 
occurrence was obtained during our survey. The abundance of the brown rat may 
be illustrated by some recent figures. A poultry farmer at Mill killed 407 rats in 
one day in a hen house (November, 1964); another caught 173 rats in one 
hen house also in one day (October, 1964) and a farmer at Tilburg killed 77 rats 
in October, 1964, also in a hen house. Many rats are killed too by poisoned bait; it 
is impossible to determine how many rats are killed daily by this method. 

In addition to the damage they do to property of all kind, rats are vectors of 
diseases which they may disseminate to domestic animals and even to man. Some 
of these diseases are transmitted by ectoparasites, most important of which are the 
fleas. 

Our observations revealed a predominance of N. fasciatus infestations on the 
rats examined. Although N. fasciatus is the common rat flea, it need not always be 
the predominant species of flea on rats in any area in Europe. CLAASSENS & 
O’ROURKE (1965) reported that of sixteen rats collected from four counties in 
Ireland only two carried N. fasciatus exclusively while all others were infested both 
with N. fasciatus and Ctenophthalmus nobilis (subspecies), or only with C. nobilis 
(subspecies). Of a total of 54 fleas collected from the 16 rats ten were N. fasciatus 
and all the other were either C. nobilis nobilis (Rothschild, 1898) or C. n. vulgaris 
Smit, 1955. Further investigations would be of interest. There may exist an inter- 
specific competition between the species of the genus Nosopsyllus and those of the 
genus Ctenophthalmus when these species occur on rats occupying the same area. 

Although Smir (1962a) listed nine species of fleas as being reported from brown 
rats in The Netherlands, we found only four, two of which were single specimens. 

For the economic importance of rat fleas see the chapter on domestic and 
medical importance of fleas in this paper. 

Mus musculus Linnaeus, the house mouse. Taken from our garden and house 
situated just outside the city boundary of Tilburg. Trapping of these mammals was 
started June 15th, and continued until December 15th, 1964. All mice were col- 
lected alive from the traps. The greater part (17 of 27 specimens) captured in- 
doors were killed with a stick because they refused to enter traps. All other mice 
were caught in live traps baited with cheese. Mice of the outdoor population were 
grey brown on top and grey underneath while members of the indoor population 
had back and underside grey. Some of the mice killed indoors during November 
and December obviously belonged to the outdoor population. 

Most of the mice were trapped near a small dump and in an aviary where they 
appeared to congregate after arriving in the garden. Trapping was started in June, 
but until September 15th only four mice were captured in the garden and three 
of these harboured fleas, while of the many mice obtained later very few fleas were 
recovered. Six shrews were also obtained from near the dump. For shrews see 
under Soricidae in this paper. 

In table I details are given concerning the mice examined and their flea popu- 
lation. All mice taken during four weeks are put together in order to show the 
change in population density both of mice and their epi-fauna, as well as to 
demonstrate that species of fleas other than Leptopsylla segnis were removed only 
from those mice which visited our garden after August. 


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Of the outdoor population (38 4 and 21 @ ) only 16% of 4 and 19% of 9 
were infested with fleas, while of the indoor mice (14 & and 13 9) and 70% 
and 70%, respectively, were infested. The remarkable difference may be explained 
by the fact that mice travelling from one place to another lose their ectoparasites. 
When searching for winter quarters mice may spend only a short time in the same 
hiding place and fleas which stay on the host only for a limited time to feed, are 
left behind. 

Of the outdoor mice taken in August three of four specimens were infested, but 
two of these carrying fleas may have belonged to the local population of the garden 
where a stock of fleas may have been built up in their usual hiding places. The 
big invasion of mice took place during November, when 41 specimens were 
trapped. The last mouse was caught in the garden on December 10th. Trapping was 
continued until January 10th but not a single mouse could be trapped. Yet mice 
were sometimes seen during day-time. They seemed to have established a definite 
abode and as a result they might have regained their timidity and shyness. One 
female mouse was caught in the house on December 22nd, but it harboured no 
fleas. 

The great predominance in the outdoor population of males over females is 
worth noticing. It would be of considerable interest to repeat such studies preferably 
during a longer period and with the aid of more traps. 

It is the right place here to express sincere thanks to Messrs. H. VAN DER ZANDE 
and H. SOETENS who were of indispensable help in catching the specimens of 
Mus musculus. 


MICROTINAE 


Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber, the bank vole. 
Goirle, X.1964 — 2 ®, none infested. 
MENING ARNE DOr aay 2 worn festedEleas:s Gita. asian usi), 
6 9; M. turbidus : 1:19; N. fasciatus: 1 @. 
Oisterwijk, X.1964 — 2 8,1 9;1 &, 1 9 infested. Fleas: C. a. smitianus : 
i Ge LO BA AS SS 
Tilburg, <—X1.1964 — 11 4,10 2;10 3,10 2 infested. Fleas: P. silvatica ; 
LEO CRA onser Omer ROM bid as O Exec. GON genen 
PEO EP Ala wie SE O ER pentacaniha NOn 
Venlo, XII.1964 — 3 &,3 2;2 4,19 infested. Fleas: P. szlvatıca: 3 6,29 ; 
CRA ANA NSM trois RISI RCN congener.: AMO): 

Though less common in some areas than the long-tailed field mouse, the bank 
vole is widely spread throughout The Netherlands. It avoids wet places and has a 
preference for deciduous woodlands, hedges, shrubs, edges of woods and may also 
occur in coniferous forests. 

Ctenophthalmus agyrtes subspecies, C. congener congener, Peromyscopsylla sil- 
vatica and Megabothris turbidus are the principal fleas of C. glareolus in this coun- 
try. With the exception of the subspecies C. agyrtes all these Siphonaptera were 
recovered from the bank voles examined. According to SMIT (1962a), C. glareolus 


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is a secondary host for C. a. smitianus, but it was by far the most common species 
on the bank voles examined by us. For the geographical distribution of C. a. agyrtes 
and C. a. smitianus in The Netherlands see the synopsis of Dutch fleas in this 
paper and also SMIT (1962a). 

H. t. talpae is a nest flea but it has been also found regularly on the bodies of 
mice, voles, moles and shrews. It is difficult therefore to determine the principal 
host of this largest of the European fleas. In Ireland H. #. talpae was often found 
on A. sylvaticus (FAIRLEY, 1963a; CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE, 1965). Moles are ab- 
sent from Ireland and 18 voles, C. glareolus, examined there were not infested with 
this flea. For the discovery of the bank vole in Ireland see CLAASSENS & O'GORMAN 
(1965). The occurence of N. fasciatus on the bank vole is accidental, while the 
common bird flea, Ceratophyllus g. gallinae, is merely a straggler. 

Rhadinopsylla pentacantha is usually found in association with A. sylvaticus. 
Its occurrence on C. glareolus is a new host record for The Netherlands. The 
record of P. silvatica is the second for The Netherlands. We took it also from a 
weasel, Mustela nivalis, shot at Oisterwijk. This Leptopsyllid mammal flea had 
been recorded before from Oldebroek (Gld.) where it was found on C. glareolus 
(SMIT, 1962a). SMIT commented that P. silvatica is not a very common parasite 
of voles but it has a wide distribution in Europe and a closely related subspecies, 
P. silvatica spectabilis (Rothschild, 1898) occurs in Great Britain and Spain. 

Microtus arvalis Pallas, the common vole. 

Cuyk, XII.1964 — 6 ¢,8:9;4 6,4 9 infested. Fleas: C. asszmalis:3 4,5 9; 
CR WOUDEN SION AE ILO 

Grave IO SR EC 0 270 infestedWElcas: NCA AE TO 
1 ONCE BS Isl, DIAM Be 

Few fleas from the common vole, M. arvalis, have so far been examined. Spe- 
cial attempts were therefore made to catch these mammals. Although only four 
species of fleas on voles were found, the general trend of their flea infestation was 
well shown. 

C. assimilis was the flea most commonly found on the 13 voles infested (59% 
of all fleas collected from them). C. assimilis is a host specific flea of the com- 
mon vole (SMIT, 1962a). It appears to be a nest flea and is not often found in 
big numbers on the bodies of the hosts. 


MUSTELIDAE 


Mustela putorius (Linnaeus), the pole cat. 
Oisterwijk, X—XI1.1964 — 7 4,5 9;2 4,1 2 infested. Fleas: M. s. sciuro- 
um: 10) 5: A Ne. erinate a1 Vor GRA anne De AG arc EEE 
Boxtel RMC SE STETS intested@Eleassu@ Ta emilanase: 
Us Cal MODA AN 
Venray, X.1964 — 1 & examined and found infested. Fleas: M. s. serurorum : 
ao 

Mustela erminea Linnaeus, the stoat. 
Oisterwijk, X—XI.1964 — 2 4, 1:9; 1 & infested. Fleas: M. s. sczurorum : 
ISO Co neared USE 


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Boxtel, XI.1964 — 1 ¢,1 9;1 @ infested. Fleas: C. garei: 1 9. 

Mustela nivalis Erxleben, the weasel. 

Oisterwijk, X—XI.1964 — 2 4,2 9;1.9 infested. Fleas: A. e. erinacei : 1 & 
DONG. ae smihanas DI VO PS silvatica AVA. 

Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus) the european mink. 

Tilburg, XI.1964 — nine nests examined, one infested. Fleas: C. a. smitianus : 
para DIN Or. 

The carnivores listed above are not usually infested with fleas. They acquire 
these parasites by preying upon small mammals and birds. SMIT (1962a) lists 
several species of fleas recorded from these mammals, but the records of C. a. 
smitianus, P. silvatica and the bird fleas, C. garei and C. g. gallinae, are new to 
The Netherlands. Minks were never recorded before as accidental hosts for Si- 
phonaptera in this country. We have investigated only some nests of these mam- 
mals when nest boxes were taken out of the cages on a mink farm. The mink 
farm was situated in a forest and fleas from the long-tailed field mouse or from 
the common shrew may have straggled onto these unusual hosts and from them 
into the nesting material. 

C. a. smitianus was found most often on the carnivores examined. This is of 
course not surprising since many small mammals harbour this flea. Squirrel fleas 
were found on pole cats and stoats, but this is not unusual either, because squirrels 
abound in all areas where Mustelidae were captured. 


2 


SCIURIDAE 


Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, the red squirrel. 

Goirle, X—XI.1964 — 1 &, 2 9, all infested. Fleas: M. 5. sciurorum : 55 &, 
GAO C. 9. gallinae: 1 8,1 2;C.garei:1 9. 

Oisterwijk, X—XI.1964 — 9 4, 6.9, 8 8,6 9 infested. Fleas: M. s. sciuro- 
URI ig sallinges alken 

Boxtel, X.1964 — 3 4, 2 9, all infested. Fleas: M. s. sciurorum : 33 & and 44 
OS (Go LE In TA 

Vugt, XI.1964 — 1 ¢ examined and found infested. Fleas: M. 5. sciurorum : 
a a 

Venray, X.1964 — 1 4,1 9, both infested. Fleas: M. s. sciurorum : 78 &,89 9. 
Wanroy, XI.1964 — one nest. Fleas: M. s. sciurorum : 15 &, 19 2. 

Beers, XI.1964 — two nests. Fleas: M. s. sciurorum : 12 4,17 9. 

The red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, is very common in most wooded areas in 
The Netherlands. Many specimens are shot every year in an attempt to keep their 
numbers in check and to decrease the damage done to the forests and bird fauna. 
Lack of natural predators, especially martens and wild cats made interference of 
man necessary. It is of interest to recall the records of the squirrel flea, Monopsyllus 
sciurorum, from the pole cat and stoat. These Mustelidae as well as the weasel 
appear to prey upon squirrels, but they seem to have little effect on the squirrel 
population. 

M. s. sciurorum is the most common host specific squirrel flea in this country, 


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both on the bodies of the hosts and in their nests. This flea is often found in cons- 
iderable numbers on squirrels and is said to be even more numerous in some nests. 
One of the squirrels shot on the estate Villa Blanca, Goirle, harboured 30 females 
and 24 males of this flea. Tarsopsylla o. octodecimdentata, another host specific 
squirrel flea, has been found in the provinces of Overijsel and Gelderland. It is a 
nest flea and is never found in large numbers on the host. SMIT (1962a) com- 
menting on this flea noted that it is more frequently found in association with 
squirrels occupying territories in mountainous areas. 

Of the squirrels’ nests the two collected at Beers were newly built. The grass 
covering the inner lining of hay was still partly green. Though the number of 
fleas found in these nests was small, they provide an indication that transport of 
fleas from the bodies of the hosts to their nests occurs rapidly. The nests collected 
at Beers were so-called “winter nests”. 

The fleas C. g. gallinae and C. garei may have straggled onto squirrels from 
deserted birds’ nests which are often visited by squirrels and may occasionally be 
used to store their food. No bird fleas were found in the squirrels’ nests examined. 
The bird flea-squirrel-association must be very short-lived. 


CHIROPTERA 


SMIT (1962a) enumerated 11 species of bat fleas recorded from 13 species of 
bats. No bat flea was hitherto recorded from Noord-Brabant; from Limburg on 
the contrary nine bat fleas have been recorded in the past and nearly all were 
recovered from bats occupying the caves of South Limburg. Nycteridopsylla eusarca 
Dampf, 1908, and Ischnopsyllus elongatus (Curtis, 1832) are species of bat fleas 
not yet reported to occur in Limburg. Both the latter species are host specific 
parasites of the bat Nyctalus noctula (Schreber) which does not hibernate in caves. 

In Noord-Brabant we found one male Ischnopsyllus elongatus on a female Ep- 
tesicus serotinus (Schreber) taken at Vught from a crevice in a wall, December, 
1964; a female Ischnopsyllus octactenus (Kolenati) on a female Pipistrellus pipi- 
strellus (Schreber) taken at Vught from a hole in a tree, December, 1964; one 
female Ischnopsyllus hexactenus (Kolenati) from the nest of a stock dove Columba 
oenas Linnaeus, which was situated in a hole in a wall under the eave of a house 
and one female of the same species from a female Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus) ta- 
ken from a cellar, both records from Mill, December, 1964. Seven Plecotus auritis 
5 4,2 9) were taken from a farmhouse at Tilburg. These bats were not 
infested with fleas, nor could any fleas be bred from the debris gathered from 
under the roost. 


Although bats have no nests, they have specific fleas; this can be explained by 
the fact that bats return to a definite roosting place to rest, sleep or hibernate. This 
habit, which provides conditions not unlike those in a bird’s nest, suits the adult 
fleas, while the faeces of the bats, accumulating on the floor under the roots, 
ensure ideal food, shelter, temperature and humidity for the larvae of fleas and 
other ectoparasites. 


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DOMESTIC INFESTATIONS 


Man and domestic animals can act as hosts for several species of fleas, which if 
conditions are suitable may become annoying pests. 

Fleas usually responsible for domestic infestations are Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 
the so-called human flea; Crenocephalides canis (Curtis), the dog flea, and Cteno- 
cephalides felis felis (Bouché), the cat flea. These species and subspecies were 
taken by the author on a farm at Oisterwijk, November, 1964, where a dog har- 
boured 1 © of P. irritans and 1 3, 1'9 of C. canis, two cats carried 2 & of P. 
irritans and 1 8,2 9 of C. felis felis and 1 9 of C. canis, and five specimens 
(3 4, 2:2) of P. irritans were collected from two pigs in December, 1964. 

Another species of domestic importance is, as we have seen already, Nosopsyllus 
fasciatus, the rat flea. Of less domestic importance are the species Leptopsylla segnis 
(Schönherr), Archaeopsylla e. erinacei (Bouché) and Spilopsyllus cuniculi (Dale) 
and the bird fleas Ceratophyllus g. gallinae (Schrank). 

There are not many recent records of rat flea infestations in houses. SMIT (1962a) 
recorded a rat flea from a house. We obtained a rat flea from a mouse captured 
in our kitchen (see under Mus musculus). CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE (1965) re- 
ported a female N. fasciatus from a bed in a Cork suburb (Ireland). 

L. segnis, the house mouse flea, feeds on man only when hungry; it could be 
contracted in rooms infested with house mice. 

A. e. erinacei, the hedgehog flea has been recorded from cats and dogs and via 
these domestic animals it may be passed on to man. O'ROURKE (1960) commen- 
ting on animal pets as reservoirs of zoonotic infections, noted that the hedge- 
hog accumulates and excretes all strains of Leptospira available in an area. It is 
however, not known, whether fleas are capable of transporting Leptospira from 
animals to man. We obtained three females and one male of the subspecies A. e. 
erinacei from a dog which had been playing with a hedgehog (Tilburg, October 15th, 
1964). The fleas were put back on the dog, which was re-examined on October 17th. 
Only one female flea could be found then and though it is not easy to find four 
fleas on a dog, we assumed that the parasites had left the unusual host. The ob- 
stinate female persevering in its accidental host relationship was kept for our col- 
lection. One female was also found on a pole cat and one male and two females 
were taken from a weasel (see under records of fleas from Mustelidae). 

Two male and one female specimens of S. cuniculi were taken from 15 domestic 
rabbits of which only one was infested (Wanroy, November, 1964). One male 
was also taken from a rabbit trapped at Mill, November, 1964. 

S. cuniculi is a semi-sedentary flea. It attaches usually to the innerside of the 
ears of rabbits and of accidental hosts such as cats, dogs and hares. Heavily serrated 
lacinia ensure a firm attachment. S. cunicnli is the principal vector of the Myxoma 
virus in Western Europe. This virus is transmitted purely mechanically by the in- 
fected mouth parts of the rabbit flea. Occasionally rabbit fleas may feed on man. 
Hunters, and people dealing with dead rabbits are most liable to contract these 
fleas. 

Ceratophyllus g. gallinae, a very common bird flea has often been reported to 
infest hen houses and may occasionally be found on mammals. During our obser- 


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vations in Noord-Brabant and Limburg we found it on Apodemus sylvaticus, 
Mustela putorius and Sciurus vulgaris. 

The ability of this flea to maintain itself in dry aerial nests may have guided it 
to hen coops where the egg-laying and roosting habits of the hens must suit 
the fleas very much. It has been proven that C. g. gallinae will breed when fed only 
on rat’s blood. We used white mice to feed hundreds of specimens of this flea. 
In hen houses C. g. gallinae may become a real pest and may have a deleterious 
effect on the health and egg production of the fowl. Where hens, dogs and cats 
live in close proximity one will often find fleas straggling from fowl to mammals 
and via these to man. Man can also contract C. g. gallinae by cleaning infested 
hen houses. 


MEDICAL IMPORTANCE 


Fleas are hosts to a variety of organisms, several of which can be harmful to the 
fleas only while others may also be passed on to the fleas’ hosts. In some cases such 
organisms may be passed on to man directy or via other hosts. N. fasciatus, P. 
irritans, C. canis, C. f. felis and L. segnis are potential carriers of the Plague bac- 
teria, Pasteurella pestis. Some fleas act as intermediate hosts of cestodes of medical 
importance. The more common cestodes are Hymenolepis nana Siebolt, Hymenole- 
pis diminuta Rudolphi and Dipylidium caninum Linnaeus. Hymenolepis diminuta 
is a parasite of rats and mice. Humans, especially children have been found infested 
too. The intermediate hosts of the tailed cysticercoids are the flour moth Anzsolabis 
annulipes and the larval and adult forms of some beetles and the flea N. fasczatus. 
Human infestations are usually accomplished by consumption of fresh faeces of 
rats and mice (faecal contaminated food) and by consumption of insufficiently 
cooked bread stuff made from flour infested with grain insects. 

H. nana is a parasite of rats and mice and even humans, especially children. 
Ingestion of ripe eggs of the cestode is possibly the commonest method by which 
humans, rats and mice become infested. There are a number of intermediate hosts 
in which the cysticercoid will develop and from them can be transferred to definite 
hosts. Important intermediate hosts are the fleas C. canis, P. irritans and some 
mealworms. 

Dipylidium caninum is a cosmopolitan parasite of cats and dogs and may infest 
children occasionally. Intermediate hosts are C. canis and P. irritans as well as the 
dog louse Trichodecta canis. Dogs and cats infest themselves by eating infested fleas 
or lice. Children may be infested by accidentally eating infected fleas or lice, or 
cats and dogs may chew up the intermediate hosts and set free cysticercoids on to 
their coat or retain them in their mouth from where they can easily be passed on to 
man. 

N. fasciatus is the most important vector of Endemic or Murine typhus. This 
disease is transmitted from rat to rat and other small mammals and from them 
to man by fleas. C. canis and C. f. felis have also been reported to be naturally 
infected with this disease and may therefore be potential carriers. L. segnis and 
possibly other fleas of small mammals are carriers of Murine typhus among their 
hosts and at times from these to man. The causative agent of Murine typhus is 


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Rikettsia mooseri which multiplies intracellularly in the fleas. Faeces of in- 
fected fleas are highly infectious. Human infestation is believed to occur when 
Rikettsia penetrate abraded skin at the sites of flea bites contaminated with flea 
faeces. 

Two other diseases may possibly be transmitted to man by fleas: Tularemia and 
Salmonellosis. The etiological agent of Tularemia is Pasteurella tularensis. It has 
many vertebrate reservoirs and arthropod vectors, the most efficient ones being 
ticks which are often responsible for this disease in man. There is little in the 
epidemiology of Tularemia in man to suggest that fleas are important vectors. But 
fleas appear to play a definite part in transmission of Tularemia to animals, and 
man usually contracts Tularemia by handling infected mammals. Trappers and 
hunters are particularly liable to become infested. Tularemia is a plague-like disease, 
mainly affecting rodents in North-America, Japan, U.S.R.R., and several European 
countries. In man it has a mortality rate of four percent. 

Salmonellosis has been transmitted experimentally to mice by the fleas 
Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild) and N. fasciatus. These fleas were infected with 
Salmonella enteritides and S. typhimurium, but only the former bacterium was 
transmitted and the exact mode of transmission was not determined. Regurgitation 
into the bite-wound of the host seemed probable. 

For collateral reading on economic (domestic veterinary and medical) impor- 
tance of fleas we refer to JELLISON (1959), LAPAGE (1956 and 1957) and RIVERS 
& HORSFALL (1959). 


SEX RATIOS IN MAMMAL FLEAS 


Significant numbers of specimens of fleas for a reliable determination of their sex 
ratios were obtained for Crenophthalmus agyrtes smitianus (88 specimens, 50% 
males), Leptopsylla segnis (79 specimens, 45% males), Monopsyllus s. sciurorum 
(602 specimens on the bodies of the hosts, 48% males and 63 specimens from 
three nests, 43% males) and for Nosopsyllus fasciatus (31 specimens, 30% 
males). 

The predominance of females among mammal fleas is usually pronounced. The 
highest ratio was found for N. fasciatus. CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE (1965) found 
30% males among specimens of N. fasciatus collected in Ireland. SMIT (1962b) 
reported that of 13,330 fleas collected from 1005 moles and 45 moles’ nests 
the sex ratio for the former was 47% males and for the latter 38% males. 
Female fleas according to SMIT may spend more time in the nests than males. 
MEAD-BRIGGS & PAGE (1964) surmised that the predominance of female fleas 
on the bodies of hosts may be due to the greater need of nutriment for egg 
production. Since female fleas are more numerous both on the hosts and in their 
nests it is clear that at any stage in the adult state of fleas females outnumber 
the males. One exception may be Doratopsylla d. dasycnema, a host specific shrew 
flea for which the sex ratio for specimens on the bodies of the hosts is about 2 : 1 
in favour of the males. See also sex ratios in bird fleas in this paper. 


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B. BIRD'S NESTS 


Nearly 200 birds are known to breed in The Netherlands (SMIT, 1962a), but 
only 44 of these have so far been recorded as hosts of Siphonaptera. During 
our survey we found fleas of 13 unrecorded avian hosts’ nests and for 13 other 
species of birds new host-flea-associations were found. 

In the following synopsis of the material collected during the months of Oc- 
tober, November and December, 1964, the newly recorded hosts and the newly 
recorded flea-host-associations have been marked with an asterisc. It can be used as 
a supplement to SMIT (1962a). 

The localities from which nests of each species of birds (nests of 45 species of 
birds were examined) were collected are listed. After each locality the number of 
nests investigated and the number (in brackets) of nests found infested are given 
together with the number, sex and species of flea collected after incubation of the 
nests. The first figure under each species of flea indicates the number of male and 
the second figure indicates the number of female specimens obtained. All birds 
are listed under their respective families. For the nomenclature of the birds we 
have followed DoBBEN (1963). Subspecific names were only used for subspecies 
easily recognisable in the field. 


TURDIDAE 


Turdus merula Linnaeus, the blackbird. 
Beers: 2(1), Ceratophyllus g. gallinae : 2, 3. 
Goirle: 2(1), C. garei : 45, 60. 
Mill; 512); nest 1: Gs gare: 49) 56; nest 2 MC Mr. gallinae : 5,3: 
*Megabothris turbidus : 0, 1. 
St@Hlubert: AO) MCE NEA re MON: 
Tülburg OC) nest End are 280, CSC rene lat est ER GAG Aran: 
SSL 27 Carre ENS mest CN cale TE 
Wanroy: 2(1), C. garei : 52, 68; C. g. gallinae : 2, 3; *Dasypsyllus gallinulae 
gallinulae : 2, 9. 
Turdus ericetorum Turton, the song thrush. 
Goirle: 2(0). 
Mill: 3(1), C. g. gallinae : 2, 3. 
St. Hubert: 1(1), *C. garez : 2, 5. 
Tilburg : 3(1), C. g. gallinae : 3, 7; *C. fringillae : 1, 4. 
*Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus, the mistle thrush. 
Mill: 1(1); C. g. gallinae : 1, 3. 
Tilburg: 2(1), C. garei : 13, 17. 
Wanroy: 2(1), C. gallinae : 15, 14; C. fringillae : 2, 5. 
Phoenicurus phoenicurus (Linnaeus), the redstart. 
Mill: 2(2), nest 1: C. g. gallinae : 9, 18; nest 2: C. g. gallinae : 4, 7; *C. fringil- 
WAR BB. (6. 


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Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus), the robin. 
Mill: 1(1), *D. g. gallinulae : 0, 1. 
Goirle: 1(1), C. garei : 4, 5. 


FRINGILLIDAE 


Chloris chloris (Linnaeus), the greenfinch. 
MIN FEN 28 gallınaeı 15, 2 EC gare 77, 8: 
Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, the chaffinch. 
St. Hubert: 3(1), C. g. gallinae : 2, 5; *C. fringillae : 0, 2. 
Venray : 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 1, 1. 
*Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus, the yellow hammer. 
Mill: 1(1), €. gare? : 12, 14. 
Beers: 2(1), C. garei : 1, 3; €. g. gallinae : 3, 7. 


TROGLODYTIDAE 


Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus), the wren. 
Tilburg: 3 (2), nest 1: C. garei : 5, 7; D. g. gallinulae : 1, 3; nest 2: C. garei: 
15, 19. 
Wanroy: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 3; *M. turbidus : 0, 1; Ctenophthalmus agyrtes 
smitianus : 0, 1. 


PRUNELLIDAE 


Prunella modularis (Linnaeus), the hedge sparrow. 
Mill: 1(0). 
StWElubert:23/(0). 
Wanroy: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 4, 5. 
Hilbure- 21) Ce gallınae. 5, AE parcia2: 03: 


MOTACILLIDAE 


Motacilla alba Linnaeus, the pied wagtail. 
Goirle: 1(0). 
Beets (ll) 137720; 

*Motacilla flava flava Linnaeus, the yellow wagtail. 
Tilburg: 1(1), D. g. gallinulae : 0, 1. 


PARIDAE 


Parus major Linnaeus, the great titmouse. 
Mill: 1(1), C. g. gallinae 4, 7; C. garei : 0, 1. 

Parus caeruleus Linnaeus, the blue titmouse. 
MDC 2 eallinae V3, 12. 
Verne LD) Go Le Oeil 

* Aegithalos caudatus (Linnaeus) the long-tailed titmouse. 
Oisterwijk: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 7, 13. 


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STURNIDAE 


Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, the starling. 
Goirle: 3 (0). 
Mill: 4(1), C. g. gallinae : 2, 1. 
Oisterwijk: 3 (2), nest 1: C. g. gallinae : 4, 6; nest 2: C. fringillae : 1, 3. 


PASSERIDAE 


Passer domesticus (Linnaeus), the house sparrow. 
Oisterwijk: 3(2), nest 1: C. gallinae : 15, 17; nest 2: C. gallinae : 2, 7. C. frin- 
Hes 2, 5, 
St. Hubert: 2(1), C. g. gallinae : 7, 5. 


PICIDAE 


*Picus viridis Linnaeus, the green woodpecker. 
Tilburg: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 3, 3; Monopsyllus scinrorum : 1, 2. 
Oisterwijk: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 2; C. garei : 4, 7. 


LARIDAE 


*Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus), the black tern. 
Strabrechtsche heide, Witven: 10(1), C. garez: 3, 9. 


RALLIDAE 


Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus), the moorhen. 
Oisterwijk: 2(1), *D. g. gallinulae 7, 12. 

*Fylica atra Linnaeus, the coot. 
Strabrechtsche heide, Witven: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 2. 


SYLVIIDAE 


Acrocephalus scirpacetus (Hermann) the reed warbler. 
Oisterwijk: 2(1), *D. g. gallinulae : 1, 3; C. garei : 4, 5. 


COLUMBIDAE 


Columba livia domestica Linnaeus, the domestic pigeon. 
Mill: 3(1),C. gallinae : 2, 2. 
St. Hubert: 5(2), Ceratophyllus columbae : 1, 1; C. g. gallinae : 2, 2. 
Tilburg: 7(1), C. g. gallinae : 5, 4. 

Columba oenas Linnaeus, the stock dove. 
Mill: 2(1), *C. g. gallinae : 0, 2; *Ischnopsyllus hexactenus : 0, 1. 
Tilburg: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 5, 9. 


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*Columba palumbus Linnaeus, the wood pigeon. 
Mill: 10(2), C. columbae : 1, 0; nest 2: C. g. gallinae : 0, 2. 
Oisterwijk: 7(0). 
Tilburg: 8(1), C. g. gallinae : 2, 2; M. sciurorum sciurorum : 1, 0. 
*Streptopelia turtur (Linnaeus), the turtle dove. 
St. Hubert: 3(0). 
Wanroy: 5(1), C. g. gallinae : 3, 1. 
*Streptopelia decaocto Friv., the collared dove. 
Mill: 2(1), C. g. gallinae : 5, 8. 
St. Hubert: 2(0). 


CORVIDAE 


Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, the rook. 
Wanroy: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 4, 7. 
*Pica pica (Linnaeus), the magpie. 
Schayk: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 1. 
Corvus monedula Linnaeus, the jackdaw. 
Tilburg: 3(1), C. g. gallinae : 17, 29. 
*Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus), the jay. 
Mill: 5(2), nest 1: C. g. gallinae : 0, 3; nest 2: C. g. gallinae : 1, 4; M. s. sciuro- 
rum: 1, 1. 


STRIGIDAE 


*Tyto alba (Scopoli), the barn owl. 
Goirle: 4(1); C. g. gallinae : 0, 1; C. a. smitianus : 1, 1. 


FALCONIDAE 


Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus) the sparrow hawk. 
Beers: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 1; *C. garei : 7, 5; *C. fringillae : 1, 3. 

*Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, the kestrel. 
Goirle: 1(1), C. g. gallinae : 0, 3 (identification of nest doubtful, but kestrels 
were seen on the nesting site. Though this record is new to The Netherlands it 
wants reconfirmation). 


HIRUNDINIDAE 


Delichon urbica (Linnaeus), the house martin. 
Goirle: 1(1), Ceratophyllus hirundinis : 51, 67; C. rusticus : 13, 9; C. f. farreni : 
Dey Do 
Schinnen: 2(2) nest 1: C. hirundinis : 209, 275; C. rusticus : 67, 110; nest 2: 
C. birundinis : 97, 117; C. rusticus : 13, 19; C. f. farreni : 22, 29. 

Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, the swallow. 


Goirle: 1(0). 


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Mill SD) @ehiyundınısı: 72 >: 
Tilburg: 3(0). 
St. Michiels Gestel: 3(1); *Nosopsyllus fasciatus : 0, 1. 
Wanroy: 7(1): C. g. gallinae : 1, 5. 
Riparia riparia (Linnaeus), the sand martin. 
Nul 6) Ceratophyllus:s.styx inest.L: 21, 29: nest2754,70:5nes3245,559: 
Weslles AQ), Oy 5. nest E21 331 Ines SNTE Gm, ZOE NDESLDE 
Up, the 


DISCUSSION OF NESTS INVESTIGATION 


A total of nine species of bird fleas and five species of mammal fleas were col- 
lected from 204 nests of 45 species of birds. Not less than 77 nests (38%) were 
found to be infested. The number of fleas collected from individual nests was 
very variable. This of course was partly due to the ecological conditions prevailing 
in the nests after they were deserted by the birds. There may also be an inter- 
specific difference in the reproductive capacity of fleas. C. garei and C. g. gallinae, 
as well as all martin fleas appear to be prolific breeders, while D. g. gallinulae 
and C. fringillae may have a less abundant offspring. Furthermore the main 
breeding season of bird fleas coincides with that of the bird hosts and hence the 
longer a nest is occupied either by adult or young birds the more favourable 
conditions are for the reproduction of fleas. Although most of the nests collected by 
us will have been occupied for at least some time by the hosts we have no idea about 
the duration of this occupation. The dry hot summer and our collecting of nests 
at random may be responsible for the moderate percentage of nests infested. 
ASH (1952) examined 109 nests of 23 species of birds in England and found 
that of 27 nests which had not contained young birds before they were deserted 
by the adults, 41% were infested; of eight nests which had contained young, but 
which were deserted by the adults before the young could leave, 50% were in- 
fested; of 66 nests from which young had fledged 56% were infested, and of 
eight nests which had contained eggs at one time but in which it was doubtful 
whether there had been young or not, 40% were infested. These figures show that 
the duration of occupation of nests by birds influences the degree of infestation. 

The main difference in the percentage of infested nests examined by AsH and 
ourselves is due to the fact that we included 46 nests of tree-nesting birds 
which on the whole provide poor ecological requirements for ectoparasites to 
maintain themselves in these nests. Only ten of those 46 nests were found 
infested. Moreover, ASH collected birds’ nests earlier in the year at a time that 
fewer fleas (larvae and pupae included) were lost through predation by 
enemies of fleas and through the activities of internal and external parasites. 
Taking all circumstances into account the percentage of infestation obtained by 
us may be considered rather high and it is an indication that by the majority of 
fleas hibernating is accomplished by survival as adult but especially as pupae in 
the hosts’ nests. It would be of interest to examine a collection of birds’ nests 
collected in February and March and compare the results. 


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Host SPECIFICITY IN BIRD FLEAS 


The species C. hirundinis, C. rusticus, C. f. farreni and C. s. styx are monoxe- 
nous parasites of the family Hirundinidae. C. columbae is a pigeon flea. The 
degree of humidity in the nests seems to determine whether any of the remaining 
four species of fleas will thrive or not. Since the situation of the nests is the chief 
factor determining the humidity one can conveniently divide birds’ nests into the 
following four categories: 

1, nests on or near the ground or otherwise in a wet position; 

2, nests of bush nesting birds and nests built in positions providing the same 
degree of humidity. Nests in coniferous trees especially those in low position 
would belong to this group; 

3, nests of hole nesting birds. The holes may be natural as well as artificial. 
Nests of sand martins, woodpeckers, tree creepers, as well as nests built in crevices 
of rocks and walls and those built in nest-boxes constitute this group; 

4, nests of tree nesting birds. These nests are usually very dry, at least during 
the hot summer season. Many of these nests will be found uninfested particularly 
when little nest material is used. If such nests are infested the number of fleas 
present is often very small. 

Sometimes nests built in holes may be very humid and this usually is reflected 
by large numbers of fleas occurring in them. Sand martin burrows for instance 
may be found teeming with fleas. CLAASSENS (1965a) collected 1,742 specimens 
of the subspecies C. styx jordani Smit, 1956, from five sand martin burrows taken 
at Little Island, Co Cork, Ireland in July, August and October, 1963. From three 
starlings’ nests situated in deserted sand martins’ burrows 4,025 specimens of 
C. g. gallinae were collected at Ballycroneen strand, Ireland, in June and July, 
1964 (CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE, 1965). None of these nests were incubated. 
These results prove that C. g. gallinae thrives very well in nests where the 
humidity is very high. On the other hand C. g. gallinae may be found in dry 
airy nests of pigeons. ROTHSCHILD & CLAY (1952) commented that C. g. gal- 
linae is the flea par excellence of dry aerial nests. ROTHSCHILD (1952) noted: 
“Despite the wide range of hosts, C. g. gallinae is much more common in nests 
of birds which are built in holes and at some distance from the ground”. These 
statements seemingly contradictory in meaning indicate the wide range of tolerance 
of this flea to humidity. With Ash (1952) we would suggest that the nests of 
hole-nesting birds form a more congenial habitat for this flea than nests in a 
more exposed situation. But it is equally true that C. g. gallinae is often found 
in dry aerial situations. C. g. gallinae shares humid nests with C. garei and D. g. 
gallinulae, two species commonly infesting the nests of ground and bush nesting 
birds, provided these nests are not dry. On the other limit of tolerance to humidity 
C. g. gallinae is often found in company with C. fringillae and C. columbae, two 
species of flea which seem to prefer the dryer types of nests. To the former 
group we may add the rare Dutch flea Ceratophyllus borealis Rothschild, 1907, 
which in its distribution seems to be restricted by climatic and geological con- 
ditions. The group gallinae, fringillae and columbae may be extended with the 


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equally rare flea Ceratophyllus r. rossittensis Dampf, 1913, which is a monoxenous 
parasite of the crow, Corvus corone Linnaeus. 

In table II, avian hosts are classified according to the four categories of nesting 
sites mentioned above. After each species of bird the number of nests examined 
from each nesting site and the number (in brackets) of nests infested are given. 
The host specific fleas of the Hirundinidae and the species C. columbae in nests 
of pigeons are omitted. Some nests of black birds are classified under different 
categories because these nests were found in a variety of situations. Under each 
species of flea recorded, the number of specimens found in the total number (in 
brackets) of nests infested with that flea are given. 

One should be aware of the fact that any classification of this kind is very 
artificial because nests can be dry or wet in any of the four situations depending 
upon accidental local ecological circumstances. 


Table II. Distribution of nests and their flea population with regard to the nest situation 


Details of nests examined Details of flea population 
S a S So 
No. of SS SARE = 
= D (ren 
Host species SAGE à DS à ES Le AS © 

mined and Sy See] sss | PS ls. 

: à à ISS RR S,S 5 à 

we | GE [ASSIS ÈS CR | ES 

Ground 
Turdus merula L. (in ivy) . 3 (3) 1460 (3) | — — 20 (2)| 480 
Emebriza citrinella L. . . 3 (2) 30 (2) | — 10 (1) |— 40 
Troglodytes troglodytes (L.) 4 (3) 46 (2) 4 (1) 3 (1) | — 53 
Motacilla flava flava L.. . . 1 (1) — 1 (1) | — — 1 
Ghlidoniasınıger (ALS) eye ON) 12 (1) | — — - 12 
Gallinula chloropus (L.) . 2 (1) — 19 (Del — — 19 
Fulica atra L. . ee 1b) — — De (010) 2 
Bush 

Turdus merula L. . 21 (6) 225 2) 12°. (1), OE 270 
Turdus ericetorum Turton . 9 (3) ACL) Worl ne 1502) SA) 27 
Turdus viscivorus L. . . 5 (3) DO: (a) en 3, (| ge (il) 60 
Erithacus rubecula (L.) . 22.02) OU) 1 (1) | — =e 10 
Chloris chloris (L.) 1221) SEC) an 36 (1) |— 51 
Fringilla coelebs L.. . . AM (2) — as 9 (2) | 2 (1) 11 
Prunella modularis (L.) . 702) SEN) ees 18 (2) | — 23 
Aegithalos caudatus (L.) . 1 (1) — fax 20 (1) |— 20 


Acrocephalus scirpaceus 


(Herman) 2 (1) 9 (1) 4 (1) | = — 13 
Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot) 1 (0) — 


Holes 


Phoenicurus phoenicurus (L.) . 2 (2) - — 38 (2) (1) 47 
Muscipata striata (Pallas) . . 1 (0) — — = _ Di 


Le) 


| 


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Table II (continued) 


Details of nests examined | Details of flea population 


S SS N 
No. of > 2 LES = 
Host species ERS Gr à ES S à SUS AS 
mined and Sos SS SIRSS 3 
BSS nat (GS SO SS se 
Motacilla alba L. . 2 (1) 33 (1) | — — — 33 
Parus major L. . 1 (1) 1 (1) | 11 (1) | — 12 
Parus caeruleus L. . 202) — - 27 (2) |— 27, 
Parus palustris L. . 1 (0) — — — — — 
Sturnus vulgaris L. . 10 (3) — — 13 (2) | 4 (1) 17 
Passer domesticus (L.) 5 (3) — — 53 (SANT) 60 
Passer montanus (L.) . 2#.(0) — — — — — 
Picus viridis L. . ; 2 (2) 11 (1) | — 8 (2) | — 19 
Columba livia domestica L. . 15 (4) — — 17 (3) | — 17 
Columba oenas L. . 3 (2) — — 16 (2) | — 16 
Tyto alba (Scopoli) 4 (1) — — 1 (1) | — 1 
Falco tinnunculus L 1 (1) — — 3 (1) | — 3 
Riparia riparia (L.) 5 (5) — — 20 (1) | 20 
Hirundo rustica L. . 19 (3) — — 6 (1) | — 6 
Corvus monedula L. . 3 (1) — — 46 (1) | — 46 
Trees 
Columba palumbus L. . 251.6) — = Cu) 6 
Streptopelia turtur (L.) 8 (1) — — 4 (1) |— 
Streptopelia decacto Friv. 4 (1) — ar Oa 
Corvus frugilegus L. . 1 (1) — — 11 (1) | — 11 
Pica pica (L.) 8 12 (619) _ = LEE 1 
Garrulus glandarius (L.) i 5h (2)) — — 8 (2) | 
Accipiter nisus L. . 1 (1) 12 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) | 4 (1) 17 
Asio otus (L.) . 1 (0) = = ex er 


Total nos. . 41 (7) |482 


Average fleas 
per nest infested . 


is rarely found in large numbers, but C. g. gallinae may be present by hundreds in 
one single nest as we have shown earlier. Many specimens may sometimes also be 
bred from the nests. The author bred 1,064 specimens from one nest of a blue 
tit, Parus caeruleus, situated in a hole in a wall at Blarney, Co Cork, Ireland 
(CLAASSENS & O’ROURKE, 1965). On the days of collection, June 2nd, 1964, the 
nest contained only one female D. g. gallinulae. During incubation, which lasted 
from June 2nd until July 6th only five additional males and six females of D. 
g. gallinulae were obtained. ASH (1952) obtained 1,304 C. g. gallinae from a blue 
tits nest. 

From table II it may be seen that the average number of fleas per infested nest 
is rather low for the subspecies D. g. gallinulae and C. g. gallinae. D. g. gallinulae 


28 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 1, 1966 


D. g. gallinulae seems to be fairly scarce in The Netherlands, where it has so 
far been found in five provinces. SMIT (1962a) commented that this species should 
be commonly present here as it is found in abundance in surrounding countries. 
We investigated 53 nests situated in bushes and hedges but we found that only 
three of these harboured D. g. gallinulae. Of 24 nests collected on or near the 
ground only three contained this species. D. g. gallinulae may experience a 
good deal of competition from C. garei which appeared to be very common in 
the nests of both ground- and bush nesting birds. C. gare? shares humid nests 
with C. g. gallinae too and may thus also be responsible for the relative scarcity 
of the latter species. 

C. fringillae prefers dryer nests of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus, and 
starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, as well as the dry nests of other Passerine birds. 
Strangely enough we found 19 specimens in a very humid nest of a blackbird 
which was situated in ivy against a stone wall. It may be that this population of 
C. fringillae originated in the nest of a spotted fly catcher, Myscicapa striata, 
which reared young in the same ivy the year before. Its presence in the nest of 
a sparrow hawk, Acczpiter nisus, may have been the result of predation. 

ROTHSCHILD (1958) found a seasonal variation with regard to the species of 
fleas infesting birds (migrants and residents) on Fair Isle. In spring 66% of 
all fleas found on migrant and resident birds were D. g. gallinulae and 16% were 
C. g. gallinae but in autumn the situation was reversed and C. g. gallinae became 
by far the most common species both on residents as on migrant species. ROTH- 
SCHILD suggested that the main dispersal period of D. g. gallinulae (and C. 
borealis) is the spring and of C. g. gallinae the summer and autumn. Indeed 
in summer C. g. gallinae may be found teeming in birds’ nests. CLAASSENS & 
O’ROURKE (1965), as was mentioned already, collected 4,025 specimens of this 
flea from three starlings’ nests in June and July (1964) and 1.064 specimens were 
bred from a blue tit’s nest during June, 1964. 

Very few adult fleas were found by the author in the nests collected in Noord- 
Brabant and Limburg. It seems likely that adult fleas leave the hosts’ nests after 
the young birds have left in late summer or earlier. These manoeuvres undoubtedly 
increase the survival chances and dispersal of fleas. ROTHSCHILD (1958) found 
that spring migrants (199 specimens) had an infestation rate of 52,2% as 
compared with 2,7% of 615 autumn migrants. It may be that in autumn fleas 
are more active in searching for a sheltered place to hibernate while in spring they 
may become very eager to find a host. 


SEX RATIOS IN BIRD FLEAS 


In Table III the numbers of either sex of bird fleas collected and the percen- 
tages of males among them are listed. Some of the results are compared with 
those obtained by CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE (1965) for the same species collected 
in Ireland and with those obtained by AsH (1952) for specimens taken in Eng- 
land. The percentages of males among martin fleas are compared with results 
published by CLAASSENS (1965b), who studied these fleas in Ireland, and with 
those recorded by THOMPSON (1952; 1953) from Engeland and with the ones 


29 


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recorded by DUNNET & ALLAN (1954) of martin fleas collected in Scotland. 
The figures pertaining the subspecies C. s. styx are compared with those of C. s. 
jordani Smit, 1955, collected in Ireland and with the percentages known for the 
species C. styx collected in England. 

The species C. columbae is omitted as too few specimens were found. No 
comparative results were available for C. fringillae. 


In bird fleas there is a definite predominance of females. Although with some 
species there is a wide range of variation in the percentages of the sexes recorded 
by diverse authors it seems likely that the average percentages shown in Table HI 
will be close to the prevailing situation in the nests of the hosts. ROTHSCHILD 
(1958) found a gradual increase of females on the birds of Fair Isle from 
spring until autumn. There was, however, a preponderance of male D. g. gallinulae 
on spring passage migrants. In July there was an excess of females on resident 
birds and on September and autumn migrants only females were found. In the 
nests of the Fair Isle birds ROTHSCHILD found a six percent majority of female 
D. g. gallinulae. Both the predominance of males of D. g. gallinulae on spring 
passage migrants and the low sex ratio of these fleas in the nests of the hosts are 
very unexpected and should make a rewarding object of further investigation. 
Females of C. g. gallinae outnumbered males both in the nests and on the bodies 
of the birds of Fair Isle, but on the hosts there was a gradual increase of females. 

ROTHSCHILD (1958) drew the attention to the low ratio 48—50 in favour of 
female C. g. gallinae found in the nests of the common resident bird, the wheatear, 
Oenanthe oenanthe (L.), CLAASSENS & O'ROURKE (1965) reported an exceptional 
ratio 200 : 114 in favour of males in C. g. gallinae taken from a starlings’ nest 
collected at Ballycroneen strand, Ireland, in June, 1964. We do not know what 
ecological or genetic factors favour an unusual high production of males or result 
in the survival of more males than females. 

The apparent predominance of females among adult fleas is no indication that 
fewer male flea embryos should be produced (primary sex ratio), nor that fewer 
male fleas hatch from cocoons (secondary sex ratio). Numerical preponderance 
of females may well develop in later stages of adult fleas. A collection of fleas 
from birds’ nests taken in February and March might well reveal a still higher sex 
ratio in favour of females. Females seem to outlive males by many months and can 
withstand adverse conditions to which males succumb. Males of many species of 
fleas are believed to die soon after copulation. A gradual increase of female fleas 
seems therefore natural especially on the bodies of the host since, after copulation, 
females lay eggs in batches, and each time before a fertile batch is laid the female 
reproductive organs require the stimulus of a blood meal (ROTHSCHILD & CLAY, 
1952): 

The greater hardiness of females may sometimes be responsible for their great 
predominance in collections made under artificial laboratory conditions. A pre- 
dominance of females was also found among stragglers of mammal flea species to 
birds’ nests. Of five species of mammal fleas collected from birds’ nests discussed 
here we found that of a total of 13 specimens nine were females. MEAD-BRIGGS & 
PAGE (1964) found that of 56 fleas other than S. cuniculi which were found as 


A. J. M. CLAASSENS : Fleas in Noord-Brabant and Limburg 31 


stragglers on 30 out of 279 rabbits obtained throughout Great Britain, 38 were 
females and they noted that similar results were recorded previously from Kent. 


SUMMARY 


Nineteen species of mammals (336 specimens) and 204 nests of 45 species of 
birds were examined for fleas. In total 954 specimens (23 species) of mammal 
fleas and 12 specimens (2 species) of bird fleas were collected from the bodies of 
174 mammals infested, while 63 specimens of the subspecies Monopsyllus s. sciuro- 
rum (Schrank), were taken from three nests of the red squirrel, Scaurus vulgaris 
Linnaeus. 

From 77 birds’ nests found infested 2.997 specimens (nine species) of bird fleas 
were reared and 13 specimens (five species) of mammal fleas were obtained. 

All this material was collected in the provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, 
The Netherlands, mainly during the months of October, November and December, 
1964. 

Fifteen mammal fleas and five bird fleas were found to be new to Noord- 
Brabant and two mammal fleas and four bird fleas could be added to the list of 
Siphonaptera of Limburg. Thirteen species of birds and two species of mammals, 
viz. Sorex minutus Linnaeus and Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus) were added to 
SMIT’s (1962a) lists of hosts for Dutch fleas. For 23 flea hosts recorded in SMIT 
(1962a) new flea-host-associations were found. 

The ecology, host- and nest specificity, sex ratios and economic importance (do- 
mestic infestations, veterinary and medical importance) of fleas were discussed. 

In a synopsis of Dutch fleas every species is followed by the names of the pro- 
vinces from which it was recorded by SMIT (1962a) and our records for Noord- 
Brabant and Limburg were added and marked with an asterisc. 

Mammal fleas were dealt with under the relevant mammalian hosts examined. 
Bird fleas were first listed in a synopsis of material collected so as to make exact 
recording possible. In a further discussion of these fleas special attention was 
paid to their host or nest site specificity. 

Sex ratios in bird fleas were compared with results recently obtained by the 
author and by other students of fleas. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 


Thanks are expressed to the following persons whose assistance in the prepa- 
ration of this paper was greatly appreciated. 

Professor Fergus J. O’ROURKE, M.B., M.Sc., Ph.D., Department of Zoology, 
University College, Cork, Ireland, for his valuable criticism and advice. Mr. F. G. 
A. M. Smit, Custodian of the Rothschild collection of Fleas, Tring, Hertfordshire, 
England, for his advice and determinations, especially for reading and critisizing 
the manuscript. My relations and friends who supplied me with information and 
specimens or who otherwise kindly co-operated. The landowners who permitted me 
to trap mammals or search for birds’ nests on their property. Miss O. Wiese, 
for correcting the proofs. 


32 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 1, 1966 


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HARVARD 
UNIVERSITY 
THE GROUP OF PSENULUS PULCHERRIMUS (BINGHAM) 


(HYMENOPTERA, SPHECIDAE) 
BY 


| oe sa VAN LITH 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 


Abstract 


The distribution in the Indo-Australian and East-Asiatic regions of the group is discussed. 
The material studied originates from localities in a triangular area formed by Gujarat in the 
West, Japan in the North and northeastern Australia in the South. The subgenus Eopsenulus 
Gussakovskij, 1934, was erected for Psenulus iwatai Gussakovskij, 1934 (Japan). This form 
is regarded here as the Japanese representative of the group of Psenulus pulcherrimus 
(Bingham, 1896). The provisional classification as a group is preferred as long as other 
subgenera of Psenulus are not yet defined. The relationship between the forms from western 
India and those from northeastern Australia is very close; P. carinifrons Cameron, 1902 
(Deesa) and P. scutellatus Turner, 1912 (Queensland), are considered to be subspecies 
only. Even P. iwatai may prove merely to be a subspecies of the Indian form. P. sinclairi Lal, 

- 1939 (Bombay), which could not be examined, and a probably new subspecies from South 
India, are also very closely related to P. carinifrons. A key to the species and subspecies is 
provided. The distribution of the eleven forms is given, together with new records of the 
species already treated in a previous paper. One new subspecies from New Guinea is 
described. 


In a study on Psenulus (Van Lith, 1962) I have provisionally divided the 
Indo-Australian species (about 70 species and subspecies from this region have 
been described) into a number of groups, in order to facilitate the future definition 
of subgenera. GUSSAKOVSKIJ (1934) described the subgenus Eopsenulus for 
Psenulus iwatai Gussakovskij (Japan). This species differs very much from the 
other East-Asiatic congeners in having a narrow and protruding carina between 
the antennae. It is evident now that the group of P. pulcherrimus is identical with 
the subgenus Eopsenulus Gussakovskij. The characters of the latter group 
are: a slender body, a narrow and protruding carina between the antennae, a largely 
or completely black scutum, an almost interstitial first recurrent vein of the fore 
wings, and the female with triangularly or bluntly protruding anterior margin of 
clypeus and narrow pygidial area. There is a great contrast between the females and 
the males in the sculpture of the back of the propodeum, viz., almost smooth in the 
female and coarsely reticulate in the male. 

It seems premature to delimit more subgenera of Psenulus; therefore I prefer to 
use in this paper the provisional term “group of P. pulcherrimus”. 

During the last few years I received material from a larger area than that studied 
in 1962 and this brings the total number of species and subspecies of the group 
to ten, probably eleven. The components are distributed over a large triangular 
area, reaching from Gujarat in India, northward to Japan and from there south- 


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ward over New Guinea to northeastern Australia (Fig. 2). It is interesting that the 
forms from the outer angles of this area are not only closely related but even 
conspecific (P. carinifrons carinifrons (Cameron), from Gujarat and P. carinifrons 
scutellatus Turner, from northeastern Australia) or probably conspecific (P. zwatai 
from Japan). There is one “island” in this area, formed by the range of distribution 
of P. sogatophagus Pagden, the female of which is different, having one tooth 
more on the mandibles; this species has been found in Malaya, Thailand and 
Assam. Another species, P. pulcherrimus (Bingham), showing distinct specific 
differences, with more pointed clypeus and red gaster, inhabits Tenasserim, and 
has a subspecies, P. pulcherrimus projectus Van Lith, in Java. The two subspecies, 
P. carinifrons xanthognathus Rohwer and P. carinifrons rohweri Van Lith, seem 
to be closely allied and are characterized in the male sex by the coarser carination 
of the back of the propodeum. They occupy the large area formed by Malaya and 
the Indonesian islands (P. carinifrons robweri), and the Philippines (P. carini- 
frons xanthognathus). 

Some of the forms of the group of P. pulcherrimus are somewhat variable as 
to the extent of the yellow marking, especially on the pronotum and the 
scutellum, and also on the fore and mid femora. Examples of the variation of the 
markings of the thorax in females of P. sogatophagus are presented in Fig. 3 and 
4 and of the variation in two males of P. carinifrons scutellatus in Fig. 6 and 7. 
The fact that the Bornean specimens of P. carinifrons rohweri all have darker legs 
than those from the more southern islands, may be of a greater systematic 
value and I am not excluding the possibility that they represent a different sub- 
species. The males of P. carinifrons xanthognathus which I studied from the 
neighbouring island of Mindanao, have also darker fore and mid femora than the 
specimens from the northern Philippine Islands. Apart from the colour of the 
gaster there is a great resemblance between the females of rohweri and xanthogna- 
thus. However, more material, especially from the southern Philippines and from 
Borneo would be very welcome for getting a better idea of the distribution of the 
forms and their true systematic status. The total number of specimens examined for 
the present study is limited, viz. 230, originating from 21 different islands and 
continental countries. 

The new subspecies from New Guinea is presumably a near relative of 
P. carinifrons scutellatus Turner (NE Australia). The former is very dark and in 
the latter the pronotum is often also darkened in both sexes, sometimes even com- 
pletely black. 

In 1939, K. B. Lat described Psenulus sinclairi from Bombay, apparently from 
one single male. I was not able to examine the holotype but from Lat’s drawing 
it is evident that his species belongs to the group of P. pulcherrimus and is closely 
alied to P. carinifrons. From South India a single male of P. carinifrons is known 
which may be a different subspecies, as the puncturation of the scutum is coarser 
than usual. More material of both sexes from these localities is necessary to deter- 
mine the status of these males. 

A key to all the East-Asiatic and Indo-Australian species of the group, is given 
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their distribution which became available after 1962; and finally, the description 
of the new subspecies. 

I am very much indebted to Dr. C. R. BALTAZAR, Bureau of Plant Industry, 
Manila (BPIM), Dr. G. R. FERGUSON, Scarsdale, New York (FERG), Prof. Dr. 
K. Iwata, Hyogo University of Agriculture, Sasayama (HUA), Dr. K. V. Krom- 
BEIN, United States National Museum, Washington (USNM), Dr. M. A. LiEr- 
TINCK, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden (ML), Prof. Dr. K. 
TSUNEKI, Fukui University, Prof. Dr. J. VAN DER VECHT, Leiden, Dr. I. H. H. 
YARROW, British Museum (Natural History), London (BM), and Dr. C. M. 
YOSHIMOTO, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BISH), for their assistance 
and for the sending of material for study. I am also grateful to Mr. G. Nixon 
of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, who provided me with some not 
easily accessible literature. Special thanks are due to the authorities of the Hymeno- 
ptera department of the British Museum (Natural History) for their hospitality 
during the XIIth International Congress of Entomology, in July, 1964. 


KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE GROUP OF Psenulus pulcherrimus 


1. Scutum, often also propodeum, with yellow marks; gaster red, petiole yellowish 


orablack.ı@lypeus of female trangularlysprojectinig nee... Dis 
— Scutum and propodeum black; gaster black, at most with red spots on second 
tergite u @lypeusnotutemalespluntiysprojecune en. en ae 3: 


2. Scutum laterally with elongate yellow mark above the tegulae and with median 
yellow spot in front of scutellum. Petiole yellowish, darkened at apex. Male 


UNKNOWN (Tenasserm) nn... pulcherrimus pulcherrimus (Bingham) 
— Scutum only with median yellow mark in front of scutellum. Petiole black or 
dark brown. (Java, Krakatau) ............... pulcherrimus projectus Van Lith 


3. Female : mandibles quadridentate, clypeus less protruding. Male : frons below 
antennae indistinctly punctate, back of propodeum not very coarsely carinate 
(much less than in P. carinifrons xanthognathus and P. carinifrons rohweri), 
antennal segments thicker, last segment less flattened and less pointed in lateral 
view. Both sexes : gaster completely black, fore and mid trochanters and femora 
yellow, basal 2/3 of hind tibiae yellow; pronotum, scutellum and metanotum 
generally yellow but these parts sometimes partly or completely darkened. 
(Malayathatland Assam). ua nee sogatophagus Pagden 

— Female : mandibles tridentate (including inner tooth), clypeus more protruding. 
Male : antennae more slender, last segment more flattened (pointed in lateral 
view). Both sexes : gaster not always completely black, in some forms fore 


andemideremoraspantyablackgoribrownn er. 4. 
4. Pronotum, scutellum and metanotum black or nearly black. Gaster black. 
Propodeum of male not very coarsely carinate, more sloping .................. Ds 


— Pronotum, scutellum and metanotum more or less yellow, never all these parts 
completely black. Gaster completely black or second gastral tergite with red 
spots. Propodeum of male in some forms very coarsely carinate and in lateral 
NIEWARNOTSN AUT NI a Min SUN POR laico 6. 

5. Female : fore and mid trochanters, femora and tibiae yellow, basal 3/, of 
hind tibiae yellow. Male: fore and mid trochanters black, fore and mid 


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Fig. 3—7. Dorsal side of thorax of two species of the group of Prenulus pulcherrimus, 

showing variation in colour-pattern. 3, P. sogatophagus Pagden, ®, from Malaya; 4, P. 

sogatophagus Pagden, 2, from Thailand; 5, P. carinifrons scutellatus Turner, 9, from 

Halifax, NE Australia; 6 and 7, P. carinifrons scutellatus Turner, 4, both Halifax, NE 
Australia 


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femora dorsally black with yellow knees, fore and mid tibiae yellow, basal half 
ORI Day loW ERP iwatai Gussakovskij 
— Fore and mid trochanters and femora in both sexes black or brown, fore femora 
partly yellow below. Female : fore and mid tibiae yellow, basal 1/5 of hind 
tibiae yellow. Male : fore tibiae yellow or partly darkened, mid tibiae partly 
brown, hind tibiae almost completely dark brown or black, base paler. (New 
Guinea ee nta carinifrons extremus subsp. nova 
6. Males (probably also the unknown females) with red spots on second gastral 
tergite (see also female of P. carinifrons xanthognathus). Pronotum and scutel- 


lum yellow, sometimes with a tendency to reduction, metanotum yellow … 7. 
— Gaster of male black, gaster of female black or black with red spots on second 
LEERE RR ae AERP er AE Nan AS Ae 8. 


7. Male with distinct red markings on second tergite. Fore and mid trochanters 
and femora completely yellow. Basal 6/7 of hind tibiae yellow. Scutum finely 
punctate. Back of propodeum moderately carinate, gradually sloping. Female 
unknown (North) lindia)) enne carinifrons carinifrons (Cameron) 

— Red markings of male less distinct. Fore and mid trochanters yellow. Base of 
fore and mid femora black or dark brown. Basal 3%, of hind tibiae yellow. 
Scutum strongly punctate. Back of propodeum more coarsely carinate. Female 
unknown (SOU lirdia)) re per ar carinifrons subsp. nova? 

8. Pronotum, scutellum and metanotum yellow with a tendency to reduction of 
yellow markings, pronotum sometimes completely black or dark brown. Fore 
and mid femora yellow. Female : gaster black, basal half or even less of hind 
tibiae yellow. Male : about basal 2/3 of hind tibiae yellow. Back of propodeum 
as in nominate subspecies. (NE Australia) ...... carinifrons scutellatus Turner 

— Pronotum, scutellum and metanotum yellow with a tendency to reduction but 
never completely black. Female : more than basal half of hind tibiae yellow. 
Male: hind tibiae usually with more yellow. Back of propodeum very 
Coafselyicarinate im lateral view more anpular re se: sents 9. 

9. Gaster of female with two red spots (sometimes fused) on second tergite. 
Male : frons raised on both sides of median carina, distinctly punctate; fore 
and mid femora and trochanters completely yellow or partly darkened (Min- 
danao!); basal 2/3 to 5/g of hind tibiae yellow. (Philippines) .................. 
ain O nr Roe het carinifrons xanthognathus Rohwer 

— Gaster of female black. Male : frons less raised and indistinctly punctate, fore 
and mid femora and trochanters completely yellow, basal 5/, of hind tibiae 
yellow (Java) or trochanters completely and fore and mid femora partly black 
and basal 34 of hind tibiae yellow (N Borneo). (Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Kan- 
geanelslands, Burus) Borneo) nn. carinifrons rohweri Van Lith 


Psenulus pulcherrimus pulcherrimus (Bingham) 


1896, Bingham, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 25: 443, 9 (Psen pulcherrimus). 
1897, Bingham, Fauna of British India 1: 263. 
1962, Van Lith, Zool. Vrh. 52: 101 (Psenulus pulcherrimus). 
The type from Amherst (Tenasserim) is in the collection of the British Museum 
(Natural History), London. It seems to be the only specimen known so far. 


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Psenulus pulcherrimus projectus Van Lith 


1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 102—103. 


A fair number of specimens was recorded in 1962 from East and West Java 
and also a female from Krakatau. There are no new records. 


Psenulus sogatophagus Pagden 


1933, Pagden, Trans. Royal Ent. Soc. London 81: 97—101. 
1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 109—110. 
21963, Tsuneki, Etizenia, Fukui Univ. 4: 15—16 (P. carinifrons). 


This species closely resembles P. carinifrons rohweri, having a black gaster and 
the tendency to reduction of the yellow markings of the thorax (Fig. 3 and 4). 
The female is easily distinguished from P. carinifrons by the quadridentate 
mandibles; the clypeus is somewhat less protruding. In the male the back of the 
propodeum is less coarsely carinate than in P. carinifrons robwert; the last antennal 
segment is less flattened and less pointed than in P. carinifrons. 

Hitherto this wasp was only known from one locality in Perak, Malaya. I re- 
ceived for identification from Prof. IwATA a female from Thailand which I could 
compare with a paratype from Malaya; undoubtedly it also belongs to P. sogatopha- 
gus. It was collected at Prew, 10 Jan., 1963, by A. NAGATOMI (HUA). The yel- 
low marking on the pronotum is slightly reduced medially and laterally; the yellow 
marking on the scutellum is larger, covering the posterior half and medially pro- 
duced triangularly so that it reaches the anterior margin (Fig. 4). 

It is possible that the male mentioned by TSUNEKI (1963) from Thailand 
(Pakpanang), 14 July, 1961, coll. K. lwata (HUA), belongs to the same species 
and not to P. carinifrons rohweri. 

The species seems even to occur also in Assam. I have studied two males from 
Chabua, 29 Oct., 1943, coll. D. E. HARDY (USNM). They have a nearly black 
pronotum, the lower half of the pronotal tubercles is yellow whilst the scutellum 
and the metanotum are black except the reddish-black posterior margin. The 
identification should be confirmed, however, by the capture of a female in this 
locality. 


Psenulus iwatai Gussakovskij 


1934, Gussakovskij, Mushi 7: 84—86, 9 (Psenulus (Eopsenulus) iwatai). 
1938, Iwata, Mushi 11: 23—25. 

1956, Tsuneki, Akitu 5: 9, ® and 4. 

1958, Tsuneki, Akitu 7: 54. 

1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 100. 


P. iwatai is the Japanese representative of the group. It is easily recognized by 
the completely black thorax (except the pronotal tubercles which are brownish) ; 
the legs for the greater part are yellow. In P. carinifrons extremus from New 
Guinea the thorax is nearly completely black but the legs are much darker than in 
the Japanese form. 


J. P. van LITH : The group of Psenulus pulcherrimus 43 


The inner tooth of the mandibles is very distinct. 

I suppose that P. zwataz is closely allied to P. carinifrons and probably is a sub- 
species of the latter. It is advisable, however, to defer a decision until more material 
will become available. 

The subgenus Eopsenulus which Gussakovskij created for this Japanese species 
should certainly include the whole group of P. pulcherrimus. 


Psenulus carinifrons carinifrons (Cameron) 


1902, Cameron, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14 : 288—289, 4 (Psen cerinifrons). 
1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 103—104. 


There are two males in the British Museum (Natural History), collected by Col. 
C. G. NURSE. One is the holotype (no. 21.834) bearing the label “Deesa 6.98”; the 
paratype is labelled ‘“Deesa 6.97”. Deesa is situated in Gujarat, India. 

In the holotype the red anterolateral parts of the second gastral tergite are 
confluent; in the paratype these red markings are well-separated. The fore and mid 
trochanters and the fore and mid femora are completely yellow, the hind tibiae 
are for the greater part yellow, only about the apical seventh part somewhat brown. 

The female is unknown. 

P. sinclairi Lal from Padegaon, Bombay, is certainly closely related. As the col- 
lecting localities of P. carinifrons and P. sinclairi are not so far distant one from 
the other, further study of the latter holotype and of females from both localities 
would be interesting. 


Psenulus carinifrons scutellatus Turner 


1912, Turner, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. [8} 10: 54, 9 (Psenulus ? scutellatus). 
1916, Turner, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. [8] 17: 128 (Neofoxia scutellatus). 
21917, Turner, Mem. Dept. Agric. India 5: 173 (Neofoxia scutellatus). 

1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 108 (Psenulus scutellatus). 


In the female of this subspecies the transverse carina below the antennae is only 
slightly raised, but still distinct, whereas in the other forms of the ‘group this 
carina is hardly visible. The course of the recurrent veins of the fore wings often 
varies somewhat in Psenulus; apparently it is also the case in this subspecies, the 
first recurrent vein being interstitial in the female from Halifax whilst in the 
female from Cairns, according to the original description, this vein ends just in 
the second submarginal cell. The extension of the yellow markings on the thorax is 
also very variable. 

Female. — In the holotype from Cairns the pronotum is black, also the pronotal 
tubercles are black. In the female from Halifax only the outer ends of the pronotum 
are darkened, the pronotal tubercles are yellow. 

In the female from Cairns the scutellum has a yellow band on the hind margin 
about half as broad as the scutellum, whilst in the female from Halifax (Fig. 5) 
the scutellum is almost completely yellow with the exception of a narrow anterior 
margin. Only the median part of the metanotum is yellow in the female from 
Cairns but the metanotum is completely yellow in the female from Halifax. 


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Male. — In the male collected by VEITCH in N Queensland the yellow band on 
the pronotum is somewhat reduced laterally; the pronotal tubercles are yellow. In 
one of the males from Halifax the dorsal yellow band of the pronotum is reduced 
to two long patches; in another male from this locality, collected on the same day, 
the pronotum is completely black (Fig. 6 and 7). In the latter specimen the yellow 
mark on the pronotal tubercles is slightly reduced. 

In both males from Halifax the dark brown anterior margin of the scutellum is 
somewhat broader than in the female from this locality, especially on the sides. 
In the male from Cairns the fore part of the scutellum is not visible. In all males 
the yellow marking of the metanotum is more or less reduced laterally. 

The fore and mid legs including the trochanters are yellow in both sexes. In the 
female about the basal half of the hind tibiae is yellow; in the male about two- 
thirds of the tibiae are yellow. The gaster is always completely black. 

NE Australia, Queensland. Material examined: 1 © (holotype, no. 21.839), 
Cairns, coll. R. C. L. PERKINS (BM); 1 9, Halifax, 30 June, 1919, coll. F. X. 
WituaMs (BISH); 1 4, June-July, 1918, R. VEITCH (BM); 2 ¢, Halifax, 8 
and 30 June, 1919, F. X. Wırrıams (BISH). 

TURNER (1912) correctly remarked that this form, as well as P. interstitialis 
Cameron, differs from what he called the true Psenulus. In 1917 he also recognized 
P. xanthognathus Rohwer from Luzon as a closely allied species. I have not seen 
the female from Dacca (N India), mentioned by TURNER (1917) and provisionally 
named P. scutellatus, but I suppose that this will prove to be another subspecies. 
According to TURNER the insect from Dacca is nearer to the Queensland than to 
the Luzon form. 

In 1962 I left the possibility open that P. scutellatus Turner and P. carinifrons 
rohweri Van Lith might prove to be synonymous. After the study of the afore- 
mentioned material from Australia and taking into account the difference in the 
sculpture of the hinder part of the propodeum in the males of the two forms, I 
now think that they are different subspecifically. 


Psenulus carinifrons xanthognathus Rohwer (Fig. 1) 


1910, Rohwer, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 37: 660, & (Psenulus (Neofoxia) xanthognathus). 
1921, Rohwer, Phil. J. Sc. 18: 312 (Diodontus xanthognathus). 

1923, Rohwer, Phil. J. Sc. 22: 601. 

1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 104—107 (Psenulus carinifrons xanthognathus). 


This seems to be a common species in the Philippines but nevertheless the 
following new records since 1962 may be of interest. 

Luzon : Los Bafios, 2 9, Aug. 1916 and 1917, F. X. WILLIAMS, 1 4, June, 
1916, F. X. WiLLIAMS, 1 &, July, 1916, F. Muir (all BISH); 1 9, Pateros, 
Prov. Rizal, 27 Dec., 1953, S. R. CAPCO; 1.9, Baguio, Mountain Prov., 5000 ft, 
20 Oct., 1954, C. R. BALTAZAR; 1 4, Lipa City, Prov. Batangas, 15 March, 1955, 
C. MacaBasco (all BPIM); 1 9, Manila, 21 Dec., 1952, TOWNES family (FERG). 

Mindanao: 1 9 and 1 &, Lake Lanao, 3 Nov., 1921, F. X. WILLIAMS; 1 9, 
Zamboanga del Norte, Manucan, 25 km S, 500 m, 18 Oct., 1959, L. W. QUATE 
(all BISH). 

The female from Manila has completely yellow fore and mid trochanters and 


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femora, as seems to be the rule in the females from Sibuyan and Negros. This 
proves again the variability of at least one of the species. 

The abovementioned specimens from Mindanao show a distinct reduction of 
the yellow markings, in accordance with what I have found earlier. Only the basal 
3/5 or 2/3 of the hind tibiae are yellow. In the females the pronotum, scutellum 
and metanotum are completely yellow but in the male from Lake Lanao the yellow 
markings of the pronotum and of the metanotum are reduced laterally, whilst the 
scutellum is darkened anteriorly. There is some difference in the extension of the 
red spots on the second gastral tergite, which are confluent in the female from 
Zamboanga del Norte, but separated, indistinct, and much darker in the female 
from Lake Lanao. 


Psenulus carinifrons rohweri Van Lith 


1962, Van Lith, Zool. Verh. 52: 108. 


This subspecies differs from the Australian P. carinifrons scutellatus, in which 
the gaster is also completely black in both sexes, by the larger extension of the 
yellow colour on the hind tibiae and by the more coarsely carinated back of the 
propodeum of the male. 

Although this form has not been collected in large series it does not seem to be 
very rare; it has a comparatively large area of distribution, covering Malaya, Su- 
matra, Java, Kangean Islands, Buru and Borneo. Here are some new records from 
Java and Borneo. 

Java: 2 4, Gopeng (= Kopeng?, E Java, Res. Semarang), coll. H. H. BANKS 
(OUM). 

North Borneo: 1 2, Keningan, 12—17 jan., 1959, coll. T. C. Maa; 1 6, 
SE North Borneo, Forest Camp, 9.8 km. SW of Tenom, 19 Dec., 1962, coll. Y. 
HIRASHIMA (BISH). 

In the Bornean specimens the legs are blacker than in the wasps from 
Java, the Kangean Islands and Buru. In the abovementioned female and male from 
Borneo all trochanters are black and the basal half or even a greater part of the 
fore and mid femora is black whilst in the Javanese form the fore and mid trochan- 
ters and femora are yellow. About three quarters of the hind tibiae are yellow 
which is also less than in the more southern material. The pronotal yellow band 
shows some lateral and median reduction. 

Because the material is too restricted I hesitate to consider the Bornean specimens 
as a separate subspecies and have provisionally labelled these P. carinifrons rohweri. 
It is to be hoped that a later revision, based on good series, preferably from 
Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo, may solve this problem. 


Psenulus carinifrons extremus subsp. nova 


Female. — Head black, scape of antennae brown, foreside partly yellow, under- 
side of flagellum brown. Mandibles yellow except brown base and reddish-brown 
tips. Palpi testaceous. 


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Thorax and gaster black, only posterior half of scutellum and median part of 
metanotum brownish-black. Pronotal tubercles and tegulae dark brown. Fore and 
mid femora and trochanters brown, ends of femora yellow. Fore and mid tibiae 
yellow, basal half of fore and mid tarsi yellow. Basal third of hind tibiae paler 
yellow, apical thorns yellowish. Veins of wings brown. 

Frons indistinctly not densely punctate, slightly convex on either side of frontal 
carina. Vertex shining, punctures minute, hardly visible (30 X). Thorax shining, 
punctures sparse and not sharp. Back of propodeum smooth, sides with fine and 
densely reticulate carination. 

Pubescence of face silvery, mostly appressed below antennae. Pubescence of rest 
of body whitish, rather dense on mesosternum, last apical sternite and apices of 
hind tibiae. 

Male. — Fore and mid legs brown, including trochanters, but outer end of 
trochanters somewhat yellow, also underside of fore femora, greater part of fore 
and mid tibiae and fore tarsi except last segment yellow. Hind tibiae dark brown, 
base paler brown. Apical thorns of hind tibiae pale yellow. 

Propodeum with almost smooth base behind enclosed area, back of propodeum 
with dense irregular carination, not as coarse as in P. carinifrons xanthognathus. 

This subspecies is very similar to the Australian subspecies, P. carinifrons scutel- 
latus, but it is easily recognized by the almost completely black thorax in both 
sexes. The legs are much darker than in any of the other subspecies. 

New Guinea: 1 9 (holotype), NE New Guinea, Moife, 2100 m, 15 km 
northwest of Okapa, 11—13 Oct., 1959, coll. T. C. Maa (BISH); 2 ¢ (allotype 
and paratype), W New Guinea, near Kampong Agameda, coll. W. J. RoosborP 
(ML). According to information received from Mr. Roosporp the village of 
Agameda is situated near the Arabu River, about 10 km east of the Wissel Lakes. 


Psenulus sinclairi Lal 
1939, Lal, Indian J. Ent. 1: 49—50, 2 (recte: 3). 


Original description: “Female. — General colour of body dark. Mandibles, 
except teeth, which are black, scape of antennae, pronotum, fore and middle legs, 
except coxae and tarsi, hind tibiae except apices, a broad median transverse stripe 
on mesoscutellum and another narrower one on the metanotum deep yellow. 
Labial and maxillary palpi and fore and middle tarsi pale stramineous. The parts 
of antennae facing each other, tegulae, and apices of hind tarsi brownish orange. 
Wings clear hyaline, veins and stigma brown (Textfig. 1). 

Head broad, transverse, deeply punctate, clypeus densely covered with silvery 
pubescence longitudinally arranged, antennae inserted a little further from the 
eyes than from each other, 13-segmented, scape twice as broad anteriorly as at 
base, pedicel hardly one-third the first flagellar segment, which is the longest, eyes 
large, extending from apex of clypeus to base of occiput, ocelli in middle of ver- 
tex, large, well separated from one another, forming a triangle and more or less 
transparent, frons sparsely pubescent, a small tuft of silvery pubescence imme- 
diately behind bases of antennae, frons faintly divided by a suture from anterior 


J. P. van LITH : The group of Psenulus pulcherrimus 47 


ocellus to middle of area between antennal bases. Thorax broadest between tegulae, 
pronotum narrow and collar-like, mesonotum large, broad, punctate, sparsely pu- 
bescent, metanotum more densely pubescent than mesonotum, fore wing about 
three-fourths the lenght of body, of the three cubital cells, measured on the cubital 
nervure, the first is about twice and the second is slightly more than half as long 
as the third, hind wing with the cubitus originating beyond transverse median by a 
distance equal to the length of the transverse median, legs stout, hind tibiae with 
two apical spurs, a short stout one and another more than twice its length, basally 
pubescent. Petiole about one-third the length of abdomen, smooth and shining. 
Abdomen long, oval, segments with silvery white pubescence disposed in oblique 
curves diverging towards sides, except transverse narrow apical stripes of segments 
II, III and IV, ovipositor short. Length 7 mm. 

Holotype obtained from the burrow of a stem borer in sugar cane at Padegaon, 
Bombay. Coll. G. S. KARKHANIS. (C.S. 79. 5.11.1937). It is deposited in the Pusa 
collection (H/7481). 

Unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to examine the holotype. From the 
description and from the drawing representing the whole wasp (X 9) it is evident 
that it is a male, not a female; the author must have been misled by the gastral 
spine. 

There is no doubt that this wasp is closely allied to P. carinifrons. The localities 
where P. sinclairi and the holotype of P. carinifrons have been found are not 
very distant. The description does not say anything, however, about the red parts of 
the second gastral tergite which are conspicuous in the nominate form. If the 
gaster is indeed fully black it is probable that the male described by Lat is a 
distinct subspecies of P. carinifrons. It certainly is also closely related, perhaps 
even identical with the male from Coimbatore mentioned in this paper as a 
probable subspecies of P. carinifrons. I prefer to defer a decision until also the 
females of these forms are known; an examination of the mandibles of the females 
would then be necessary to ascertain whether these are quadridentate as in P. 
sogatophagus or tridentate as in the other forms of the group. 


Psenulus carinifrons subsp. nova? 


A male from South India differs from the nominate subspecies in the following 
details: the base of the second tergite is indistinctly reddish coloured. Pronotum 
dorsally completely yellow. Basal half of fore and mid femora black or dark brown 
(trochanters yellow). The apical fourth of the hind tibiae is dark brown. Scutum 
strongly punctate. Frons slightly stronger punctate than in nominate subspecies. 

The carination of the back of the propodeum seems to be coarser, but this part 
being covered by the wings, a good comparison was not possible. 

As only one specimen is available and therefore only one sex could be studied, it 
seems to be premature to separate this form, although the strong puncturation of 
the scutum will probably prove to be a good character. The darkening of the fore 
and mid femora may be less important as this often also occurs in the Philippine 
subspecies xanthognathus whilst I have seen one or two females with completely 
yellow trochanters and femora. Also in P. carinifrons rohweri the colour of fore 


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and mid femora may vary. In how far this is related with insular isolation remains 
an interesting subject for later study after sufficient material would become 
available. For the present we shall have to be contended with the few specimens 
scattered over collections in the Old and in the New World. 

Apart from the somewhat reddish second gastral tergite this subspecies closely 
resembles P. carinifrons rohweri. However, the scutum of the latter form is much 
finer punctate. Also P. carinifrons xanthognathus is closely allied but also has 
a slightly weaker puncturation of the scutum and the frons is more convex. 

It is possible that the specimen from Coimbatore and P. sinclairi Lal from Bom- 
bay — no females from either locality are available — are identical but un- 
fortunately I could not study the holotype of the latter form. 

South India : Coimbatore, Sept., 1955, coll. P. S. NATHAN (FERG). 


LITERATURE 


BINGHAM, C. T., 1896, “On some exotic fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the 
B. M. with description of new species and a new genus of Pompilidae”. — Jl. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. 25 : 422—445. 
, 1897, “The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, 
Wasps and Bees” 1: 1—597. 
CAMERON, P., 1902, “Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera collected by 
Major C. G. Nurse at Deesa, Simla and Ferozepore”. — Jl. Bombay Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 14 : 267—293. 

GUSSAKOVSKIJ, V., 1934, “Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pseninen- und Pemphredoninen-Fauna 
Japans (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)”. — Mushi 7: 79—89. 

IWATA, K., 1938, “Habits of some Japanese pemphredonids and crabronids (Hymenoptera)”. 
— Mushi 11: 20—41. 


Lar, K. B., 1939, “Some new species of Hymenoptera from India”. — Indian JI. Ent. 1: 
49—50. 

LITH, J. P. VAN, 1962, “Contribution to the knowledge of the Indo-Australian Pseninae 
(Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), Part II. Psenulus Kohl, 1896”. — Zool. Verh. 52: 
1—118. 

PAGDEN, H. T., 1933, “Two new Malayan Sphecoids”. — Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. Lond. 81: 
93—101. 


ROHWER, S. A., 1910. “Some new hymenopterous insects from the Philippine Islands”. — 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 37: 657—660. 

, 1921, “Descriptions of new Philippine wasps of the subfamily Pseninae”. — 
Phil. Jl. Sc. 18 : 309—323. 


, 1923, “New Malayan wasps of the subfamily Pseninae”. — Phil. Jl. Sc. 22: 
593—601. 
TSUNEKI, K., 1956, “Taxonomical notes on some species of Pemphredoninae and Crabroninae 
(Hym., Sphecidae) in Japan”. — Akitu 5: 9. 
, 1958, “Some interesting fossorial wasps collected in the city of Toyama’. — 
Akitu 7: 54. 
, 1963, “Chrysidae and Sphecidae from Thailand”. — Etizenia 4: 15—16. 
TURNER, R. E., 1912, “On new species from the Oriental and Ethiopian regions’. — Ann. 


Mag. Nat. Hist. [8] 10: 361—377. 
, 1916, “Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XIX. On new species from Australia”. 
— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8} 17: 116—136. 
——., 1917, “On a collection of Sphecoidea sent by the Agricultural Research Institute, 
Pusa, Bihar’. — Mem. Dept. Agric. India 5: 173—203. 


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RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SOUTH ASIATIC 


S. COMP. ZOOL. 


MICROLEPIDOPTERA 
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A. DIAKONOFF JUL 6 1966 


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In this paper two genera and 22 species of Microlepidoptera from South Asia, belonging 
to the families Tortricidae, Xyloryctidae, Oecophoridae and Ethmiidae are described as new, 
viz. Cimeliomorpha g.n. (type: Copromorpha cymbalora Meyr.), Thymiatris seriosa, scolia 
and microloga, Coenorycta plutotera, anholochrysa and acrostega, Odites sphaerophyes, 
Casmara regalis, phobographa, uniata, rufipes, rhodotrachys, kalshoveni, Tonica syngnoma, 
pharmacis, centroluta, peripsacas, melanoglypha, Ethmia submersa, Agrioceros subnota, 
Chrysethmia g.n. hypomelas (type) and neogena. One new name (Cryptophasa antalba, 
Xyloryctidae) is proposed and three noteworthy species are recorded (Xyloryctidae, Glyphi- 
pterygidae and Oecophoridae); finally a lectotype is selected for Tonica effractella (Snellen, 
1879), while the genus Tonica Walker, 1864, is treated more extensively. 

Wing neurations and heads of the new genera and genitalia of the new species, where 
available, of the two sexes, are figured. 


When studying several collections of South Asiatic Tortricoid Microlepidoptera 
I encountered striking, apparently new, species from other families. Some were so 
fascinating that I described them on the way. Besides, several descriptions of 
Xyloryctidae have been made, preliminary to an intended revision of this family; 
as other duties will delay that revision, I prefer to publish now the descriptions 
already made. 

The material treated in this paper originates from the British Museum (Natural 
History), London (BM), and from the Leiden Museum (LM). Of especial interest 
is the excellent material, collected by my friend, the late J. P. A. KALIS, in 1937, 
in the hardly ever searched regions of Western Central Celebes, and in 1938, in 
southwest Celebes; it was preserved in the Rothschild Collection, Tring, and is 
now transferred to London. 

I am indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) for the 
permission to work their material, to retain a few duplicates for the Leiden col- 
lection, and to publish the results in the present series. Furthermore I am very 
grateful to the following gentlemen for their kind assistance in many ways during 
my studies at the British Museum and at Tring: Messers. W. H. T. Tams, J. D. 
BRADLEY, P. E. S. WHALLEY, M. SCHAFFER, W. TREMEWAN and D. CARTER. 
Where not otherwise indicated, the material is in the Leiden Museum. 

Some of the figures, made by Mr. A. C. M. van Dijk, have been financed from 
a grant for which I am indebted to the Netherlands Organisation for Tropical 
Research (WOTRO). Other drawings have been made by Mr. W. BERGMANS, of 
this Museum, and by the author. 

Two genera and 22 species are described as new and three species are recorded 
below. A lectotype for Tonica effractella (Snell.) is selected. 


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TORTRICIDAE, LASPEYRESIINAE 


Cimeliomorpha gen. nov. 
Fig. 1 


Head with loosely appressed scales, roughish on vertex. Ocellus posterior. 
Proboscis absent. Antenna in male minutely ciliate. Palpus moderate, ascending, 
appressed to face, median segment thickened throughout with scales roughish 
along lower edge, apex narrowed, terminal segment moderate (1/,), obtuse. 
Thorax smooth. Posterior tibia normal. 

Fore wing oblong-truncate, apex and termen rounded. Vein 2 from 2/;, 3 from 
angle, 3—8 distant, 7 to termen, 8 from angle, 9 close to 8, 10 slightly closer to 
9, 11 from just before middle. Upper parting vein from halfway between 10 
and 9 to above base of 7, lower parting vein from towards base to below base 
Gr 5e 

Hind wing with a cubital pecten, broadly semioval. Vein 2 from 1/3, 3 and 4 
connate from angle, 5 distant and only slightly curved throughout, 6 and 7 separate, 
little approximated towards base. 

Male genitalia, Tegumen rounded, pedunculi with triangular frontal lobes. 
Uncus absent. Tuba analis sometimes with a bifid top, halves robust and rounded. 
Socius, a broad and flat lobe, appressed and pending. Valva with a deep excision, 
sacculus narrowly oblong-oval and simple, cucullus long, narrow, curved, with an 
apical spine. Aedeagus diversely shaped, subcylindrical. 

Female genitalia. 7th sternite simple, slightly sclerotized. Ostium not modified, 
concealed behind it. Colliculum, a small dark ring, open ventrally, origin of ductus 
bursae granulate. Signum, a small slightly concave granulate sclerite. 

Type-species, Copromorpha cymbalora Meyr. (Assam). 

A genus of several brilliantly marked species which need a revision. So far 
regarded as two species, ‘‘Laspeyresia” novarana Feld. & Rog. and “L.” cymbalora 
Meyr. 

A photograph of the male genitalia of the type-species was published by CLARKE, 
1958, Meyrick’s Types, vol. 3, t. 216 fig. 1a. 


XYLORYCTIDAE 


Thymiatris seriosa spec. nov. 
Eron? 


& 60--65 mm. Head ochreous-tawny. Palpus ochreous-tawny, slightly mixed 
with brown externally; median segment long, obliquely ascending, by far exceeding 
vertex, moderately broad, hardly dilated, along apical fourth slightly curved up- 
wards; with appressed scales, roughish only towards apex below; terminal segment 
rather slender, straight, 1/5, pointed. Thorax (greasy) dark purple, collar, tegulae 
except inner edge and a median suffused spot, whitish (more so in paratype). 
Abdomen and legs dark glossy brown, spines on tergites little showing, brownish- 


orange. 
Fore wing oblong, narrow, moderately dilated, costa curved at base, faintly 


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piel Se vos 


Fig. 1. Cimeliomorpha cymbalora (Meyrick), comb. nov., &, head and wing neuration. 
Fig. 2. Thymiatris seriosa spec. nov., &, holotype, genitalia; left, aedeagus 


concave in middle, almost straight, apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique. 
Dark brownish-purple, with a silky gloss, moderately mixed with whitish except 
along costa; this mixing more distinct below the line formed by the upper edge 
of cell and veins 7 + 8; edges of cell, a broad vertical bar along closing vein, and 


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narrow, less distinct streaks along veins beyond cell scarcely mixed with white; 
posterior third of costal edge indistinctly suffused with pale ochreous with three 
distant and very faint pale ochreous spots posteriorly, termen with a series of 
roundish deep orange-brown spots, confluent, so as to form a complete band, 
strongly constricted at interspaces between ends of veins and gradually narrowed 
downwards, from apex to above vein 3. Cilia light brown with a pure white basal 
and a dark purple subbasal line, both interrupted by small dentations emitted by 
terminal brown-orange fascia. 

Hind wing glossy light greyish, towards edge suffused with dark fuscous, veins 
narrowly brownish. Cilia whitish, with light purplish broad spots opposite ends of 
veins, with a subbasal light purplish line becoming blackish-purple across every 
one of the above mentioned spots. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen rather high. Gnathos constricted above middle. Vin- 
culum Jong. Valva long and narrower than in other species, cucullus narrowed, 
sacculus 1/5, upper edge forming a weak elongate body with a rounded top. 
Anellus, an extremely long tube, almost as long as valva. Aedeagus longer than 
anellus, slender and sinuate. 

Assam, “Khasis, May, 1896, Nat. Coll.” (Rothschild Bequest, BM), 1 &, 
holotype, gen. no. 4765; 1 &, paratype. A very distinct species. 


Thymiatris scolia spec. nov. 
Fi 


& 34 mm. Head rather dull light ochreous touched with tawny. Antenna 
brownish-fuscous, ciliations under 1. Palpus light brownish-ochreous, median 
segment except towards apex and terminal segment along upper edge suffused 
with brown; median segment, about 11/5 X as long as terminal, more spindle- 
shaped than in microloga. Thorax glossy ochreous-white, tegula towards tip mixed 
with fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous-fuscous, spines forming a broad band across 
third tergite, golden. 

Fore wing elongate-truncate, narrow, apex subrectangular, termen rounded; 
veins 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. White, dusted with dark fuscous. A strongly suf- 
fused dark fuscous streak along costa, limited below by cell and the course of 
vein 9; this suffusion forming transverse short bands across cell: at 1/3, 2/3 and 
along closing vein; a broader, strongly outwards-oblique suffused band from lower 
edge of costal streak before its end, towards tornus, reaching halfway across wing, 
more distinct on veins; apex and termen with an ochreous-fuscous band, edged 
anteriorly by dark fuscous suffusion, broad in apex, rather abruptly narrowing 
downwards, reaching to tornus. Cilia (imperfect) whitish mixed with tawny and 
brown. 

Hind wing unicolorous light fuscous-ochreous with a silky gloss. Cilia (im- 
perfect) concolorous, with a suffused subbasal darker line dilated into faint dark 
spots opposite ends of veins. 

Male genitalia. Closely resembling those in T. microloga, but differing as fol- 
lows. Gnathos broader, not constricted. Valva slightly longer, much broader, top 


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Fig. 3—4. Male genitalia of Thymiatris Meyr. 3, T. scolia spec. nov., holotype; 4, T. micro- 
loga spec. nov., holotype 


broadly rounded. Hook of sacculus longer and more bent. Anellus much broader. 
Aedeagus more robust and longer. 

West Java, Soekaboemi, 1800 m, 10.X11.1935 (M. A. VAN GROENENDAAL), 
1 4, holotype, gen. no. 4669. Superficially extremely similar to Thymiatris micro- 
loga spec. nov., but immediately recognisable by different neuration and shorter 


palpi. 


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Thymiatris microloga spec. nov. 
Fig. 4 


4 37—41 mm (holotype 38 mm). Head dull pale ochreous, collar shining pale 
ochreous. Antenna light ochreous, ciliations about 11/3. Palpus pale ochreous, 
median segment along basal half of upper side with a brown streak, by far ex- 
ceeding base of antenna, 21/5 X as long as terminal segment. Thorax snow-white, 
dusted irregularly with dark fuscous-grey. Abdomen pale golden-ochreous, glossy, 
dorsal bands of spines golden-orange. Legs pale ochreous mixed with brown hairs, 
spurs brownish. 

Fore wing narrow, elongate-truncate, costa slightly curved at extremities, gently 
concave in middle, almost straight, apex rounded, termen gently rounded, almost 
vertical. Pure white, dusted coarsely throughout with dark fuscous-grey; 
a continuous streak of the same colour along costa, narrowed in middle, 
confluent with a similar but narrower irregular streak along upper edge of cell; 
veins above and beyond cell, as far as vein 2, narrowly streaked with the same 
colour, as also is the discoidal vein; sometimes an inwardly-oblique series of short 
darker streaks along veins, this series running from costa before apex to dorsum 
well before tornus. A series of rather large pale ochreous spots on ends of veins 
3—9, becoming smaller on both ends of the series, surrounded by brownish- 
ferruginous scales. Cilia pale ochreous with a paler base and a dark brown sub- 
median band, posterior half of cilia rather mixed with brown, cilia in tornus white 
dusted with dark fuscous-grey. 

Hind wing glossy ochreous-grey, along upper part of termen and in apex nar- 
rowly pale ochreous strewn with dark brown. Cilia light ochreous-fuscous, with a 
distinct dark fuscous subbasal narrow band. 

Male genitalia. Similar to those of T. melitacma Meyr., but differing thus. Valva 
shorter, with cucullus much more narrowed and pointed, also more curved. Aedea- 
gus half as long as in melitacma. Aedeagus shorter. 

East Java, Tengger Mountains, Nongkodjadjar, 1300 m, 19.X1.1938 
(A. M. R. WEGNER), 1 &, holotype, gen. no. 4628; 2 ¢, paratypes. 

Closely allied to the type-species, T. melitacma Meyr., from India, but with the 
veins 4 and 5 of the fore wing separate and the genitalia different. Nearest to a 
new T’hymiatris species from the Philippines, but with the forewing more suffused 
and with the valva differently shaped. 


Cryptophasa antalba nom. nov. 


Cryptophasa proleuca Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia 19: 191, t. 6 fig. 8; nec Meyrick, 1890, 
Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 13 : 31 (Cryptophaga). 


As the generic name Cryptophaga Meyrick, 1890, is an emendation of Crypto- 
phasa Lewin, 1805, I am now satisfied that the above name proposed by myself is 
invalid, being a junior primary homonym; therefore I am proposing the above new 
name for this species. 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 55 


Coenorycta plutotera spec. nov. 
Fig. 6 


& 54 mm. Head pale golden-ochreous. Antenna dark brown, pectinations 21/,, 
light brown, finely ciliate, scape short, chestnut-brown. Palpus ascending, appressed 
to face, median segment straight, abruptly curved at upper third, densely scaled, 
scales smoothly appressed, lower edge flattened, terminal segment 1/,, slightly 
flattened laterally, obtusely pointed; light brown, laterally suffused with dark 
brown. Thorax pale ochreous-golden, a complete transverse band beyond collar, 


Fig. 5—6. Male genitalia of Xyloryctidae. 5, Odites sphaerophyes spec. nov., holotype; 
6, Coenorycta plutotera spec. nov., holotype 


56 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 


light orange-golden with a metallic gloss. Abdomen pale golden, anal tuft some- 
what dull, tawny-ochreous. Pectus, anterior and median legs, and posterior tarsus 
dark brown, posterior tibia lighter brownish, with dense but not loosely projecting 
hair-scales above and beneath. 

Fore wing oblong, rather narrow, costa straight, hardly concave in middle, curved 
towards apex, moderately rounded, termen almost straight, hardly rounded. Pale 
ochreous-golden, costal third suffused with dark brown and with some faint bluish 
reflections, lower edge of suffusion becoming lighter brown. Cilia pale ochreous- 
golden, around apex touched with tawny and with a dark brown subbasal band 
there. 

Hind wing and cilia pale ochreous-golden with a silky gloss, somewhat less 
distinct than in the fore wing; hairs over anal area long and dense, concolorous. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen rather short, pedunculi triangular. Uncus porrected, 
flattened, top sclerotized, truncate, side angles acutely produced. Gnathos porrect, 
subquadrate. Valva gradually narrowed, slightly curved, rather slender, top 
rounded. Sacculus 1/,, apical hook very large, strongly bent. Aedeagus slender. 

New Guinea, Rook Island, VII.1913 (A. S. MEEK), 2 4, holotype gen. no. 
4856 (BM). Nearest to C. psammochta Meyr., but more robust, with stouter body 
and slightly shorter and broader wings, longer pectinated dark brown antennae and 
stouter palpi. There is no trace of a discal spot on the end of cell in the fore wing, 
as in psammochta. 


Coenorycta anholochrysa spec. nov. 
hie, 7 


4 38 mm. Head whitish with a pale orange tinge. Antenna dark brown, 
fasciculate-ciliated, ciliations 1, white. Palpus long, little curved, appressed to face, 
rather slender; median segment with closely appressed scales, dark fuscous-grey, 
far exceeding base of antenna; terminal segment about 1/3, pale ochreous, 
pointed. Thorax white with a pale orange tinge, a pale golden median spot, shoul- 
der pale golden. Pectus suffused with rather dark brown. Abdomen glossy, golden, 
slightly mixed with a few dark scales, sides of abdomen with a suffused brownish 
streak. Legs blackish, posterior tibia with loose, projecting long hairs above and 
beneath. 

Fore wing oblong, rather narrow, costa straight, curved before apex, apex 
rounded, termen rounded, moderately oblique. Glossy bright golden, costa brownish- 
black as far as lower edge of cell, this colour becoming suffused and lighter brown 
downwards, black dusting forming distinct streaks along upper edge of cell and 
veins 7 + 8, 9 and 10. Cilia light golden, a blackish subbasal band around apex. 

Hind wing and cilia glossy bright golden-yellow, brighter than fore wing. 

Male genitalia. Similar to those in C. plutotera, differing thus: gnathos slightly 
prominent in middle of frontal edge, sides distinctly folded and inbent. Valva 
more narrowed and pointed. Sacculus under 1/5, top not rounded, apical hook 
less strongly bent. 

West Celebes, Paloe, Mt. Tompoe, 2700 ft, 1.1937 (J. P. A. KALIS), 6, 
holotype, gen. no. 4857. Superficially very similar to the foregoing, Papuan 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 57 


Fig. 7—8. Male genitalia of Coenorycta Meyr. 7, C. anholochrysa spec. nov., holotype; 
8, C. acrostega spec. nov., holotype 


species, but smaller, more slender, with fasciculate-ciliate antennae, hind legs 
entirely dark above (not only dark tarsi, as in p/utotera), etc. 


Coenorycta acrostega spec. nov. 
Fig. 8 


8 30—31 mm. Head purplish-white, glossy, sides of face suffused dark purple. 
Antenna purplish-white, scape light purplish, pectinations dark purple. Palpus 
recurved, ascending, long, median segment reaching base of antenna, terminal 
segment over 1/,, pointed; sordid purplish-white. Thorax dark purple, collar and 
tegulae purplish-white. Abdomen orange, becoming pale towards base, suffused 
with brown towards apex, suffused dark fuscous bands to segments. Legs ochreous- 
orange. 


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Fore wing oblong-truncate, rather narrow, little dilated, costa hardly curved at 
base, straight, rather curved along posterior fifth, apex rounded-prominent, termen 
strongly concave, oblique. Whitish, finely irrorated with vinaceous-purple, tips of 
scales edged narrowly with that colour; more than costal half dull vinaceous-fuscous 
or purplish, edge of this colour straight to before lower angle of cell, thence 
gradually curved downward, to tornus, concave; this edge suffused with dark 
purple; apex slightly dusted with purplish-white. Cilia brownish-purple, base white, 
with a subbasal deep purple line. 

Hind wing bright ochreous, paler and dull along costa, paler and with a golden 
gloss on dorsum; extreme edge of wing in apex and along termen variably dusted 
with deep purple. Cilia golden-ochreous, in apex and along termen variably suf- 
fused and dusted with deep purple. 

Male genitalia. Uncus large and strong, triangular, top flattened laterally, beak- 
like. Gnathos moderate, triangularly pointed, arms sinuate, top porrect. Valva 
elongate-oval, little curved, top broadly rounded; sacculus 1/3, upper edge forming 
a sinuate hollow ridge with rounded top, reaching to middle of valva. Aedeagus 
rather short and straight. 

West Celebes, Paloe, Sidaonta, 4500 ft., VI.1937, 1 4, holotype (31 
mm), gen. no. 4720; Paloe, Koelawi, 3100 ft, III.1937, 2 4, paratypes; Lindoe, 
Paloe, 3700 ft, IV.1937, 1 4, paratype (J. P. A. KALIS) (Rothschild Bequest, 
BM). 

A distinct, characteristically coloured species. 


Odites sphaerophyes spec. nov. 
Bio 


& 18 mm. Head, scape of antenna and thorax pale ochreous-creamy. Antenna 
brownish, ciliations 3, white. (Palpi missing). Abdomen pale ochreous. 

Fore wing oval, costa curved, apex and termen strongly rounded, the former 
indefinite. Creamy-yellowish, pale, veins a trifle darker ochreous, dorsum slightly 
suffused with deeper yellowish and ochreous. Second discal stigma strongly suf- 
fused, ochreous-tawny; a faint tawny suffusion on 1/3 of dorsum, another, smaller, 
on dorsum before end of fold. Cilia very pale yellowish. 

Hind wing pale, whitish-yellowish with a silky gloss, cilia concolorous. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen narrow. Uncus moderate, hooked. Gnathos shaped as 
two hairy strong lobes. Valva with a broad base, costa very short, cucullus rather 
short, straight, not narrowed, top rounded. Anellus lobes clavate, rather slender, 
about 4 or 5 times as long as broad. Vinculum rounded. 

West Celebes, Paloe, Mt. Rangkoenaoe, 900 feet, XI.1936 (J. P. A. 
KALIS), 1 &, holotype, gen. no. 6129; 2 4, paratypes, gen. no. 5571, 5749 
(Rothschild Bequest, BM). Closely allied to O. paracyrta Meyr. from Ceylon, but 
the genitalia are distinct: cucullus straight, gnathos lobes longer and anellus lobes 
much shorter in the present species. 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 59 
Ptochoryctis chalazopa Meyrick, 1920 


Ptochoryctis chalazopa Meyrick, 1920, Exot. Microlep. 2: 321 (4 2, Java). — B. S. Rao 
& Hoh Choo Chuang, 1965, Pests of Hevea: 50, T. Fig. 1, i1, ig (shelter, larva, adult 
figured). 


Food-plant, Hevea. 


East Borneo, Samarinda, Muara Kaman, 50 m, X1.1950 (A. M. R. Wec- 
NER), 1 &, gen. no. 4657. The single specimen is in good condition, with markings 
jet-black and more distinct than in the typical series from Java, in the British 
Museum (LM). 

The original specimens, collected by W. ROEPKE, were “making curious webs 
.. on bark of Hevea.” 


GLY PHIPTERYGIDAE 


Imma mormopa Meyrick, 1910 
510055 


Imma mormopa Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.: 467 (Moluccas : Banda, Amboina, 
& 2). — Clarke, 1955, Meyrick’s Types 1: 211. — Diakonoff, 1949, Bijdr. Dierk. 28 : 138 
(Simaethis nubicincta syn.). 

Simaethis nubicincta Meyrick, 1938, Iris 52 : 52, 86 (Java, 9). — Clarke, 1955, Meyrick’s 
Types 1: 219. 


This somewhat surprising synonymy became apparent to me when studying the 
Glyphipterygidae in the British Museum in 1946. Later I had the opportunity to 
compare the lectotype of mormopa (selected but not yet published, by Dr. J. F. 
GATES CLARKE) and the holotype of nubicincta. They are one and the same, very 
distinct, species. 

Male genitalia. Uncus pointed, sickle-shaped. Socius short, free, subporrected. 
Valva strongly concave, sacculus thickened, moderately haired, unarmed; cucullus 
curved outwards, narrow, strong. Lobi anales broad, flat, tops rounded and dilated. 
Aedeagus moderate, sinuate (gen. no. 4791). 

Further material studied. Moluccan Islands, Banda, VIII.1892 (W. 
DOHERTY).1 &. West Java, Mt. Gedeh, 2500 feet, 1934 (J .P. A. KALIS), 
1 & (Rothschild Bequest, BM). 


OECOPHORIDAE 


Casmara Walker, 1863 


Casmara Walker, 1863, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. 28 : 518 (Type-species, Casmara infaustella 
Walker, North India) — Meyrick, 1922, Genera Ins. 180: 60. — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. 
Agr. Ind., Ent. 11: 40. — Gaede irn Bryk, 1939, Lepid. Catal. 92 : 400. — Clarke, 1963, 
Meyrick’s Types 4: 134. 


Male genitalia. Tegumen rather small, subconical, pedunculi being broad, and 
rounded longitudinally. Uncus little curved, slightly constricted in middle, densely 
haired and sclerotized. Gnathos strong, sclerotized and rigid, arms short, point 


60 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 


U 


FD 


Fig. 9—12. Genitalia of Oecophoridae. 9, Casmara regalis spec. nov., & holotype; 10, the 
same, aedeagus; 11, C. uniata spec. nov., & holotype, left: aedeagus; 12, C. kalshoveni spec. 
nov., 2, allotype, a sketch 


more or less triangular, sometimes thickened and prominent in centre. Vinculum 
large, elongate. Valva short, broad at base, sacculus over 1, top forming a free 
lobe, dentate or simple, cucullus thinly haired, suboval. Aedeagus sclerotized, 
straight, acutely pointed, with longitudinal ridges, sometimes denticulate, and a 
lateral denticulate prominence. 

Female genitalia, Eighth sternite moderately sclerotized, densely haired along 
upper edge. Ostium, a diversely shaped oblique cup, colliculum very short. Ductus 
and corpus bursae simple. 

The genitalia show only slight specific differences, which are sufficient, though, 
for discrimination of species. Superficial differences usually are more striking. 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 61 


The species are rather similar, very large insects with narrow, long wings and 
long legs, often thickened with brushes or whorls of dense scales. The scaling of 
the palpi and of the legs show differences which must be only specific, for the 
neuration and the genitalia are extremely similar in all the species. 


Casmara regalis spec. nov. 


Fig. 9—10 


& 46—59 mm. Head and thorax creamy-white, strongly mixed with dark 
fuscous, except on forehead and face, thorax with a white apex. Antenna whitish 
dotted with dark fuscous, ciliations 11/9, blackish, scape creamy, fuscous on basal 
half, pecten creamy. Labial palpus long, median segment far exceeding base of 
antenna, rough beneath, but not tufted; terminal segment about 1/,, spindle- 
shaped, rather thick, pointed, roughly dilated below top; creamy, densely mixed 
with dark fuscous, fringe at apex below white, terminal segment white, black 
above, with a subapical black band. Abdomen bronze-purplish, posterior edges to 
segments bluish-black, tergites 4—6 with broad bronze-purplish bands of fine 
spines, anal tuft brightly ochreous. Legs, whitish or creamy mixed with dark 
fuscous, posterior tibia bluish-black spotted with white. 

Fore wing narrow, oblong. Vein 11 from about 1/3 of cell. White ground 
colour almost entirely obscured by dense light brown dusting, partly mixed with 
darker fuscous-brown and mixed over this again with white; black suffused streaks 
between veins and a curved longitudinal streak above dorsum; a large transverse- 
subrectangular brown spot on end of cell, suffusedly and narrowly edged with 
creamy; some irregular white spots and dots, tending to form horizontal rows 
posteriorly, not reaching apex and termen; independent from these a subterminal 
series of white strigulae parallel to wing margin; two pale ochreous spots on costa 
before apex. Cilia pale fuscous, glossy, with a white basal line and a black subbasal 
band, lower half of cilia with white bars, three bars more distinct and larger 
towards tornus. 

Hind wing deep purple-black, apical sixth white, with a narrow black marginal 
line interrupted on veins, veins 6 and 7 narrowly black; tuft on vein 1a bluish- 
black. Cilia purple-black, around apex and along upper half of termen white. 

Male genitalia. Gnathos pointed, upper surface concave, lower part in profile 
slightly convex. Sacculus gradually dilated and rounded basad, its apex with a 
semicircular simple lobe. Cucullus somewhat irregularly semioval, not distinctly 
impressed above middle. Aedeagus strong, dentate beyond middle above, median 
prominence moderately dentate. 

Female unknown. 

The genitalia show a remarkably close relationship with C. kalshoveni sp. n. 
described below, which superficially is entirely different. 

Celebes. Southwest Celebes, Pangean near Maros, 2000 feet, III.1938, 
1 3, holotype, gen. no. 4858; 4 4, paratypes, gen. no. BM 5546 (J. P. A. Kats) 
(BM). — North Celebes, Minahassa, Tonsea Lama, 16.V. (VAN BRAECKEL), 1 4, 
paratype (LM). — Northwest Celebes, Goeroepahi, 13.1.1917 (W. KAUDERN), 
1 ¢, paratype (LM). 


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Casmara phobographa spec. nov. 
Kig.525, 24028 


& 35 mm. Head pale ochreous, strewn with fuscous. Palpus whitish strongly 
mottled throughout with dark fuscous. Antenna pale ochreous, basal fifth banded 
with brown above; ciliations over 1. Thorax pale ochreous densely suffused with 
fuscous-brown, tegulae only strewn with that colour. Abdomen pale ochreous 
densely strewn with fuscous-purple, posterior halves of segments with a median 
band of brassy bristles, beyond these pale golden ochreous, anal tuft purple-brown, 
mixed above with pale ochreous. Legs: anterior pale ochreous densely dusted and 
mottled with dark fuscous, tibia and each joint of tarsus strongly dilated by whorls 
of scales, median leg similarly dilated, femur bronze-brown with a black ring, tibia 
much dilated, rough, fulvous-ochreous, tarsus ochreous-whitish; posterior leg pale 
ochreous, strongly mixed with fuscous-brown except above, tibia with two very 
large rounded loose whorls of scales, in middle outwardly and at apex above, upper 
side with projecting fine and long hairs, tarsus dilated with large whorls projecting 
above, one on each segment. 

Fore wing long and narrow, oval-sublanceolate, costa curved at base, concave in 
middle, apex rounded, termen rounded, very oblique. Glossy pale ochreous, strewn 
with light and dark brown. A slight longitudinal raised tuft along and below costa 
near base, resembling a costal fold. Costa coarsely suffused with dark brown, along 
less than posterior half with five suffused silvery-white spots, becoming smaller 
posteriorly, ultimate subapical; four smaller similar spots along termen, lower 
fasciate; a large prostrate-X-shaped dark brown mark along median third of lower 
edge of cell, posterior upper leg followed by a small inwards-oblique pale transverse 
mark in cell; anterior extremity of the X forming a slightly raised transverse crest; 
a dark brown thick bar of slightly raised scales along closing vein; indistinctly 
continued with upper posterior leg of the X; a faint white suffused transverse 
mark edging lower half of closing vein posteriorly, wing beyond this from tornus 
to vein 8 and as far as termen, stronger suffused with dark brown except an 
irregular conspicuous white patch in its centre, before and slightly above middle. 
Cilia deep bronze-fuscous, lower half along posterior part of costa, in apex and 
along termen barred with blackish-brown, bars becoming shorter along costa 
towards apex, broader again from apex to tornus. 

Hind wing glossy light ochreous, dusted evenly with purple, more so towards 
dorsum, veins brightly purple. Cilia light golden-ochreous, a purplish suffused 
submedian shade, well-defined around apex and along upper half of termen. 

9 48 mm. Similar to male, but entirely intact and therefore markings more 
distinct. Denser strewn with purple; a pale round basal patch, its edge strongly 
rounded and raised; this patch whitish-ochreous, little dusted with very pale 
purplish; X-mark reduced to a streak along fold below median third of cell, 
continued as an oblique shadow across cell to 3/4 of upper edge, followed by an 
inwards-oblique small white transverse mark; a dark purple streak below posterior 
fourth of upper edge of cell and below vein 8 to beyond furcation with 7; mark 
on closing vein broad, blackish-purple, crescentic and edged on both sides with 
white, posterior edge extending downwards to fold before its end, area between 


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Fig. 13—18. Genitalia of Oecophoridae. 13, Casmara rhodotrachys spec. nov., & holotype; 
14, C. kalshoveni spec. nov., &, holotype; 15, the same, 9, allotype; 16, the same, aedeagus; 
17, Tonica effractella (Snellen), 9, lectotype; 18, the same, signum 


64 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 


cell and termen deeper dark purple, whitish patch shifted slightly more anterad 
and costad; some white scales below 1/3 of costa. Cilia darker suffused. 

Hind wing and other parts colored as in male, legs scaled in the same way. 

Male genitalia. Uncus rather short, shorter than gnathos. Gnathos strong, with a 
round central hunch, upper surface coarsely punctulate; frontal profile straight. 
Valva with sacculus sclerotized throughout, free lobe upcurved, rigid, with a 
sclerotized marginal blade; costa sclerotized; a club-shaped weak and bristly process 
in middle of disc resembles a pulvinus; cucullus rhomboidal, angles rounded. 
Aedeagus gently curved, some three small thorns in middle, an acute ridge along 
dorsum of apical third. 

Female genitalia. Eighth segment sclerotized, densely haired along posterior 
edge, sternite with a deep emargination. Ostium, colliculum membraneous and 
simple. 

Sumatra, Fort de Kock, 920 m, IV.1921, 1 &, holotype, gen. no. 6127; 
11.1922, 1 9, allotype, gen. no. 6128 (E. JACOBSON). Nearly allied to C. exculta 
Meyr., differing in the light tawny-vinaceous colour of dorsum not extending above 
2/3 of wing, bordered by black discal markings (streak along upper edge of cell). 


Casmara uniata spec. nov. 
Biest 


& 32—41 mm (holotype 37 mm). Head pale ochreous, sides of face blackish, 
roughish scales around bases of antennae and tufts on vertex, roughly spreading, 
mixed with black; posterior edge of head with roughish scales, mixed with blackish. 
Antenna pale ochreous, scape suffused with fulvous; ciliations over 1. Palpus 
ochreous-whitish, strewn with black scales, denser strewn along lower edge and 
apex; apical segment with a couple of black scales in middle. Thorax whitish- 
ochreous, tegulae slightly brighter ochreous; moderately and coarsely mixed with 
fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, posterior edges of segments with pale ochreous 
bands, preceded by bands of brassy bristles. Legs whitish, coarsely strewn and mixed 
with black; anterior tibia dilated, brushy towards base, tarsus less dilated; median 
tibia with a median and an apical fan-shaped brush, median tibia almost white, 
dilated with sparse loosely projecting hair-scales; posterior tibia with similar, but 
less dense fan-shaped brushes; apical edge of all brushes black. 

Fore wing long and narrow, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, termen rounded and 
very oblique. Creamy, partly strewn with bright fulvous scales, markings dark 
fuscous. Base of costa with a subcostal curved ridge of moderately rising loose 
scales, making impression of a costal fold; this ridge at base and towards apex 
mixed with blackish; costa from beyond this ridge to 4/5 with a broad streak of 
fuscous dusting, becoming narrow posteriorly and edged below by fulvous suf- 
fusion; this streak containing five whitish-creamy marginal streaks becoming 
shorter posteriorly, ultimate small, triangular, subapical; basal patch indicated by 
a rounded edge of sparse dark dusting at 1/4, centre of patch creamy, unobscured; 
a large black inwards-oblique patch in middle of disc at 1/3, from upper edge of 
cell to below fold, upper and lower edges horizontal, anterior concave, posterior 
with a notch above fold, strongly rounded above it, less so below; this patch broadly 


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edged with creamy on both sides; a bright fulvous-tawny suffusion in middle of 
wing from costal streak to dorsum, extended along this to tornus and to basal 
patch, but anteriorly becoming paler and ill-defined; an inwards-oblique transverse 
spot along closing vein, upper edge truncate, lower rounded, edged with whitish- 
creamy on both sides, posterior edge extended as an oblique streak to tornus; 
posterior third of wing from below costa densely suffused with dark fuscous, 
including an ill-defined central whitish spot well beyond cell and a series of five 
creamy subterminal transverse strigulae between veins, upper one ill-defined. 
Cilia fuscous, basal half dark fuscous, pale bars opposite ends of veins. 

Hind wing pale ochreous densely strewn and suffused, except along costa, with 
bronze-fuscous. Cilia pale ochreous with a dark fuscous basal third. 

Male genitalia. Similar to those of C. exculta Meyr. but cucullus lower and very 
oblique, not quadrate as in that species, and sacculus with the free top very short. 

West Celebes, Paloe District, Sidaonta, 1500 feet, VII.1937, 1 ¢, holo- 
type, gen. no. 4861 (LM). Paloe, Loda, 4000 feet, V.1937, gen. no. BM 5547, 
3 &, paratypes. Paloe, Lindoe, 3900 feet, IV.1937, 4 &, paratypes. Paloe, Goe- 
noeng,Tompoe 22700 feet) 619370 (BM). Centralt Eelebes, 1937, 22%, 
paratypes (BM). All collected by J. P. A. KALIS. 11 &. 

An elegant species, superficially resembling Epimecyntis eschatopa Meyr., from 
Sumatra, closely and identified accordingly. The neuration, however, is different 
and the genitalia are distinct. Actually nearest to C. exculta Meyr. 


Casmara rufipes spec. nov. 
Ei0035 


& 39 mm. Very similar to C. wniata spec. nov., from West Celebes, but differing 
as follows. Anterior tibia and tarsus densely suffused with dark fuscous throughout; 
median tibia strongly expanded, shaped as a single thick conical brush of rather 
smoothly appressed and finer fulvous scales, with a few slender, bristle-like long 
and black, strongly projecting scales, median tibia little dilated, white mixed with 
fulvous; posterior tibia strongly roughly expanded along basal half and with a fan- 
like apical brush; pale ochreous densely mixed with blackish, tips of tufts black; 
posterior tarsus expanded towards middle, spindle-shaped, tawny-fulvous. 

Fore wing denser dusted throughout with purplish-fuscous (median fulvous 
area as in wniata, absent); marginal costal spots whiter, more rounded; subterminal 
strigulae whiter, longer and almost interconnected, each followed by a blackish 
spot; white central spot beyond cell large and conspicuous. Hind wing paler, semi- 
pellucent in centre, denser suffused with fuscous along vein 1a. Otherwise as 
uniata. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen, uncus and gnathos considerably sclerotized. Gnathos 
strongly swollen, almost angularly prominent, point acute. Valva with free top of 
sacculus subacute, almost triangular, with a marginal ridge; cucullus with a straight 
or even slightly concave costal edge, lower edge more or less gradually rounded, 
without a distinct prominent angle (as present in C. exculta). Aedeagus with a 
series of four rigid thorns, apical minute, basal large and bifid (in excwlta there 
is an additional larger apical thorn). 


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Fig. 19—22. Female genitalia of Tonica Walk., holotypes and allotype. 19, T. melanoglypha 
with signum, right; 20, T. peripsacas spec. nov., with signum, left; 21, T. syngnoma spec. 
nov., signum, left; 22, T. centroluta spec. nov., signum, left 


West Java (L. J. ToxoPEUS), 1 ¢, holotype, gen. no. 6130. Judging from 
the genitalia very close to C. exculta Meyr. from Assam; there are tangible dif- 
ferences, however, while the hind wing is decidedly much lighter, so that it seems 
advisable to separate the Javanese species. 


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Casmara rhodotrachys spec. nov. 
ic 


& 29 mm. Head purple mixed with light ochreous. Antenna ochreous; ciliations 
over 1. Palpus purple slightly mixed with light ochreous, median segment exceeding 
top of scape; terminal segment very slender, smooth, acute; light ochreous with a 
purple apical half except tip. Thorax purple, tegula with a narrow whitish edge, 
tufts on metathorax light ochreous. Abdomen brown-fuscous, dorsum with pale 
bands along posterior edges of segments, mixed with golden spines, anal tuft fer- 
ruginous. 

Anterior leg dark purplish-brown, tarsus pale ochreous-ringed. Median leg 
purplish, broadly ringed with light fuscus-ochreous, tibia with an extended pink 
whorl of scales; posterior coxae dilated with jet-black scales; posterior leg purplish, 
tibia with a long fringe of light yellowish-ochreous hairs. 

Fore wing narrow and long, ovate-sublanceolate, costa curved and prominent 
along 1/3, concave in middle, less curved posteriorly; with three transverse ridges 
of raised scales. Three raised ochreous-pink tufts beyond 1/4, on costa, above and 
below fold, respectively, indicating edge of basal patch; this patch blackish with 
white marks: a line along base of wing, a streak edging upper raised tuft from 
below and an oblique attenuated streak from base of dorsum to above its 1/4; 
second transverse ridge median, inwards-oblique, formed by two raised dark 
vinaceous tufts, upper transverse, crossing cell, lower smaller, longitudinal, in fold; 
area between first and second ridges blackish, with a pale ochreous, elongate, 
subtriangular patch on costa, posteriorly including a black horizontal line, below 
this emitting a white transverse line before and parallel to ridge of raised tufts; a 
third raised tuft at 2/3, from just below costa to beyond lower angle of cell, wedge- 
shaped, gently inwards-oblique, ferruginous-vinaceous, its base below costa extended 
on both sides and light pinkish-crimson; space between second and third ridges 
black, encircled with a white line, edging median ridge but concave and not 
touching posterior ridge; a blackish streak between veins 8 and 9 indistinctly 
traversing raised tuft, thence dilated as far as vein 10, including two white sub- 
marginal spots between veins; an oblique pale ochreous streak from between the 
two tufts of median ridge to tornus; terminal part of wing pale fuscous-ochreous, 
finely dusted with dark fuscous; this colour filling out a broad posterior part of 
terminal area, but traversed by light tawny veins and cut by a subterminal white 
meandering line; termen between veins black. Cilia pale fuscous, basal half except 
in tornus, with broad black interneural bars. 

Hind wing pale fuscous, strewn with dark bronze-fuscous, coarser dusted on 
dorsum, veins narrowly tawny-brown. 

Male genitalia. Uncus sclerotized throughout, apex rounded in lateral aspect. 
Gnathos slender, not swollen. Valva with harpe long-bristled; sacculus sclerotized 
with a dilated semioval base, top rounded, strong, semioval. Cucullus rather slender, 
lower edge gradually rounded. Aedeagus divided as far as its middle with a short, 
toothed upper and a long gradually narrowed and curved lower lip. 

East Borneo, Balikpapan, 50 m, Mentawi River, 8.X.1950 (A. M. R. 
WEGNER), 1 3, holotype, gen. no. 6166. An elegant species, nearest to C. agro- 


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Fig. 23—28. Genitalia of Oecophoridae. 23, Casmara phobographa spec. nov., &, holotype; 

24, the same, aedeagus; 25, Tonica nigricostella (Snellen), 9, gen. no. 4719; 26, the same, 

signum; 27, T. melanoglypha spec. nov., &, holotype; 28, Casmara phobographa spec. nov., 
Q, allotype 


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noma Meyr. (China), but smaller, brighter marked and with distinct genitalia; 
the aedeagus resembles more that of C. patrona Meyr., also from China, but other 
parts of the genitalia are quite distinct. 


Casmara kalshoveni spec. nov. 
Fig. 12, 14—16 


& 34—44 mm. Head pale ochreous, a flat tuft of long hairs concealing forehead 
and face and partly covering the eyes; sides of face above and vertex strewn with 
fuscous-purple. Antenna pale ochreous, scape densely strewn with purple-fuscous, 
suffused above. Palpus long, recurved, top of median segment exceeding base of 
antenna, gradually dilated posteriorly with loose scales below, basal segment with 
a small tuft, terminal segment slender, slightly curved, subobtuse, about 1/3; pale 
ochreous densely strewn with fuscous-purple, median segment less densely strewn 
below apex of upper edge, terminal segment whitish, little strewn, a broad purple 
ring just below tip. Thorax pale ochreous, coarsely strewn with dark fuscous-purple. 
Abdomen pale ochreous, dorsum dark fuscous-purple, except pale bands along 
posterior edges of segments, venter strewn with dark. Legs pale ochreous, variably 
strewn with fuscous-purple. Anterior tibia strongly dilated with long closely 
appressed scales; tarsus with short whorls of scales. Median tibia moderately dilated 
at apex by closely appressed scales, forming a mantle around apical spurs and almost 
concealing them; posterior tibia with loose long hair-scales above and beneath. 

Fore wing elongate, narrow, suboval-lanceolate, apex and termen rounded, 
termen very oblique. Whitish-ochreous, finely transversely strewn with brown- 
purple, this colour forming narrow edges to tips of scales, many of which are 
strongly dilated and enlarged. A large, blackish-fuscous erected-oval ocellus on 
closing vein, edged with pale ochreous, edge extending to dorsum; this ocellus 
gently inwards-oblique and dilated above; a large, rather well-defined darker brown- 
purple V-shaped patch, anterior leg wide, with a blackish round dot against its 
posterior edge, in cell; posterior leg including ocellus, truncate base of mark 
extending along median third of dorsum; this patch edged with whitish-ochreous 
except along costa; blackish longitudinal spot on middle of fold; a white flat tuft 
below and beyond it; costa strewn with brown-purple throughout; a wedge-shaped 
spot below its middle (between legs of V-mark) and a similar spot between ocellus 
and dorsum, conspicuously pale ochreous; slender brighter light ochreous poster- 
iorly dilated small streaks along ends of veins; a regular series of whitish sub- 
marginal rounded spots between veins. Cilia pale ochreous, posterior half suffused 
with purple except in tornus; a deep purple basal streak from costa to end of 
vein 4, thence broken up in a series of moderate submarginal strigulae reaching 
dorsum. 

Hind wing pale golden-ochreous, irregularly suffused with fuscous-purple: more 
densely suffused in tornus as far as vein 1c, apex and a faint suffusion above end 
of cell; a pale golden-ochreous large patch between cell and apex; a suffused round 
fuscous dot on upper angle of cell. Cilia pale yellowish-golden, a somewhat 
irregular subbasal purple line. 

® 37—55 mm. Similar to male. Head only with sides of face and vertex dark; 


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scape dark on basal half. Fore wing rather evenly strewn with brown-purple, 
traversed by two curved outwards-convex pale ochreous faint fasciae from below 
costa: beyond base and at about 1/5, representing basal patch; a zigzag pale mark 
below costa on upper half, preceded on dorsum by an inwards-oblique pale 
transverse streak; two dark discal spots strongly suffused and ill-defined; ocellus 
black, slightly more oblique, pale-edged, edge continued by a pale streak almost to 
dorsum before tornus; a coarse dusting by whitish-ochreous scales in disc before 
the series of interneural pale spots; other markings as in male, more conspicuous. 

Hind wing denser suffused with bronze-purplish, except a pale golden area 
before apex, smaller than in male; otherwise as in male. 

Male genitalia. Gnathos with upper side strongly impressed, concave, frontal 
profile concave, points narrow. Sacculus sclerotized throughout, free, apex semioval, 
longer than in C. regalis, cucullus narrowed, a slight lateral fold or edge above 
middle. Aedeagus with rather strong teeth beyond middle above and on strong 
median projection below. 

Female genitalia. Eighth sternite with posterior edge straight, not emarginate. 
Ostium, a broad, oblique cup, strongly sclerotized below. Colliculum, an irregular 
short funnel. 

Central Java, Gedangan near Semarang, teak forest, 40 m, bred from 
trunk of Mzraya paniculata Jack (Rutaceae), 1 4, holotype, 31.1.1933, gen. no. 
4859; 1 9, allotype, 9.1.1933, gen. no. 4860. Further from Gedangan, Telawa 
and Seneng, teak forest area, some bred as above, III, VIII and IX.1932 and I-II, 
1933, 3 8,7 ©, paratypes (L. G. E. KALSHOVEN). 

Judging from the genitalia, closely allied with C. exculta Meyr., from Assam, 
differing by more prominent gnathos, oval cucullus and oval tip of sacculus; how- 
ever, superficially that species is entirely different. 

Dedicated to my friend and colleague, the collector, Dr. L. G. E. KALSHOVEN. 


Tonica Walker, 1864 


Tonica Walker, 1864, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. 29: 788 (Type-species, Tonica terasella 
Walker, India, ? Borneo). — Meyrick, 1922, Genera Ins. 180: 167. — Fletcher, 1929, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent. 11: 226. — Gaede in Bryk, 1939, Lepid. Catal. 92: 266. 

Binsitta Walker, 1864, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. 29: 832 (Type-species, B. niviferana 
Walker, India, Ceylon, Tonkin, China). — Meyrick, 1902, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 26: 
163. 

Teratomorpha Turner, 1896, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 20: 20 (Type-species, Crypto- 
lechia effractella Snellen, Queensland). 

Cononia Snellen, 1901, Tijdschr. Entom. 44: 80 (Type-species, Cryptolechia effractella 
Snellen, Queensland). — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent. 11: 54 (designation of type- 
species), 226. — Gaede im Bryk, 1939, Lepid. Catal. 92 : 266. 


A remarkable group of large insects of uniform facies but diverse size, markings 
and colouring. The male genitalia show a high degree of specialisation. 

Male genitalia very small as compared to the size of the abdomen, complicated, 
parts rigidly joined together and not easily read. Valvae and vinculum united into 
a short cylindre, spherical at base, edge of the base of sacculus with two hairy 
Processes, exterior largest. Cucullus free, hairy. Uncus absent. Gnathos represented 


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by two densely spinose conical processes. Aedeagus long, straight. Coremata 
represented by a pair of extremely long retractile pencils projecting between the 
sixth and the seventh segments, extending almost to the base of the abdomen. 

Female genitalia. Ovipositor long, top weak. Eighth segment sclerotized, truncate- 
conical, ventrally with a broad, triangular split; in this fits the sterigma which is 
usually weakly developed but shows clear-cut specific differences. The edge of the 
sternite with strong bristles. Ductus bursae very long, simple, tightly spiraled. 
Corpus bursae elongate. Signum, a scobinate plate with strong edge and diverse 
long hooks. 


Tonica effractella (Snellen, 1879) 
Fig. 17 


Cryptolechia effractella Snellen, 1879, Tijdschr. Entom. 22: 11, t. 7 figs. 17—25. 

Teratomorpha effractella: Turner, 1896, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 20: 20. 

Cononia effractella: Snellen, 1901, Tijdschr. Entom. 44: 80. 

Binsitta effractella : Meyrick, 1902, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral. 26: 164. — Turner, 1917, 
ibid. 41: 119. 

Tonica effractella : Meyrick, 1922, Genera Ins. 180: 168, no. 3 — Gaede in Bryk, 1939, 
Lepid. Catal. 92 : 266. — Common & Arndt, 1959, Empire Cotton Wool Rev. 36: 28-31, 
fig. 1—5. 


Lectotype, female, hereby selected, 27 mm, “N. and Ind. Natuurk. Vereeniging, 
Nieuw Holland”, label written in SNELLEN’s hand; gen. no. 6126. Another female, 
syntype (paratype), 29 mm, “N.I. Nat. Ver., N. Holl.”, original round white label, 
written in ink. 

Female genitalia. Sterigma transverse-semioval with small crescentic sclerites at 
the sides of lower edge; ostium, a short tube, colliculum a moderate dark ring. 
Signum very strong, a concave plate with a number of strong teeth decreasing in 
size in one direction. 


Tonica syngnoma spec. nov. 
ata; Bil, 10, I Jey, al 


Tonica nigricostella & Meyrick, 1936 (nec Snellen, 1902), Exot. Microl. 5: 51. 


The unique specimen may be redescribed as follows. 

® 32 mm. Head and thorax white, irrorated with fuscous-grey. Palpi missing 
(in original description stated as being “whitish and grey, second joint suffused 
black”). Abdomen light ochreous, venter infuscated, preanal segment black 
entirely, anal tuft orange-ochreous. 

Fore wing elongate-subtruncate, moderately broad, costa curved at base, broadly 
rounded-prominent along first third from beyond base, concave in middle, rounded 
and prominent again at 3/4, tolerably straight towards apex, apex rounded, termen 
slightly rounded, little oblique. Whitish, dusted rather irregularly with grey-fuscous, 
markings chestnut-brown and black. A well-defined, semioval blackish-brown spot 
on basal 1/, of costa, below bearing a suffused black longitudinal streak, projecting 
posterad; a small black dot on base of dorsum; posterior 2/3 of costa with a 
chestnut-brown broad streak, narrowed anteriorly and connected along costal edge 
by black dusting with basal patch; lower edge of this streak roughly serrate and 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 73 


Fig. 33. Imma mormopa Meyrick, &, genitalia (no. 4791). Fig. 34, Ethmia submersa spec. 
nov., &, holotype 


well-defined, veins indistinctly streaked with tawny-ochreous (perhaps simply 
rubbed!), posterior lower part of streak (below vein 7) dark fuscous-brown; first 
stigma represented by a black prostate y-shaped mark, with stalk directed posterad, 
preceded and followed by pairs of rather irregular small marks; second discal 
stigma well-defined, black, transverse, semioval, immediately followed by a slender 
raised white crest, an ill-defined greyish suffusion from beyond second stigma to 
dorsum; ill-defined transverse linear black marks, one in tornus, another before 
termen, connected with costal streak. Cilia purplish-brown (imperfect) with a 
pale ochreous base and a black submedian band. 

Hind wing glossy pale ochreous, densely dusted with dark fuscous, except towards 
dorsum and less densely, along costa; extreme apex slightly dusted with black. 
Cilia ochreous-fuscous, becoming darker fuscous towards apex, in apex dark brown. 

Female genitalia. Ventral split of the 8th sternite closed above. Sterigma, a semi- 
circular narrow band, weak in middle. Ostium short; colliculum moderate, tubular, 


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Fig. 35. Casmara rufipes spec. nov., holotype, 4, genitalia 


narrower along lower part. Signum small, with a single large hook and a few small 
spines at its base. 

Malaya, Pahang, Tras, 1912 (Popp), 1 2, from Meyrick Collection (BM), 
named “Tonica nigricostella Snell.” by MEYRICK; gen. no. 4718. This unexpected 
identification with a completely different species apparently is due to a curious 
error: MEYRICK thought that T. wigricostella Snell. had been described after a 
male, while SNELLEN’s type specimen actually is a female. So there is no question 
of SNELLEN’s migricostella and the present female specimen being conspecific. 


Tonica nigricostella (Snellen, 1902) 
Fig. 25—26, 29 30 


Cryptolechia ? (Cononia) nigricostella Snellen, 1902, Tijdschr. Entom., 44 : 80, t. 6 fig. 3 
(Sumatra, 2). 

Tonica nigricostella : Meyrick, 1922, Genera Ins. 180 : 168. — 1936, Exot. Microlep. 5: 
51. — Gaede in Bryk, 1939, Lepid. Catal. 92 : 267. 


3 45 mm, neallotype: exactly similar to the female, with the same small extent 
of variation, viz. the extent of dark brown suffusion of the costal edge in the fore 
wing and that of the faint grey dusting of the disc and the cilia of the hind wing. 
The only superficial difference is the anal tuft, pale ochreous in male, blackish in 
female. 

Male genitalia. Gnathos halves longer than middle of cuculli. Free top of sacculus 
moderate; external hairy prominence rather depressed, internal prominence long, 
finger-like, edge of sacculus oblique, making ventral excision of edge of genitalia 
triangular. 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 75 


Female genitalia. Ventral split of 8th sternite closed above. Sterigma, a weak 
membrane, including a simple subtriangular ostium. Colliculum, a partly closed 
moderate tube. Signum scobinate, with a single large hook. 

“West Sumatra, Lebong Tandai, 26—31.VIII.1921 (C. J. BROOKS), no. 
1227”, 1 9, gen. no. 4719. — Malaya, Perak (J. L. C. BANKS), 1 9 (with doubt- 
ful abdomen) (BM). 

Eastt#]a yJa,. freres 5000) ft) VE LOS 2 (SR AG KATIS) RIO rit Weisit 
Celebes, Kulawi, Paloe, 3100 ft, III.1937, 1 &, neallotype, gen. no. 4789; 
1 4,1 2 ; Sidaonta, Paloe, 4500 ft, VI.1937, 2 9 ; Paloe, Mt. Rangkoenaoe, 1800 
ft, XII.1936, 1 4 (J. P. A. KALis) (BM, Rothschild Bequest). 

The holotype of this species, a female, “Sumatra”, unfortunately is missing. 


Tonica pharmacis spec. nov. 
Fig. 31—32 


& 25 mm. Head light ochreous, vertex with three faint frontally converging 
fuscous lines. Antenna light ochreous, finely ringed with brown, scape brownish. 
Palpus with median segment very long, along upper half hardly strewn with 
brownish, tuft long, roughly projecting forward; terminal segment with two small 
tufts projecting forwards and backwards; this segment pale ochreous externally, 
with two large dark brown spots internally. Thorax light ochreous, apex and an 
antemedian band suffusedly brownish; four highly raised tufts arranged in a 
quadrangle; tegula pale ochreous, internal edge infuscated. Abdomen pale orange- 
ochreous with a strong golden gloss. Legs pale ochreous. 

Fore wing elongate-subtruncate, moderately broad, little narrowed posteriorly, 
costa strongly sinuate, prominent and roughly ciliate at 1/,, concave and smooth 
in middle, less prominent and slightly rounded along posterior third, two large 
triangular raised scale-tufts, at the beginning, and in the middle of this part, apex 
moderately pointed, termen slightly sinuate above, rounded beneath, little oblique. 
Light ochreous, across middle third becoming brighter, ochreous-tawny, markings 
formed by brown suffusion. A broad, rather well-defined streak along costa, from 
well beyond base to apex, extending below as far as upper edge of cell and the 
course of vein 7; on middle of costa this streak containing a narrow marginal mark 
of ground colour; an irregular-semioval large patch extending over median 2/3 of 
dorsum, touching costal streak with its top; anterior edge of patch rather well- 
defined, very oblique and concave, posterior edge rather suffused, ill-defined, 
emitting from its lower part a wedge-shaped paler brown suffusion to 3/, of lower 
edge of costal streak; pale terminal area traversed by brown lines along veins; 
central third of disc with some four tufts, three upper rounded, in a curved 
horizontal series, ultimate one on closing vein; fourth tuft larger, elongate, hori- 
zontal, in middle of fold; terminal area with two inwards-oblique, straight series 
of less raised tufts between veins, first series at 2/3 between cell and termen, 
second submarginal. Cilia brown along costa, pale ochreous elsewhere. 

Hind wing glossy pale ochreous, cell between 1a and 1c towards wing edge 
dusted with fuscous; apex slightly dusted with dark brown. Cilia pale ochreous, 
along posterior third of costa and around apex mixed with dark brownish-grey. 


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38. Chrysethmia hypomelas gen. et spec. nov., genitalia. 36, &, holotype, with 
below, signum 


aedeagus, right; 37, the same, end of abdomen with coremata; 38, the same, 9, allotype, 


Fig. 36 


Male genitalia. Gnathos halves thick, not exceeding half the length of cucullus; 
the latter with a ventral lobe. Sacculus with a rather long free top; external hairy 
prominence large, internal depressed. 

Northeast Sumatra, Deli, bred from larva on Derris, V.1935 (Deli 
Proefstation), 1 4, holotype, gen. no. 4717. Unique. Allied to the preceding 
species, but quite differently colored and marked. 

Derris plant produces a well-known insecticide; thence the name for the species. 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 77 


Tonica centroluta spec. nov. 


Eie.922 


9 26 mm. Head glossy creamy-white, vertex suffused with dark fuscous in 
middle. Antenna whitish-ochreous, dark fuscous above. Palpus with median seg- 
ment with rather appressed scales and a long not expanding tuft in front, projecting 
forward; terminal segment slender, longer than median, slightly dilated and 
roughish anteriorly at the first dark band; creamy-white, median segment with a 
short lateral streak from base; a suffused fuscous streak along posterior half of its 
lower edge, and a very coarse irroration along upper half, blackish-fuscous; frontal 
tuft infuscated along lower edge; terminal segment with two blackish-fuscous rings. 
Thorax creamy dusted with dark fuscous (rubbed). Abdomen glossy dark fuscous. 
Legs whitish-ochreous. 

Fore wing moderately broad, elongate-subtruncate, moderately narrowed poster- 
iorly, costa strongly sinuate, rounded-prominent along anterior half, concave in 
middle, almost straight posteriorly, apex rounded-rectangular, termen straight 
above, rounded beneath, little oblique. Whitish-ochreous, markings light tawny 
and dark purplish-brown. A light fulvous-tawny suffusion along posterior 3/5 of 
costa, continued by a narrow gradually attenuated subcostal streak to anterior 
extremity of costal prominence; posteriorly this suffusion is narrowly interrupted 
by strigulae of ground colour running along veins, each edged by an irregular 
dark brown line; a dark purplish-brown transverse patch across its anterior edge 
well-defined and concave anteriorly, very oblique, to about 1/, of dorsum; its 
posterior edge strongly suffused, at about middle of distance between cell and 
termen, leaving a terminal blotch of ground colour, pale at edge of wing, anterad 
gradually becoming suffused with light fuscous-purplish, a dark purple-brown line 
along posterior part of fold, not reaching tornus; some sparse speckling of pale 
tawny and brown scales over pale basal area; this area has an oval shape and 
contains a small obliquely transverse brownish raised crest at about 1/3 of wing 
length in middle of disc; a higher dark brown tuft on lower angle of cell, another 
smaller one above and slightly before it and a still higher horizontal short crest 
just above fold and beyond transverse crest; apex pale, narrowly margined with 
brown. Cilia (imperfect) pale ochreous, along upper part of termen and in apex 
apparently mixed with dark brown. 

Hind wing rather dark purplish-grey, apex and dorsum suffusedly pale ochreous, 
space between veins 1a—1c towards edge of wing suffused with dark brown. 
Cilia rather pale fuscous. 

Female genitalia. Ventral split of the 8th sternite open. Sterigma triangular, 
lower edge concave. Lamella antevaginalis with four converging ridges, a small 
strong cup-shaped ostium at their top. Colliculum tubular, long, lower part, a short 
dark cylindre. Signum strongly scobinate, hook simple, broader and shorter than in 
T. pharmacis spec. nov. 

Southeast Borneo, Ampah, 0—50 m, IV-V.1948 (Liem SWIE LIONG), 
1 9, holotype, gen. no. 4694. 


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Tonica peripsacas spec. nov. 
Fig. 20 


2 31 mm. Head pale ochreous, vertex slightly mixed with brownish. Palpus 
with median segment whitish-ochreous, strewn along median third with a 
longitudinal group of a few fine fuscous scales, continued as a horizontal streak 
of pale fuscous-grey suffusion just below upper edge of frontal tuft, lower edge 
and base of median segment, and basal segment entirely, fuscous; apical segment 
black inwardly and in front, except at base, and at two tufts (1/3 and 2/3). 
Thorax pale ochreous (greasy). Abdomen dark bronze-fuscous, becoming pale 
ochreous towards base. 

Fore wing broad, suboval, costa strongly rounded-prominent at 1/3, serrate- 
prominent before angle, termen rounded and oblique. Whitish-ochreous, slightly 
suffused with fuscous-grey, tending to form longitudinal streaks. Markings dark 
fuscous, slightly suffused; slightly rubbed, but the following raised tufts present: 
a small one on base of upper edge of cell, another on its middle; a strongly raised 
tuft on closing vein and a similar, large one, before middle of lower edge of cell, 
the last one with a fuscous-grey base. A slightly excurved transverse series of 
markings (probably edge of basal patch) before 1/5: a subquadrate spot on costa 
continued posteriorly by a narrow line along extreme edge of costa; a suffused 
horizontal line from base along upper edge of cell and a second parallel line from 
beyond base just below preceding; and a short horizontal strigula well below fold; 
these markings indistinctly continued posteriorly by streaks of faint greyish suf- 
fusion which tend to converge in a faint cuspidate greyish spot in centre of disc, 
marked with a small horizontal strigula and a black point above and parallel to 
middle of fold; posterior fourth of costa with four elongate marginal spots, more 
or less interconnected by fuscous suffusion; a series of fine moderate lines of dark 
fuscous dusting along veins, from vein 11 at costa to vein 1c on dorsum, lines 
between these in a broadly curved subapical series. Cilia whitish with three minute 
spots of fuscous dusting above ends of veins 6, 5 and 4. 

Hind wing pale ochreous, densely dusted with pale grey, along all veins dusted 
with darker fuscous, extreme base white, separated by a transverse oblique dark 
fuscous line. Cilia pale ochreous suffused with pale grey, a pale grey subbasal 
shadow, opposite apex a median and an apical blackish streaks. 

Female genitalia. Sterigma with a rounded top, lamella postvaginalis laterally 
forming sclerotized elongate-semioval plates; lamella antevaginalis, a moderate rim 
to ostium, slightly dilated laterally. Colliculum weak, a narrow ring. Signum robust, 
a scobinate plate with a long and slender thorn (foreshortened in figure). 

West Celebes, Koelawi Paloe, 5100 feet, March, 1937 (J. P. A. KALIS), 
1 2, holotype, gen. no. 6131 (Rothschild Bequest, BM). 

Superficially resembling 7. lagaropis Meyr. from the Philippines, but differently 
marked and with distinct genitalia, which resemble those of T. effractella, but are 
more sclerotized. 


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., genitalia. 39, &, holotype, with aedeagus, 
: 41, the same, 9, allotype, below, signum 


Fig. 39—41. Chrysethmia neogena gen. et spec. nov 
right; 40, the same, end of abdomen with coremata 


Tonica melanoglypha spec. nov. 
atei OS 27, 


4 19 mm. Head creamy-white, vertex sparsely dusted with fuscous. Palpus very 
long, median segment creamy-white, strongly brushy along edges, especially in 
front; terminal segment slender, slightly tufted in front and back at 1/3 and 2/3, 
outwardly creamy with two narrow black bands, inwardly lower third black, a 
broad band at 1/3, in front upper third with a black streak. Thorax rather dark 


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fuscous-grey, collar and tegula creamy, dusted with fuscous. Legs creamy, tarsi 
infuscated towards tips. Abdomen creamy. 

Fore wing oblong, narrow, costa strongly curved along basal third, concave in 
middle, little curved posteriorly, with a rough triangular tuft projecting forward 
at 1/3 and a series of three small tufts at 3/4, apex rounded, termen rounded, 
oblique. Creamy, partially finely dusted with pale greyish-fuscous, not dusted 
towards costa anteriorly and between veins elsewhere; dorsal area below fold evenly 
suffused with pale greyish-fuscous. Markings sparse, blackish-brown. A triangular 
well-defined spot on costa just before first costal tuft; an ill-defined elongate 
horizontal suffusion below and slightly beyond this spot and a narrow strigula 
below this, below fold; two very small longitudinal marks in cell at 2/5; apical 
half of costal edge with a narrow line becoming broader posteriorly, forming a 
distinct blotch in apex, linear again along upper fourth of termen; this streak 
interrupted by three costal tufts of ground colour, each with an oblique black short 
strigula below costa; large raised scale-tufts of pale ground colour; a vertical pair 
at 1/3 of disc, a horizontal pair above centre of disc and a transverse, slightly 
inwards-oblique complete series before termen. Cilia creamy-white, around apex 
with an apical and a subbasal blackish band. 

Hind wing creamy-white, apex slightly bent down, narrowly edged with a short 
black strigula. Cilia concolorous, along posterior half of costa and around apex 
suffused with leaden-grey with pale base and a blackish subbasal line around apex. 

9 22 mm. Head and palpus more dusted with fuscous. Fore wing more dusted 
with fuscous, dark markings extended, a larger suffusion in centre of disc, all 
veins streaked with dark fuscous; black subcostal strigulae towards apex longer. 
Hind wing pale greyish-fuscous, veins a trifle darker, apex dusted with fuscous. 
Cilia grey-fuscous. Otherwise as male. 

Male genitalia. Gnathos halves moderate, with an extended communal base. 
Cucullus deeply bilobed. Sacculus top sclerotized, the hairy prominence large but 
flattened. Lobus analis small, free. Lower edge of sacculi horizontal, long and 
slender. Edge of 7th ventrite with two approximated cusps. Coremata reaching 
basad to the 3rd segment. 

Female genitalia. Split of the 8th ventrite open. Sterigma deeply excised above, 


ostium cup being elongate; lateral ridges narrow, submedian thick. Colliculum 


tubular, weak. Signum small, short-dentate with a single very long spine. 

West Java, Batavia, 1893, 1 4, holotype, gen. no. 4816; the same, 1894, 
1 &, paratype; the same, 1888, 1 ©, allotype, gen. no. 4817; 2 9, paratypes. 
2 6,3 9. Allied to T. pharmacis spec. nov. 


ETHMIIDAE 


Ethmia submersa spec. nov. 
Fig. 34 


& 2 27 mm. Head and collar white, concavities of antennae black, collar with 
a large black median spot and a narrow black anterior edge. Palpus greyish-white, 
median segment with a black basal half and a subapical black ring, open frontally; 


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terminal segment black with a median ring and extreme tip white. Thorax slaty- 
grey, with a moderate gloss, whitish-grey in certain lights; a black dot on shoulder, 
a larger dot at the base of inner edge; a pair of submedian, another of subapical 
black dots. Abdomen in & bright-orange-yellow, tergite 1 with a large transverse 
black spot, tergites 5—7 only with black transverse bands along posterior margins, 
venter with pairs of large spots on segments 2—4 and 6. Abdomen in 9 similar, 
but segment 7 with a black ring open ventrally. 

Fore wing rather broad, oblong-oval, costa considerably curved, apex and termen 
rounded. Dark slaty-grey, with well-defined whitish-grey narrow edges to markings 
and large spots; base of extreme costal edge black; a whitish streak along base of 
costa limited by the course of vein 12, and containing two black dots; another such 
streak subcostal, from below middle of preceding to 2/3 of wing; a less well- 
defined whitish patch filling out less than posterior fifth of wing with apex and 
termen; round black dots, except the two costal, arranged thus: one just above fold 
beyond base; three more, in line with this, at 1/4, 1/5 and before 3/4, respectively; 
first to third of these alternating with two smaller dots above dorsum; a curved 
subcostal series, first of these largest, rounded, below upper edge of cell before 
middle of wing; four smaller below costa and before apex, two ultimate of these 
connected; two larger, somewhat irregular dots in an oblique series before and 
above tornus; a marginal series of about ten dots partly interconnected and rather 
ill-defined, large and irregular. Cilia dark grey. 

Hind wing bright orange. Apical black spot large, with an acute subcostal tooth 
reaching basad to before end of cell, edge below this regularly and deeply curved 
and reaching end of vein 1c. Cilia orange, around black spot dark grey. On the 
under side of hind wing apical spot well-defined, connected by a broad grey streak 
along costa with base. 

Female exactly similar, but spot on collar larger, dots on tegulae small, subcostal 
whitish streak fainter. 

Male genitalia. Uncus with a dilated and rounded base, furcate, prongs straight, 
long. Gnathos with a strong transverse plate, with a rather broad, rounded-truncate 
lobe on each side; median part of gnathos long and slender, sclerotized, ending 
in a couple of thorns. Anellus with a bilobed rostral and a rather long and rounded 
caudal process. Anellus lobes as long as in E. praeclara but sinuate. Vinculum 
sinuate. Valva with sacculus gradually rounded. Aedeagus of the usual shape. 

Female genitalia. Sterigma trapezoidal, with the upper edge concave. On each 
side a large triangular aciculate fold with a rounded top; mesially each fold forms 
a smaller smooth subcardiform fold. Colliculum, a short funnel, dentate inwardly, 
upper edge sclerotized but interrupted at one side. Signum rather small, rhomboidal. 

Nes ERGE bres") Palocw Mite lompoes 27 00sec mls MSP TAN Kanıs), 
1 &, holotype, gen. no. 5547, 1 @, allotype, gen. no. 5548 (BM). 

Closely allied with E. pullata Meyr. from the Solomon Islands, but differing by 
the genitalia. 


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Fig. 42—43. Agrioceros subnota spec. nov., genitalia. 42, &, holotype; 43, 9, allotype, 
above, signum 


Agrioceros subnota spec. nov. 
Fig. 42—43 


3 2 27—28 mm. Head and palpus pale ochreous, basal half of median segment 
of palpus black above; face suffused with blackish, vertex with two black spots. 
Antenna light ochreous, scape with a black subapical posterior spot. Thorax bright 
orange-yellow, collar with a median black spot, a pair of lateral subapical spots, a 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 83 


black spot on inner edge of tegula at its base. Abdomen deep orange-yellow, valvae 
black, a pair of sublateral and one submedian black dots. 

Fore wing oblong, oval-subtruncate, costa gently curved, apex and termen 
rounded, little oblique. Deep orange-yellow. Markings dull black. A streak along 
base of costa. Basal dots inequal, lower largest; discal spot large, median pair 
largest; posterior spot well-defined, central shifted towards costa; pretornal spot 
large, round; a large black dot in apex, a streak along upper half of termen and a 
minute line halfway between these markings in male, connected with the terminal 
streak in female. Cilia yellow, black with yellow base opposite marginal markings. 

Hind wing in male with an androconial subcostal field of flatly depressed scales 
reaching to middle; pale golden-yellow, becoming deeper yellow towards apex, in 
female middle of wing suffused with pale fuscous, neither reaching vein Ic, nor 
termen. Cilia golden-yellow. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen large and broad, pedunculi divided, upper pedunculi 
resting upon long processus basales. Uncus somewhat depressed, bicornute, horns 
long, diverging almost horizontally. Labis, a large finely haired, but weak sausage- 
like process. Valva broad, moderately long; sacculus ill-defined, cucullus broadly 
rounded-truncate, costa with a long and slender apical process. Aedeagus semi- 
circular. 

Female genitalia. Sterigma large, subtrapezoidal, with aciculate lateral bands, 
projecting lower angles with rounded appendages to them; transverse portion, being 
lamella antevaginalis and postvaginalis united, forming a broad tube around ostium 
bursae. Signum, folded, stellate with a short and broad “stalk”. 

Central Java, Telawa, teak forest, 1.11.1936, feeding on leaves of an un- 
named plant (no. 2003) (Dr. L. G. E. KALSHOVEN), 1 4, holotype, gen. no. 
6133, 1 ©, allotype, gen. no. 6140; 1 &, 2 @ paratypes, gen. no. 6132 12. 

Superficially almost exactly similar to A. magnificella Saub. from the Philippines, 
differing by the absence of the upper anterior spot of the postmedian group of 
spots, and by the black, not pale fuscous suffusion of the hind wing. The genitalia, 
especially of the males, however, are widely differing. 


Chrysethmia gen. nov. 
Fig. 44 


Head with smoothly appressed scales, face entirely smooth. Proboscis developed, 
except top densely and roughly scaled. Ocellus absent. Antenna smoothly scaled, 
minutely ciliate in the two sexes. Labial palpus long, recurved close to face, smoothly 
scaled, median segment not dilated, not reaching top of eye, terminal segment 
about 2, pointed. Maxillary palpus moderate, slender, top roughish and slightly 
dilated; appressed to proboscis and slightly crossing each other in front. Thorax 
smooth. Posterior tibia dilated with long dense hairs above and beneath, flattened 
laterally. 

Fore wing oblong-oval, smoothly scaled, under side with a fringe of scales along 
costa and vein 12 to beyond 2/3, concealing vein 12. Vein 2 from before angle, 
3 from angle, 4, 5 separate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to just above apex, 9 straight, 10 
from 3/, distance 10—9, 11 from middle. 


84 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 


Fig. 44. Chrysethmia hypomelas gen. et spec. nov., head and wing neuration, & 


Hind wing semioval; in male narrowed and more pointed, costa on the upper 
side with a longitudinal band of androconial modified scales along vein 8, diversely 
shaped, sometimes very short, sometimes longer and very dense, with additional 
tufts of pencils of hair-scales from base of wing. Vein 2 from beyond middle, 
3 and 4 connate from angle, 5 median, straight, 6, 7 parallel. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen semicircular. Uncus broad but short, top bifid. Gnathos 
entirely paired, tops curved down, simple rods, apparently fastened to transtilla. 
Valva rounded or oval, rather simple, with a long process at base of costa. Labis, 
a simple large rising prominence. Aedeagus short. Usually there is a pair of large 
finger-like extensile appendages of the intersegmental membrane between the 8th 
and the 9th abdominal sternites, covered with large modified scales and bearing 
at the top a large pencil-like corema. In one species coremata, surprisingly, absent. 

Female genitalia. Ovipositor globular, halves moderately sclerotized. Sterigma, 
together with the pleurae of the eighth segment forming a large trapeze, with 
diversely shaped projecting angles and a large central opening or prominence, 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 85 


being the ostium; colliculum indicated by an irregular sclerite. Ductus bursae 
‘spiraled. Signum a transverse moderately broad “lamina dentata”.. 

Type-species, Chrysethmia hypomelas spec. nov. (Celebes). 

A natural group of tropical species with characteristic compact male genitalia, 
quite dissimilar from those in Ethmia Hubn., to which genus the golden-yellow, 
black-dotted species have been attributed until present. They are closer allied with 
Agrioceros Meyr., described from the Philippines which is intermediate and forms 
the connection with Ethmia. 

Ethmia zelaea Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 409 (4, 
Ceylon), also belongs to the present genus. The genitalia have been illustrated by 
CLARKE, 1965 (Meyrick’s Types 6: 433, t. 214 fig. 3a—b). 


KEY TO THE SPECIES 


1. Hind wing unicolorous, yellow. . . An. Ha OL ee. Deco 

— Hind wing partly suffused with grey or ede AR FU moe IN 
2. Hind wing with a grey suffusion a almost to apex aad exceeding 

Vein MLC TMS . + . + bypomelas 

— Hind wing with a (Weds Eon feces in faded quinto) not reaching 
apexqand limited abyzAveinwl cei ala cake ne SI cea neogena 


Chrysethmia hypomelas spec. nov. 
Fig. 36—38, 44 


& 26, 9 29 mm. Head yellow-whitish, palpus touched with ochreous, face 
with a vertical median dark fuscous spot, larger in female, vertex with a large 
dark fuscous spot. Antenna light ochreous, scape yellow-whitish with a black 
subapical spot on back. Thorax light yellow-orange, a large black spot on median 
third of collar, two round lateral dots before apex; a small spot on base of tegula 
below inner edge, partly concealed under collar. Abdomen deep orange-yellow, 
anal tuft black inside, yellow outside, valvae black; one pair of dorsolateral 
another, of ventrolateral dots on each segment. 

Fore wing oblong, suboval-truncate, costa moderately curved throughout, apex 
and termen rounded, termen little oblique. Bright glossy orange-yellow, markings, 
black round spots. A small streak on base of costal edge, a curved series of three 
equal basal spots: one small spot below costa beyond base, followed by a second, 
a third below and before first, in fold close to its base; four larger dots arranged 
in a lozenge in disc before middle, posterior of these largest, in male elongate, 
lower below fold; five smaller dots in posterior third, shifted towards costa: four 
in an oblique rectangle, fifth in its centre; anterior pair of these dots largest; in 
female these dots small; a small pretornal dot on dorsum just below end of cell; 
four elongate dots along apex and upper part of termen, apical longest, second 
small, remaining dots often interconnected. Cilia concolorous with wing, with 
broad black or dark grey bars opposite black marginal spots. 

Hind wing in male with a dense brush of very long pale yellow scales along 
costal 2/3, directed apicad, covering a patch of short, dark, and bristly hair-scales 
of the subcostal black brush; wing dark fuscous as far as vein 1c; dorsum light 


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yellow; extreme edge in apex and along termen suffused with yellow. Cilia yellow. 

Male and female genitalia as described with the genus. | 

West Celebes, Paloe district, Sidaonta, 4500 feet, II.1937, 1 4, holotype, 
gen. no. 5567; Southwest Celebes, Pangean near Maros, 2000 feet, III.1938, 1 9, 
allotype, gen. no. 5568; 1 4,1 9, paratypes (BM). 

Differs from the following species by deeper yellow fore wing and darker 
suffused hind wing in the male, while in the female this suffusion is grey and not! 
exceeding vein 1c. The genitalia in the two sexes and the coremata show also clear-| 
cut differences. 


Chrysethmia neogena spec. nov. 
Fig. 39—41 


819 28—29 mm. Very similar to the preceding but differing thus. Palpus, | 
median segment with basal half black above. Head white, face fuscous, mixed with 
grey and yellowish, suffused with black below. Black spot on vertex tending to 
fall in two in male, double in female. Thorax deeper orange-yellow, markings as 
in hypomelas. Abdomen deep orange-yellow, valvae black surrounded by a gelte 
anal tuft except beneath, venter with suffused black sublateral and transverse streaks, 
one pair of dorsolateral dots; abdomen in female with a pair of larger dorsolateral 
dots and one pair of ventrolateral dots on each segment, without black suffusion. 

Fore wing, base of costal edge with a longer black line; basal spots inequal, 
lower largest, upper small; the four discal spots larger, lower largest; posterior 
spots very inequal, lower anterior spot and central spot being round and much 
larger than the irregular posterior pair; pretornal dot large and round. 

Hind wing in male with costal brush greyish-yellow, scales denser but shorter 
than in hypomelas; pale yellow, dorsum and apex suffused with deeper golden- 
yellow; less than posterior half of wing as far as upper edge of cell to before 
apex, suffused with black, this suffusion with a well-defined convex edge posteri- 
orly, anteriorly becoming light grey and extending towards base; in female this 
suffusion less extended towards apex, and paler. Cilia yellow. 

Male genitalia resembling those in the preceding species, and differing as fol- 
lows. Upper half of tegumen much smaller than lower. Uncus halves emarginate, 
not deeply incised near base. Valva oval, longer, less rounded, costal process 
longer. Corema scales longer and narrower. 

Female genitalia. Lateral bands of sterigma acicular, angles more rounded. 
Ostium more prominent. 

Saleyer Island, Somarisi, 1660 feet, XII.1938 (A. J. P. Kats), 1 4, 
holotype, gen. no. 5569, 1 9, allotype, gen. no. 5570; 1 &, 19, paratypes (BM). 


A. DIAKONOFF : South Asiatic Microlepidoptera 87 
APPENDIX 


THE BIOLOGY OF CASMARA KALSHOVENI DIAKONOFF, 
AN OECOPHORID BORER 


BY 


L. G. E. KALSHOVEN 
Blaricum, the Netherlands 


The borer infestation was detected by the Javanese personnel of my temporary 
entomological field laboratory at Gedangan (KALSHOVEN, 1955), at a time when 
particular attention was being paid to the borers in green stems and trunks in the 
cultivated teak woods of Central Java. The borer larvae were found in the shoots 
of the small-leaved, wild form of Murraya paniculata Jack. (Rutaceae; vernacular 
name ‘djenar’, cf. HEYNE, 1950). This is a small tree or shrub up to 6 m high, 
not uncommon in the area. 

After the attack had been discovered through the occurrence of dying and dead 
shoots, it was observed from November, 1932 to May, 1933. A total of 84 infested 
shoots and branches, 1—4.5 cm thick, were collected from some 14 trees. 

The shoots were bored from immediately below the top or from a lower part 
downwards over a length of up to 65 cm, mostly in the ligneous parts. Once in a 
single 2.5 cm thick branch three parallel tunnels in the core were found. In the 
trunk of another tree, 4.5 cm in diameter, the tunnel ran immediately under the 
bark. Small black holes from which sap had flown, were visible along the infested 
parts. According to the collector no frass was seen attached to the branches, the 
excreta apparently being ejected in loose particles. As a rule the remaining foliage 
on the branches was still green or withering. 

During a visit to the laboratory at the end of October, 1932, I made the fol- 
lowing notes. The larvae live in narrow, black-walled, longitudinal tunnels (T. 1 
Fig. 2). They are slender, with yellowish thoracic segments, the abdomen is isabel- 
coloured, the pronotal shield is of a curious shape, the last abdominal segment 
being flattened and strongly sclerotized. The initial stage of the attack was not 
observed. The smallest larva collected was 25 mm long, 3 mm broad, the largest 
48 mm X 5 mm. 

The clipped shoots were placed in water. Some larvae were moved to a hole in a 
freshly cut ‘djenar’ branch. Moving some other larvae to fresh cassava tubers 
(Manihot utilissima, rich in amylum) — method used with some success in raising 
young larvae of the Cossid Xyleutes ceramica (Walk.) — failed altogether in the 
present case. 

Mature larvae pupated readily indoors in the tunnels. Pupae were encountered in 
the field from the end of November to mid December. Moths emerged between 
20 December and 10 May. Notwithstanding considerable mortality, particularly in 
the larval stage, 19 moths altogether were bred in the laboratory. 

Shoot-boring habits have already been recorded in some Oecophoridae in India. 
T. B. FLETCHER (1917) described the life-history of Tonica niviferana Walk., a 
borer in the shoots of Bombax malabaricum DC. (Bombacaceae) and illustrated 


88 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 


it with a nice coloured plate. The borer is not considered to be a real pest, though 
its activities have stunted young growth in cultivations. The same species was dealt 
with by BEESON (1941). Judging from the particulars given, its habits differ 
strongly from those of the Murraya borer. In addition to this, BEESON has listed] 
a second Oecophorid borer, viz. Allotalanta triocellata (Staint.), which lives in the 
shoots of Anthocephalus chinensis (Lamk.) Rich. ex Walt. [Rubiaceae, = A. 
cadamba (Roxb.) Miq.}. The larvae of five other Indian species, mentioned by 
BEESON, have different habits, some feeding on leaves spun together, others being 
case-bearing defoliators. 


REFERENCES 


BEESON, C. F. C., 1941. — The ecology and control of the Forest Insects of India and the 
neighbouring countries. Dehra Dun. 

FLETCHER, T. B., 1917. — Proceedings of the Second Entomological Meeting at Pusa : 131. 

HEYNE, K., 1950. — De nuttige planten van Indonesié. ce : 

KALSHOVEN, L. G. E., 1955. — Notes on the habits and ecology of Indonesian forest insects. 
of minor importance. I. Entomologische Berichten 15: 438. 


TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 3, 1966 PLAAT 1 


Fig. 1. Tonica syngnoma spec. nov., 2, holotype, Pahang (BM) (Phot. LM) 


Fig. 2. Murraya paniculata, branch tops tunelled by larvae of Casmara kalshoveni sp. n., 
Java, Oct., 1932 (Phot. IPZ) 


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SOME ODONATA OF RAPA ISLAND, WITH 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE POLYNESIAN SPECIES OF 
ISCHNURA CHARPENTIER 


BY 


M. A. LIEFTINCK 


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Abstract 


The writer reports on a collection of Odonata from the South Sea island of Rapa. Among 
the 4 species recorded, one, Ischnura thelmae spec. nov., is described from both sexes as new. 
Two other members of the same genus, previously only known from the types, are I. spini- 
cauda Brauer, 1865 (Polynesia) and I. taitensis Selys, 1876 (Tahiti). These are re-characterized 
and figured, the last-mentioned species after fresh topotypical material from the Society 
Islands. I. cheesmani Fraser, 1942, also from Tahiti, is considered synonymous with I. ¢a/- 
tensis Selys. 


The present paper deals with a small collection of Odonata made in the island 
of Rapa, in the South Pacific, by Dr. J. F. GATES CLARKE and his wife, Mrs. 
THELMA M. CLARKE. The main object of this visit was to investigate the micro- 
lepidoptera of that remote island, but fortunately other insects were also collected. 
This trip was undertaken in 1963 in behalf of the United States National Museum, 
Washington D.C., and made possible by a grant supplied by the Office of Naval 
Research. I am much indebted to the authorities of the above museum, particularly 
Messrs. J. F. GATES CLARKE and OLIVER S. FLINT, Jr., for the privilege of exam- 
ining this material, which includes a species of Ischnura apparently new to science. 
The receipt of this collection offered a welcome opportunity to re-characterize at the 
same time two other species of Ischnura also reported from the South Pacific. These 
species, of uncertain status since the time of their description, are I. spinicauda 
Brauer, 1865, and I. taitensis Selys, 1876, both of them hitherto known only from 
the types. A re-examination of the former was made possible by the courtesy of 
Dr. Max BEIER, of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna; Dr. G. DEMOULIN has 
been kind enough to lend me the types of I. taitensis from DE SELYS’s collection in 
the Institut royal des Sciences Naturelles at Brussels. I wish to express my best 
thanks also to Dr. J. L. GRESSITT, of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 
for his continuous help and generosity in letting me study the extensive collections 
of Odonata accumulated by him and his co-workers in various parts of the Indo- 
Australian and Pacific areas. 

The following information is based on the results of the “St. George” Expedition 
to the South Pacific whose members, Mr. C. L. COLLENETTE and Miss C. E. LONG- 
FIELD, were probably the first to make entomological collections on Rapa during 


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their stay on the island, from April 10 to 18, 1925. Miss LONGFIELD very kindly 
furnished me with several interesting publications giving full details of Rapa and 
other southern Pacific islands. I have selected a few of the most important amongst 
these for inclusion in the list of references, COLLENETTE’s fascinating book, so well 
illustrated by Miss LONGFIELD, being certainly most helpful in visualising the 
conditions met with by these explorers. 


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RAPA ISLAND 


The next particulars of the oceanic island of Rapa (also known as Oparu) are 
extracted in part from an article on its flora by L. A. M. Rırky in the Bulletin of 
Miscellaneous Information, no. 2 (1926), issued by the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew. 

Rapa is situated in 27° 36 S., 144° 17 W., and is five miles in length by four 
in breadth. It is of volcanic origin with steep jagged peaks, the highest of which 
rises to 2077 feet. In shape it resembles a misshapen letter C, thickened towards 
the north and south, with the interior occupied by Ahurei Bay, which fills the bed 
of an ancient crater and opens to the sea on the eastern side. Excellent maps and 
photographs of its topography are contained in COLLENETTE (1925) and CHUBB & 
SMITH (1927). The island is little visited by vessels and, according to the first 
author, the natives still use the candle-nut (Aleurites moluccana) for illumination 
in preference to oil. As COLLENETTE writes, the neighbourhood of the village of 
Ahurei presents little of botanical interest, but the island possesses many streams, 
which are utilised on the lower ground for the irrigation of extensive taro beds 
(Colocasia), the principal food of the inhabitants. The greater part of the hill 
slopes are covered with a growth of short grass and a species of fern, larger growth 
being kept down by grass fires and by the high winds which bend and deform any 
isolated unsheltered trees. Thick vegetation clothes some of the higher peaks, the 
sheltered and damp gullies down to sea level, and the slopes of detritus at the foot 
of cliffs. At about 500 feet a tree-fern makes an appearance, becoming more 
plentiful as the elevation increases and eventually completely dominating all other 
trees. 

To appreciate the remoteness of this little island reference should be made to a 
map. Associated with Rapa at some distance are the much smaller Marotiri and the 
Neilson rock and reef; otherwise the next neighbours are the Austral group 
(Tubuai Is.), the nearest 250 miles distant, but these are also mere scattered 
specks, and the Cook group at 800 miles no better. It may be added that the Society 
Islands (with Tahiti and Borabora) and the Tuamotus are situated about 750 miles 
toward the north, Pitcairn almost 900 miles due east-northeast, Samoa being about 
1600 miles, Fiji almost 2000, and the Kermadec group approximately 2100 miles 
away. 

As far as I am aware no dragonflies have yet been recorded from Rapa. With 
the exception of the new Ischnura, which in all probability is endemic in the island, 
all specimens contained in the present collection belong to species having a very 
wide distribution. 


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LIST OF SPECIES 
Coenagrionidae 


Ischnura a. aurora Brauer, 1865 (Fig. 3) 


Material. — 18 &, 15 2, Rapa, Haurei, 6-16 and 28.IX.1963. 

All females belong to the heterochromatic, dark colour form. 

This little dragonfly is a wind-borne species, breeding in stagnant waters of 
every kind. Originally described from Tahiti it is distributed far beyond its many 
oceanic settlements, ranging from northwest India and Ceylon through southeast 
Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Chiefly coastal throughout the South Sea islands 
and elsewhere, I. aurora also has a number of isolated montane habitations in parts 
of Java and New Guinea, where it seems to have firmly established itself. Remark- 
ably enough, a distinctive subspecies, lacking blue markings on the terminal seg- 
ments of abdomen, has developed in the mountain valley of the Baliem River 
(Central North New Guinea) and occurs nowhere else on that continent. A second 
red-bodied Ischnura, nearly related with I. aurora but specifically distinct there- 
from, was discovered in the Arfak Mountains of the Vogelkop, in West New 
Guinea. For further particulars, including references, notes on the distribution, and 
an account of the larvae of some species, see LIEFTINCK (1949, 1959 and 1962). 


Ischnura thelmae spec. nov. (Fig. 1) 
Material. — A small series comprising both sexes, described hereafter. 


Libellulidae 


Diplacodes bipunctata (Brauer) 


Material. -- 31 4, 26:9, Rapa, Haurei, 8-28.IX and 1-28.X.1963. 

This is also a common and wide-ranging dragonfly, from the Moluccas eastward 
far into the Pacific; it has been reported from almost all Polynesian island groups, 
but goes high up into mountainous areas all over its range. 


Pantala flavescens (F.) 


Material. — 23 &, 23 9, Rapa, Haurei, 11-28.IX, 3-31.X and 4.XII.1963. 

Tropics and warmer temperate countries of the world; almost cosmopolitan, 
with strong migratory habits and probably also wind-carried. 

N.B. — After the completion of this paper I received a letter from Mr. D. E. 
KIMMINS, of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), in which he tells with regard to the 
Rapa Island Odonata, that the following species are represented in the collection: 
Ischnura aurora, Diplacodes bipunctata and Pantala flavescens. These were col- 
lected by Mr. COLLENETTE and Miss LONGFIELD during the “St. George” Expedi- 
tion and labelled as collected by the former. Being obviously common species, 
presumably only a single pair of each of these was taken. 


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DESCRIPTIONS 
Ischnura thelmae spec. nov. (Fig. 1) 


Material. — 10 &, 2 ® (partly immature or discoloured), Rapa Island: Pt. 
Tepai Kutautau, 4.X.1963 (4); Rapa Maii Bay, 23.X.1963 (2 4); Rapa Mau- 
gaoa, 1000 ft., Sand 7.X%.1963 (5 3) and 9507ft.,5 11.X11.1963 MS) Rape 
Haurei, 18.IX and 3.XII.1963 (2 9, one with collector's note: “Coral red 
thorax”). All collected by Dr. J. F. GATES CLARKE and Mrs. THELMA M. CLARKE. 
Holotype 4 and allotype 9, Rapa Maii Bay, 23.X.1963 and Rapa Haurei, 
3.XII.1963, respectively, in USNM (holotype &, reg. no. 68921). Paratypes of 
both sexes in USNM and the Leiden Museum. 


Fig. 1. Ischnura thelmae spec. nov., Rapa I. Terminal segments of abdomen and appendages 
of & holotype, dorsal, left lateral and caudal view; posterior lobe of prothorax of © allotype, 
dorsal view 


Dr. GATES CLARKE informs me that the species was generally found at fairly 
high elevations and believes that the immature stages will be found in the axils of 
the leaves of Freycinetia. This plant is abundant on the steep hillsides and occasion- 
ally overlaps into the flat areas along the ridges of Rapa. 

Male (adult). — Labium pale yellow. Labrum, mandible-bases, genal area, 
anteclypeus, and vertical surface of frons greenish yellow, this colour extending 
upward along margin of compound eye to a level about half-way the distance 
between fronto-clypeal suture and median ocellus; basal one-third of labrum shiny 


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bronze-black, forming a transverse mark slightly produced forward in the middle. 
Postclypeus black with brilliant bronze-green reflex, its surface finely transversely 
wrinkled and sparsely clothed with long yellow hair, especially so along front 
margin. Posterior limit of pale frontal stripe very irregular, the area surrounding 
the antennal sockets remaining black; there is an additional black spot, shaped like 
a broad triangle, placed in the middle of the frons at its base. Antennal sockets 
yellow green in front, the first antennal segment finely ringed with yellow apically; 
rest of antennae black. Dorsal surface of head, including occipital ridge, bronze- 
black with metallic green and coppery reflections; occipital lobes tumid, produced 
backwards as an obtuse-angulate swelling on either side, dorsally with a pair of 
moderately large, completely isolated, subcircular, blue postocular spots. Rear of the 
head mat black with a very large, oval, greenish yellow area adjoining the eyes on 
either side. 

Prothorax shaped and coloured much as described for I. taitensis; anterior lobe, 
lower parts of pleurae, and a streak along lateral margin of posterior lobe, greenish 
yellow. Posterior lobe short and broad, the transverse ridge-like lateral divisions 
raised on either side of the middle, where they are lowest and gradually become 
obsolete; median division swollen, placed on a slightly lower level and produced 
backward as a short rounded lamella. Lamina mesostigmalis transverse, subtrian- 
gular in outline, strongly hollowed out dorsally; colour black, except the swollen 
hind margin, which is yellow, terminating on either side in a conspicuously raised 
and recurved bluntly triangular tubercle. 

Synthorax, ground colour light yellowish- to bluish-green, the dorsum and part 
of the sides bronze-black with metallic green lustre; pattern very similar to that of 
I. taitensis, the antehumeral stripes a little narrower and straighter, widest and 
more or less club-shaped at extreme base, their upper extremities hardly noticeably 
expanded; outer border of dark humeral band lacking an angular extension at the 
shoulder-area, but recurved upper streak and marginal lines along dorsal crests 
present; black stripe at second lateral suture complete, slightly irregular and variable 
in width, widest dorsally and more or less forked at the metinfraepisternal suture. 
Remaining parts of thorax and striped pattern of legs exactly as described for 1. 
taitensis. 

Wings hyaline, neuration brown; 13—16 Px in fore wings, 11—13 in hind 
wings; 3 postquadrangular antenodal cells. There are two rows of cells between 
C and R, posterior to the pterostigma in one of the Rapa Maii Bay specimens, 
whereas in 5 others several cells are divided in one or more of the wings; lastly, 
in 4 males only a single cell-row is present. Arculus situated at Ax, more rarely 
a trifle beyond that level in all wings. Course of Cz, in fore wing straight as far 
as the end of first to second cell beyond level of subnodus, thereafter strongly 
fractured and reaching the wing margin at about Px,,; in hind wing this vein 
ends its unbroken course at level of Pxo, the fractured portion terminating at level 
of Px,, . Pterostigma not very different in shape and size in fore and hind wings, 
very oblique and distinctly higher than long in both pairs, this cell in fore wing 
differing from that of the hind wing only in that the outer distal angle is more 
drawn out, the anal side being, moreover, definitely outwardly convex. Colour of 
all pterostigmata dark brown surrounded by light chrome (possible bluish in life?), 


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heavily framed in dark brown; outer angle of fore wing pt including the inner 
margin of same more extensively pale-coloured than that of the hinder pair. 

Abdomen shaped similarly to that of I. taitensis, the basal and terminal segments 
moderately expanded. Bronze-green markings of segm. 3—6 complete though 
less broad than those covering 1—2 and 7—10, widest basally and near apex of 
segments, where they are attached to complete, deep black apical rings; markings 
on the rest of the segments restricted to the dorsum, leaving not only narrow, 
transverse subinterrupted basal annules but also the whole of the sides chrome 
yellow. The complete dorsal marks of segm. 1—2 are shaped as in I. taitensis, 
the intersegmental annules being bright blue, as in that species. Terminal segments 
almost entirely black; latero-ventral border of tergites 8 and 9 narrowly striped 
with yellow, the intersegmental membranes of segm. 7—8, 8—9 and 9—10 like- 
wise pale. Apical portion of segm. 10 strongly pinched and in the form of a 
prominent dorso-apical tubercle, the hind border of which is whitish apically, as 
shown in the figure. The penis has the shape and armature characteristic for the 
genus, i.e., the second segment carries a pair of robust divergent, almost straight, 
backwardly directed black spines, one on each side of a bluntly raised median 
tubercle, the slightly recurved tips of the spines reaching the dome of the third 
segment; this latter terminates in two ribbon-like recurved processes, much longer 
than the spines, shaped similarly to those figured by FRASER (1927) for the Sa- 
moan ischnurine Amorphostigma auricolor Fraser. 

Anal appendages shaped as in fig. 1, similar to those of J. taitensis but dif- 
fering in details of structure. Superior pair black, the lower part of the basal 
portion yellowish interiorly; surface shiny and clothed with the same longish hair 
as seen in /aitensis. In some males the dorsal angulation of the superior appendage, 
just before the bend, is better pronounced than in others, forming a blunt, back- 
wardly directed tooth-like projection, which is only poorly developed in the 
specimen figured. 

Female (heterochromatic, orange colour form). — Labium pale yellow. Mouth- 
parts, face, and frons anteriorly, extensively orangish (between chamois and cin- 
namon, RIDGWAY). Black stripe at base of labrum ill-defined, acquiring soon a 
rusty brown tint and turning gradually to chrome beyond the median impression; 
postclypeus as in male, except that a transverse ferruginous spot is clearly discernible 
mid-basally. Dorsal surface of head orange with an irregularly shaped bronze-black 
band, widest in the middle, connecting the eyes across the vertex; the anterior 
border of this band is excavated on either side between median ocellus and 
antennal socket so as to save a prominent crown-shaped black dot placed immedi- 
ately in front of the median ocellus. Antennal sockets orange, the segments them- 
selves black. Epicranial lobes entirely orange, confluent with a transverse stripe at 
the occipital crest, this colour also occupying most of the occipital lobes ventrally, 
only the area surrounding the foramen remaining deep black. 

Prothorax orange, save for a V-shaped black spot in the depression behind 
anterior lobe and a thick transverse bronze-black mark at the base of the posterior 
lobe, which itself is orange and shaped almost exactly as in the male (fig. 1). 
Lamina mesostigmalis less strongly concave dorsally than in male, the inner angle 
of its posterior rim not strongly protuberant but rounded and beset with a tuft of 


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long yellow bristles which are directed straight upward; colour orange with a black 
dot filling up the inner anterior angle of the lamina. 

Synthorax throughout orange, marked with a sharply delimited, parallel-sided 
bronze-black mid-dorsal band leaving the outer one-half of the mesepisterna un- 
covered. Antealar triangles, axillaries and notal sclerites orange; thoracic sides and 
ventral surface orange, but the former with a continuous black line at the humeral 
suture and a tiny black streak at upper end of second suture. 

Legs light orange, but all spines black; vestigial black spots are present at the 
junction of the trochanters and femora and also at the apices of the latter; outer 
faces of anterior and middle tibiae with an obliterated black stripe, the extremities 
of all tibiae and tarsal segments likewise black. 

Wings clear, neuration brown, lighter towards the bases; 14 Px in fore wing, 
12 in hind wing. Pterostigma lozenge-shaped, greyish yellow, smoky grey in the 
centre; slightly less oblique and a trifle more expanded (longer) than in the male, 
shaped similarly in fore and hind wings; 1—3 duplicated cells between C and R, 
only in the hind wings. 

Abdomen, ground-colour orange; dorsum of all segments (save the basal ones) 
marked more broadly with metallic greenish black than in the male and differing 
as follows: segm. 1—2 throughout orange, the intersegmental annule of 2—3 
brown; 3 with the dark band narrower than those on the succeeding segments, 
tapering forward and not quite reaching base of segment; orange rings at base of 
segm. 4—7 slightly wider than in the male and not interrupted by black in the 
median line; terminal segments unmarked save for diffuse light spots low down 
at the sides of 9 and 10. Apex of 8th sternite abruptly constricted so as to form 
a short, tooth-like, black vulvar spine. Valves and anal appendages obscured, outer 
gonapophyses with a yellow stripe; styli black. 

The second female is an old adult specimen which differs from the previous 
one by having the body much darker generally. All orange tints are replaced by 
light brownish olive, the postocular spots also being much obscured. Markings dull 
bronze brown to black, the basal stripe of labrum and entire postclypeus very shiny. 
Black stripe at humeral and second lateral sutures of thorax slightly wider than in 
the other female, the last-mentioned stripe linear but complete, extending along 
full length. Wing membrane greyish yellow, venation almost black. There are 14 
Px in the fore wings, 13 in the hinder pair. Abdomen with indication of a dark 
sub-apical transverse marking placed on mid-dorsum of segm. 2. 

Measurements: & abd. + app. 30.5—34.0 mm, hind wing 19.2—21.0 mm; 
Q 28.0—28.4 mm and 22.0 mm, respectively; most males measure 33 mm for the 
abdomen and 20 mm for the hind wing. 


This interesting new species is chiefly remarkable for its large size, it being far 
superior in this respect to any other Old World member of the genus and even 
larger than the two described species of the allied Amorphostigma from Samoa. 
The male has the facies of a compactly built Teinobasis or Nesobasis, but the head 
is larger and all characters are decidedly those of a typical Ischnura. Apart from 
its dimensions, the male of I. thelmae is easily distinguished from its congeners 
by the bulging epicranial lobes, unmarked terminal segments of abdomen, as well 


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Fig. 2. Ischnura taitensis Selys, Tahiti (Fautaua). Terminal segments of abdomen and 
appendages of &, dorsal, left lateral and caudal view; posterior lobe of prothorax, dorsal 
view, of 2 from Ape-Aotai trail 


as by the shape of its anal appendages. In the last two characters it approaches 
I. taitensis Selys fairly closely, these two species being undoubtedly nearly related, 
taking an isolated position within the genus. 

I have much pleasure in dedicating this dragonfly to its discoverer, Mrs. THELMA 
M. CLARKE. 


Ischnura taitensis Selys, 1876 (fig. 2) 


1876. SE Lys, Bull. Acad. Belg. [2] 41: 279—280 (35—36 sep.). — & 9 Ile de Taiti 
(I. taitensis sp.n.) 

1942. FRASER in MUMFORD, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [11] 9 : 646—647, fig. 1—2 (& app.), 
3 (pterost. of fore wing). — & Tahiti (I. cheesmani sp.n., syn. nov.) 


Material. — & (juv., holotype), @ (semiad., allotype), both labelled by DE 
SELYS “Tahiti” and “taitense Selys” (&) or “taitense” (2) on pinkish labels 
(IRSN); ¢ (ad.), Tahiti, Mt. Aorai, NW Ridge, 1400 m, 11.VII.1961, native 
collector (BISH); ¢ (ad.), Tahiti, Fautaua near Papeete, 25 m, 5-11.VII.1961, 
Malaise trap, J. L. Gressirr (ex BISH, ML); 2 ® (ad. isochromatic), Tahiti, 
Faie Rau Ape-Aotai trail, 15.11.1962, N. L. H. Krauss (BISH & ML). 


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Male (ad., Fautaua). — Labium pale ochreous, its median area glaucous. 
Labrum green with the basal one-third in the form of a sharply defined glossy 
black band which is slightly produced forward and obtuse-angulate medially. 
Mandible-bases, genae and anteclypeus bright green, the light area on the genae 
extending upwards along the eye-margin to a level almost as far as the median 
ocellus. Postclypeus shiny metallic greenish black, its surface rather convex, finely 
transversely wrinkled. Anterior surface of frons on each side of the middle with a 
two-pronged green mark directed obliquely inward, the branches of this spot 
divergent, narrow and tapered, the anterior branch a little longer than the posterior 
one and separated by black in the median line. Head otherwise deep bronze-black 
above with slight metallic green lustre; a tiny yellow dot in front of the median 
ocellus, and epicranium with a pair of large and conspicuous, bright blue, sub- 
triangular postocular spots, which are on all sides surrounded by black. Occipital 
crest unmarked. Rear of the head bicoloured: outer half of the surface bright blue, 
the inner half black with a comma-shaped dark off-shoot invading the blue colour 
towards the eye-margin. Antennae black, apex of first segment narrowly ringed 
with blue. 

Prothorax predominantly bronze-black, anterior lobe bright blue finely bordered 
with black anteriorly; pronotal tubercles and most of the sides black, the former 
evenly convex; posterolateral portion of proepimerum including the lower proces- 
ses, green. Posterior lobe short, consisting of three portions: lateral divisions 
directed almost straight upward and separated from one another by a shallow 
emargination, the midlobe a little more swollen, placed on a slightly lower level 
and directed caudad; whole structure black, except the lateral divisions whose outer 
rims are bordered with green. Lamina mesostigmalis subtriangular in outline, dorsal 
surface of each strongly hollowed out with raised swollen margins which them- 
selves bear a bright green halter-shaped mark posteriorly. 

Dorsum of synthorax, to a level about half-way between humeral and first lateral 
suture, deep black with slight metallic blue lustre; with a pair of complete, parallel, 
bright green antehumeral bands, which are distinctly widened, more or less club- 
shaped, on either end, extending almost as far as the ante-alar triangles at their 
upper extremities; mesepisternal dark colour irregularly bordered externally, 
encroaching on the blue of the thoracic sides to form a squarish extension upon 
the shoulder area and a short recurved streak invading the blue near the dorsal 
crest of the mesepisternum; mesinfraepisternum black with a triangular mark of 
blue-green adjoining the mesocoxa. Sides otherwise bright blue with a complete 
irregular black stripe on the second suture; this stripe widened (though also 
constricted) towards the dorsal crest; metinfraepisternum yellow-green outlined 
with black at the upper suture; ventral surface lemon yellow. All scutellar areas, 
wing processes and axillaries spotted with blue. 

Legs bright ochreous green, the coxae each with a tiny dark basal spot and all 
femora heavily striped with black exteriorly; tibiae and tarsi dark ochreous, outer 
faces of anterior tibiae also with a continuous black stripe, but stripes along 
posterior two pairs of tibiae obliterated; the basal one-third of inner faces of tibiae 
likewise black; tarsal segments black-tipped. 

Wings hyaline, neuration brown; 10 Px of first series in fore wing, 9 in hind 


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wing; 3 postquadrangular antenodal cells; arculus at or a little distal to Ax, in 
both pairs of wings; course of C#, straight as far as the end of the third or fourth 
cell following the quadrilateral in fore wings, of the fourth or fifth in the hind 
wings. Pterostigma dissimilar in shape and size in fore and hind wings, all very 
oblique; pt of fore wing about one-fourth longer than that of hind wing, sides 
strengthened and a little outbent in all wings. Fore wing pf two times longer than 
high, the proximal side only half the length of costal side and a little shorter than 
the distal one, which is more oblique; distal and anal sides forming a single 
convexity; costal side black but inner margin of distal side blue on upper surface; 
colour of cell jet-black dorsally for its proximal three-fifths, bright blue for the 
rest, with a yellow streak along costal margin; ventrally the cell is black save for 
a similar streak along costa. Hind wing pt only little longer than high, lozenge- 
shaped, almost parallel-sided; colour grey-brown on either surface and surrounded 
by a yellow line. 

Abdomen of the usual shape and colour, marked broadly with bronze-black on 
the dorsum of all segments, the two basal ones rather more brilliant and more 
greenish black than the next; all markings a little expanded subapically and broadly 
attached to narrow black apical rings. Intersegmental membrane of segm. 1—2 
bright blue, those of the intermediate segments obscured, and of 8—9 and 9—10 
yellowish (possibly blue in life?). Segm. 3—7 have narrow clear yellow basal 
annules finely interrupted by black on mid-dorsum. Sides of segm. 1—2 blue, base 
of 3 blue-green, and of the remainder clear ochreous. Terminal segments unmarked, 
except laterally, the raised and excavated posterior border of segm. 10 yellow, as 
shown in the figure. Anal appendages shaped as in fig. 2; superior pair black, 
smooth and shiny interiorly, clothed with long pale pubescence above and within; 
inferior appendages a little longer and much more slender, their colour ochreous, 
save the outer border and apices, which are black. 

Penis shaped similarly to that of I. thelmae (antea: 94), the backwardly directed 
black spines of the second segment are longer, the apices acute and rather abruptly 
downcurved; terminal processes of third segment shorter and narrower than in 
thelmae, evenly curved, about equal in length to the spines of second segment. 

The above male corresponds in every respect with what has remained of the 
holotype, which is an incomplete specimen, quite immature, and lacking most of 
its abdominal segments. The 10th segment and left pair of anal appendages are, 
however, still intact in the type, whose characteristic face marks and enlarged post- 
ocular spots are still clearly shown. 

The third male now before me, from Mt. Aorai, is far superior in size. It is a 
discoloured specimen, but as far as can be seen its markings are similar, except 
that the black lateral thoracic stripe is slightly wider; the blue antehumeral bands 
are, on the contrary, somewhat narrower than in the example described. The 10th 
segment and anal appendages are identical in shape, but the form of the ptero- 
stigmata in the Mt. Aorai male is rather different: in both pairs of wings it is 
shorter, only little longer than high in the fore wing and even slightly higher than 
long in the hind wing. It has also 11 instead of only 10 Px in fore wings, 9 in 
the hinder pair. 

Female (isochromatic). — Labrum blue-green, the black basal stripe narrower 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Odonota of Rapa 99 


than in the male, occupying about one-fourth of whole depth of labrum. Mandible- 
bases and anteclypeus chrome yellow; genae light green, this colour extending 
upwards along the eye margin as far as the antennal sockets, which themselves are 
likewise green; postclypeus and a transverse crescent at the frontoclypeal suture, 
bronze-black; horizontal part of frons in the middle, as well as the rest of the 
dorsal surface posterior to it, bronze-black, with the exception of a light triangle 
in front of the median ocellus, a pair of very large subcircular postocular spots, 
and a greenish transverse stripe at the occipital crest. 

Prothorax as in the male, except that each of the pronotal tubercles bears a green 
lateral spot, varying in size and shape. Posterior lobe shaped much as in the male, 
but lateral lobes less strongly upcurved, directed obliquely backwards and separated 
from one another only by a shallow emargination on a slightly lower level than the 
margins on either side of it; median division vestigial, not projecting caudad and 
visible only when viewed from behind (fig. 2). Light-coloured areas of thoracic 
segments bright blue-green, turning to green laterally and chrome yellow under- 
neath. Antehumeral stripes a little longer and wider than in the male, especially 
at either end, completely filling up the lower edges of the mesepisterna outwardly; 
bronze-black bands at the humeral and second lateral sutures narrower, the former 
with a linear extension along the dorsal crest. 

Wings with 11 Px in fore wing, 9 in hinder pair; pterostigma of fore wing only 
about one and one-third larger than that of the hind wing, proximal and costal 
sides of equal length in both, but costal side in fore wing shorter than the anal 
and distal side more strongly convex than that of the hind wing; colour grey-brown 
surrounded by yellow. 

Abdomen coloured and marked similarly to the male, the intersegmental mem- 
brane of segm. 1—2 blue, those of 7—8 and 8—9 yellow; vulvar spine short; 
appendages conical, obscured; valves light chrome, not surpassing apex of anal 
tubercles. 

Measurements: & abd. + app. 21.0 mm, hind wing 13.2 mm (Fautaua), 26.7 
and 16.0 mm (Mt. Aorai), respectively; 9 25.8—26.5, 17.7—19.0 mm. 

Both male and female types are at present in a very dilapidated condition, 
various body parts having been repeatedly mended since the time of description. 
Owing to the juvenile state of the male and the loss of colour in either sex, these 
insects could have been defined hardly better; all the same, SELYS's original 
description is inevitably quite misleading. I. taitensis is, in fact, a brightly coloured 
insect, chiefly distinguished from other species by the following combination of 
characters: (1) exceptionally large size of blue postocular spots; (2) conspicuous 
blue-and-black pterostigma of male fore wing; (3) absence of colour marks on 
terminal segments of abdomen, and (4) shape of 10th abdominal segment and 
anal appendages of the male. 

The discrepancies in size and details of the venation between the Mt. Aorai and 
Ape-Aotai specimens on the one hand, and the types (along with the male from 
Papeete) on the other, are worthy of note. These can probably be explained by the 
former having been taken at a much higher level than the latter. Ecotypic dif- 
ferentiation of forms with an extensive and fairly continuous vertical distribution 
is a common phenomenon also among dragonflies. Several examples are now 


100 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 4, 1966 


known of species in Java, Celebes and New Guinea ranging from the coastal | 
forests into the lower mountain zone, or even much higher, whose representative 
populations remain unchanged structurally but at higher elevations show a marked 
increase in size combined with an obscurated colour design and various deviations 
of the more ‘normal’ wing venation. 


Fig. 3. Ischnura spinicauda Brauer, holotype from “Polynesien”. Terminal segment of 

abdomen and appendages, dorsal, caudal and right lateral view (upper row). Posterior 

portion of prothorax, dorsal view of & holotype of I. spinicauda Brauer (left) and 1. a. 
aurora Brauer, & from Tahiti (right) (lower row) 


I. taitensis is obviously the same species as I. cheesmani Fraser in MUMFORD 
(1942: 646—647), described from a single male in the Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh. This came from Hitiaa, Tahiti, 10 July, 1925, L. E. CHEESMAN coll., 
and is stated by its describer to be “easily distinguished from I. taitensis Selys, 
by the presence of a lateral black stripe on thorax”; which is, in fact, exactly one 
of the characters of I. taitensis. For the rest, FRASER’s description is grossly super- 
ficial and his figures are worthless. All characters given for cheesmani in the 
description also apply to I. taitensis and hence there can be no doubt that the two 
are conspecific. 

Still another endemic Ischnura from the Society Islands (Raiatea and Bora), 
apparently known only from two males in the British Museum, is I. cardinalis 
Kimmins (1929). Like I. aurora, the male is characterized by a variegated body 
pattern consisting of orange, blue and bronze-black; but I. cardinalis is superior 
in size and easily distinguished from other species by the blood red fore wing 
pterostigma and the great length of the inferior appendages of the male, the latter 
being over two times longer than the superior pair. 


Ischnura spinicauda Brauer, 1865 (Fig. 3) 


1865. BRAUER, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 15: 511 (latin diagnosis). — 4 Polynesien 
(Agrion [Ischnura] spinicauda n.sp.) 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Odonota of Rapa 101 


1866. BRAUER, Neuropteren, in Novara Expedition, Zool. 1: 57—58, tab. I fig. 13 (& 
app.). — & “Polynesien (ohne nähere Angabe)” (Agrion [Ischnura] spini- 
cauda). 

1876. SELYS, Bull. Acad. Belg. [2] 42: 990—991 (additional note). 


Material. — & (holotype), labelled “Ischnura spinicauda Br. Polynäs.” 
(BRAUER’s writing), “Ischnura spinicauda Br. & Type, Novara Reise 1857—59”; 
in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien. 

For many years I, and possibly other students with me, have been looking about 
for this remarkable species. If in the last decades it had been at all represented 
in the many collections brought home from the various island groups in the 
Pacific, it would surely have been recognized. Up to this time it has, however, 

never been found again. With its nearest ally, the widely distributed I. aurora 
Brauer, the unique type of I. spinicauda is probably the fullest and best described 
member of the genus; for a general characterization the reader is, therefore, refer- 
red to the original description. A re-examination of the type reveals the following 
differences as compared with topotypical examples of I. aurora in our collection: 


Spinicauda 

Posterior lobe of prothorax trilobate, 
the edges of the lateral divisions 
evenly rounded and only slightly 
raised and thickened; upper portion 
of median division on level with the 
lateral ones and with a continuous 
pale border; triangular lower portion 
of median division (midlobe) project- 
ing caudad on a slightly lower level 
(ig, 3, left). 


Abdomen, segm. 3—7 orange-red, 
scarcely and indistinctly obscured 
apically, 7 with bronze-black apical 
mark tapered to a point toward base 
and occupying terminal one-third or 
a little less of segment. 


Bifid dorso-apical tubercle of segm. 
10 more strongly raised, the tubercles 
closely approximated, arising from a 
marrow, rather pinched basal cone 


(fig. 3). 


Sup. anal app. in lateral view with 
its apex above more broadly rounded; 
outer branch of inf. app. longer, 
ending in a strongly upcurved finely 
pointed hook (fig. 3). 


aurora (Tahiti) 

Posterior lobe of prothorax trilobate, 
the edges of the lateral divisions more 
swollen and prominent but ridges 
gradually declining towards the middle 
and interrupted medially at a point 
where the surface is sunk; lower 
portion of median division similar to 
Spinicauda (fig. 3, right). 


Abdomen, segm. 3—6 orange-red 
with finely black terminal rings, 6 
with subapical bronze-black mark, 
variable in shape and size, usually 
attached to a black ring at apex of 
segment; segm. 7 wholly black. 


Bifid dorso-apical tubercle of segm. 
10 lower, the tubercles well separated 
from each other by a shallow emargin- 
ation. 


Sup. anal app. in lateral view more 
elongate and narrowly rounded at 
apex above; outer branch of inf. app. 
thicker and more evenly upcurved. 


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As pointed out in BRAUER’s more elaborate description contained in the “Novara 
Expedition”, I. spinicauda can be distinguished from aurora, apart from the colour 
differences, by the more prominent process at the apex of the 10th segment and 
also by the shape of the appendages. BRAUER’s figures of the former are, however, 
not quite correct and rather exaggerated. I am, therefore, giving camera lucida 
drawings of these terminal structures taken from the type specimen, the origin 
and proper habitation of which still remain unknown. 


REFERENCES 


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Pacific). Quart J. Geol. Soc. 83 : 291—341, 7 fig. & pl. 23. 
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George” Expedition. London, Hutchinson. 275 pp., 36 pl. 
FRASER, F. C., 1927. Insects of Samoa, etc. 7. Odonata. London, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): 
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NEW AND RARE PALAEARCTIC TINEIDAE 
(LEPIDOPTERA) 


BY 


IOSIE CAPUSE 


Bucharest, Rumania 


In the present paper which forms a continuation of my studies on the family 
Tineidae, descriptions are presented of a new genus, two new species and one new 
subspecies. Furthermore remarks are made on morphological characters of some 
other species not dealt with in the literature so far. 

The systematic arrangement of the material is that proposed by G. PETERSEN. 

The author wishes to express his thanks to Dr. A. DIAKONOFF, who kindly read 
the manuscript of the present paper. 


NEMAPOGONINAE 


Cephimallota libanotica Petersen, 1959 
(Fig. 1) 


Head orange-yellow. Antennae brown-yellow. First antennal joint nearly twice 
longer than broad, and four times longer than second joint. Labial palpi brown- 
yellow. Maxillary palpi somewhat longer than labial, yellowish. Galeae not sur- 
passing half length of labial palpi. Thorax grey-brown, tegulae concolorous, with 
a few lighter scales on posterior edge. Forewing without pattern, blackish brown, 
darker on the underside, posterior half lighter. Upper and under side of both wings 
with a faint violaceous gloss. Legs yellowish-brown with yellow bands on ends of 
tarsal joints. 

In one of the specimens examined the colour and shape of the wings are asym- 
metrical: in the right forewing the apex is a little more truncate, while near it there 
is a rectangular spot, lighter than remainder of wing. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen and vinculum forming a large ring. Vinculum with a 
rather long slender saccus. In dorsal view uncus with two cusps, reaching beyond 
posterior margin of valvae. A deep median excavation beset with numerous hairs. 
Arms of gnathos long-pointed. Valvae small, robust, densely haired. Anellus similar 
to that in C. simplicella (H.-S.). 

Examined material. 1 &, Rumania, Baneasa wood, Bucuresti, 29.VIII.1960 
(author); 1 4, the same locality, 15.VII.1961 (Dr. A. PoPEscu-GORJ); 2 ¢, 
Ineu (coll. L. DioszeGHY); 1 &, Baile Herculane, 7.VII.1964 (author); 2 ¢, 
Ciresu-Pestera Topolnita, 27.VI.1964 (author). 

Distribution. Lebanon, Greece (Peloponese), Yugoslavia (Macedonia), Albania, 
and Rumania. 

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TINEINAE 


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Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859 | 
(Rio) | 

Head yellow; antennae brown. Labial palpi blackish-brown with a few light 
scales. Thorax and tegulae blackish-brown. Forewing with a blackish-brown ground 
colour. Three spots darker than ground colour: two in basal third and one in. 
middle of wing. Hindwing grey-brown. Legs brown. 

Male genitalia resembling those of T. /eonhardi Pet., but differing by stouter 
aedeagus, absence of small hair-like cornuti, and presence of spines on large 
cornuti. In T. murariella Stgr. distal end of the valva is strongly narrowed; aedeagus 
2,7 X longer than valva. Tegumen, uncus, and gnathos normal. 

Examined material. 1 4, Rumania, Ciungetu, 29.VII.1962 (D. DANCAU). 

Distribution. Spain, southern France, Rumania. 

According to PETERSEN (1959b : 569) T. murariella Stgr. is a western Mediter- 
ranean element while T. leonhardi Pet. is an eastern Mediterranean one. The 
occurrence of the species in Rumania proves that the actual range of T. murariella 
Stgr. is much wider than PETERSEN believed. Our present knowledge of the family 
Tineidae, however, does not allow of a delimitation of the geographical range 
of the species, many regions being insufficiently studied. 


Tinea flavescentella Haworth, 1828 
(Fig. 4—5) 


Head yellow; base of antennae darker. Antennae light brown. Labial palpus 
yellow, externally and dorsally brown, its last joint dark brown with a lighter apex. 
Thorax yellow. Anterior half of tegulae brown, posterior yellow. Ground colour 
of forewing yellowish-brown. A dark brown spot on the base of costal edge. 
Marking similar to those in T. pellzonella L., consisting of two hardly visible spots 
in basal half of wing and a well-defined spot at 2/3 of wing length. Terminal part 
of forewing darker in colour. Hindwing greyish-yellow. Legs yellow. 

Female genitalia. Sterigma medially with a strong concavity separating two lobes 
with short, hairy, rounded posterior edges. Ostium bursae strongly broadened. 
Bursa copulatrix, an elongate sack with three equal signa, each signum with a 
dilated base provided with one hair. 

In PETERSEN’s revision (1957—1958) this species is characterized by the 
presence of four signa; the specimen examined by me has only three. 

Examined material. 1 9, Rumania, Eforie Sud, Dobrogea Region, 30.VI.1962 
(author). 

Distribution. The species has been collected in England, Ireland, France, 
Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia (Dalmatia), Algeria, Turkey, and Rumania. 


Monopis nonimella Zagulajev, 1955 


This species is very similar externally to M. imella Hb. from which it can be 
distinguished only by the genital characters. 


LIE RARY 
SEP 27 1966 


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EIN IIAN ZIT TA Ten; 


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Fig. 1—5. Genitalia of Tineidae. 1, Cephimallota libanotica Pet., 3, dorsal view of genitalia; 
2, Tinea murariella Stgr., & left valva; 3, the same, distal end of aedeagus; 4, Tinea 
flavescentella Hw., @, genitalia; 5, the same, bursa 


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Examined material. 1 &, Rumania, Eforie Sud, Dobrogea Region, 9.VII.1962 
(author). 

Distribution. USSR (Siberia, Kazakhstan, South Ural, Taganrog, Pskov), Yugo- 
slavia (Montenegro), and Rumania. 


MEESSIINAE 


Type-genus, Meessia Hofmann, 1898. 

Head with long, slender antennae; usually both pairs of palpi well-developed; 
maxillary palpi absent in Lichenovora Pet. Second joint of labial palpus usually 
provided with variable number of rigid hairs. Wings elongate, lanceolate, with 
pointed apex. Markings of forewing in most species forming transverse bands or 
dots of diverse size and of a different colour, irregularly scattered. 

In most genera of the subfamily there is a more or less marked reduction of 
venation. Thus in the forewing the whole length of the radial trunk or parts of it 
are feebly marked (e.g., Ischnoscia, Lichenovora, Lichenotinea, Phereoeca, etc.). 
In some genera (Ischnoscia, Obesoceras) R and Rg, and in other (Infurcitinea, 
Gozmanytinea, Lichenotinea, Meessia), R, and R, are pedunculate. Sometimes 
R; (Lichenovora) or one of the median veins (Obesoceras, Ischnoscia) are missing. 
Veins A, (Agnathosia, Lichenotinea, Ischnoscia, Obesoceras, Infurcitinea, Goz- 
manytinea) and A, (Celestica) can be missing or weakly marked. Radiocubital 
cell, narrow and very elongate, is sometimes open (Lichenovora, Phereoeca). 

The radial trunk in the hindwing is sometimes feebly marked or absent 
(Lichenovora, Lichenotinea, Infurcitinea, Phereoeca, Celestica); in some genera 
there are three median veins (Lichenotinea, Infurcitinea, Gozmanytinea, Licheno- 
vora, Phereoeca), while in other there are only two (Celestica, Ischnoscia, Obeso- 
ceras, Meessia). In some genera the anal veins, generally feebly developed are 
present as a single vein (Infurcitinea, Gozmanytinea, Meessia), or as two veins 
(Lichenovora, Obesoceras, Phereoeca) or they may be missing (Celestica, Isch- 
noscia, Lichenotinea). The radiocubital cell in the hindwing is as a rule elongate 
and closed, at times open (Lichenovora, Celestica, Lichenotinea), seldom short 
and narrow (Ischnoscia). In some instances it includes the radial trunk (Obesoceras, 
Meessia). 

Median spurs of hind tibiae on basal half more or less close to base. 

For the genera of this subfamily only descriptions of the venation are given in 
the following pages; these data have either been spread in a number of separate 
publications or not described at all; the male genitalia, on the contrary, have been 
very well characterized by PETERSEN (1957—1964). 

The male genitalia are characterized by more or less pronounced reduction of the 
uncus and gnathos, which in some instances can be missing altogether. Valvae 
developed, strongly specialized, sometimes asymmetrical (Infurcitinea). Vinculum 
strongly developed, very broad in some genera (Lichenovora, Lichenotinea) while 
in other it is narrow and has two tips (Infzrcitinea), or a saccus of variable length 
and breadth (Celestica, Agnathosia, Phereoeca, Montetinea, Meessta, Obesoceras, 
Gozmanytinea, Ischnoscia, Novotinea). Aedeagus developed, usually with cornuti; 
in some genera the shape of aedeagus is very characteristic. Sometimes, e.g. in 
Infurcitinea, the anellus is strongly developed. 


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Since the female genitalia are known only in few members of this subfamily, it 
is not possible to characterize them at the present time. 

The scanty data in the literature show that the larvae of the subfamily Meessiinae 
feed on lichens, and that the adults may be captured on rocks covered with lichens 
and at night at light. 

The present subfamily includes the following genera: Celestica Meyrick, Agna- 
thosia Amsel, Phereoeca Hinton & Bradley, Montetinea Petersen, Meessia Hof- 
mann, Obesoceras Petersen, Gozmanytinea gen. nov., Infurcitinea Spuler, Tiner- 
forma Amsel, Lichenotinea Petersen, Ischnoscia Meyrick, and Novotinea Amsel. 


Celestica Meyrick, 1917 
(Fig. 6—7) 


Type-species, Tinea angustipennis H.-S., 1854. 

Until now this genus stands isolated within the family Tineidae, showing 
affinities with some Meessiinae. 

Wings very elongate and narrow. Sc of forewing terminating before middle of 
wing; radial veins all from the radiocubital cell. The distance between R, and R, 
about twelve times larger than that between R, and R;. The three median veins 
are present and well marked. Cubital trunk strong; cubital veins missing. One anal 
vein present, distinct throughout. Radiocubital cell very elongate, exceeding 2/3 
of wing length, very narrow basally. 

Sc of hindwing terminating beyond marginal half of costa. Basal half of radial 
trunk not evident. R well marked. Two median veins present. Cubital trunk curved 
and close to anal edge of wing. Cu, and Cu, present, short. All anal veins missing. 

Only one species. 

Examined material. 1 3, Poland, Oswiecim, 30.VII.1960 (S. TOLL) (C. an- 
gustipennis). 

Distribution. Yugoslavia (Macedonia), Rumania, Central Europe, Netherlands, 
Denmark, Finland, England. 


Agnathosia Amsel, 1954 
(Fig. 8—9) 


Type-species: Tinea mendicella Hübner, 1796. 

Vein Sc of forewing terminating on costa before middle. Radial trunk feebly 
marked. All five radial veins independently ending on costal edge of wing. Distance 
between bases of veins R, and R, about 3.5 X as large as that between bases of 
veins R and Rg. Veins Ry, R;, M, and M, weak along a short distance from base. 
Three median veins. Cubital trunk and two cubital veins well marked. A, feebly 
marked, not reaching edge of wing, A, strongly marked, reaching that edge; A3 
absent. 

Costal edge of hindwing with a convexity; Sc terminating beyond half of wing. 
Radial trunk feebly marked and radial vein with a weak small portion from base, 
remaining part strong. Bases of M, and M, close together. Cubital trunk and 
cubital veins well marked. Only one anal vein apparent, but weak, reaching to edge 
of wing. 


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Fig. 6—15. Venation of Tineidae. 6—7, Celestica angustipennis (H.-S.); 8—9, Agnathosia 
mendicella (Hb.); 10—11, Phereoeca uterella (Wilsm.) (after Hinton & Bradley); 12—13, 
Lichenovora rhenania Pet.; 14—15, Meessia vinculella (H.-S.) (after Spuler) 


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Only one species. 
Examined material. 1 4, Rumania, Suceava (I. TABACARU). 
Distribution. Finland, Central Europe, and Rumania. 


Phereoeca Hinton & Bradley, 1956 
(Fig. 10—11) 


Type-species, Tineola uterella Walsingham, 1897. 

Vein Sc in forewing ending in middle of costal margin. Radial trunk feebly 
marked at 2/,. All radial veins arise independently from radiocubital cell. Diverse 
portions of bases Ry, Rs, My, My and M, weak. A, ill-developed, A, weak in 
distal portion, A, absent. 

Sc of hindwing very long, ending at 4/; of costa. Radial trunk absent. R distinct. 
M, and M, with a weak base. 

The genus includes four species, Ph. uterella (Wlsm.), Ph. allutella (Rbl.), 
Ph. pachyspila (Meyrick), and Ph. walsinghami (Busck). 

Distribution. Canaries, Madeira, Ceylon, India, West Indies, and Florida. 


Lichenovora Petersen, 1957 
(Fig. 12—13) 


Type-species, Lichenovora rhenania Petersen, 1962 (Lichenovora nigripunctella 
Petersen, 1957, nec Haworth, 1828). 

Two species belong to the genus, viz. L. nigripunctella (Hw.) and L. rhenania 
Bet. 

Examined material, 1 3, L. rhenania Pet., Rumania, Bucuresti. 

Distribution. England, Central Europe, Spain, Sicily, Yugoslavia (Dalmatia), 
Bulgaria, and Rumania. 


Lichenovora rhenania Petersen, 1962 


This species is hardly distinguishable externally from L. migripunctella (Hw.). 

Head light yellow. Antenna to 3/, of wing. First two antennal joints light 
yellow, flagellum yellowish-brown. First antennal joint 21/5 times longer than 
broad; second joint 21/, times shorter than first. Galeae and maxillary palpi absent. 
Labial palpi developed, 3-jointed; last joint pointed, equal to 2/3 of second. Pear- 
shaped sensorial papilla of last joint of labial palpi with 3 short hairs on surface. 

Ground colour of forewing light yellow. Brown markings forming spots and 
bands situated as follows: one spot at costal margin, followed by three faint spots, 
one beneath the other, in the shape of an interrupted band; near middle of wing 
there is a band broadened medially and at the ends along wing edge; a similarly 
shaped band at 2/3 from wing base, broader, followed by a small spot in the 
vicinity of costal margin; wing apex likewise brown. Cilia of forewing light 
yellow. Hindwing and cilia whitish-yellow. Forewing under side ochreous-yellow, 
hindwing much lighter. 

Forewing with vein Sc ending on costal margin before middle of wing. Radial 
trunk and A, throughout, as well as bases of R 3,4 and M ,,,, are less developed. 


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Radial veins to costa. Rg and Ry and M, and Mg stalked. A, distinct throughout, | 


reaching edge of wing. A, very short, hardly visible. Radiocubital cell 2/3 of 
wing length, its distal end very faint. Hindwing with Sc to beyond half of costa. 
Radial trunk and bases of R, M, 4 zand M; hardly visible. Radiocubital cell open, 
median veins running from radial trunk. Cu, continuing as a distinct cubital trunk. 
Cu, short. A, reaching edge of wing; A, and A, parallel. Legs brown-yellow. 

Examined material. 1 &, Rumania, Bucuresti, 27.VIII.1958 (author). 

Distribution. Germany, Rumania. 

In a previous paper (CAPUSE, 1963) I recorded L. nigripunctella (Hw.) as new 
for the Rumanian fauna, judging from PETERSEN’s description (1957 : 345) of 
the genitalia. It appeared to be L. rhenania Pet., described by the same author at 


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Meessia Hofmann, 1898 
(Fig. 14—15) 


Type-species, Tinea vinculella H.-S., 1850. 

Forewing with vein Sc to before middle of costa. Ry and R; stalked. M; absent. 
A, weak, not reaching edge. A, and A, free at base, then united. 

Hindwing with Sc long. Radial trunk ill-defined throughout. Cell very narrow, 
with radial and median trunks. R, M, and M, well marked; M; absent. Cubital 
trunk strong, distally furcate. One single weak anal vein. 

The following species have been assigned to Meessia: M. vinculella (H.-S.), 
? M. vinctella (H.-S.), M. pachyceras Wlsm., M. richardsoni Wlsm., M. klimeschi 
Ams., M. nerviella Ams., M. mensella Wlsm., M. leopoldella (Cst.), M. ober- 
thurella (Mill.), M. nigraella Mar., M. alberti Ams., M. gallica Pet., and the fol- 
lowing new species. 

Examined material. 1 9, M. herculanella spec. nov. 

Distribution. Central Europe, England, Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, Corsica, 
Sicily, and Rumania. : 


Meessia herculanella spec. nov. 
(Fig. 16—18) 


Holotype: 1 9, Rumania, Baile Herculane, Orsova district, Banat Region, 
8.VII.1964 (author). GS. no. 956. In the author's collection.1) 

Head yellowish-white. Antennae ringed brown and yellowish-white; brown basal 
rings of joints narrower than yellowish-white apical ones. 

Forewing black-brown with two broad white bands not reaching dorsum but 
exceeding half of wing breadth, from 1/3 and 2/3 of costa, respectively; anterior 
band narrowest. Fringes concolorous with ground colour, with white tips. Hind- 
wing dark brown. 

Female genitalia. Posterior ends of apophyses anteriores attached to a narrow, 
well sclerotized ring-shaped 9th segment; broader dorsally. This ring is open 
ventrally, as usual, interrupted by the colliculum. Ostium bursae large, continued 


1) After the present paper was sent to press, I received through the kindness of Dr. F. Kasy 
of the Vienna Museum, 5 4 and 1 2 from Baile Herculane, all belonging to this species. 


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by a well-sclerotized, relatively long colliculum. Beyond this the membraneous 
ductus is strongly extended, then narrowed before bursa copulatrix. A dentate, 
sclerotized plate at the beginning of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae relatively small, 
oval, with an agglomeration of spinules in median portion dorsally. 

M. herculanella resembles in external appearence M. vinculella (H.-S.) from 
which it differs by the darker ground colour, the lack of golden gloss and by less 
extended but more pronounced pattern. With the aid of genital characters M. her- 
culanella is easily recognizable by the presence of signa, dentate sclerite, and spines 
of corpus bursae. The venation of the forewing resembles that in M. vinculella 
(H.-S.) (SPULER, 1910), only the stalk of R, and R; is much longer. 


Obesoceras Petersen, 1957 
(Fig. 19—28) 


Type-species, Tinea granulatella H.-S., 1850. 

Forewing with additional vein present, fused with Sc, ending before middle of 
costa. All radial veins present; R, and R, stalked. Base of R, usually close to base 
of R;. Sometimes M, from common stalk with R; (O. confusellum orientale, O. 
hedemanni). Sometimes one of the median veins absent (O. granulatellum, O. 
hedemanni). A, does not reach margin and is weak. United portion of A, and As 
long; small portion of these veins free at base. Radiocubital cell narrow and long. 

Hindwing with vein Sc to near middle of costa. Radial trunk weak, forming a 
very narrow long cell together with median trunk. R, M, and M, from end of 
cell. M; absent. Cubital trunk distally furcate; terminal portions of cubital veins 
weak. Two anal veins. 

The genus includes the following species: O. granulatellum (H.-S.), O. holtzi 
(Rbl.), O. confusellum (H.-S.), O. hedemanni (Rbl.), O. croaticum Pet., O. 
romanum Pet., and O. forsteri Pet. 

Examined material. 1 9, O. granulatellum (H.-S.); 1 8, O. confusellum 
orientale subspec. nov., and 1 &, O. hedemanni (Rbl.). 

Distribution. Italy, Bavaria, Austria, Yugoslavia (Dalmatia, Macedonia), Albania, 
Greece, and Rumania. 


Obesoceras granulatellum (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850) 
(Fig. 19—20) 


Head brown-yellow. Antennae brown-black. Forewing black-brown with 
yellowish-white costal spots at 1/3 and 2/3, respectively; towards dorsum each 
spot continued as two narrow bands. A small line and two yellowish-white spots 
in apical area. Hindwing dark brown. 

Venation of forewing similar to that in O. confusellum orientale subspec. nov., 
from which it only differs by the lack of median vein and by distant bases of R4 
and R;. 

Ostium bursae large, surrounding area weakly sclerotized. Ductus bursae narrow 
at base then strongly dilated. Bursa copulatrix elongate with ten sclerotized signa, 
shaped as slender dentate rods. Apophyses anteriores furcate, dorsal arm longer 
than ventral, and with two apical hairs. 


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Fig. 16—18. Meessia herculanella sp. n., © holotype. 16, venation in distal half of fore- 

wing; 17, lateral view of genitalia; 18, ventral view of the same. Fig. 19—20. Obesoceras 

granulatellum (H.-S.). 19, Q genitalia; 20, venation in distal half of forewing. Fig. 21—22. 
Obesoceras confusellum orientale ssp. n., & holotype, venation 


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Examined materiall 1 9, Rumania, Baile Herculane, Orsova district, Banat 
Region, 10.VII.1964 (author). 

Distribution. Albania, Yugoslavia (Istria, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Macedonia), 
and Rumania. 


Obesoceras confusellum orientale subspec. nov. 
(Fig. 21—26) 

Holotype: &, Rumania, Baile Herculane — Mt. Domogled, Crucea Alba, Or- 
sova district, Banat Region (author). GS. no. 955. In the author’s collection. 

Head yellowish-white; a few brown scales on frontal margin. First antennal 
joint brown-black, remaining joints yellowish-white with distal narrow brown rings. 
Labial palpi dirty white; 2nd and 3rd joints distally brown. Forewing with brown- 
black ground colour, markings, white bands and spots. Oblique transverse band 
from dorsum near base to half of wing breadth. Small square spot on 1/4 of costa 
continued towards dorsum by three interrupted lines. On middle of costa small 
rectangular spot continued a little obliquely across wing; two interrupted lines from 
lateral angles of the spot. In the apical half of wing three narrow, transverse bands 
obliquely to base of wing. Hindwing blackish-brown. 

After a long free portion, Sc of forewing anastomosing with additional vein to 
before middle of costa. Radial trunk weak, stronger only between bases of R, and 
stalk of R, | 3. R, approximately to middle of costa. R; and M, forming a long 
stalk, originating close to Ry. R, terminates at costa about twice as far from apex 
as M, is at termen. M, and My present. A, weak, not reaching dorsum. A, and 
A, well marked, free at base, their anastomose twice as long as free parts. 

Legs brown with yellowish-white spurs and yellowish-white ringed tarsal joints. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen + uncus broad with lateral edges turned inward. Top 
of uncus bilobed. Vinculum broad, with thick and relatively short saccus. Gnathos 
unpaired, with curved, dilated and short-spinose apex. Lateral lobes of tegumen 
short and relatively broad with much narrowed end. Cucullus narrowed, finger- 
shaped. A strong tooth near middle of ventral margin of valva; dorsal margin hardly 
concave in middle. Sacculus, a large conical prominence, the margin of which beset 
with numerous strong short spines. Aedeagus short and thick with a narrowed 
strongly sclerotized apical portion. One short, dentoid cornutus present. 

Female unknown. 

O. confusellum orientale subspec. nov. is very similar to O. confusellum con- 
fusellum (H.-S.); however, as the descriptions and drawings of PETERSEN show, 
there are some distinct differences. Thus externally O. c. orientale subspec. nov. 
differs from O. c. confusellum (H.-S.) by having two well-defined costal spots, 
continued to dorsum as two or three lines and having three stripes towards apex, 
instead of two indefinite median stripes and one apical spot. Moreover, the ground 
colour is darker in O. confusellum orientale. It is apparent from PETERSEN’s key, 
descriptions, and drawings that in O. confusellum (H.-S.) the uncus is not bilobed, 
as in our subspecies. In O. c. orientale the dorsal margin of the valva is more 
straight while in O. c. confusellum it is concave. In the new subspecies the cornutus 
is situated in the narrowed portion of the aedeagus (in O. c. confusellum, in the 
distal end of the vesica). 


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Our subspecies fits in PETERSEN’s key (1964b : 18—19) as follows: 
1. — Posterior margin of the vinculum with a thick, sclerotized, distally pointed 
rod, about as long as aedeagus. . . . . . O. granulatellum (H.-S.) 
— Posterior margin of the vinculum without a sclerotized rod. . . . . 2 
2. — Dorsal edge of the valva with three large crescent-shaped teeth. Aedeagus 
without cornutus . . . so + Chao (il) 
— Dorsal edge of the valva han (dl helene withrcornutuser ES 
3. — Inner surface of the valvae with a large prominence in basal portion . 4 
— Valvae without prominence on inner surface. . . . RES 
4. — Uncus with top not bilobed. Cornutus in distal end of vesica. Dorsal edge 
of valva with a slight concavity. . O. confusellum confusellum (H.-S.) 
— Uncus with top bilobed. Cornutus in distal end of thickened Peres of 
aedeagus. Dorsal margin of valva hardly concave . : 8 
O. confusellum Di Sea nov. 


5. — Crete en, Erlebe) ele tapering, finger-like. Aedeagus short, about 


as long as valva. . . 6 
— Gnathos distally not pigra wakes deal els Shaan arc- Ive! 
teeth. Aedeagus slender, longer than valva . . . RZ, 


6. — Uncus with a faint median split. Valvae slightly dal dentali; 
O. hedemanni (Rbl. ) 
— Ur distally fentes ales nerd Be in basal part tapering 


towards tip, finger-like. . . . CM O 4forsteni met. 
7. — Ventral edge of valva with one gran andl one weak dent. Aedeagus shorter 
than distance between uncus and end of saccus. . . O. romanum Pet. 


— Ventral edge of the valva with a large dent exceeding breadth of valva. 
Aedeagus as long as distance between uncus and tip of saccus . 
O. croaticum Pet. 


Obesoceras hedemanni (Rebel, 1899) 
(Fig. 27—28) 


The venation in this species is similar to that in O. confusellum orientale subspec, 
nov., from which it differs by a shorter stalk of R; and M,, by the distance between 
apex of wing and end of R; on costa being half the distance between wing apex 
and end of M,, as well as by the absence of a median vein. 

Examined material. 1 3, southern Tyrol, Bozen (S. TOLL). 

Distribution. Northern Italy. 


Gozmanytinea gen. nov. 
(Fig. 29—31) 


Type-species, Infurcitinea captans Gozmany, 1960. 

Vein Sc of forewing to before middle of costa. Radial trunk weak to base of R;. 
All radial veins to costa. R, and R, with ends curved towards base of wing; Ry 
and R; stalked. M, and M, curved downwards. Cu, curved upwards. A, weak; 
its end on wing edge slightly better defined. A, and A, free at base. Hindwing 


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29 


20 


Fig. 23—26. Obesoceras confusellum orientale subsp. n., & holotype. 23, lateral view of 

genitalia without aedeagus; 24, lateral view of aedeagus; 25, genitalia without aedeagus in 

ventral view; 26, inner surface of right valva. Fig. 27—28. Obesoceras hedemanni (Rbl.), 

venation. Fig. 29—31. Gozmanytinea captans (Gozm.), & paratype. 29—30, venation; 

31, vinculum, lateral view. Fig. 32—33. Infurcitinea ignicomella (H.-S.), venation. Fig. 34. 
Infurcitinea romanica sp. n., 2 allotype, venation of forewing 


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with costa rounded-prominent; Sc to beyond middle. R free from cell, its basal 
half weak. Median trunk weak. M, and M, curved downwards. Cubital veins 
relatively long. Cubital trunk strong. Only distal end of anal vein defined. Anal 
field broad. 

The male genitalia are charactized by the symmetry of all the parts. Tegumen 
+ uncus long, relatively narrow with lateral edges turned inwardly. Vinculum 
broad, with a single tip. Valvae basally broad, narrowing apically, narrowed portion 
with numerous basad directed hairs. Near the base of the costa there is a process 
which can be short (G. banatica), or long (G. captans) or furcate (G. albanica, 
G. kasyi, and G. litochorella). Aedeagus rather short, straight, with a small 
dilatation basally, broadened distally, usually with two small tips. Anellus cuff- 
shaped, membraneous, with minute dentations, without sclerotized projections or 
hairy arms, as in Infurcitinea Spuler. 

The female genitalia are known in a few members of the genus only (G. cap- 
tans and G. banatica). 

Gozmanytinea gen. nov. is very similar to Infurcitinea Spuler, having a similar 
venation. Our genus differs from the latter chiefly by the characters of the genitalia; 
in Gozmanytinea the genitalia are symmetrical, in Infurcitinea, asymmetrical; the 
vinculum in the new genus has a single tip, instead of two as in Infurcitinea; the 
anellus is in the shape of a membraneous denticulate cuff, without projections, 
while in Infurcitinea this part bears projections or hairy arms. 

Althought the venation is not differing from that in Infurcitinea and only 
slightly differing from that in Lichenotinea, I consider the group of species assigned 
to Gozmanytinea to represent a distinct unit showing a separate line of evolution, 
judging from the genital characters. 

I have assigned the following species to Gozmanytinea: G. captans (Gozm.), 
G. banatica (Pet.), G. albanica (Pet.), G. kasyi (Pet.), and G. litochorella (Pet.). 

Examined material. 1 3, G. captans (Gozm.) paratype 1); 1 4,1 9, G. bana- 
tica (Pet): 

Distribution. Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania, northern Tyrol, Engadine, 
Wallis, south-eastern France. 


Gozmanytinea banatica (Petersen, 1961) 
(Fig. 35—36a) 


Head white, the base of antenna with light brown scales. First joint of antenna 
yellowish-white, basal joints of flagellum white, apical joints dark brown. Labial 
palpi white, second joint with a light brown diffuse ring. Maxillary palpi white. 
Thorax white with sparse maroonish scales. Ground colour of forewing yellowish- 
white, markings maroon-brown; points scattered over wing. Cilia white. Anterior 
legs brown with narrow white rings; middle and posterior legs maroon-white. 

Female genitalia. Sternite VIII consisting of two plates, triangularly narrowed 
medially. Ostium bursae relatively broad, subrectangular with a notch in posterior 
margin. Ductus bursae long, narrow. Corpus bursae ovoid, constricted at the end 


1) To the kindness of Dr. L. GOZMANY I owe material of this species received for study. 


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of ductus bursae. Apophyses anteriores rather long, with a strong spine at posterior 
end on internal margin. Apophyses posteriores long. 

Examined material. 1 ¢, Rumania, Topolnita grotto at Ciresu, Turnu Severin 
district, Oltenia Region, 26.VI.1962 (V. DECU); 1 2, the same locality, 27.VI. 
1964, GS. no. 953 (author). In the author’s collection. 

Distribution. Albania, Yugoslavia (Macedonia), and Rumania. 


Infurcitinea Spuler, 1910 
(Ro SANTA) 


Type-species, Tinea argentimaculella Stainton, 1849. 

Sc of forewing ending before or in middle of costa. Radial trunk weak basally. 
Radial veins terminating on costa. Ry and R; short-stalked. Cubital trunk and two 
cubital veins well-defined throughout. A, does or does not reach wing edge (I. 
ignicomella); sometimes its terminal portion more defined than remaining portion 
(I. romanica spec. nov.). As and A, with a short free portion, then united. 

Sc of hindwing long, to middle of costa. The radial trunk free of cell. The radial 
trunk and R weak. Three median veins present. Median trunk and M; weak. M, 
to costa twice as near to apex as distance of end of M, to apex. Cubital trunk well- 
defined. The three anal veins weak. 

Infurcitinea Spuler includes about 40 species. 

Examined material. Rumania, 1 &, I. ignicomella (H.-S.), Bucuresti, 28.VI. 
1962 (author); 1 ¢, I. rumelicella (Rbl.), Baile Herculane, 8.VII.1964 (author); 
1 &, I. albicomella (H.-S.), Ineu, Arad district, Banat Region (L. DISZEGHY); 
Greece, 1 &, I. olympica Pet., Mt. Olympus (G. PETERSEN coll.1), leg. F. Kasy). 
Rumania, 1 ¢, 2 ®, I. romanica spec. nov., Ciresu, Turnu Severin district, 
Oltenia Region (V. DECU). 

Distribution. England, Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Central Europe, Italy, 
Corsica, Sardinia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, USSR (Caucasus), Iran, 
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco. 


Infurcitinea romanica spec. nov. 
(Fig. 34, 37—40) 


The material has been collected in Topolnita grotto at Ciresu, Turnu Severin 
district, Oltenia Region, and is preserved in the author’s collection. Holotype, 4, 
26.VI.1962 (V. DEcu), GS. no. 893; allotype, 9, 27.VI.1964, GS. no. 954; 
paratype, 1 9, 27.VI.1964 (author). 

Head white. First antennal joint yellowish-white with scarce brown scales. Joints 
of flagellum blackish-brown, with narrow, white basal rings. Labial palpi blackish- 
brown basally, yellowish-white apically; their outer surface blackish-brown, inner 
surface white. First two joints of maxillary palpi black-brown, remainder white, 
densely mixed with brown. Thorax and tegulae white mixed with scarce black- 
brown scales. Ground colour of the forewing white, markings black-brown scat- 


1) I owe the loan of the material of this species to the kindness of Dr. G. PETERSEN. 


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Fig. 35—36a. Gozmanytinea banatica (Pet.), ® genitalia. 35, ventral view; 36—36a, lateral 

view. Fig. 37—39. Infurcitinea romanica sp. n. 37, & holotype, genitalia without aedeagus 

and anellus; 38, the same, aedeagus and anellus; 39, © allotype, dorsal and ventral views 
of the genitalia 


I. CAPUSE : Palaearctic Tineidae 119 


tered points. Fringes white. Venation as in the genus. Hindwing brown-grey; 
fringes dirty white. 

Male genitalia. Tegumen + uncus relatively broad, slightly narrowing towards 
end. Vinculum narrow with two rather long processes. Valvae very broad at base, 
strongly narrowed towards apex, asymmetrical. Left valva with two rather long, 
slender, club-like arms, ventral somewhat shorter, dorsal with strong, rigid hairs. 
Bases of these arms with oblique, transverse, sclerotized ridges with distal edges 
slightly concave. Right valva more abruptly narrowed with short apical processes; 
dorsal margin of narrowed portion with strong rigid hairs; internal surface at the 
narrow part with a bilobed ridge, longer than in left valva, obliquely longitudinal. 
Bases of valvae ventrally covered with dense hairs. Anellus shaped as a plate with 
a strong constriction beyond a broad base; it is dilated again from middle, tapering 
apically. Aedeagus slender and narrow, strongly dilated at base, divided before 
middle in a straight, pointed arm and a curved, longer arm, covered with dense 
broad spines. 

Female genitalia. Eighth segment ventrally with a sclerotized tube, dilated 
distally, upon which lays the ostium; dorsally with a sclerotized triangular body 
haired apically. Apophyses anteriores rather short with furcate posterior parts, arms 
dorsally united. Apophyses posteriores long. Anal papillae haired. 

I. romanica spec. nov. resembles I. olympica Pet. but differs both externally and 
internally. In the former the first antennal joint is yellowish-white, in the latter 
brown-white. The labial palpi in romanica are black-brown externally, in o/ympica 
only the base of the third joint is brown. The black-brown dots of the forewing 
are more numerous in olympica than in romanica. 


Infurcitinea olympica Petersen, 1959 
(Fig. 41—43) 


Male genitalia. Tegumen + uncus relatively broad, distally rounded. Vinculum 
narrow with two rather long thick tips. Left valva with rather short apical process 
more dentate along ventral edge. Right valva relatively broad in constricted portion, 
with rather thick processes. The anellus tapers abruptly beyond middle into a long, 
strong well-sclerotized, curved spine. Both arms of the aedeagus of equal length, 
running parallel; one arm is provided with sparse spines. Lamella of the right valva 
transverse. 

The shape and position of the lamellae of the valvae and the remaining genital 
characters are entirely different in I. olympica and in I. romanica (for comparison 
see above). 

Examined material. 1 4, Greece, Mt. Olympus (G. PETERSEN coll. leg. F. 
Kasy, GS. no. 1169). In the author’s collection. 


Lichenotinea Petersen, 1957 
(Fig. 44—45) 


Type-species, Tinea pustulatella Zeller, 1852. 
Vein Sc of forewing to beyond middle of costa. Basal portion of radial trunk 
weak. Radial veins ending on costa; R, and R; stalked. Three median and two 


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cubital veins. A, weak throughout, reaching edge. A, and A, free at base then 
forming a long common trunk. | 

Sc of hindwing to beyond middle of costa; radiocubital cell open. Radial trunk © 
weak throughout. Three median veins. M, and M, close at base. Cubital trunk 
well-marked, with two cubital veins. All anal veins absent. 

Two species belong in Lichenotinea Pet., viz. L. pustulatella (Zl) and L. 
maculata Pet. 

Examined material. 3 4, Rumania, cave no. 2, Motru Sec at Calugareni, Gorj 
district, Oltenia Region, 16.VII.1961 (A. BALACESCU); 9 4 and 2 9, Topolnita 
cave at Ciresu, Turnu Severin district, Oltenia Region, 27.VI.1964 (author) (L. 
pustulatella). 

Distribution. Central and southeastern Europe, Asia Minor. 


| 


Ischnoscia Meyrick, 1895 
(Fig. 46—47) 


Type-species, Gwenea borreonella Miliere, 1874. 

Sc of the forewing to before middle of costa. Radial trunk weak throughout. 
Rs and Rs long-stalked; Ry and Ry short-stalked. Free portion of Ry short, not 
reaching edge. Stalk of Ry + R, and a small basal portion of the two existing 
median veins weak. Cubital trunk well-defined, with two cubital veins. A, reaching 
edge but weak; A, well-defined; A, absent. Radiocubital cell narrowed and long. 

Sc of the hindwing to beyond middle of costa. Radial trunk weak, but R well- 
defined. Two median veins. Cubital trunk well-marked, distally with two cubital 
veins. There is no cell proper but a weak vein from base of cubital trunk to the 
radial trunk towards its end, outlining a rudimentary cell. 

The genus has two species, I. borreonella (Mill.) and I. pandorella (Mill.). 

Examined material. Rumania, 1 &, 29.VIII.1964, cave beyond Cirsa — Carasova 
community, Anina district, Banat Region (ST. NEGREA) (I. borreonella). 

Distribution. England, North Spain, France, southwestern Germany, Rumania. 


Novotinea Amsel, 1938 
(Fig. 48—49) 


Type-species, Tinea muricolella Fuchs, 1879. 

Sc of the forewing very short, ending before 1/3 of costa. Four radial veins 
present. Radial trunk furcate into two radial veins. Other two radial veins free. 
Radiocubital cell open. Two median veins. Two cubital and one median vein from 
cubital trunk. One short anal vein. 

Sc and cubital veins of the hindwing absent. Radial trunk together with the 
cubital trunk forming a very narrow and rather short cell. R stalked with one of 
the two median veins present. Two anal veins present, of which one very short. 

Six species belong to the present genus, viz. N. muricolella (Fuchs), N. car- 
bonifera (Wlsm.), N. liguriella (Ams.), N. klimeschi (Rbl.), N. fasciata (Stgr.), 
and N. andalusiella Pet. 

Distribution. Western Germany, Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Yugoslavia 
(southern Dalmatia), and Asia Minor. 


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47 


Fig. 40. Infurcitinea romanica sp. n., ® allotype, lateral view of genitalia. Fig. 41—43. 

Infurcitinea olympica Pet. 41, & genitalia without aedeagus and anellus; 43, the same in 

lateral view; 42, the same, aedeagus and anellus. Fig. 44—45. Lichenotinea pustulatella (Z1l.), 

venation. Fig. 46—47. Ischnoscia borreonella (Mill.), venation. Fig. 48—49. Novotinea 
muricolella (Fuchs), venation (after Amsel) 


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KEY TO THE GENERA OF MEESSIINAE ACCORDING TO VENATION 1) 


1. — Hindwing with Sc present . . . . qua VE 
— Hindwing with Sc, one median vein, total veins Seh one anal vein 
absent. Forewing with Sc very short; one radial vein, one cubital vein and 

two anal veins absent. . . . ee NOIA IDE. 

2. — Forewing with Sc normally heran i ONE 3 
— Forewing with Sc rs fused with an ion vein, both fee at base | 
IRR Obesoceras Pet. 

3. — Eno ih ana veins pisa rte SUN, di 
— Forewing with cubital veins absent. In Rincon cell open; base of radial | 
trunk not distinct; two median veins present, all anal veins absent . | 
Celestica Meyr. 


4, — onen ah fine eal VEINSK 5 iS 
— Forewing with four radial veins; M, and M, sella N ee A, very 
short. One anal vein absent in dre ee Pıchenovora, Peta 
5. — Forewing with all radial veins free. . . . DR ub ee 6 
— Forewing with some of the radial veins stalken Meden ee nitie 7 
6. — Hindwing with two weak anal veins. . . . Phereoeca Hint. & Brad. 
— Hindwing with one weak anal vein. . . . . . Agnathosia Ams. 
7. — Forewing with R, and Rs, as well as Ry and Rs, stalked; Ry short, not 
reaching margin; one median and one anal veins absent. All anal veins 
and one median vein absent in es OSG ANNIE ae 
— Only R, and R; stalked. . . . I fon € 
8. — Hindwing with cell closed, the aa or he el tint does not 
participate in building of the cell; not all anal veins absent. . . . 9 
— Hindwing with cell open; all anal veins absent. . . Lichenotinea Pet. 
9. — Radial trunk does not participate in building of the cell in hindwing 10 


— Cubital trunk does not Paste in Ras of the cell in hindwing . 
Meessia Hofm. 


10. — Foce n à: ne not reaching margin. All anal veins present in 
hinde ee InfareitineauSpull 

— Forewing with A, ee rates margin. Two anal veins absent in 
hindwings. EE GOZI AEON Te MDO 


KEY TO THE GENERA OF MEESSIINAE, ACCORDING TO THE MALE GENITALIA 


lin Gaathos. present 7. omer e RCN 
— Gnathos absent D RE oe 5 
DIE Gnathos consisting Of-two AIMONS e O ee ne 
— Gnathos not paired . NT 4 
3. — Arms of gnathos without bene, Rs | fe) saccus dis 


Montetinea Pet. 
-- Nias af autres on a LI fa distally not joined; saccus not dilated 
Phereoeca Hint. & Brad. 


1) The genera Montetinea Pet. and Tineiforma Ams. are not included in the present key 
as their venation is unknown to me. 


I. CAPUSE : Palaearctic Tineidae 123 


4. — Uncus ending in two lobes; hardly ending in a rounded-clavate lobe when 
a prominence on internal surface of the valva is present; saccus short . 

A i Obesoceras Pet. 

— Wines Aha ine in a 1 shalt tip, eG acute, scarcely rounded; 


saccusL long At DEMI ECS Hofm. 
5. — Vinculum very Broce TIC snow SACCUSRADSEN LENIG 
— Vinculum not so broad, aedeagus long; saccus present. . . . . . 7 

6. — Uncus not distinct; valvae complete, basally dilated; anellus simple . 


2 5 Lichenovora Pet. 
— DE leren Agate? alte deeply vide into two portions; anellus 


complicated nr ae Cen ot eaN Det 

7. — Uncus consisting of two basen wh stone long hairs Celestica Meyr. 
— Uncus consisting either of a plate or of two lobes. . . . . . 8 
Sean McusmCOMsistine: OLM twonlobes una ee ANR ONE Fee ABEL IO 
— Uncus consisting of a plate. . . . ater ee LO 

9. — Tegumen narrow; valva with a ventral long cone arm; aedeagus with an 
external very strong cornutus. . . . in) Ischnoscra ‚Mey: 

— Tegumen broad; valva without a all. arm, sometimes with a small 
prominence; aedeagus with internal cornuti. . . . Novotinea Ams. 

10. — Vinculum broad with a long saccus; aedeagus simple, slender, long; 
anellus roughly horseshoe-shaped . . . . . . . Agnathosia Ams. 

— Vinculum narrow with a simple or double tip; aedeagus complicated, short; 
anellus of diverse shape, usually very complicated. . . . . . . 11 

11. — Anellus very complicated and developed; valvae asymmetrical; vinculum 
with two tips. . . . . . Infurcitinea Spul.1) 

— Anellus cuff-shaped, weakly developed cake: symmetrical; vinculum 
withroneüp a Wo u. : . . . Gozmanytinea gen. nov. 

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NOTES ON SOME ANTHOPHORINE BEES, MAINLY 
FROM THE OLD WORLD (APOIDEA) 


BY 


M. A. LIEFTINCK 
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden 


Abstract 


An outline is given of the present state of our knowledge of the tribe Anthophorini. This 
is followed by a discussion of the status, interrelationship and distribution of some Old and 
New World components of the Habropoda association. The essential features of the type- 
species of Anthophora, Emphoropsis, Habropoda and Elaphropoda are enumerated and, to 
ensure generic and specific recognition, illustrations of the more important male characters 
are supplied for each of these. A review of the Old World members of Habropoda includes 
Anthophora oraniensis Lep., from Algeria, which is redescribed and figured. Species doubt- 
fully referred to Habropoda are listed, but it is emphasized that this taxon can be split up 
in a number of distinct genera with broadly overlapping ranges. One of these is Elaphropoda, 
a new genus from Eurasia, which contains several already described and one new species, 
E. bembidion sp. n., from Borneo. 


Fig. 1—4. Head in fronto-dorsal and lateral view. Fig. 1, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Hol- 

land; fig. 2, Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), Florida; fig. 3, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), Rome, 

Italy; fig. 4, Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieft.), Bukit Kutu, Malaya. Light coloured and dark 
areas enclosed in dotted lines. Males 


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Introduction 


The Anthophoridae are a large group of solitary bees having an almost world- 
wide distribution, a great many of which also occur in the tropical parts of the 
Old World. As far as the elements of the tribe Anthophorini are concerned, those 
of the Ethiopian and Malagasy faunal regions are still imperfectly analysed and 
will not concern us here: in addition to some others also found elsewhere, two 
genera, Pachymelus F. Smith, 1879, and Pachymelopsis Ckll., 1905, are richly 


Fig. 5—19. Tarsal claws of hind leg, mandible, maxillae and maxillary palpi, and apical 

segments of labial palpi. Vestiture omitted. Fig. 5—8, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland; 

fig. 9—13, Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), Florida; fig. 14—16, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), 

Rome, Italy; fig. 17, Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieft.), Fraser's Hill, Malaya; fig. 18—19, 

Elaphropoda percarinata (Ckll.), Fukien, China. Corresponding figures drawn to the same 
scale. Males 


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represented in Madagascar and apparently peculiar to that island. In Eurasia and 
Australia, on the other hand, six non-parasitic genera of the tribe have so far been 
recognized. These are: Anthophora Latr., 1803 (including the poorly defined 
Paramegilla Friese), Heliophila Klug, 1807, Habropoda F. Smith, 1854, Clisodon 
Patton, 1879, Amegilla Friese, 1897, and Asaropoda Cockerell, 1926. In the 
present paper only Habropoda and a new taxon closely related to it will be 
discussed in somewhat greater detail. 

The genera Anthophora, Heliophila and Clisodon 1), having mainly a Palearctic 
and Mediterranean distribution in the Old World, are not or only poorly 


Fig. 20—23. Venation of right pair of wings (right) and portion of fore wings, more 

enlarged. Fig. 20, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland; fig. 21, Emphoropsis laboriosa 

(F.), Florida; fig. 22, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), Rome, Italy; fig. 23, Elaphropoda impatiens 
(Lieft.), Bukit Kutu, Malaya. Corresponding figures drawn to the same scale. Males 


1) Revision: V. B. Popov (1951). 


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represented in southeast Asia and are absent from Australia. Amegilla, with its 
numerous species throughout the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, is also 
the dominant genus in southeast Asia and the Australian region. It was briefly 
reviewed by Popov (1950), who was the first to firmly establish its status within 
the family, supplying at the same time a list of the described species and lower 
categories compiled from the literature then available to him. Towards the eastern 
periphery of the Oriental region and on the mainland of Australia Amegilla mixes 
with species of the nearly related Asaropoda, which has its centre of distribution 
in Australia. A synopsis of the Australian forms was published by RAYMENT 
(1951), whose treatment is, however, superficial and does not include any of the 
taxa defined by earlier writers. Lastly, the origin and geographical distribution of 
the Eurasian genus Habropoda were discussed at some length by Popov (1948), 
whose paper clearly demonstrates the complexity of this group. In this synoptic 
review the author outlined the supposed evolutionary history of these bees, refer- 
ring simultaneously to some taxonomic features. It was necessarily based on a study 
of the genus in its broadest sense, as it comprised all described Old World forms 
previously assigned to it. Although many of the latter were known to him only 
from the literature, all recorded localities were treated alike and entered in a map 
showing the distribution regardless of group differentiations. Popov’s concept of 
Habropoda not only necessitated the inclusion of at least one African element of 
rather remote affinity but also of other units with which he was not personally 
acquainted. As a matter of fact, three Eurasian genera with overlapping ranges 
are involved in Popov's account. Two of them are treated in the present paper, 
while a third (and probably more) still require careful analysis. Moreover, these 
taxa are morphologically as closely related among themselves as each of them can 
be linked with the dominant genus Anthophora, which is itself highly polymorphic 
and of widespread occurrence. For some unknown reason the last-mentioned genus 
was entirely left out of consideration in Popov’s account. We have at present 
obtained a somewhat better knowledge of the morphology of these bees and, 
though still far from complete, it indicates that Popov’s interpretation of the 
present-day distribution of the Habropoda group requires considerable alteration. 
I also think that the conclusions arrived at by him, though admittedly tentative, 
are rather premature and do not permit of a decisive answer to be given on the 
origin and evolution of these bees. 

In a publication that appeared four years in advance of Popov’s review but 
which for obvious reasons had remained unknown to him, I have given 
characterizations of a number of old and new species of “Anthophora’ and 
“Habropoda’ occurring in the Malaysian subregion (LIEFTINCK, 1944). All 
regional species previously assigned by me to Anthophora were subsequently 
transferred to Amegilla (LIEFTINCK, 1956) but, in anticipation of a thorough 
analysis of the whole complex still amalgamated in Anthophora, I merely stated 
that a new genus would be necessary to accommodate the tropical oriental bees 
formerly included in Habropoda. 

It is the object of the present paper to demonstrate the principal features of this 
compact little group, which is here introduced under the new name Elaphropoda, 
gen. nov. An attempt will be made to directly compare the type-species and allied 


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forms of this taxon with others of more remote affinity and with the types of three 
other genera considered to be most nearly related. These representative species are: 
Anthophora acervorum (L., 1758), Emphoropsis kboriosa (F., 1804), 
Habropoda tarsata (Spinola, 1838) with its immediate allies. 

The principal generic characters of Anthophora are contained in the well-known 
publication of MICHENER (1944), while definitions of Emphoropsis have been 
supplied by a number of writers whose publications are cited under that genus. 

The illustrations of morphological structures accompanying the text of the fol- 
lowing account are intended to be self-explanatory. As far as the genera Antho- 
phora and Emphoropsis are concerned, the figures are given solely for the purpose 
of comparison with corresponding structures found in Habropoda and Elaphro- 
poda, more comprehensive notes and descriptions, where necessary, being supplied 
only for the latter. 


Anthophora Latreille, 1803 


As is well known, Anthophora contains an enormous number of very diverse 
species distributed all over the temperate and subtropical parts of the world, with 
radiations in more southerly directions. There is, in fact, a marked decrease in the 
number of species south of the Tropic of Cancer; and when leaving aside the 
Anthophorini of the African fauna and South America, whose components and 
affinities are still imperfectly studied, it can be said that in the Old World tropics 
no true Anthophora occur in the Malay Archipelago nor has any been found in 
the Australian Region or the Pacific islands.The greatest diversity in morphological 
features exists amongst those inhabiting the temperate regions of the Old World 
from which it may possibly be inferred that the Nearctic elements are derived 
from old stock centred in the Palearctic Region. 

In the existing keys and descriptions of these Old World Abo group 
characters that may express the probable relationships have only rarely been taken 
into account 1). Of the great majority of Mediterranean and Asiatic species, for 
instance, practically no descriptions or figures exist of the head and leg structures 
or of the male copulatory organs, so that many remain unrecognizable. In several 
instances it is not even known whether such forms are true Anthophora or Ame- 
gilla. Some of the former are superficially much like Amegilla while others may 
easily be mistaken for Heliophila, which themselves are sometimes astoundingly 
similar to certain Amegilla with which they occur together. The highly specialized 
short-haired and banded groups of true Anthophora are thus frequently confused 
with similarly-looking sections of allied genera. With so many of them only known 
from descriptions, it is hardly surprising that generic identification can only be a 
matter of guess-work. A notable exception to the rule forms the beautifully 


1) A section still of doubtful generic (or subgeneric) status is the “subgenus” Paramegilla 
Friese, 1897. According to FRIESE, the only character by which it is said to differ from 
Anthophora is the presence of large, white pubescent spots at the sides of the abdominal 
segments. The type-species of Paramegilla is Apis ireos Pallas, 1773, from Russia; I have 
only seen a female of another included species, A. (P.) christofi F. Mor., 1880, from 
Turkestan. 


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illustrated work of MoRAWITZ (1875) on the bees of Turkestan. In this out- 
standing publication a number of excellent drawings of male genitalia are found 
which are most helpful in segregating the regional genera and species groups. 

The most comprehensive study of Anthophora is the one published by MICHE- 
NER (1944), who provided a profusely illustrated account of the general morpho- 
logy and anatomy based on one of the commonest Nearctic species, viz. A. 
edward sii Cresson. For comparison with other genera discussed in the present paper 
I have, for similar reasons, selected one of the best known European representatives, 


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more enlarged (25, 28, 31 and 34), and cross-sections of same (26, 29, 32 and 35). Fig. 
24—26, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland; fig. 27—29, Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), 
Florida; fig. 30—32, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), Rome, Italy; fig. 33—35, Elaphropoda 
impatiens (Lieft.), Fraser's Hill, Malaya. Corresponding figures drawn to the same scale 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Notes on Anthophorine bees 131 


Fig. 36—42. Sixth gastral sternite of male, ventral and lateral view (36, 37, 39 and 41), 

and cross-sections of same (38, 40 and 42). Fig. 36, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland; 

fig. 37—38, Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), Florida; fig. 39—40, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), 

Rome, Italy; fig. 41—42, Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieft.), Bukit Kutu, Malaya. All figures 
on the same scale 


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the type-species A. acervorum (L.). The most important structural characters of 
the male are here illustrated; head, mouth-parts and tarsal claw (fig. 1, 5—8), 
wings (fig. 20), exposed apical tergites and sternites of abdomen (fig. 24—26 
and 36), seventh and eighth sternal plates (fig. 43—44), and genital capsule 


(fig. 51). 
Habropoda F. Smith, 1854 


1854. SMITH, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 2: 318—319 (Habrophora F. Sm.), 320 (Habropoda 
nom. nov.), pl. 12 fig. 9—11. 

1869. Dours, Mon. Icon. Anthophora (Mém. Soc. linn. Nord France): 29—34, pl. 1 
(partim), pl. 2 fig. 1—6 (col. plate). 

1879. PATTON, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 5: 477—479 (partim, type-species H. ezonata F. 
Smith, 1854 = Tetralonia tarsata Spinola, 1838, designated). 

1890. DE SAUSSURE, in GRANDIDIER, Hist. Madagascar 20: 12 (diagnosis). 

1897. BiliGHam, Fauna Brit. India, Hym. 1: 414 (key), 521—523 (partim), fig. 177; not 
pl. IV fig. 6. 

1897. Friese, Bienen Europa's 3: 18, 24 (subgenus). 

1899. ASHMEAD, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 26: 60 (key). 

1909. VACHAL, Ann. Soc. ent. France 78: 11 (key). 

1923. FRIESE, Die europ. Bienen : 215—217 (notes). 

1930. SCHMIEDEKNECHT, Hym. Nord- u. Mitteleuropas, 2. Aufl.: 780 (key, subgenus). 

1943. SANDHOUSE, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 557. 

1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk URSS, new ser. 59: 1673—1676 (partim!), fig. 1 
(map). 

1958. IUGA, Subfam. Anthophorinae, in Faun. Rep. Pop. Rom. Ins. 9: 94—97, fig. 40 
(wing). 


Always excepting the differences found in the wing venation, generic characters 
applicable to both sexes of Habropoda are not very well marked and (for the 
female) difficult to evaluate. The main characteristics are contained in the afore- 
cited references, but it should be remembered that in the diagnoses given by 
Dours, PATTON, BINGHAM and also Popov, members of the allied genera 
Emphoropsis and Elaphropoda were included. The best general definitions are 
those supplied by SMITH and DE SAUSSURE, insofar as these are based only upon 
the Mediterranean forms. I have failed to discover clear-cut characters for the 
female other than those found in the venation, for I have observed that some 
features of the mouth-parts, legs and pygidial area are hardly, if at all, different 
from those of certain large-sized species of Anthophora. In both sexes of the more 
typical species of Habropoda the interocellar distance is only little longer than the 
ocellocular distance, whereas in the type-species of Emphoropsis the lateral ocelli 
are more widely separated (ratio about 10 : 7); lastly, in two Emphoropsis-like 
bees (from Vietnam and Fukien, respectively), the reverse condition exists (ratio 
8.5 : 10). These differences may be, however, of specific rather than generic 


Fig. 43—50. Seventh and eighth sternites, exterior view (43, 44 and 50, left and 45—49), 

and interior view (43, 44 and 50, right). Fig. 4344, Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland; 

fig. 45—46, Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), Florida; fig. 4748, Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieft.), 

Bukit Kutu, Malaya; fig. 49—50, Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), Rome, Italy. All figures on 
the same scale 


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significance. Males are easily recognized by a combination of sexual characters, 
primary as well as secondary; most of these will be apparent from the accompany- 
ing figures. An additional feature worth mentioning is, perhaps, the attenuated 
and curiously flattened flagellar segments of the antennae, which in all males 
extend beyond the tegulae. 

Popov (1948) has already called attention to the remarkably elaborate form 
and texture of the invaginated seventh and eighth abdominal sternites in Habro- 
poda males. Somewhat beyond half-way their length these plates are distended, 
bearing transverse and swollen ridges with angulate or tooth-like marginal 
projections which are heavily sclerotized; the apical portions often bear strong 


Fig. 51. Genital armature of Anthophora acervorum (L.), Holland, dorsal, left lateral and 
ventral view. Fig. 52, the same of Emphoropsis laboriosa (F.), Florida. Enlarged on the 
same scale 


papillae and bristle-like setae (see fig. 49, 57—58, 63—64, and 69—70). The 
long apodemes and spiculae of these plates are also present in some Emphoropsis 
and Elaphropoda but the ridges and processes in Emphoropsis are only poorly 
indicated while they have completely disappeared in the highly specialized 
Elaphropoda. 

It will be seen from our illustrations that the resemblance between Habropoda 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Notes on Anthophorine bees 135 


and Anthophora is not quite as great as that between either of these and Empho- 
ropsis, the latter taking rather an intermediate position in almost every respect. 

Pending a characterization of the species reportedly known from the African 
continent (south of the Sahara), it seems best not to include these in Habropoda 
in the strict sence as applied here. I do not know which species from South and 
East Africa Popov (1948) had in mind when recording these on a map (loc. cit.: 
1674). He remarks upon four but, with the exception of H. festiva Dours (from 


Fig. 53. Genital armature of Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieft.), Bukit Kutu, Malaya. Fig. 54, 
the same of Habropoda tarsata (Spin.), Rome, Italy. Enlarged on the same scale 


“Cafrerie”), none of them was mentioned by name. I have examined and dissected 
a male of a species apparently closely allied to festiva from Tanganyika but, 
although this shows some approach towards Habropoda, it is surely not congeneric, 
differing also in the venation. 

Following the specific accounts of Habropoda proper, I have appended a list of 
the Asiatic forms questionably referred to it by previous authors. This list may or 
may not include a remarkable species from China of which I have dissected a male 
from Fukien, which undoubtedly belongs to yet another genus; it resembles 
Elaphropoda but is wholly different structurally. I hope to deal with this and other 
forms in a future paper. 


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Lastly, mention should be made of Anthophora gracilipes F. Mor., 1873, from 
the Caucasus. This is one of a separate species-group of Anthophora, which in 
1877 was erroneously transferred to Habropoda by RADOSZKOWSKI (Horae Soc. 
Ent. Ross. 12 : 334); I have seen both sexes of it. 

Distribution. — From the Mediterranean region eastwards through central Asia 
to China (Peking). 

Remarks. — The species of Habropoda are probably parasitized by the conspicu- 
ous velvet black-and-white pubescent bees of the melectine genus Eupavlovskia 
Popov, whose distribution corresponds very nearly with that of their probable hosts 
with which they were repeatedly found associated in the field. Nothing further 
seems to be known of their biology. 


Habropoda tarsata (Spinola, 1838) 


1838. SPINOLA, Ann. Soc. ent. France 7: 541—542. — & “environs de Civita Vecchia, 
dr. Leach don.” (Tetralonia). 

1854. SMITH, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 2: 320, pl. 7 fig. 6—6a (& ins. & leg). — 28 
Albania (H. ezonata sp. n.). 

1856. SICHEL, Bull. Soc. ent. France (3) 4: xix. — & Florence; & Sicilia (Anthophora 


Passerini sp. n.). 

1869. Dours, Mon. Icon. Anthophora : 31—33, pl. 2 fig. 3—4 (2 & colour plate, & hind 
leg). — 9 4 Greece. 

1874. Dours, Cat. syn. Hym. France, Mém. Soc. linn. Nord France 3: 2 (first record in 
France : Hyéres). ie 

1876. MORAWITZ, Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 12: 5, 31 (Caucasus). 

1878. MORAWITZ, Ibid. 14: 8 (Tauskaja, Caucasus). 

1890. DE SAUSSURE, in GRANDIDIER, Hist. Madagascar 20: 12 (key) (H. ezonata Smith). 

1897. FRIESE, Bienen Europa's 3 : 24—25 (key), 51—53 (descr., distrib., ethol.) (Podalirius 
tarsatus, and as subgenus). 

1913. ZAVATTARI, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. comp. Torino 28: 1. — 2 4 Rodi (= Rhodes) 
(Anthophora). 

1921. FRIESE, Archiv f. Naturgesch. A. 87: 166. — Amanus Mts. 

1923. FRIESE, Die europ. Bienen : 215, 217, 226 (flower records, notes), fig. 55 (wings). 

1930. SCHMIEDEKNECHT, Hym. Nord- u. Mitteleuropas : 780, 785 (key 2 &) (subgenus). 

1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk URSS, new ser. 59: 1675 (distrib.). 

1958. IuGA, Subfam. Anthophorinae, in Faun. Rep. Pop. Rom. Ins. 9: 97 (key) —99. — 
& 2 Romania: Tulcea.) 

1964. ComBa, Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 43 : 44. — & 9 Lazio, Italy. 


For good descriptions of this handsome bee reference can be made to the 
literature and also to the illustrations supplied in the present paper. The head is 
shown in fig. 3, the tarsal claw, mouth-parts and wings in fig. 14—16 and 22 
respectively, the male gastral terminalia in fig. 30—31, 39—40 and 49—50, and 
the genital apparatus in fig. 54. 

Distribution. — Originally described from Italy (Rome), the species is probably 
widely distributed in the Mediterranean basin and southwest Asia. The following 
localities can be recorded. France: Le Trayas, Le Lavandou and Hyeres (Var); 
Nice (Alpes maritimes). — Italy: Bolzano (Bozen, Tirol); environs of 
Bologna (Emilia); environs of Genova (Liguria); Firenze and Castiglioncello 
near Livorno (Toscana); environs of Rome and Acilia (Lazio); Portici and Castel- 


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lammare (Campania); Calabria; Sicily. — Romania: Tulcea.1) — Jugo- 
slavia: Pola (Istria); Split (Spalato); Treska valley, Urosevac, Skopje and 
Katlanovska Banja (Macedonia). — Bulgaria: Krupnik. — Albania, — 
Greece: Corfu; Athens (Mt. Imitos); Attica (Limni Marathonos); Kalavrita 
(Peloponnesus) ; Samos; Tinos (Cyclades); Rodhos (Rhodes). — Asia Minor 
(Turkey): Marmaris and Ula (Mugla Prov.); Finike (Antalya Prov.); Gozne 


(Mersin Prov.); Amanus Mts. (Gavur Daglari). — Caucasus and Trans- 
caucasus: various localities. 
Remarks. — H. tarsata is an early spring species, occurring from March to the 


first half of May in low country; it is often found in company of H. zonatula. 
Flower records are: Coronilla emerus, near Krupnik 300 m, leg. PITTIONI (VER- 
HOEFF in litt.); Coronilla emerus, Anchusa and Ajuga, near Bolzano (FRIESE, 
1897); Echium altissimum and Salvia sclera, at Broshom, 800 m, Caucasus (MORA- 
WITZ, 1876); Muscari comosum, in southern France (BARENDRECHT in litt.) ; male 
also on Prunus persica (FRIESE, 1923) and P. amygdalus (IuGA, 1958). 


Habropoda tadzhica Popov, 1948 


1948. Popov, Trans. Tadjik Br. Akad. Sci. URSS 8 : 31—34, fig. a—e (4 struct.). — 9 4 
Tadzhikistan. 


Material. — 1 & 1 @ (paratypes), labelled (in Russian) “Village Kwak, 
2000 m, 35 km N of Dushanbe, 10 & 20.VI.1937, V. Gussakovski” and “Ha- 
bropoda tadzhica sp. nov. Popov’, det. V. Popov 1947, in Mus. Leningrad. 


This species comes nearest H. tarsata. The original description is incomplete 
and does not do full justice to the nature of the pubescent body pattern and the 
peculiar structure of the legs and terminalia of the male. The abdomen is neither 
tricoloured (tarsata) nor banded (zonatula), but uniformly clothed with rather 
long and dense golden yellow hair. The bright yellow clypeus of the male is 
marked with black as in the species just mentioned, the size of the spots being 
intermediate between the two. Like H. tarsata the fore legs are of simple structure 
but the long spine-like coxal process is reduced to a short plate-shaped lamella. 
Femur and tibia III are greatly swollen, the inner carina of the tibia terminating 
in a short tooth-like subapical projection; the smooth and shiny inner surface of 
the greatly modified basitarsus (fig. 55) is deeply hollowed out, the whole 
structure smaller than in farsata and shaped differently. The 7th and 8th sternal 
plates are shown (fig. 57-58), the 8th sternite bearing more likeness to that of 
tarsata (fig. 50) than to zonatula (fig. 64), and considering also the structure of 
the genital capsule with its appendages (fig. 56), tadzhica appears to be most 
closely related to tarsata. This resemblance applies also to the female pygidial 
plate, which in the latter is more narrowly triangular and pointed than it is in 
zonatula and allies. 


1) This Romanian record was taken from MORAWITZ and possibly confused with Tauskaja 
(Tauz in Azerbeidshan), as given by MORAWITZ. 


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Habropoda moesta Popov, 1952 


1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk. URSS, new ser. 59 : 1673 (Kopet Dagh, sine nomine). 
1952. Popov, Trav. Inst. Zool. Acad. Sci. URSS, Moscou 10 : 113—114. — ® Kopet Dagh. 
1960. PONOMAREVA, Ibid. 27: 161 (flower record). 


Material. — 1 @ labelled (in Russian) lol. Dere/W. Kopet Dagh, 20.V.1953, 
Ponomareva, on Lonicera floribunda, in Mus. Leningrad. 


Male unknown. The type is from Germab, Kopet Dagh, LEDER (collector?), 
in Mus. Leningrad. The present specimen, identified by A. PONOMAREVA, tallies 
with the description. General appearance similar to H. zonatula and balassogloi 


“je 


Fig. 55—58. Habropoda tadzhica Popov, paratype male, Tadzhikistan; fig. 55, left basitarsus 
of hind leg, exterior view; fig. 56, apex of gonoforceps, showing gonostyli; fig. 57 and 58, 
seventh (57) and eighth (58) sternal plates, exterior view 


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but the abdominal pubescence covers most of the exposed tergal surface and the 
anterior limit of the dense apical banding is effaced by the presence of much 
shorter and scantier pale hairs covering the basal portions of tergites 2—4. There 
is also a greater abundance of longish erect hair interspersed between the appressed 
pubescence and this has led Popov to associate this species with H. tarsata rather 
than ezonata and immediate allies. His view is supported by the pygidial plate of 
moesta being more convex and more definitely pointed than in ezonata. It is, in 
fact, shaped similarly to that of tadzhica and tarsata, the last two being un- 
questionably intimately allied species. 


Habropoda zonatula F. Smith, 1854 


1854. SMITH, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 2: 319, pl. 7 fig. 7 (4 leg). — 2 & Albania (H. 
zonatula sp. n.). 

1869. Dours, Mon. Icon. Anthophora : 30—31, pl. 2 fig. 1—2 (9 & colour plate). — 
Q & Greece. 

1874. MORAWITZ, Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 10: 133—134 (addit. descr.). — & Bacu, 
Daghestan. 

1876. MORAWITZ, Ibid. 12: 5 (Azchur, Caucasus). 

1890. DE SAUSSURE, in GRANDIDIER, Hist. Madagascar 20: 12 (key). 

1897. FRIESE, Bienen Europa’s 3 : 24—25 (key), 53—55 (descr., distrib., ethol.) (Podalirius 
zonatulus). 

1923. FRIESE, Die europ. Bienen: 215, 217, 226 (flower records, distrib. etc.). 

1930. SCHMIEDEKNECHT, Hym. Nord- u. Mitteleuropas : 780, 784 (key 9 4) (subgenus). 

1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk URSS, new ser. 59: 1675 (distrib.). 

1954. IuGA, Bull. stiint. Acad. Rep. Pop. Rom. 6: 792. 

1957. Moczar, Fauna Hung. 19. Apidae: 22 (records in Hungary) (Arthophora). 

1958. IuGA, Subfam. Anthophorinae, in Faun. Rep. Pop. Rom. Ins. 9: 97 (key), 99—100, 
fig. 41—42 (4 struct.). — ¢ Q Romania. 

1958. Moczar, Rovart. Koslem (Fol. Ent. Hung.) 11: 404 (records in Hungary & flower 
records) (Anthophora). 

1964. ComBa, Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 43—44. — ® Lazio, Italy. 


Superficially, the female of this conspicuous banded bee is more like Antho- 
phora or some large-sized Amegilla than any of its congeners. From the former it 
can be distinguished, apart from the neural characters, by the narrow malar space 
and the widely distant lateral ocelli; from Amegilla it differs by the presence of 
pulvilli between the tarsal claws and other characters. The face-marks and 
morphological details of a male from Greece are here shown in fig. 59—64. 

Distribution. — Like H. tarsata a spring species, first described from Albania. 
Widely spread and, though apparently very local, showing a distribution that 
broadly overlaps the range of tarsata. The localities known to the writer are as 
follows. France: Hyéres (Var). — Italy: environs of Rome (Lazio); 
Brindisi (Apulia); Sicily: Mt. Etna (Mte. Rossi, 800 m) and Taormina (Mte. 
Ziretto, 200 m). — Malta. — Hungary: various localities, a.o. Cinkota 
and environs of Budapest. — Romania: ‘“Tultscha” (? Tulcea); Techirghiol, 
and in Craiova. — Jugoslavia: environs of Prilep (Macedonia). — Al- 
bania. — Greece: Thessaloniki (Saloniki, Macedonia); Olympia and Mes- 
sene (Peloponnesus); Ionian Islands. — Asia Minor (Turkey): Marmaris 
and Ula (Mugla Prov.); Cubuk (Ankara Prov.); Bozdogan (Aydin Prov.); 


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Amanus Mts. (Gavur Daglari). — Azerbeidshan (Caucasus): Bacu. — 
Transcaucasus: various localities. — According to Mr. E. STANEK (in 
litt.), the species has recently been discovered also in Czechoslovakia. 
Remarks. — There is an old record by FRIESE (1897 : 55) who found the bees 
in Hungary, nesting in loamy soil on the roadside between Rakos-Kereshtur and 
Czinkota (east of Budapest). The same author mentions Melecta funeraria (= 
Eupavlovskia funeraria (F. Smith) as its parasite. Flower records for the female 
in Hungary are Salvia and Vicia (FRIESE, 1897 and Moczar, 1958); IUGA (1955) 
observed that in Romania males frequent the flowers of Robinia pseudacacia. 


Habropoda oraniensis (Lepeletier, 1841) comb. nov. 


1841. LEPELETIER, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. 2: 39—40. — 2 & Oran (Anthophora oranıen- 
sis sp. n.). 

?1849. Lucas, Explor. Sci. Algérie, Zool. 3: 143—144, Hym. pl. 1 fig. 1, laf (3 £ 
ins.col. & struct.) — 2 & Oran (Anthophora). 


Material. — Type series, consisting of 2 9 and 3 &. Lectotype @ (by present 
designation), labelled “Oran” on blue disk, under drawer label “Anthophora 
Oraniensis Q” (LEPELETIER’s writing in red); lectoallotype ¢ (by present 
designation), dissected, bearing same labels as lectotype 9 ; 1 4 1 ©, unlabelled. 
All in the Paris Museum. & (incomplete), under drawer label “Anthophora 
oraniensis LePell. Oran/coll. Serville, M. de St. Fargeau”, in Mus. Torino. 


The above specimens quite unsuspectedly turn out to be true Habropoda, 
constituting a species that has always been looked upon as a member of Antho- 
phora. It has been no easy matter to find out whether LEPELETIER’s bee has any- 
thing to do with the Anthophora oraniensis of Dours (1869), Lucas (1849), 
FRIESE (1897) or PRIESNER (1957 : 79—80). FRIESE placed it in a separate group 
of his “Subgenus Amegilla Friese’, together with A. caroli Pérez (which is an 
Anthophora) and fulvodimidiatus (Dours) (which is a Heliophila); what he 
thought to be a female of oraniensis in all probability is some species of Ame- 
gilla. The other authors referred to it as Anthophora but in no case did they 
supply enough details to enable its recognition. Even the beautifully executed 
colour pictures and line drawings in Lucas's work give no clue to reveal its 
identity, so that it still remains possible that here also some similarly-looking 
species of Anthophora was mistaken for it. 

H. oraniensis resembles H. zonatula Smith very closely in most respects. The 
following additional descriptions may be supplied of the two sexes, one each (out 
of only five) being still in perfect condition. 

Female (lectotype, Oran). — Stature and pubescent pattern as in H. zonatula. 
Vestiture of head silvery white, very dense and decumbent on labrum, gradually 
acquiring a yellowish white tint on vertex and becoming fox red on temples, 
occipital region, thorax and first gastral segment; this bright colour changes to 
brown on the lower portions of the thoracic pleurae. Legs for the greater part 
black haired; tibiae I and II outwardly with a streak of depressed silvery white 
tomentum, the black covering inner faces of femora I and II interspersed with 
pale hairs; outer faces of basitarsi II whitish. Tibia III black, but outwardly with 


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Fig. 59—64. Habropoda zonatula F. Smith, male, Peloponnesus; fig. 59, frontal view of 
head, showing face-marks; fig. 60, left basitarsus of hind leg, exterior view; fig. 61—62, 
apex of right (61, ventral view) and left (62, dorsal view) gonoforceps, showing gonostyli; 


fig. 63—64, apical portions of seventh (63) and eighth (64) sternites, exterior view. Fig. 65. 


Habropoda oraniensis (Lep.), lectoallotype male, Oran (Algeria), frontal view of head, 
showing face-marks 


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a broad, wedge-shaped area of silvery pubescence; outer face of basitarsus III 
black, inner face chestnut to dark ferruginous. Wings exactly as in H. zonatula. 
Pubescence of first gastral segment dense, erect, fox red; integument of tergites 
2—4 shiny, pubescence short and scanty, deep black, each segment bordered 
apically with a narrow, sharply defined band of snow white hair leaving off 
abruptly at the sides; tergite 5 densely clothed with black hair entirely concealing 


Fig. 66—70. Habropoda oraniensis (Lep.), lectoallotype, Oran (Algeria); fig. 66, left basi- 

tarsus of hind leg, exterior view; fig. 67—68, apex of right (67, ventral view) and left (68, 

dorsal view) gonoforceps, showing gonostyli; fig. 69—70, seventh (69) and eighth (70) 
sternites, exterior view 


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surface; pygidial segment black. Ventral surface of gaster mainly dark in the 
centre, densely fringed with whitish laterally; apical pubescent band of tergite 4 
broadly continuous underneath so as to cover also the sternal surface, the next 
segments also clothed with long white hair. 

Male (lectoallotype). — General aspect, size and texture almost as in H. zona- 
tula; differs from it in the reduced face marks, more brightly coloured pubescence 
and in structural details of legs and terminalia. 

Antennal segments 4—13 missing. Legs generally slightly more robust, pro- 
coxal process very similar but more evenly and less strongly downcurved; shape 
of basitarsus I similar to zonatula, but basitarsus III relatively shorter and more 
expanded distally, the apical process thicker and bluntly triangular, not lanceolate 
as in zonatula (cf. fig. 60 and 66). Clypeus yellow, with indication only of dark 
basal markings (cf. fig. 59 and 65). Pubescent pattern much as described for the 
female, brighter than in zonatula; decumbent and white on labrum, changing to 
yellowish white on clypeus and brightening to orange on vertex; vivid thoracic 
pubescence becoming lighter, almost white, laterally. Legs clothed with silvery 
white tomentum. Transverse apical bands of gastral tergites 2—5 distinct, but on 
6 only the sides are white-haired; ventral surface of 3—5 clothed with white hair 
laterally. 

The contour and sclerotization of the 6th gastral tergite and exposed sternal 
plates are very nearly identical in the two species compared, but contrasting 
characters are found in the shape of the apical portions of the seventh and eighth 
sternites, the surface and borders of which are more or less profusely adorned with 
papillae, thick sensory(?) setae and fine pubescence, variable in size, arrangement 
and density, as shown (cf. fig. 63—64 and 69—70). When comparing the genital 
armature of oraniensis with that of zonatula, it will be observed that slight but 
well-marked differences also exist in the shape and vestiture of the gonocoxite, 
whose two branches (gonostyli) are shown in outer and inner aspect (cf. fig. 
61—62 and 67—68). 

LEPELETIER's cotypes ( 4 and 9 in Mus. Paris and 4 in Mus. Torino) are 
badly damaged and partly eaten away by insect pests, but all specimens are un- 
doubtedly conspecific. 


Distribution. — Algeria. 
Habropoda balassogloi Radoszkowski, 1877 


1877. RADOSZKOWSKI, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross. 12 : 334—335. — @ Etschmiadzin (Caucasus). 
1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk URSS, new ser. 59: 1673—1675 (remarks, distrib.). 


Material. — Transcaspia: 1 9, Kasakhstan, labelled “Nikolajewka/ 
zonatula Smith 9 /Habropoda balassogloi Rad. 2, V. Popov det.”, in Mus. 
Leningrad. 


The female of this bee is so much like H. zonatula in general appearance and 
vestiture that it can be easily mistaken for it. The description of the leg structure 


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of the male 1) also corresponds with zonatula but, since it belongs to a group 
of closely similar species even in respect of the male terminalia, I have no hesit- 
ation in following Popov and considering it a distinct species. Males are not 
available for comparison but in the female of balassogloi the pubescent abdominal 
bands are distinctly broader than in zonatula and the marginal hair fringes at 
the apical sternites are longer, denser and white instead of yellow, the long 
pubescence at the temples, thoracic sides and on the scopa being also silvery. 
Apical hair band of gastral tergite 5 palest silvery yellow sparsely intermixed with 
light brown and hair on both sides of pygidial plate light brown (all bright fer- 
ruginous in zonatula). Pubescence on inner faces of middle and hind basitarsi and 
penicillus dark brown, not bright golden yellow as in zonatula. The best character 
I have found in the antennae, which in balassogloi are distinctly longer than in 
zonatula; the first flagellar in balassogloi is about 3.5 times as long as its apical 
width, in zonatula less than 3 times, the length of the first four flagellar segments 
in balassogloi being in the ratio 28.5 : 10 : 10 : 10, in zonatula 25 : 10 : 10 : 10. 
In both species the pygidial plate is flat, finely transversely striate, the sides only 
slightly converging towards the rounded and almost truncated apex. 
Distribution. — Caucasus and Transcaspia. 


Habropoda pekinensis Cockerell, 1911 


1911. COCKERELL, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 39: 642—643. — & 9 Pekin, China. 

1936. GUSSAKOWSKIJ, Trav. Inst. Zool. Acad. Sci. URSS, Moscou 2 (4): 735—736, fig. 
1—2 (leg structures). — & Prov. Ala-Shan, W. China (H. alashanica sp. n.). 

1948. Popov, Doklady Akad. Nauk URSS, new ser. 59: 1674 and 1675, footnote (syno- 
nymy). 

Although I have not seen specimens, it is evident from the description that this 
bee is a true Habropoda, most closely related to H. zonatula Smith, with which 
the species was compared by CockERELL himself. The male is described as having 
the characteristic long backwardly directed spine at the anterior coxa and the 
greatly flattened lamina at the hind basitarsus, thus agreeing with the European 
species. I have adopted the synonymy as given by Popov; yet it seems necessary 
to compare GUSSAKOWSKIJ's figures of the leg structure of H. alashanica with the 
type of pekinensis in the U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

Distribution. — West and East China. 


Asiatic species described in Habropoda, or doubtfully referred to Emphoropsis 
but requiring further investigation, are the following (arranged in chronological 
order): 


H. radoszkowskii Dalla Torre, 1896 (Cat. Hym. 10: 285, nom. nov. for 
Habropoda montana Radoszkowski, 1882 (Wiadom. nauk przyrodz. Warszowa 2 : 
77, 92 & Himalaya, nec Anthophora montana Cresson, 1869). 


1) Of the legs RADOSZKOWSKI says: ‘ la base de chaque trochanter des pattes antérieures 
on voit une forte apophyse pyriforme d'un jaune pâle, avec l'extrémité émoussée; les 
jambes de cette paire sont renflées au milieu; les cuisses des pattes postérieures trés 
renflées, creusées un peu en gouttiére, les jambes assez renflées et le premier article des 
tarses dilaté, applati et extérieurement bordé de pils gris.” (loc. cit: 335). 


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I have not been able to locate the type of H. montana but FRIESE (1897 : 
305—306) refers to the latter by quoting the latin diagnosis (‘“ 2 sarothrum rufo, 
metatarso posteriori nigro-villosis; & tibiis anterioribus fortiter albido-ciliatis, 
metatarso posteriori dente auriculato terminato.”). A female in the British Museum 
from Sikkim, Darjeeling, 7000 ft., 4.94, identified by BINGHAM himself, conforms 
exactly with his description and figure (1897), as do two unnamed females from 
Kumaon, United Prov., W. Almora Div., Nov. 1919, H.G.C., in the same 
museum. However, the leg structure of a conspecific male (Shillong 10.03, TUR- 
NER coll. 1912-111) differs from that described by BINGHAM, who writes: 
“posterior femora very slightly swollen, each posterior tibia produced at its inferior 
apex into a compressed, thin, rounded plate.” As it is not the unmodified tibia 
but the posterior basitarsus which is produced apically (thus conforming with 
RADOSZKOWSKI's statement), the sexes were probably wrongly associated by 
BINGHAM. Also in the British Museum collection is a good series (both sexes) 
of a closely similar species recently collected in the Taplejung District (East Nepal 
Exped. 1961—62). Though undoubtedly closely related, these Shillong and 
Nepalese bees differ from each other both in structure and body colour, despite 
the fact that all agree in having the posterior tibia unmodified and the basitarsus 
widened and provided interiorly with a smooth ridge ending in a blunt tooth. 
An examination of the hidden sternites reveals that all of them are unquestionable 
Habropoda. These plates, though less heavily sclerotized than in the more typical 
members of the genus, are of the same characteristic form, markedly constricted 
and transversely ridged about half-way their length and provided apically with 
the same minute papillae. The same applies to at least three more species from 
various high altitude localities in the Himalayas and Assam (Shillong), of which 
specimens are available for further study in the British Museum collection. 


H. krishna Bingham, 1908 (Rec. Ind. Mus. 2 : 366—367, & Sikkim, Darjee- 
ling, 7000 ft.). 

Status uncertain. The author says that it comes nearest to H. radoszkowskii, as 
determined by him. Whole body densely covered with long brownish yellow 
pubescence. Mandibles and clypeus white, only the sutures of the latter black. 
Orbits parallel. Ocelli in equilateral triangle, but description of their position 
obscure. Legs normal. 


H. turneri Cockerell, 1909 (Entomologist 42: 308, 9 Shillong Assam). 

Male unknown. A mounted female in perfect condition (British Museum coll.), 
now before me, bears TURNER’s written label “Shillong 9.03” and a second 
printed one with “Assam R. E. Turner 1910—225”. This is obviously a topotype, 
agreeing with the original description in every respect. A densely pubescent bee 
with a strongly contrasting Bombus-like colour pattern of black, canary yellow 
and orange-red. Contrary to COCKERELL’s statement on the type, the present 
example is compactly built and of normal proportions. The face and mouth- 
parts as well as the placement of the ocelli are as in Habropoda; the slender 
sickle-shaped mandibles bear a single subapical interior tooth and the tongue is 
of moderate length. Unusual features are (1) the greater length of the marginal 


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cell of the fore wing and (2) the minute size of the pulvilli between the tarsal 
claws, characters which it shares alike with H. mimetica Ckll., from China, which 
appears to be closely allied. 


H. tainanicola Strand, 1913 (Supplem. Entom. Berlin 2: 51—52, ® For- 
mosa). 

Male unknown. Position of first recurrent vein of fore wing slightly variable: 
usually received slightly before end of second submarginal, more rarely interstitial 
with its distal side. Body pubescence of head, thorax and gastral segments 1 to 
3—4 black, for the rest orange. Clypeus prominent, black. According to STRAND 
the species resembles H. radoszkowskii D.T. (sensu BINGHAM!) 


H. rowlandi Meade-Waldo, 1914 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 13: 50—51, 
2 4 Shillong Assam). 

Appears to be allied with H. turner: Ckll., the male of which is unknown. The 
male of rowlandi has the clypeus totally pale yellow without any indication of a 
keel; the antennae are wholly black, the scape not yellow, as is so prevalent in 
males of this genus. In the female the face is all black, the legs ferruginous and 
the pubescence golden brown. I noted that the type (no. 637), in the British 
Museum, is not a true Habropoda, but the terminalia of the male have not yet 
been examined. 


H. hookeri Cockerell, 1920 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 6: 202—203, 2 
Simla, 7000 ft. and 9 Mussoorie, 7000 ft.). 

Male unknown. According to COCKERELL nearly agrees with H. radoszkowskii 
D.T. (= montana Rad.), as described by BINGHAM. It is held distinct from that 
species on account of the unmodified and not specially broadened hind tibia. 
These are, however, characters of the male, not of the female, and since COCKE- 
RELL had no male of hookeri, this distinguishing character does not hold good. 


H. mimetica Cockerell, 1927 (Amer. Mus. Novit. 274: 15, 9 Yen Ping, 
China). 

According to COCKERELL, this species is allied to H. turneri Ckll. The male has 
not so far been described but will, it is hoped, be made known soon. I have 
examined a series of both sexes from Fukien (SE China) and, as these do not fit 
the diagnosis of either Habropoda and Elaphropoda, a new genus (or subgenus) 
will be necessary to accommodate the species. 


H. sutepensis Cockerell, 1929 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 4: 132—133, & 
Siam). 

A small, densely pubescent species with normally shaped legs and a non-pro- 
tuberant yellow clypeus. I have examined the types of either sex in the British 
Museum collection (&, no. 652), the female having also been described by 
COCKERELL. The species approaches Elaphropoda in several characters but probably 
requires a new generic (or subgeneric) name to hold it. 


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H. nubilipennis Cockerell, 1930 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 6: 52, 9 
Foochow, China). 

I agree with COCKERELL that the type, which I examined in the British Museum 
collection (no. 645), is not the female of H. percarinata, the latter being now 
transferred to Elaphropoda. The two species are not even congeneric but the exact 
status of »ubilipennis (male unknown) remains to be established. The head of 
H. nubilipennis is shaped differently, the clypeus being shorter, considerably less 
swollen than in Elaphropoda, while the brown face marks are more sharply 
defined and shaped otherwise, as compared with members of that genus. It ap- 
proaches a Chinese species-group of which H. mimetica is one of the participants 
but, pending the discovery of the male, this is all that can be said. 


H. sinensis Alfken, 1937 (Ent. & Phytopath. 5 : 404—405, ® 4 Chekiang, 
China). 

It is absolutely impossible from the description alone to obtain an impression 
of this bee, nearly all characters mentioned being insignificant. 


Emphoropsis Ashmead, 1899 


1879. PATTON, Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey 5: 477—478 (partim, sub Habropoda). 

1899. ASHMEAD, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 26: 60 (key, gen. nov.). 

1901. COCKERELL & COCKERELL, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 7: 48 (type-species Anthophora 
floridana F. Smith, 1854 = Bombus laboriosus F., 1804). 

1905. COCKERELL, Bull. South. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4: 99—100 (revision). 

1909. COCKERELL, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 36 : 414 (Emphoropsis murihirta murina Ckll. 1909, 
first taxon included in Meliturgopsis Ashmead, 1899 : 62 = Emphoropsis Ashmead, 
1899 : 60, teste COCKERELL). 

1943. SANDHOUSE, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 547, 572. 

1944. MICHENER, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 82: 285—286 (incl. key). 

1951. MICHENER, in MUESEBECK et al, Agric. Mon. U.S. Dept. Agric. Wash. 2: 1239 — 
1240 (catalog). 

1962. MITCHELL, Tech. Bul. N. Carol. Agric. Exp. St. 152: 234 (key), 331—332 (diagn., 
references, etc.), fig. 67 (wings). 


This New World genus is included here for comparison with related taxa in the 
Anthophorini. For descriptions of the type-species, E. laboriosa (F.) (= flori- 
dana Sm.) and other members of the genus, the reader may be referred to the 
existing literature, the fullest characterization having been published recently 
by MITCHELL (1962). In the same year, TIMBERLAKE (Ent. News 73 : 36—38) 
described E. excellens Timb., an aberrant species from California, the male of 
which differs remarkably from other members by the structure of its antennae 
and legs. 

Of the described species I have been able to examine both sexes of E. depressa 
(Fowler), dammersi Timb., interspersa Ckll. and miserabilis (Cress.); also the 
males of E. laboriosa (F.) and pallida Timb.; and a female of E. rugosissima 
Ckll. In general appearance all these species are closely similar to members of 
Anthophora with which they occur together in parts of their range. The generic 
characters of the venation are those enumerated and illustrated by PATTON (1879) 
and MITCHELL (1962). In all species examined the first recurrent vein in the fore 
wing is received just before the second intercubitus and the transverse median 


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is placed slightly postfurcal (fig. 21); in several /aboriosa and a male of E. mise- 
rabilis these veins are interstitial or coincide in one point, as is also the case in 
the Chinese ‘“Habropoda” and all Elaphropoda (fig. 23). It will be seen that the 
latter differs from Emphoropsis in the much longer marginal cell and numerous 
structural characters. MICHENER (1944) has suggested that some of the bees 
described in Habropoda from East Asia (e.g. China) are in reality Emphoropsis. 
This may be true, as the resemblance is quite striking. In the Chinese species 
group the venation is scarcely more like true Habropoda than Emphoropsis, but 
since not one of the East Asiatic forms has yet been studied in sufficient detail, a 
decisive answer to this question can not yet be given. 


Emphoropsis laboriosa (Fabricius, 1804) 


1804. FABRICIUS, Syst. Piez.: 352, no. 51. — © Hab. in Carolina (Bombus laboriosus nov.). 

1854. SMITH, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 2: 339—340. — 9 & East Florida (Anthophora 
Floridana sp. n.). 

1962. MITCHELL, Tech. Bul. N. Carol. Agric. Exp. St. 152: 332—333 (descr., distrib., 
ethol.), fig. 94 (head 9 &), 95 (3 terminalia). 


Material. — Florida: & (dissected), Florida, Dunedin, 30.1.1932, A. L. 
MELANDER, identified by P. A. TIMBERLAKE. 


Good figures of the head (male and female), wings and male terminalia are 
to be found in MITCHELL’s work (loc. cit.). These conform to the illustrations 
here given, except that the head of the male in fig. 2 was drawn from a slightly 
different angle of view. Other figures are those of the tarsal claw (fig. 9), mouth- 
parts (fig. 11-13), wings (fig. 21), seventh tergite (fig. 27—28), transverse 
section of gaster (fig. 29), sixth sternite (fig. 37—38), seventh and eighth sternal 
plates (fig. 45—46), and genital capsule (fig. 52). 


Elaphropoda gen. nov. 


1897. BINGHAM, Fauna Brit. India, Hym. 1: 414, 521—523 (partim), not fig. 177, but 
with pl. IV fig. 6 (Habropoda magrettii Bingh. &). 

1944. LIEFTINCK, Treubia, hors ser.: 77—93, fig. 23—31, pl. 42 fig. 5—8 (phot. ¢ 2 
Habropoda impatiens sp. n.). 

1965. MICHENER, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 130: 14, 17—18 and 20 (Habropoda). 


Medium-sized Anthophorini with elongate body and sparsely pubescent 
abdomen. Integument dark brown or black, the face, legs and parts of abdomen 
often predominantly light coloured (ochraceous-orange). Pubescence throughout 
short and scanty, except on thorax, where it is long and dense; plumose hairs 
behind orbits, on thorax, and partly also on legs and gastral sternites. Disk of 
labrum and clypeus sparsely covered with long, erect, bristle-like hairs. Abdomen 
comparatively long and narrow, that of male even more slender with pointed 
apex, the intermediate and terminal segments cylindrical in cross-section (fig. 35). 
Integument well exposed under the short tomentum, tergites not distinctly banded 
but posterior margins usually with narrow fringe of dense appressed pubescence; 
hair fringes of sternites longer, erect and plumose. 


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Head. Labial palpus 4-segmented, longer than galea, first segment very long 
and attenuated, about three times as long as second, the two apical segments small 
(fig. 19, 87); galea of proboscis extending back to or slightly beyond base of 
hind coxa in repose and when extended much longer than abdomen; glossa very 
long, with appressed pubescence, distal one-third with longer erect hairs. Maxil- 
lary palpus subequal in length to stipes, very slender, 6-segmented, second seg- 
ment longest, separate segments in the ratio of 6 : 23 : 16 : 11 : 7 : 5, about the 
same in either sex of all species (fig. 18). Structure of head, fig. 4 and 81. Face 
narrow, inner orbits subparallel, curvature slightly inwardly convex, shortest 
distance between eyes about midway their length in full frontal view. Ocellorbital 
distance about twice broader than interocellar distance, but only one-half of the 
clypeocellar distance. Clypeus longer than its distance from anterior ocellus 
(clypeocellar distance) and much longer than its width at base (about 5 : 3); 
strongly protuberant, usually with distinct median longitudinal keel, its greatest 
depth in side view about equal to diameter of eye. Frontal carina poorly developed, 
reduced to a short elongate, antero-median tubercle situated at level of antennal 
sockets. Ocelli placed in a triangle, closely approximated, the anterior one largest, 
its distance from either posterior ocellus about one-third of the interocellar 
distance. Malar space distinct, though short, one-seventh to almost one-tenth of 
its width. Labrum subcordate, only little wider than long, its anterior border 
entire, but apex distinctly produced. Mandibles with two well-developed interior 
subapical teeth, the proximal tooth shortest (fig. 82). Antenna slender, of normal 
length, flagellar segments longer than wide (10 : 8); first joint of flagellum 
much widened towards apex; ratios of length and breadth as 12 : 9 (4 ) and 
17:9 (2); length ratios of first four flagellar segments as 12 : 6 : 10 : 10 (&) 
ande 4068553105 210. ADE 

Wings as for tribe, with short narrow stigma. Marginal cell of fore wing much 
longer than distance from its rounded apex to wing tip, free part of marginal 
cell only little shorter than rest of cell; first submarginal cell shorter than second 
and third together but longer than third, the second much the shortest though 
rather high and squarish, with its costal side little shorter than the anal; costal 
side of third submarginal likewise shorter than anal side; first recurrent vein 
invariably interstitial with second intercubital vein; fork of basal vein coincident 
with transverse median, which is hardly curved. Hind wing with transverse median 
vein moderately oblique and outwardly convex, about half as long as its distance 
from the fork M-Cz, the second abscissa obsolete beyond half-way length of M; 
jugal lobe small, lanceolate (fig. 23). 

Legs slender, coxae not modified, unarmed; trochanter of hind leg of male 
enlarged, angular and produced backward, its posterior (caudal) surface flat- 
tened, that of female simple and rounded. Hind femur of male conspicuously 
inflated, its inner surface flat and bounded by two longitudinal keels, the inner- 
most acute, the outer blunt; hind tibia laterally compressed, the inner surface 
smooth, shiny, slightly hollowed out and bounded by longitudinal sharp keels, 
in side view the tibia is strongly widened towards apex, ending in a triquetrous 
lamella. Claws similar in both sexes, deeply cleft, inner ramus shorter and more 
robust than outer; orbicula and pulvillus (arolia) well developed (fig. 17). 


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Scopal hairs of female not plumose, rather short and sparse, not at all concealing 
surface. Basitibial plate of female distinct, subtriangular, apex narrowly rounded, 
that of male similar and of equal size but poorly defined and this only at extreme 
apex, which is subacute. 

Abdomen slender, more cylindrical than in allied genera, often with in- 
tegumental maculations; pubescence short and sparse, segments not or only 
narrowly banded. Seventh gastral tergite of male strongly tapered, sixth sternite 
usually more distinctly so, apex subacute. Seventh and eighth sternites unmodified, 
thin and delicate, disk of the former broader than long, finely pubescent with 
abruptly pointed apex, the latter subrectangular, apex emarginate. Gonostylus at 
apex of gonocoxite distinct and bipartite, consisting of a long, thin, plate-shaped 
exterior process, situated dorsad, and a slightly shorter, cylindrical or rod-like 
interior process, placed more ventrad; penis valves (sagittae) robust and thick, 
strongly incurved, the broad apices emarginate and/or toothed; membranous 
midlobe of penis short, transverse. Pygidial plate of female subtriangular, slightly 
longer than its width at base, apex very broadly rounded. 

Type-species: Habropoda impatiens Lieftinck, 1944. 


Though previous discoveries in Malaya, Borneo and China include bees closely 
comparable with E. impatiens, I have selected this form as the type-species as it is 
the only one of which both sexes were fully described and illustrated. 

The species placed in this new genus recall Apis in stature and general ap- 
pearance, especially the female. They can be easily distinguished from Anthophora, 
Habropoda and Emphoropsis by the tridentate mandibles, closely approximated 
ocelli, sparsely pubescent legs and abdomen, and the great length of the marginal 
cell of the fore wing. Additional features both sexes have in common are: 
extremely attenuated mouth-parts, strongly elevated narrow face and conspicu- 
ously light-coloured legs. Males have modified hind legs and a pointed abdomen, 
the tapered form of the last visible segments being noteworthy. The apical sternal 
plates and genitalia are altogether different in shape from those of the allied 
genera, the former being flat, delicately pubescent structures (fig. 33—34, 41—42, 
47—48, 76—80, 84—86, and 88—92). The characters of the legs, venation and 
genitalia at once exclude relationship with certain species of the Amegilla florea 
(F. Smith) assemblage, which they resemble at a casual glance. Some of the latter 
are equally striking for their strongly protuberant facial parts, enormously 
lengthened glossa and short pubescence; they are, however, at once separated by 
the absence of pulvilli (arolia) between the tarsal claws. 

It is of interest also to compare Elaphropoda with Deltoptila LaBerge & Mi- 
chener (1963), recently proposed for a group of Anthophorini occurring in 
Middle America. The authors found it to resemble Habropoda more nearly than 
it does Emphoropsis, especially in regard to the slender form of the legs, the 
short and sparse scopal hairs and, especially, the equilateral ocellar triangle. 
Deltoptila includes several species doubtfully placed in Habropoda by early 
American writers and it will be clear that the authors of the new taxon were 
entirely justified to remove it therefrom and place it in a genus of its own. It 
should be borne in mind that Deltoptila was compared with Habropoda at a time 


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when Elaphropoda had not yet been separated from it as a distinct genus. It is 
exactly with the last-mentioned group that Deltoptila was primarily compared, 
sharing with it the long proboscis, unusually protuberant face and the features 
already mentioned. This resemblance is rather surprising but on the other hand 
there are well marked differences between the two. Chief amongst these are: the 
longer malar space of Deltoptila, the single inner tooth at its mandibles, the 
much shorter 2nd and 3rd segments of maxillary palpi, the shorter submarginal 
cell of the fore wing, and the different male genitalia and apical sternal plates. 


Significant specific characters appear to be slight and few in number. Nearly 
all species have been described from single individuals of either sex, thus making 
it quite impossible to form an opinion about the consistency of any given character. 
For instance in E. impatiens, the only species of which good series of both sexes 
are available, the extent of “red” colour on the gastral segments was found to 
vary considerably between individuals and thus proved of no help in the separation 
of species. In regard to body sculpturing and degree of hairiness all known species 
seem to be practically alike, even the male sexual organs hardly showing distinctive 
differences. Under the circumstances all that could be done was to profusely 
illustrate the few characters most likely to be constant, i.e. the shape of the hind 
tibia and the penis valves of the male genital apparatus. For details not mentioned 
under the species discussed hereafter, see the comprehensive specific descriptions 
of E. impatiens (Lieft.) in the writer's previous paper (1944). 

Distribution. — Sumatra (terr. typ.); from the Himalayas to southeast China, 
and through Burma and Malaya to Java and Borneo. 

Remarks. — Restricted to the humid rain forests of the lower mountain zone 
(1450—1700 m alt.). Owing to this peculiar habitat and the extremely swift 
flight of Elaphropoda, these bees are easily overlooked and very rare in collections. 
The two species known from Sumatra and Java were both caught on flowers of 
Impatiens (Balsaminaceae). The same species in Malaya, Sumatra and Java are 
presumably parasitized by their nearest melectine relatives of the genus Callo- 
melecta Ckll. discussed also in my 1944 article. 


Elaphropoda magrettii (Bingham, 1897) comb. nov. 


1897. BINGHAM, Fauna Brit. India, Hym. 1: 522 (key), 523, pl. 4 fig. 6 (& insect). — 
4 Kumaon (Habropoda magrettii, n. sp.). 

1909. BINGHAM, Rec. Ind. Mus. 2 : 366 (locality only). — Ferozepore, Punjab (Habropoda). 

1920. COCKERELL, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 6: 201—202. — & Kumaon (Habropoda 
fletcheri, sp. n.) Syn. nov. 

Material. — The types of these two Himalayan species were examined by me 
in the British Museum collection (#agrettii, no. 638). Both are from Kumaon 
(northern United Provinces, W of Nepal), COCKERELL’s specimen of fletcheri 
bearing a label “Kumaon, Ramgarh, 6000’, viii.1918, Fletcher”. 

A third male, now before me and in the British Museum under H. magretti 
Bingh., is labelled “Shillong 9.03” (written) and “Assam R. Turner 1905—125” 
(printed). It agrees with my notes on the type but was received too late for dis- 
section, figuring and incorporation in this paper. It is a rather small specimen 
with light-coloured legs, only the bases of all femora being diffusely brown. The 


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inner outline of the hind tibia when viewed from below is distinctly undulated, 
thus differing from the figures here presented for related species. This male 
probably is correctly identified. 


Clypeus not carinate down the middle, lacking the longitudinal keel so well 
pronounced in most other species. In the original description of fletcheri this bee is 
said to be less robust than magrettii, with black femora and dark apex of abdomen. 
The first statement I am unable to confirm, while the only point of distinction 
between the two relates to body colour, which, as I have shown for zmpatiens, in 
this group varies greatly between individuals when good series can be compared. 
The gastral tergites in all males of either magretti and fletcheri are dull black 
with faint blue and purplish reflections, lacking “red” areas, only the hind 
margins of the segments being broadly testaceous, as they are also in the Chinese 
E. percarinata (Ckll.), which has, however, a sharply defined clypeal keel. In 
general appearance and venation these bees are quite similar to E. moelleri and 
other members here united, but the male sternites and genital organs of the types 
could not be investigated; further material of the present species from the same 
country is therefore needed to decide on the relationship of these closely similar 
bees. I have no doubt that magrettii and fletcheri are conspecific. 

Distribution. — Northern India and ? Assam. 


Elaphropoda khasiana (Schulz, 1906) comb. nov. 


1904. CAMERON, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 13: 211—212 (pars: 2 only!). — 2 Khasia 
Hills (Habropoda fulvipes sp. n.). 

1906. SCHULZ, Spolia hymenopt.: 253 (Anthophora khasianus nom. nov. for Habropoda 
fulvipes Cam., not Anthophora fulvipes Eversm.). 

1920. COCKERELL, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 6: 202 (descr.). — & Khasia Hills (Habro- 
poda fulvipes Cam.). 

1922. COCKERELL, Ibid. (9) 9: 248 (note) (Habropoda fulvipes Cam.). 

1927. COCKERELL, Ibid. (9) 20: 530—531 (add. notes on &) (H. fulvipes Cam.). 


Material. — Assam: 9 (lectotype), labelled “Khasia”, ROTHNEY coll., in 
the University Museum, Oxford. 


This bee is a true Elaphropoda, conforming in every respect to the diagnosis 
of that genus. COCKERELL (1922) already pointed out that CAMERON’s male of 
fulvipes does not belong here but is a halictine (Thrinchostoma spec., possibly 
sladeni Ckll., 1913), CAMERON having been led astray by comparing his specimen 
with BINGHAM’s picture of the male of E. magrettii (Bingham), a totally different 
bee; and by wrongly associating the sexes he naturally considered his female to 
represent a new species. In an earlier paper COCKERELL (1920) refers to a (topo- 
typical!) male from the Khasia Hills he received from Mr. SLADEN, which he 
characterizes as follows: “... the face below the antennae is entirely rich chrome- 
yellow and the clypeus is carinated. The scape is yellow in front. The abdomen 
has the first two segments red”. I have not seen this specimen, but since the last- 
mentioned brief description applies to any other species of the group except 
magreitii (which has no clypeal keel), its identity must remain doubtful. It may 
be conspecific with E. moelleri (Bingham), described from a male, but as long 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Notes on Anthophorine bees 153 


as no direct comparisons can be made of the structural features of these bees, 
nothing definite can be said. 
Distribution. — Assam and ? Siam. 


Although SCHULZ wrongly considered Anthophora fulvipes Eversmann, 1846, 
and Habropoda fulvipes Cameron, 1904, to be congeneric, we have to accept the 
substitute name &Aasiana Schulz for this species, fulvipes Cameron being a junior 
secondary homonym of fulvipes Eversmann. 


Elaphropoda moelleri (Bingham, 1897) comb. nov. 


1897. BINGHAM, Fauna Brit. India, Hym. 1: 522 (key), 523. — & Native Sikkim (Habro- 
poda moelleri, n. sp.). 


Material. — & (holotype, no. 636), bearing BINGHAM’s locality label, in the 
British Museum collection. It may well have been taken in the Darjeeling district 
(eastern Himalayas), east of Nepal. A second 3 (Miinich museum), now before 
me, is labelled “Sikkim/Waagen/46” and “Habropoda moelleri Bingh. det. E. 
Clement”. 


The present 4 agrees well with the type and original description, except that 
only the first gastral segment is entirely “red”, the disk of the succeeding segments 
of the abdomen being obscured, exactly as in magretti and dark individuals, males 
as well as females, among our series of E. impatiens from Sumatra and the Malay 


Fig. 71—75. Elaphropoda species, horizontal interior view of right hind tibia; fig. 71, E. 

moelleri (Bingham), Sikkim; fig. 72, E.? impatiens (Lieft.), Lower Burma; fig. 73, E. im- 

patiens (Lieft.), Fraser's Hill, Malaya; fig. 74, E. impatiens (Lieft.), paratype, Mt. Tang- 

gamus, S. Sumatra; fig. 75, E. percarinata (Ckll.), Tachulan, Fukien. All figures drawn to 
the same scale 


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Peninsula. Here again we meet with colour differences which are obviously of no 
use for specific discrimination. 

Whole anterior surface of head, including labrum and most of the mandibles, 
honey yellow, except a pair of dark ferruginous hair-lines running from the 
transverse clypeal suture down along subantennal grooves to tentorial pits; yellow 
lateral face marks extending upward along eye-margin to upper margin of antennal 
sockets. Supraclypeal mark triangular, 2%, times broader than high, surface on 
top of this mark slightly raised, forming a low tubercle. Anterior face of antennal 
scape honey yellow, tawny behind; pedicel dark brown; flagellum ochraceous 
tawny, apical portion of first and basal part of second flagellar segments lighter. 
Hind leg (except coxa and trochanter) entirely pale, basitarsus not obscured. 

Terminalia very similar to those of the allied species, as in fig. 76—77 (the 
7th sternite was damaged and lost). 

The following additional features, taken from the single male now before me, 
may or may not be of specific value as they would seem to apply to most, if not 
all, species examined. 

Labrum widest about half-way its length, only little longer than wide (43 : 40). 
Length and basal width ratio of clypeus 50 : 32. Clypeocellar distance shorter than 
length of clypeus (40 : 55). Anterior length ratios of first four flagellar segments 
of antennae 13 : 5 : 10 : 10. Hind tibia about twice as long as its width at apex, 
measured along inner margin; inner aspect of hind tibia, see fig. 71. 

Were it not for the strongly developed clypeal keel, moelleri would come very 
near magrettii, but on the strength of this important character, I prefer to keep 
the species apart. 


Elaphropoda impatiens (Lieftinck, 1944) comb. nov. 


1944. LIEFTINCK, Treubia, hors sér.: 80—91, pl. 42 fig. S—7 (& @ ins. phot.) fig. 23—31 
(& struct.). — ¢Q Sumatra (Habropoda). 

21927. COCKERELL, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 20: 531 (record only). — 2 Peninsular 
Siam (Habropoda fulvipes Cam.). 


Additional material. — Sumatra: series ¢ 9, NE Sumatra, Deli, Berastagi, 
foot of Mt. Sinabung, 1400 m, 7—14.XI.1950, in dense forest, on flowers of 
Impatiens sp., M. A. LIEFTINCK; ?, NE Sumatra, Deli, Sibolangit forest reserve, 
450 m, 16.X1.1950, same collector; 9, W Sumatra, Kerintji, Muara Sako, 
X.1915, EDW. JACOBSON. — Malay Peninsula: 9, Negeri Sembilan, 
Gunong Angsi, 2000—2790 ft, IV.1918; 4, Selangor, Bukit Kutu, 3300 ft, 
IX.1932; 3 9, Perak, Larut Hills, 4000—4500 ft., 11.1932; 2 9, Pahang, Fraser’s 
Hill, 4200—4600 ft, X.1933 & V.1936; 9, Pahang, Cameron’s Highlands, 5000 
ft, VI.1935; all H. M. PENDLEBURY. — Thailand: &, Chiengmai, Doi 
Suthep, 900 m, 14.X1.1957, J. L. GRESSITT, Bishop Mus. — Burma: 9, Lower 
Burma, S Shan States, Road 40 km E of Taunggyi, 25.IX—13.X.1934, R. MA- 
LAISE, Mus. Stockholm. 


There is almost complete agreement between the type series and the additional 
examples from NE Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, the latter exhibiting the 


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same amount of variation in the abdominal colour pattern. This was described 
by me earlier and need not be repeated here. In fig. 23 of the original description 
the face marks of the male are incorrectly shown to extend inward behind the 
antennal sockets. This is due to the fact that the similarly coloured dense hair 
tufts on both sides of the frons were mistaken for integumental spots; in reality 
the paraclypeal area is coloured exactly as in E. bembidion sp. n., as shown in 
fig. 4 of the present paper. It will be seen, however, that the latter differs from 


Fig. 76—81. Structural details of Elaphropoda males; fig. 76—77, E. moelleri (Bingham), 

eighth sternite (76), exterior view, and right gonoforceps and volsella (77), partial ventral 

view; fig. 78—80, E. ? impatiens (Lieft.), Lower Burma, seventh sternite (78), eighth 

sternite (79), exterior view, and right gonoforceps and volsella (80), partial ventral view; 

fig. 81, E. bembidion sp. n., holotype, Mt. Kinabalu, N Borneo, frontal view of head. 
Vestiture in fig. 77 and 80 omitted 


impatiens by having a pair of conspicuous dark blotches on the clypeus (fig. 81). 
The supraclypeal mark in both sexes of zmpatiens is invariably shaped like a broad 
triangle, as correctly indicated in fig. 23 of the earlier paper. Despite the very 
close similarity in general appearance, colour and pubescent pattern, the specimens 
from Burma, Malaya and Sumatra are not quite alike with respect to certain 
structural proportions. The clypeocellar distance and length of clypeus are in the 
ratio of 40 : 50 (Burma and Malaya), as against 40 : 55.6 (Sumatra); the length 
and basal width of the clypeus and median interorbital width are in the ratios 
of 50 : 32 : 60 (Malaya and Sumatra) and 50 : 32 : 56 (Burma). Slight dif- 
ferences were also noted in the configuration of the hind tibiae as seen from 
beneath (fig. 72—74), but when viewed from the side the shapes and propor- 
tions were found to be nearly identical. 


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The Burmese male is a worn specimen whose coloured pubescence has lost 
much of its freshness. In this specimen the first gastral segment and a pair of 
transverse spots (one on either side) at the base of the second, are “red”, the 
hind margins of 2—6 being broadly bordered with ochraceous, thus differing 
from the others in which these segments are only narrowly light-bordered. Now 
COCKERELL (1927) records E. khasiana (Schulz) from Peninsular Siam, so that 
the present male may belong to that species rather than zmpatiens? Its tibia is 
shown in fig. 72, the terminalia in fig. 78—80. 

Distribution. — Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula (universal); ? Lower Burma. 

Remarks. — I came across this elusive species again in northern Sumatra under 
circumstances almost identical to those during my collecting trip in 1939 and 1940 
to south Sumatra. I wrote about these as follows: “On Mt. Tanggamoes H. im- 
patiens was strictly confined in its visits to one particular kind of flower, viz. a 
wild Balsam, Impatiens cf. oncidioides, with large yellow flowers carrying long 
curved spurs. Patches of this hygrophilous plant were found in damp shady 
situations, chiefly in trenches and other gloomy places beside the long-abandoned 
track on the edge of the dense virgin forest. Once arrived there, we were soon 
struck by the shrill note of impatiens which flashed hither and thither among 
the low herbage. The males kept up a continual flight over the flowers which 
only the females searched for honey and pollen; the males greatly outnumbered 
the females and alighted only rarely in sunlit openings, on leaves and tiny 
branches; they were exceedingly alert and difficult to capture when ranging over 
the flowers in search of the females. Curiously enough, the insects were most 
abundant when the weather was dull and were active even when it was raining. 
Although common in this restricted habitat and possibly breeding gregariously, 
we have been unable to find the nests. H. impatiens is probably the host of Cal- 
lomelecta vulpecula, which was captured in the same locality and on the same 
days.” (LIEFTINCK, 1944 : 90—91). 


Elaphropoda erratica (Lieftinck, 1944) comb. nov. 


1944. LIEFTINCK, Treubia, hors sér.: 91—93, pl. 42 fig. 8 (2 ins. phot.). — 9 West Java 
(Habropoda). 


Additional material. — Java: 9, W Java, Mt. Pangrango, southern slope, 
1200 m, 7.VIII.1949, on flower of Impatiens platypetala in humid forest, M. A. 
LIEFTINCK. 

This is the second known example of a very rare species. It is exactly identical 
with the type. Unfortunately the male has remained unknown, but it should be 
easily distinguished from impatiens by its smaller size and different face marks. 


Elaphropoda bembidion sp. n. 


Material. — Borneo: & (diss.), N Borneo (Sabah), Mt. Kinabalu, Ke- 
nokok, 3300 ft., 29.1V.1929, H. M. PENDLEBURY. Holotype ex F. M. S. Mus., in 
the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 


Characters as for genus. Closely resembling dark individuals of E. impatiens 


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(Lieft.), but differing in details of coloration, armature of legs and abdominal 
terminalia, as follows. 

Male. — Mouth-parts, greater part of face and scape of antenna anteriorly, 
deep chrome, the malar space, teeth and apex of mandible, dark ferruginous. 
Face marks, frons and antennae dark brown, only the distal portion of first 
flagellar segment of antenna red brown; orange supraclypeal mark high and nar- 
row (fig. 81). Legs rufous, the coxae and trochanters hazel; outer face of hind 
femur slightly darker towards apex, the basitibial area and hind basitarsus dark 
brown. Wings more strongly tinged with yellow than in E. zmpatiens, but the 
neuration as in that species. Integument of gaster coloured as in the darkest in- 
dividuals of E. impatiens, i.e. no ‘‘red” areas on basal segments; instead, the hind 
margins of all tergites are more broadly pale coloured (cinnamon-buff) than in 
impatiens, the apical bands occupying only little less than half of the exposed 
surface of segm. 1—5, the sternites on the contrary being predominantly dark 
brown. Body pubescence as in E. impatiens. 

Structure. — Clypeocellar distance and length of clypeus in the ratio of 40 : 
54.5; length and basal width ratio of clypeus 50 : 30; length ratios of first four 
flagellar segments of antenna, 12 : 6 : 10 : 10. Clypeal keel well developed, 
similar to E. impatiens. Inferior keel of hind tibia more sharply pronounced than 
in impatiens, the apical lamella distinctly more drawn out in lateral view and 
narrower, the apex almost pointed when looked at from beneath (fig. 83). Length 
of body 15 mm approx., length of fore wing 11 mm. 

Frontal view of head as in fig. 81; mandible, fig. 82. nmel very similar 
to those of the allied species (fig. 8486). 

Immediately distinguished from its allies by the well-developed dark brown 
clypeal marks, which in the males of all other described species are reduced to 
narrow dark stripes, often mere hair lines extending along the subantennal suture 
as far as the anterior tentorial pits, the clypeus itself remaining unmarked. The 
species is also remarkable for its darker wings, which are deeply stained with 
yellow. The female remains unknown. 

Distribution. — Borneo. 


Elaphropoda percarinata (Cockerell, 1930) comb. nov. 


1930. COCKERELL, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 6: 51—52. — & Foochow, China (Habro- 
poda). 


Material. — China: & (holotype, no. 644), SE China, Fukien, Foochow 
district, KELLOGG, in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). — 2 & (diss.) 9, SE 
China, Fukien, Shaowu, Tachulan, 8—17.VIII, 8—14.IX.1943 and 27.VII.1947; 
& (diss.) 9, same area, Stat. 1, 1500 m, 3.VIII.1946; 4 9, same area, Kuatun, 
Chungan, 1400 m, 4—6.VII.1945 and Sanchiang, Stat. 9, 14—1500 m, 11— 
12.VIII.1945; ©, Fukien, Kienyang, Hwangkeng, Stat. 2, no date; all TsınG- 
CHAO MAA. 


The present specimens are referred here with some misgivings, the pubescence 
in all of them being rather paler than in the type and possibly discoloured. In 


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general they agree with the type but differ by having the greater part of the 
anterior face of the antennal scape definitely yellow, though the yellow area is 
not sharply defined. In the original description no mention has been made of the 
consistency of the long hairs covering the clypeus on either side, the latter being 


Fig. 82—86. Elaphropoda bembidion sp. n., holotype, Mt. Kinabalu, N Borneo; fig. 82, 

right mandible, exterior view (bristling omitted); fig. 83, right hind tibia, horizontal interior 

view; fig. 84 and 85, seventh (84) and eighth (85) sternites, exterior view; fig. 86, right 
gonoforceps and volsella, partial ventral view (vestiture omitted). 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Notes on Anthophorine bees 159 


bristly, not abundant, brown on upper portion and becoming golden yellow 
anteriorly. The wings are exactly as described for magrettii and impatiens; the 
marginal cell in the type is erroneously described as “not greatly produced”, it 
being in fact of the same great length as in all other species of Elaphropoda. 
The tarsi of the type are described as “black or nearly so”, but I failed to notice 
any difference between our specimens and the type, in which they are ochraceous 
orange, only the basitarsus III being conspicuously dark brown, and the claws are 
tipped with black. 

The abdomen in both sexes is blackish brown or black, the integument of the 


of labial palpus; fig. 88, sixth gastral sternite, exterior and profile view; fig. 89—90, seventh 
(89) and eighth (90) sternites, exterior view; fig. 91, genital capsule, ventral and left 
lateral view; fig. 92, right gonoforceps and volsella, partial ventral view (vestiture omitted). 


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posterior margins of the first five gastral segments being pale brownish yellow, 
those of the tergites broadly, of the sternites more narrowly so. There are no “red” 
areas on the first two tergites in any of the present series, males and females, 
which thus differ from the type. The thin short pubescence on the disk of the 
gastral tergites is more dense than in any of the other species described, but the 
integument still remains well visible under the tomentum. 

Male characters. — Clypeus relatively long, clypeocellar distance and length of 
clypeus in the ratio 40 : 56.5; length and basal width ratio of clypeus 50 : 30; 
length ratios of first four flagellar segments of antenna, 12 : 5 : 10 : 10. Details 
of structure, taken from two males collected at Shaowu (Tachulan) are illustrated 
(fig. 75 and 87—92). 


COCKERELL compares his specimen with H. fulvipes Cam. (= khasiana Schulz) 
and magrettii, with which the species is, indeed, very nearly related. 
Distribution. — East China (Fukien). 


Acknowledgements 


My sincere thanks are due to ail entomologists who have assisted me in carrying 
out the present investigation, which is to be considered as a preliminary to further 
studies on a somewhat larger scale. It was started before I left Indonesia and is 
mainly based on material then received through the good offices of several cor- 
respondents abroad. Many of the illustrations were also prepared about that time, 
while others were supplemented only recently. 

I am deeply grateful to the late H. M. PENDLEBURY, a learned scientist who 
before his untimely death was an entomologist at the Federated Malay States 
museum, Kuala Lumpur; his Malayan insect collections will long remain an im- 
portant source of information. Through the great kindness of Dr. P. H. TIMBER- 
LAKE, of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside (Cal.), I obtained representative 
species of various Nearctic anthophorines, while the late Dr. V. B. Popov and 
A. PONOMAREVA, of the Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences (Leningrad), 
supplied valuable material of Eurasian Habropoda. The rich material given to me 
by Dr. T. C. Maa, from his expeditions in southeast China, also added a great 
deal to our knowledge of this group. Lastly, I am much obliged to the following 
persons and institutions who enabled me to study material in museums and 
private collections: Dr. G. BARENDRECHT, Laboratorium voor Toegepaste Ento- 
mologie (Amsterdam); Fr. P. BENNo (Babberich); Dr. M. CERUTTI and ELENA 
ETZELSDORFER, Istituto Nazionale di Entomologia (Roma); Dr. M. CoMBA 
(Roma); Dr. ELLI FRANZ, Natur-Museum Senckenberg (Frankfurt); Dr. J. L. 
GRESSITT and Miss S. NAKATA, B.P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu); Dr. DELFA 
GUIGLIA, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (Genova); Prof. Dr. G. GRANDI, 
Istituto di Entomologia (Bologna); SIMONE KELNER-PILLAULT, Muséum National 
d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris); Dr. G. KRUSEMAN, Zoologisch Museum (Amster- 
dam); Dr. F. KÜHLHORN, Zoologische Staatssammlung des Bayerischen Staates 
(München); Dr. R. MALAISE, Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum (Stockholm); Prof. 
Dr. L. Parpi and Frl. Goss, Museo di Zoologia della Universita (Torino) ; 


M. A. LIEFTINCK : Notes on Anthophorine bees 161 


Prof. Dr. G. C. VARLEY and Mr. E. TAYLOR, Hope Department of Zoology 
(Oxford); Mr. P. VERHOEFF (Den Dolder); and Dr. I. H. H. Yarrow, British 
Museum, Nat. Hist. (London). 


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BORNEAN FIG WASPS FROM FICUS STUPENDA MIQUEL 
(HYMENOPTERA, CHALCIDOIDEA) 


BY 


J. T. WIEBES 


Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden 


ABSTRACT 


The Agaonidae Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) masii Grandi, 9 6, and Blastophaga (B.) 
errata spec. nov., 9, reared from one and the same receptacle of Ficus stupenda Miq., are 
described together with other fig wasps from the same sample, viz. Agaonidae: Ceratosolen 
spec. near C. notus (Baker), & (contamination of the sample?); Sycophagine Torymidae: 
Arachonia borneensis spec. nov., 9, Sycoryctes hilli spec. nov, 9 8, Sycoscapter reticulatus 
spec. nov, 2 4 (including a possibly conspecific, giant male), Sycoscapteridea stilifera 
spec. nov., 2, Grandiana corneliae spec. nov, 9 4. 


INTRODUCTION 


One of the moot points in the hypothesis of specificity of figs and fig wasps, 
is the question whether two species of Agaonidae can live in one species of Ficus. 

WILLIAMS (1928: 9—10) tried Blastophaga (Eupristina) bakeri (Grandi), 
the symbiont of Ficus forstenit Miq., on young figs of Ficus microcarpa Linn. f., 
and Ceratosolen notus (Baker) from Ficus nota (Blanco) Merr., on Ficus botryo- 
carpa Miq. It appeared that the wasps entered the foreign receptacles and, in the 
latter instance, oviposited in the gall flowers. 

JOSEPH (1953a: 282; 1954: 409) recorded two specimens of Agaonidae from 
one species of Ficus, viz. Ceratosolen fusciceps (Mayr) and Blastophaga (Eupris- 
tina) belgaumensis (Joseph) from Ficus drupacea Thunb. var. pubescens (Roth) 
Corner. I suggested (WIEBES, 1963: 98) that these records might be due to 
confusion of the figs of the strangler Ficus with those of its host Ficus, either 
by the collector or by the wasps. 

Figs of Ficus stupenda Miq., collected by E. J. H. CORNER in Borneo, attracted 
attention because of the many kinds of insect emerging (CORNER, 1964: 38). The 
insect fauna of these receptacles is described in the present paper, some Chalcido- 
idea not belonging to the Agaonidae nor to the Sycophagine Torymidae excepted. 


HOST RECORDS FROM Ficus stupenda AND RELATED FIGS 


A survey of the Agaonidae and Sycophagine Torymidae (Sycophilini excluded) 
from Ficus stupenda and related figs of subsection Conosycea (Miq.) Corner, is 
given in Table I. Ficus arnottiana Miq. (with Blastophaga (B.) arnottiana Joseph, 
and Terastiozoon incompletum Joseph), Ficus chrysolepis Mig. (with Blastophaga 
sp. near “Ceratosolen” megarhopalus Grandi), Ficus crassiramea Mig. (with 


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Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) jacobsoni Grandi), and Ficus forstenii Mig. (with 
Blastophaga (Eupristina) bakeri (Grandi)), are not included in this table. 

I have the impression that the following species do not belong to the regular 
fauna of the figs listed: 

Ceratosolen fusciceps (Mayr), known as the symbiont of Ficus racemosa L.; 

Blastophaga errata spec. nov.; 

Ceratosolen spec., close to C. notus (Baker) from Ficus nota (Blanco) Merr.; 

Parakoebelea thalakvadiensis Joseph; the other species of this genus, P. stratheni 
Joseph, is known from Ficus racemosa L. 

The Philotrypini, Sycoryctini and Otitesellini are abundant throughout the sub- 
genus Urostigma (Gasp.) Miq. 

Philotrypesis transiens (Walker), P. travancoricus Joseph and Sycoscaptella 
affinis Westwood may actually be only one and the same species of Philotrypests. 
Terastiozoon keralensis Joseph seems to be identical with Walkerella temeraria 
Westwood. Redescriptions of these species will be presented in a separate paper. 

The fact is now unambiguously established, that more than one species of 
Agaonidae can reproduce in the receptacles of one fig. The data suggest that there 
are some Sycophaginae too, that can develop in a fig specifically or even sub- 
generically distinct from their normal host. I feel that this conclusion, although 
it does not affect the general hypothesis of host specificity, should warn against 
too strict appliance of the principle in special instances. 


AGAONIDAE FROM Ficus stupenda 


A preliminary report on the pollinating insects from Ficus stupenda was 
presented to the XIIth International Congress of Entomology (WIEBES, 1965). 

The Agaonid wasps reared from Ficus stupenda belong to Blastophaga (Wa- 
terstoniella) masii Grandi, Blastophaga (B.) errata spec. nov., and Ceratosolen 
spec. near C. notus (Baker). I am not sure that the Ceratosolen are not a 
contamination of the sample. 

Galls situated side by side in the same receptacle, contained nymphs of B. errata 
and B. masii, respectively. This not only means that the females of these two 
species of Agaonidae entered the same young receptacle, but also that they ovi- 
posited, and that a new generation of both (females and males of B. mast, 
females only of B. errata) developed in one and the same fig. 

Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) masii is the second species of the subgenus to 
become known in the male sex. The description of this male allows for a better 
evaluation of the relationship of the group. 


Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) masii Grandi 
(Fig. 1—7) 


Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) masii Grandi, 1921, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 49 : 306 
(descr. 9 in key, Engano); Grandi, 1922, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici 15 : 213—215, fig. IV 
(descr. 2, Bua-Bua, Engano, leg. E. Modigliani, 5.VI.1891); Grandi, 1924, Boll. Lab. Zool. 
Portici 18: 11—12, fig. IV 3—4 (add. descr. 9, Fort de Kock, Sumatra, leg. E. Jacobson, 


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1.1923); Grandi, 1932, Verh. Kon. natuurhist. Mus. Belgié, buiten reeks 4 (5): 5 (2, 


Samarinda, Borneo, 8.11.1929). 
Waterstoniella spec.; Wiebes, 1965, Proc. XIIth Int. Congr. Ent., London 1964: 95 (ex 


Ficus stupenda Miq., North Borneo, leg. E. J. H. Corner). 


Fig. 1—7. Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) masii Grandi, male. 1, apex of fore tibia, and tarsus, 
axial aspect; 2, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 3, hind tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 
4, left mandible and hypostomal margin, ventral aspect; 5, left antenna, dorsal aspect; 
6, head and thorax, dorsal aspect (pubescence omitted); 7, outline of penis, dorsal aspect. — 
Fig. 8—11. Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) jacobsoni Grandi, male. 8, fore tibia and tarsus, 
axial aspect; 9, do., specimen from type lot; 10, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 11, 
apex of hind tibia, and three tarsal segments, antiaxial aspect. — Fig. 1—5, 7—11, X 165; 
Gy 3k 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 167 


Material. — Series 9, 4, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 715; Sungei Liwagu, North 
Borneo, 4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Miq. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB 
no. 2845); 9, slides nos. 715a, b, &, slides nos. 715 c-e. 


Male. — Reference is made to Blastophaga (Waterstoniella) jacobsoni Grandi, 
the only male of the subgenus hitherto known. Dr. GRANDI sent to me some 
specimens from the type lot of B. jacobsoni (Fig. 9), for comparison with the 
present material of B. masii. Most drawings of B. jacobsoni (Fig. 8, 10—11), 
however, were made from another sample (coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 323) from the 
type locality (Bot. Gdn., Bogor, Java, ex Ficus crassiramea Miq., leg. J. VAN DER 
VECHT, 5.1V.1955). 

B. masii is somewhat variable, particularly in the chaetotaxy of the legs. The 
same appears to apply to B. jacobsoni; cf. its description by GRANDI (1917: 
TP), Veta, IDO), 

Head (Fig. 6) depress, transverse, nearly twice as wide as long, with scattered 
small hairs. Eyes relatively small. Mandible (Fig. 4) large, other mouth parts 
atrophied; a variable number of hairs occur next to the oral aperture. Antenna 
(Fig. 5) much like that of B. jacobsoni, but the flagellar segments relatively 
longer; the club entire. 

Thorax (Fig. 6) large and wide, depress, with scattered small hairs. Pronotum 
with anterior and lateral expansions, as in males of Euwpristina Saunders; the 
mesonotum approximately twice as wide as its median length, with posterior parts 
next to the propodeum; the metanotum visible in dorsal aspect as two lateral 
sclerites. Propodeum almost completely separate, nearly as long as wide, the 
spiracular peritremata almost circular, lateral in position. Prosternum short and 
wide, the prothoracic episterna large. Fore leg, Fig. 1. The dorsal tibial spines, 
found in all specimens of B. jacobsoni studied (Fig. 8—9), lacking; apical armature 
of the tibia as in B. jacobsoni. First tarsal segment with conical spines in variable 
number, other segments with normal spines. In B. jacobsoni, also the second tarsal 
segment (Fig. 8) and in some instances the third (Fig. 9), bear conical spines; 
the number is variable, even in both legs of one specimen. Tarsal segments 
approximately in ratio 4 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 2. Mid leg, Fig. 2. The dorsal margin of the 
tibia without conical spines (present in B. jacobsoni, Fig. 10; although the number 
is variable); the ventral angle produced, with one axial conical spine, and one 
antiaxial. The tarsus with conical spines on the first segment only (in B. jacobsoni 
also on the second, and sometimes on the third); the segments approximately in 
ratio 10 : 5 : 5 : 5 : 8. Hind leg, Fig. 3. In comparison with B. jacobsoni (Fig. 
11), the dorso-apical conical spines of the tibia are relatively smaller and more 
concealed by the pubescence; the bidental apical crest is more robust, the teeth 
being inequal; the dorso-apical angle is distinctly produced. The ventral conical 
spines on the first tarsal segment are again smaller than in B. jacobsoni; the second 
segment bears only one cone, while the axial side has a robust spine instead; the 
segments are more transverse, approximately in ratio 5 : 1:1: 1 : 5. 

Gaster. Penis, Fig. 7. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.5—1.6 mm. Colour olive-brown. 


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Remark. — At first sight the male of B. masii reminds one of a species ot 
Eupristina, but a closer examination reveals its true subgeneric position. The 
characters of the head, antennae and thorax, similar to those of B. jacobsoni, 
confirm Waterstoniella Grandi as a distinct group in Blastophaga Gravenhorst. 
It appears to be close to Ezpristina Saunders, which relation is better depicted in 
the new classification of Eupristina as another subgenus of Blastophaga (WIEBES, 
1963: 100; GRANDI, 1963: 334), instead of as a distinct genus. 


Blastophaga (Blastophaga) errata spec. nov. 
(Fig. 12—20) 


Ceratosolen spec. (part.); Wiebes, 1965, Proc. XIIth Int. Congr. Ent., London 1964 : 95 
(ex Ficus stupenda Miq., North Borneo, leg. E. J. H. Corner). 


Material. — Series 9, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 778; Sungei Liwagu, North 
Borneo, 4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB 
no. 2845); 9 holotype, slide no. 778a, ® paratype, slide no. 778b. 


Female. — Head (Fig. 18) about as long as wide across the compound eyes; 
the short pubescence becomes longer towards the cheeks. Facial groove rather 
narrow. The cheek nearly one and a half times as long as the longitudinal diameter 
of a compound eye. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin trilobate, the lateral lobes not 
prominent. Mandible (Fig. 16) with 13 ventral ridges, its appendage with nine 
lamellae. Labium and maxillae (Fig. 14) with two long, apical hairs each. Antenna 
(Fig. 13) with eleven free segments, the last three of which are shaped so as to 
form a club; the scape twice as long as its maximum width, with a prominent 
ridge on the antiaxial disc, the dorsal and ventral margins hirsute; the pedicel 
short, with a few axial spines only; the third segment small, its appendage (Fig. 
12) wide and blunt, reaching halfway the fifth segment; the fourth segment 
small, with apical hairs; the fifth and sixth little longer than the fourth but 
distinctly wider, with apical hairs and one row of large, oblong sensilla; the seventh 
to ninth segments with more hairs, and with two rows of sensilla each (more 
regularly spaced at the axial side than at the antiaxial); the tenth segment shorter 
than the seventh to ninth, and about as long as the sixth although much wider, 
with one irregular row of oblong sensilla (forming two nearly complete rows at 
the axial side) and many circular pits; the ultimate segment shortest, with oblong 
sensilla and many blunt, sensillar hairs. The characters of the antenna appear to 
be rather variable in the present series. The club may consist of only two, sub- 
equal, distinct segments (numbers 9 and 10), and the number of sensilla may be 
larger, especially on the axial side. 

Thorax almost glabrous. Pronotum rather short; the dorsal disc with small hairs 
in the posterior corners, the lateral parts with more, longer hairs. Scutum some- 
what wider than long, subglabrous, some six short hairs occur along the postero- 
lateral margins only, the parapsides with some hairs; the scutellum as long as 
wide, with approximately 25 short hairs; the metanotum glabrous except for 
approximately seven lateral hairs towards each lateral margin. Propodeum not 
very long, with five hairs before, and many more, longer hairs behind the 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 169 


spiracular peritremata; some more, smaller hairs occur along the posterior margin. 
Wings with many microtrichae and few longer hairs. Fore wing (5 : 2), 2.0 mm 
long; the submarginal, marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins in ratio 
26 : 8 : 5 : 8, the submarginal and stigmal both with three pustules; the fringe 
rather short. Hind wing (7 : 2), 1.1 mm long; the fringe longer. Fore leg (Fig. 
15): the coxa half as long as the femur, with some hairs on the axial and anti- 
axial surfaces; the femur more than twice as long as the tibia including the dorsal 


DNS 


Fig. 12—20. Blastophaga (B.) errata spec. nov., female holotype. 12, antenna, detail in anti- 

axial view; 13, antenna, antiaxial aspect; 14, labium and maxillae, ventral aspect; 15, fore tibia 

and metatarsus, antiaxial aspect; 16, mandible, ventral aspect; 17, pygostyle, and outline of 

spiraculum of eighth urotergite; 18, head, frontal aspect (pubescence omitted); 19—20, hind 

tibia and metatarsus, 19, antiaxial aspect, 20, axial aspect. — Fig. 12, 250; 13—17, 
19—20, X 165; 18, X 65 


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armature, almost glabrous on the disc, with hairs along the dorsal and ventral 
margins and a patch of finer pubescence on the axial disc close to the ventral 
margin; the tibia with a comb of three dorsal teeth and one ventral, anti- 
axially with several long hairs near the ventral angle and a row of shorter hairs 
along the dorsal margin, axially with a tuft of heavy spines on the disc; the tarsal 
segments with a few antiaxial, apical spines, and many more axials (as figured 
for the hind leg, Fig. 19), the length ratio approximately as 8 : 2 : 3 : 3 : 8. 
Mid leg slender; the femur shorter than the tibia, hirsute along the dorsal and 
ventral margins; a few hairs on the posterior disc, the anterior disc subglabrous; 
the tibia almost straight, with scattered hairs and one ventral spine; the tarsal 
segments approximately in ratio 22 : 12 : 11 : 9 : 16, with hairs and apical spines. 
Hind leg (Fig. 19—20): the coxa a little smaller than the femur, with small axial 
spines, glabrous antiaxially; the femur hirsute along the ventral and dorsal margins, 
and with some smaller hairs on the dorsal part of the antiaxial disc; the tibia two- 
thirds of the length of the femur, with stout hairs along the dorsal margin and 
on the discs (some spine-like hairs on the axial disc are blunt, and differently 
shaped from the others), the apical edge bears a hyaline ridge at the dorsal side, 
and two teeth (the one simple, the other bidentate) at the ventral angle; the 
tarsus rather wide, with axial hairs and spines, antiaxial spines, and a ventral 
fringe on all segments, the length ratio approximately as 17 : 7 : 7 : 5 : 8. 

Gaster. The segments with long hairs, particularly along the caudal margins. 
Stigmata of the eighth urotergite (Fig. 17) circular; pygostyles with four apical 
hairs, one of which is short. The ovipositor and the valves are nearly one and a 
half times as long as the gaster. 

Length (head, thorax and gaster), 2.7 mm. Colour blackish brown, the an- 
tennae, distal segments of the legs (from the tibiae onwards), and the ventral 
surfaces lighter. 


Remark. — B. errata is immediately recognized from the other species of 
Blastophaga, e.g. by the head, in which the sclerotized parts are large, and the 
facial furrow narrow. 

The remarkable fact that the rather long series consists of females only, may 
be due to abnormal conditions in the presumably foreign, host species. 


Ceratosolen spec. near C. notus (Baker) 
(Fig. 21—30) 


Ceratosolen spec. (part.); Wiebes, 1965, Proc. XIIth Int. Congr. Ent., London 1964: 95 
(ex Ficus stupenda Miq., North Borneo, leg. E. J. H. Corner). 


Material. — 2 &, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 716; Sungei Liwagu, North Borneo, 
4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB no. 2845); 
4, slide no. 716a. 


Male. — Head (Fig. 23) one and a half times as long as its maximum width, 
with fine, scattered pubescence. Eyes absent. Epistomal margin trilobate, the 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 171 


Fig. 21—30. Ceratosolen spec. near C. notus (Baker), male. 21—22, hind leg, 21, antiaxial 

aspect (semidiagrammatical), 22, detail enlarged; 23, head and thorax, dorsal aspect 

(pubescence omitted); 24, head of second specimen, dorsal aspect (pubescence omitted); 

25, apex of mid tibia, and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 26, antenna, ventral aspect; 27, labium 

and maxilla, ventral aspect; 28, genital armature; 29, mandible, ventral aspect; 30, fore tibia 

and tarsus, antiaxial aspect. — Fig. 21, 23—24, X 65; 22, 25—26, 29—30, X 165; 
27—28, X 250 


median lobe wide, the lateral lobes more acute. Mandible (Fig. 29) bidentate. 
Maxilla (Fig. 27) not or scarcely expanded laterally, with two long hairs. 
Antennal grooves open, but not very long; this may be a variable character, as in 
the second specimen the grooves are relatively longer (Fig. 24). Antenna (Fig. 
26) five-segmented; the scape (2 : 1) twice as long as the pedicel (4 : 3), and 
much wider; the first and second flagellar segments as wide as the pedicel, the 
second of the same length (in ventral aspect; much shorter in dorsal view), the 
first half as long; the ultimate segment tapering distad, little more than twice as 
long as the pedicel; hairs as in the figure. 

Thorax (Fig. 23) glabrous. Pronotum approximately as long as wide posteriorly, 
narrower anteriorly; the mesonotum wide, its width nearly twice the length, with 
straight, slightly tapering, lateral edges; the metanotum straight, incompletely 
separate from the propodeum. Propodeum almost as long as its maximum width, 
the spiracular peritremata not very large, partly lateral in position. Fore leg 
(Fig. 30) rather slender, particularly the femur, which is more than twice the 
length of the tibia including the apical armature; the femur subglabrous; the tibia 


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with some long subapical hairs, four dorsal teeth (one of which is small), and 
three ventrals; the bimerous tarsus with four stout, axial hairs on the first segment, 
the segments approximately in ratio 7 : 6. Mid leg (Fig. 25): the coxa subequal 
in length to the femur; the tibia distinctly longer, slightly arcuate, with apical 
teeth, four of which are visible in posterior aspect; the tarsus pentamerous, oligo- 
merous in one of the legs of the first specimen (Fig. 25), the segments ap- 
proximately in ratio 5 : 3 : 2 : 2 : 8. Hind leg (Fig. 21) pubescent; the coxa with 
a dorsal hyaline ridge reaching half length, and heavy axial pubescence; the femur 
and tibia pubescent on the axial surfaces; the tibial armature (Fig. 22) inconspicu- 
ous, consisting of two antiaxial teeth, and one smaller, axial; the metatarsus nearly 
half as long as the tibia, the tarsal segments dilated and pubescent, their length 
ratio approximately as 10:7:7:6:8. 

Gaster. Claspers (Fig. 28) of the genitalia with three claws; parameres present. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.4 mm. Colour uniform yellowish brown. 


Remark. — In my key to the Indo-Australian species of Ceratosolen Mayr 
(WIEBES, 1963: 88—91), this Ceratosolen spec. runs to couplet 26, and appears 
to be rather close to C. notus (Baker). It differs in various characters, e.g. the 
pubescence of the head, the shape of the antennal grooves, the straight lateral 
edges of the maxillae; C. notus, moreover, is more robust and distinctly larger. 

The find of the males of Ceratosolen spec. in the sample from Ficus stupenda 
led me to the record of 1965 (WIEBES, 1965: 95—96), but on closer examination 
the females taken from the galls situated side by side with those of Blastophaga 
masti, appear to belong to Blastophaga errata. The two males of Ceratosolen were 
found in the tube of insects accompanying the entire figs from which I took 
Blastophaga masii, B. errata, Arachonia borneensis, etc.; 1 could not find any more 
specimens of Ceratosolen in the figs. 

More males and females of this Ceratosolen were collected by E. J. H. CORNER 
during the same expedition to Borneo, from figs of Ficus cf. nota (Blanco) Merr. 
(without number 2), at Kota Belud, North Borneo, 23.IX.1961; coll. Mus. Leiden, 
nos. 630, 632. I refrain from naming the form until I have studied the rich col- 
lection of insects from Ficus nota and its allies, made during a recent trip to the 
Philippine Islands. The alliance of Ceratosolen notus contains some closely related 
forms, the status of which should be reconsidered now that more material is 
available. 


SYCOPHAGINE TORYMIDAE FROM Ficus stupenda 
Sycoryctini 


Ovipositing organs of some of the female Sycoryctini from Ficus stupenda were 
figured by WIEBES (1966). In the same paper the Indo-Australian genera of the 
tribe were listed. A provisional key, mainly based on the criteria applied, though 
not explicitely stated, by JosEPH (1957), may show the characters used for the 
generic distinction of the females. 


2) CORNER (1962, in litt.) noted: “I am not sure that the Bornean plants are the same as 
the Philippine F. rota”. 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 173 


KEY TO SOME GENERA OF SYCORYCTINI 


1. Fore wing with a number of large hairs in the margino-stigmal a 2 
— Fore wing without such large hairs . 
2. Funicular segments of the antenna normal, Along connerie 
TU Sycoscapter Saunders 
= Pel ul segments af o antenna dilated ventrad, distinctly 


asymmetrical . SANTE CR en Arachonta Joseph 
3. Dorsal spine of the hind metatarsus er ons reaching beyond the second 
tarsal segment. . . . Sac Santen Mayr 


— Dorsal spine of the hind metatarsus Roe em the second tarsal segment 
Sycoscapteridea Ashmead 


The association of the males proves to be difficult. The assignment of the male 
Sycoryctini found in the present sample, is argumented under their respective 
specific headings. 


Arachonia borneensis spec. nov. 
(Fig. 31—42) 


Arachonia spec.; Wiebes, 1966, Zool. Meded. 41: 153, fig. 3 (eighth and base of ninth 
urotergites figured). 


Material. — 14 2, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 717; Sungei Liwagu, North Borneo, 
4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB no. 2845); 
9 holotype, slide no. 717a, 9 paratype, slide no. 717b. 


Female. — Head (Fig. 42) slightly shorter than wide across the compound 
eyes, rather depress in lateral view; moderately pubescent except for the lighter 
parts (indicated in the figure by a dotted line), which are glabrous. Face with a 
shallow, wide groove running from the antennal toruli to the median ocellus. Eyes 
large, but not much protruding; the longitudinal diameter more than twice as long 
as the cheek. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin with one prominent lobe. Mandible 
(Fig. 32—33) bidentate, with two glands; both the dorsal and ventral surfaces 
with many long hairs. Maxillary palp (Fig. 35) four-segmented, the segments 
approximately in ratio 6 : 8 : 4 : 9, the second and third bear one long seta each, 
the ultimate segment bears two long hairs. Labial palp unisegmented in the holo- 
type (Fig. 35), distinctly two-segmented in the paratype (Fig. 36); the chaetotaxy 
appears to be somewhat variable. Antenna (Fig. 41) with 12 free segments, the 
third and fourth of which are annuliform, the last three are shaped so as to form 
a club; the first four segments bear short hairs as in the figure, the fifth to twelfth 
with longer hairs; the scape four times as long as the pedicel, slightly flattened; 
the pedicel short, its maximum width not much less than its length (3 : 4); the 
first annulus slightly longer than the second; the third to fifth flagellar segments 
dilated ventrad, the sixth to tenth more symmetrical in outline; these segments 
gradually diminishing in size toward the tip of the antenna; each bears a rather 
regular row of 15 to 20 long sensilla. 

Thoracic terga with a reticulate sculpturation, as indicated in Fig. 39. Pronotum 
rather wide and long, moderately pubescent; scutum not much longer than the 


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pronotum, with approximately 12 dorsal hairs, the parapsidal furrows obsolete in 
the posterior two-thirds; the parapsides with five hairs; the scutellum (Fig. 39) 
wider than long (5 : 4), with 12 or 13 hairs; declining in the posterior part; the 
metanotum very short, but as wide as the propodeum. Propodeum with the usual 
longitudinal ridges mediad of the circular spiracular peritremata; the lateral parts 


Fig. 31—42. Arachonia borneensis spec. nov., female (holotype, unless otherwise indicated). 


31, apex of fore tibia, and metatarsus, axial aspect; 32—33, mandibles (paratype), 32, dorsal 
aspect of left mandible; 33, ventral aspect of right mandible; 34, apex of hind tibia, antiaxial 
aspect; 35, maxilla and labial palp, ventral aspect; 36, labial palp of paratype; 37, venation 
of left fore wing, detail; 38, stigmal vein of right fore wing; 39, scutellum (sculpturation 
only partly indicated); 40, end of ninth, and tenth abdominal segment, valves, and tip of 
ovipositor, dorsal aspect (slightly oblique); 41, antenna, axial aspect; 42, head, frontal aspect 
(pubescence for the greater part omitted). — Fig. 31—36, X 250; 37—38, X 165; 
39—41, X 100; 42, X 65 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 175 


declining; the margins not converging backwards, but almost parallel; next to the 
peritremata occur six very long hairs, the mid part with some small hairs in the 
postero-lateral corners. Fore wing (5 : 2), 2.0 mm long; the submarginal, 
marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins (Fig. 37) approximately in ratio 21 : 
4 : 4 : 7, the submarginal vein with one pustule, the stigmal with five (four in 
one row, and a fifth more distally, widely spaced from the others) or, at the 
other side of the same specimen, of a different shape (Fig. 38), with four 
pustules; the wing is almost hyaline, but with higher magnification appears to be 
covered by minute setae; seven very large hairs occur in the margino-stigmal angle; 
the distal two-thirds bear a short marginal fringe. Hind wing (4 : 1), 1.2 mm 
long; with small setae as in the fore wing, and some longer hairs along the 
marginal vein; three hamuli; the fringe of moderate length. Fore leg: the coxa 
more than twice as long as the trochanter, glabrous except for some long hairs 
at the axial side; the trochanter and femur with short hairs, particularly along the 
dorsal femoral margin; the femur three and a half times as long as the trochanter, 
approximately as long as the tibia; the tibia long-pubescent, with three spine-like, 
longer hairs at mid length on the ventral margin, the apical armature (Fig. 31) 
consisting of: one bifid, ventral spur, a large conical spine next to it but more 
apically and antiaxially, two long apical, peg-like spines, and four conical spines 
at the dorsal angle; the tarsus pentamerous, hirsute, fimbriated along the plantar 
edge, the first four segments with distal spines, the segments approximately in 
ratio 20 : 7 : 5 : 5 : 10. Mid leg slender, the coxa as long as the trochanter, but 
much wider; both segments with some long hairs; the femur almost thrice as long 
as the trochanter, sparsely long-pubescent; the tibia one and a half times as long 
as the femur, its long pubescence mixed with shorter hairs, the apex with some 
stouter, spine-like hairs, one short ventral spur and an accompanying blunt spine; 
the tarsus pentamerous, hirsute, the segments approximately in ratio 10 : 3 : 2 : 
1 : 3, except for the fifth which bears a pair of spines at mid length, with distal 
spines. Hind leg: the coxa as long as the femur, the trochanter approximately 
one-quarter of this length, the tibia much longer than the femur (3 : 2); the coxa 
bears very long hairs at the dorso-apical edge, and particularly along the ventro- 
apical margin; the trochanter has some short hairs; the femur bears hairs along 
the dorsal margin, at the dorsal part of the disc, and some stouter hairs along the 
ventral margin; the tibia has a rather long pubescence, particularly dorsally, where 
spine-like hairs occur in two rows; the tibial armature (Fig. 34) consists of two 
subapical, ventral spurs, three antiaxial spines (two dorsals and one ventral), and 
many stout hairs along the axial, apical edge; the tarsal segments with hairs, a 
plantar fringe, and short apical spines, the lengths approximately in ratio 
DONS HS DA ED: 

Gaster ovoid in general shape, but tapering towards the apex; the terga with 
scattered hairs, the sterna with more, longer hairs; the spiracular peritremata of 
the eighth urotergite small. The ninth urotergite is very long, forming a setiferous 
sheath over the ovipositor; the tip (Fig. 40) is slightly swollen; between the end 
of the ninth urotergite and the short protruding valvae, a small hyaline lobe is 
visible, presumably representing the tenth urotergite; pygostyles are wanting. The 
ninth urotergite and the small protruding valvae combined, are approximately 


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four times as long as the apparent gaster (abdominal segments II-VIII). 

Length (head and body up to and including the eighth abdominal segment), 
2.5—2.7 mm. Colour dark brown, the dorsal parts with a green, shiny lustre, part 
of the face and the distal segments of the legs lighter. 


Remark. — The new species is evidently related to Arachonia plumosa Joseph 
(1957 : 107—110, Fig. V 4—9, VI, VII 1—7), but it differs in the shape and 
number of the antennal sensilla and hairs (both much sparser in A. plumosa), 
in the armature of the fore tibia (less spines in A. plumosa), in the shape of the 
propodeum (the lateral margins converging backwards in A. plumosa), to mention 
some of the most obvious differential characters only. 


Sycoryctes hilli spec. nov. 
(Fig. 43—59) 
Sycoryctes spec.; Wiebes, 1966, Zool. Meded. 41: 153, fig. 1 (apex of gaster figured). 
Material. — 3 9, 3 &, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 720; Sungei Liwagu, North 
Borneo, 4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB 
no. 2845); @ holotype, slide 720a; ¢, slide no. 720b. 


N IN 50 SI 


Fig. 43—51. Sycoryctes hilli spec. nov., female holotype. 43, labium and maxilla, ventral 

aspect; 44, mandible, dorsal aspect; 45, end of ninth abdominal segment, valve, and ovipositor, 

lateral aspect; 46, antenna, antiaxial aspect (scape omitted); 47, head, frontal aspect 

(pubescence partly omitted); 48—49, apex of fore tibia, and base of metatarsus, 48, axial 

aspect, 49, antiaxial aspect; 50, apex of hind tibia, antiaxial aspect; 51, scutellum. — 
Fig. 43—44, 46, 50, X 165; 45, 51, X 100; 47, X 65; 48—49, X 250 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 177 


Female. — Head (Fig. 47) transverse, the length slightly more than two-thirds 
of the width across the compound eyes; the face moderately pubescent, particularly 
in the lower half, shallowly grooved between the antennal toruli and the median 
ocellus; the sculpturation reticulate. Eyes large and protruding, their longitudinal 
diameter more than twice as long as the cheek. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin 
with a distinct median lobe. Mandible (Fig. 44) bidentate. Maxillary palp (Fig. 
43) four-segmented, the segments approximately in ratio 3 : 10 : 3 : 18, with 
hairs as in the figure. Labial palp (Fig. 43) consisting of two subequal segments. 
Antenna (Fig. 46) with its scape and pedicel reticulately sculpturated; the scape 
five times as long as the pedicel, with scattered hairs; the third and fourth seg- 
ments annuliform; the fifth to twelfth each with one regular row of long sensilla, 
all segments with long hairs; the fifth segment sub-globular, the sixth to tenth 
slightly longer, the eleventh and twelfth shorter; the last three segments shaped 
so as to form a club. 

Thorax with heavy reticulate sculpturation, and scattered hairs. Pronotum 
transverse, approximately thrice as wide as long; scutum twice as wide as its 
maximum length, the parapsidal furrows obsolete in the posterior two-thirds; the 
scutellum (Fig. 51) transverse, with scattered hairs; the metanotum with one 
hair on both lateral parts. Propodeum rather short, with longitudinal ridges 
mediad of the subcircular spiracular peritremata, and with many long hairs next 
to and behind the peritremata. Fore wing (5 : 2), 2.1 mm long; the submarginal, 
marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins approximately in ratio 7 : 4 : 2 : 6, the 
submarginal vein with two pustules, the stigmal with four; the wing almost 
hyaline, the fringe short. Hind wing (7 : 2), 1.1 mm long; three hamuli; the 
fringe longer. Fore leg (Fig. 48—49) moderately pubescent, the sculpturation of 
the coxa up to and including the tibia reticulate; the coxa more than twice as long 
as the trochanter, and approximately half as long as the femur; the tibia as long 
as the femur, its apical armature consisting of one ventral spur accompanied by a 
large conical spine and three more slender spines at the axial side, five conical 
spines at the dorso-apical angle; the tarsus pentamerous, with the usual hairs and 
spines (the dorsal metatarsal spine rather long), the segments approximately in 
ratio 13 : 6 : 5 : 3 : 12. Mid leg with faint reticulate sculpturation, with scattered 
hairs; the tibia one and a half times as long as the femur, its apical armature 
consisting of one rather long, ventral spur and five conical spines, one of which 
is situated close to the spur; the five tarsal segments approximately in ratio 
10 :5:4:2 : 4, with apical spines and scattered hairs. Hind leg (Fig. 50) much 
as in Arachonia borneensis; the tibia with a row of spines along the distal half 
of the dorsal margin and the distal third of the ventral, the apical armature 
consisting of two antiaxial, conical spines close to the ventral spurs, and one at 
the dorsal angle; the tarsus pubescent, with ventral and dorso-apical spines, the 
axial dorso-apical spines of the metatarsus and of the second segment almost reach 
to the distal end of the third and fourth segments, respectively; the tarsal segments 
approximately in ratio 25 : 9 : 4 : 3 : 10. 

Gaster. The tubularly lengthened, ninth urotergite nearly four times as long as 
the body; pygostyles wanting. Apex of ninth urotergite, valve, and ovipositor, 
Fig. 45. 


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Length (head, and body up to and including the eighth abdominal segment), 
2.4 mm. Colour of the dorsal parts dark brown, with a greenish hue; ventral parts 
and the legs lighter, yellow-brown. 


Male. — Head (Fig. 52) slightly longer than its posterior width, one and a 
half times as long as its anterior width; finely pubescent. Compound eyes small, 
no ocelli. Epistomal margin nearly straight, with two long hairs. Mandible (Fig. 
58) tridentate, the outer tooth acute, the inner truncate (more distinctly so in 
dorsal than in ventral aspect); one gland serves the two inner teeth; pubescence 
long but sparse. Maxillary palp (Fig. 53) four-segmented, the segments ap- 
proximately in ratio 7 : 7 : 6 : 10. Labial palp (Fig. 53) two-segmented, the 
second segment one and a half times as long as the first. Antennal toruli large, 
situated close to the epistomal margin, not touching in the mid line. Antenna 
(Fig. 54) consisting of 13 free segments, three of which are annuliform, the last 
three segments form a club; the scape widening distad, not quite thrice as long 


Fig. 52—59. Sycoryctes hilli spec. nov., male. 52, head and thorax, dorsal aspect (pubescence 

omitted); 53, labium and maxillae, ventral aspect; 54, antenna, dorsal aspect; 55, fore tibia 

and tarsus, axial aspect; 56, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 57, hind tibia and tarsus, 

antiaxial aspect; 58, mandible, ventral aspect; 59, genitalia, ventral aspect. — Fig. 52, X 
100; 53, 58—59, X250; 54—57, X 165 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 179 


as the pedicel; the pedicel robust; the funicular segments subequal, with rows of 
hairs, and lateral sensilla; the ultimate and penultimate segments of the club sub- 
equal in length, with sensilla, the basal club-segment half as long, without sensilla. 

Thorax (Fig. 52) with scattered small hairs. Pronotum longer than wide (5 : 4), 
with straight lateral edges; the mesonotum of a complicate structure, with lobes 
and ridges, some hyaline protuberances between the lateral lobes probably 
represent the wing-remnants 3); the metanotum visible from above as two narrow 
sclerites laterad of the posterior quarter of the mesonotum and the anterior third 
of the propodeum. Propodeum large, about one and a half times as wide as long, 
with two dorsal, subcircular peritremata of the spiracles, and two sublateral 
longitudinal ridges set with a row of moderately long hairs. Fore leg (Fig. 55) 
sparsely pubescent; some of the hairs, particularly those of the coxa, strong and 
spine-like; the coxa as long as the femur, but much wider; the tibia two-thirds 
of the length of the femur, its apical armature consisting of five conical spines 
close to the ventral spur, one axial slender spine close to the dorsal angle, and 
one conical spine at the antiaxial side of the dorsal angle; the five tarsal segments 
approximately in ratio 7 : 5 : 4 : 3 : 15, the first two segments with robust ventral 
and lateral spines, the first three with plantar protuberances. Mid leg (Fig. 56) 
more robust than the fore leg, the tibia distinctly longer than the femur, with a 
long spur and a number of conical spines on the ventro-apical part of the disc, 
most of which can be seen in antiaxial view, and more slender spines along the 
apical third of the dorsal margin; the five tarsal segments approximately in ratio 
23 :9 : 6 : 4 : 23, the first two segments with ventral spines. Hind leg (Fig. 57) 
much like the mid leg, but larger, and the coxa much longer; the tibia with a 
similar set of spines close to the ventral spurs, but with many more dorsal spines, 
some of which are long and slender; the five tarsal segments approximately in 
ratio 23 : 7 : 5 : 3 : 10, the metatarsus with many ventral spines, the second 
segment with only two apical, conical spines. 

Gaster. The first segment (second abdominal segment; Fig. 52) has the shape 
of a petiole. Genitalia, Fig. 59; the claspers with four claws, the parameres with 
two hairs. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.0 mm. Colour yellow-brown. 


Remark. — The type species of the genus Sycoryctes Mayr needs to be re- 
described, so it seems best to compare the new species with one of the better 
known species of the genus. 

The female has two antennal ring-segments, versus one in S. trifemmensis 
Joseph (1957 : 110—113, Fig. VIII), there are more spines along the apical 
margin of the fore tibia, the hind tibia bears spines along the dorsal and ventral 
margins, which appear to be lacking in S. irzfemmensis. 

The male is distinct from any of the species described in Sycoryctes, both in its 
general shape and in the structure of the antenna. I place it here, because in 
another sample of fig wasps I found a similar male associated with a female 


3) The material is too poor for a more extensive description. 


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apparently belonging to Sycoryctes. Moreover, the longitudinal ridges of the 
propodeum are also found in the other species of Sycoryctes. 

It is a pleasure to name the new species to D. S. Hitt M.Sc., Commonwealth 
Institute of Entomology, London, who studies the fig wasp fauna of Hong Kong. 


Sycoscapter reticulatus spec. nov. 
(Fig. 60—90) 


Material. — 4 9, 5 & (and 3 giant males), coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 718; 
Sungei Liwagu, North Borneo, 4000 ft, ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. 
E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB no. 2845); 9 holotype, slide no. 718a, 9 paratype, 
slide no. 718b; &, slide no. 718c; &, giant form, slide no. 718d. 


Fig. 60—68. Sycoscapter reticulatus spec. nov., female holotype. 60, head, frontal aspect 
(pubescence omitted); 61—62, apex of hind tibia, 61, antiaxial aspect, 62, axial aspect; 
63, maxillary palp, ventral aspect; 64, labial palp, ventral aspect; 65, antenna, antiaxial 
aspect; 66—67, apex of fore tibia and base of metatarsus, 66, antiaxial aspect, 67, axial aspect; 
68, scutellum, part of metanotum, propodeum, and first gastral segment, dorsal aspect 
(pubescence partly omitted). — Fig. 60, X 65; 61—64, 66—67, X 250; 65, 68, X 100 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 181 


Female. — Head (Fig. 60) little shorter than wide across the compound eyes, 
with a narrow ridge reaching from the epistomal margin to more than halfway 
between the antennal toruli and the median ocellus; pubescence of the face short 
and scattered, longer and denser along the ridge below the toruli. Sculpturation 
reticulate. Eyes small, the longitudinal diameter about as long as the cheek; not 
bulging. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin with a distinct median, triangular lobe. 
Mandible bidentate, the second tooth truncate; with some hairs on the dorsal disc. 
Maxillary palp (Fig. 63) four-segmented, with ventral hairs as in the figure, and 
more hairs on the dorsal surface of the first and second segments; the segments 
approximately in ratio 14 : 11 : 12 : 20. Labial palp (Fig. 64) two-segmented, 
the proximal segment one and a half times as long as the distal. Antenna (Fig. 
65) rather compact; the scape four times as long as pedicel; the third and fourth 
segments annuliform; the fifth to ninth subequal, with long hairs and a regular 
row of about fifteen long sensilla; the tenth to twelfth shaped so as to form a 
club. 

Thorax with heavy reticulate sculpturation, pubescence short and scattered. 
Pronotum transverse, more than twice as wide as long; scutum not quite twice as 
wide as its median length, the parapsidal furrows obsolete for the posterior two- 
thirds; the scutellum (Fig. 68) subpentagonal. Propodeum with longitudinal 
ridges mediad of the spiracular peritremata, and along the lateral margins, with a 
few hairs next to the peritremata. Fore wing (5 : 2), 2.0 mm long; the sub- 
marginal, marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins approximately in ratio 13 : 
7 : 5 : 12, the submarginal vein with two pustules, the stigmal with four; the 
membrane almost hyaline; with about ten long hairs in the margino-stigmal angle; 
the fringe short. Hind wing (4 : 1), 1.5 mm long; three hamuli; the fringe longer 
than that of the fore wing. Fore leg with reticulate sculpturation; the coxa longi- 
tudinally striate; the femur one and a half times as long as the coxa, four times 
as long as the trochanter, and slightly longer than the tibia; these segments 
moderately pubescent; the apical armature of the tibia (Fig. 66—67) consisting 
of a ventral spur accompanied by one antiaxial and two axial spines (the one 
large and robust, the other slender), two slender spines along the antiaxial, distal 
margin, and five robust spines at the dorsal angle; the tarsal segments ap- 
proximately in ratio 15 : 8 : 6 : 4 : 7. Mid leg rather pubescent; the tibia one 
and a half times as long as the femur, its ventral spur of normal length, accom- 
panied by one short, conical spine, one other spine occurs at the posterior, dorsal 
angle; the tarsal segments approximately in ratio 12 : 6 : 4 : 3 : 8. Hind leg 
with the coxa nearly as long as the femur; the trochanter not half as long; the 
tibia (Fig. 61—62), nearly one and a half times as long as the femur, with scat- 
tered hairs and approximately 13 spines in two rows along the distal two-thirds 
of the dorsal margin, heavily hirsute and spinose towards the axial apex, with 
several conical spines at the dorsal angle, and a large spine close to the ventral 
spurs at the antiaxial side; the metatarsus with longitudinal rows of hairs, the 
apical spine not particularly long, the tarsal segments approximately in ratio 
MONTEREN GS 

Gaster. The ninth urotergite tubular, more than thrice as long as the body, six 
times the length of the apparent gaster. Pygostyles wanting. 


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Length (head and body up to and including the eighth segment), 2.5 mm. 
Colour blackish bronze, the antennal scape and pedicel, and the legs yellowish, 
the coxae darker, the antennal flagellum as dark as the body. 


Male. — Head (Fig. 75, 78) one and one-quarter longer than wide, depress, 
or, in a larger form (Fig. 79) approximately as long as wide and less depress. 
Pubescence short and scattered; in the larger form some longer hairs occur on the 
dorsal disc close to the occipital margin. Compound eyes of moderate size, no 
ocelli. Epistomal margin widely emarginate to nearly straight. Mandible (Fig. 71) 
robust, blunt at tip; with two glands. Maxillary palp (Fig. 74) four-segmented, 
the segments approximately in ratio 2 : 3 : 1 : 3, with long hairs. Labial palp 
(Fig. 70) consisting of two subequal segments. Antennal toruli spaced from each 
other and from the epistomal margin for a distance about equal to their width. 
Antenna (Fig. 69) consisting of eleven free segments, one of which is annuli- 
form, the last three shaped so as to form a club; the scape two and a half times as 
long as its maximum width, slightly dilated, twice as long as the pedicel; the first 
funicular segment when viewed from above, distinctly wider than the second or 
third, and twice as long, the fourth larger than the third, the fifth as long as the 
third; the first segment of the club as long as the other two combined. The 
flagellar segments have transverse rows of hairs, and some bear sensilla, not all of 
which are visible from above (cf. Fig. 69, dotted lines). 

Thorax with some long hairs (often abraded) as in Fig. 90, otherwise sub- 
glabrous. Pronotum wider than long, not tapering frontad; the sclerite representing 
mesonotum and propodeum narrower and shorter; the lateral parts, presumably 
representing the metanotum, distinctly separate, the posterior margins subhyaline; 
the spiracular peritremata of the propodeum small, subcircular. Wing remnant, 
Fig. 90. The legs are rather short and robust, the coxae large, bearing some long 
antiaxial hairs close to the insertion of the trochanter (hind leg), and a short, 
scattered axial pubescence; the femora with scattered, moderately long hairs, 
particularly along the margins. Fore tibia (Fig. 72) expanded distad, the apical 
armature consisting of the blunt ventral spur, a row of peg-like spines along the 
distal margin (three axial spines are more slender than the others), and one sub- 
apical spine at the dorsal angle; the pubescence is rather long and scattered; the 
tarsus pentamerous, the segments approximately in ratio 8 : 4 : 3 : 2 : 11. Mid 
tibia (Fig. 73) quite similar to that of the fore leg in general shape, though it is 
larger, and the armature of peg-like spines extends along the dorsal margin; the 
tarsus pentamerous, the segments approximately in ratio 7 : 5 : 4 : 3 : 16. Hind 
tibia (Fig. 76) much like the mid tibia, but larger and more slender, the spines 
are longer, most of the axial distal spines (three of which are visible in the figure, 
between the metatarsus and the spur) slender, although distinctly blunt at tip; the 
segments of the pentamerous tarsus approximately in ratio 5 :3:2:2:9. 

Gaster. The parameres of the genitalia with two subapical hairs; the claspers 
(Fig. 77) with six claws. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.0—1.3 mm. Colour yellow-brown. 


Remark. — Sycoscapter reticulatus spec. nc. is eviaently reiated to S. insgnis 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 183 


Saunders, the female of which was described by JOSEPH (1953 : 77—81, Fig. 
73—86) as Indothymus crenulatus. It differs in some important characters, viz. 
the female is much larger and more robust, and the reticulate sculpturation is 
heavier; the median process of the epistomal margin is less prominent (the dif- 
ference between S. insignis and S. reticulatus seems to be of the same magnitude 
as that between Sycoscapter inubiae (Ishii) and S. gajimaru (Ishii), respectively; 
cf. IsHu, 1934: PI. 1 fig. 12 and 20); there are more sensilla on the antennal 
segments, and they are more regularly placed; there are more apical spines on the 
fore tibia, particularly at the dorsal angle; there are about one and a half times 


Fig. 69—79. Sycoscapter reticulatus spec. nov., male. 69, epistomal margin, and antenna, 

dorsal aspect; 70, labial palp, ventral aspect; 71, mandible, dorsal aspect; 72, fore tibia and 

tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 73, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 74, maxillary palp, ventral 

aspect; 75, head and thorax, dorsal aspect (pubescence omitted); 76, hind tibia and tarsus, 

antiaxial aspect; 77, clasper of the genitalia; 78—79, outline of head of two different males. 

— Fig. 80. Sycoscapter ? reticulatus, outline of male head. — Fig. 69, 71—73, 75, X 165; 
70, 74, 77, X 250; 78—80, X 65 


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Fig. 81—89. Sycoscapter ? reticulatus, giant male. 81, hind tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 

82, fore tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 83, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 84, 

mandible, ventral aspect; 85, maxillary palp, ventral aspect; 86, labial palp, ventral aspect; 

87, head and thorax, dorsal aspect (pubescence partly omitted); 88, antenna, dorsal aspect; 

89, genitalia, lateral aspect. — Fig. 90. Sycoscapter reticulatus spec. nov., male, detail of 

thorax, for comparison with Fig. 87. — Fig. 81—83, X 100; 84—86, 88, 90, X 165; 
87, X 65; 89, X 250 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 185 


as many spines along the dorsal margin of the hind tibia, and the spines are larger; 
the ninth urotergite is relatively longer in S. reticulatus than in S. insignis. 

Although the male shows several differential characters, e.g. in the shape and 
structure of the wing remnants (which are more filament-like in other species of 
Sycoscapter), I am confident that it belongs here. The larger male alluded to in 
the description differs in size and in the shape of the head (cf. Fig. 78—79), but 
it is otherwise essentially similar, and evidently conspecific. 

Another male, of unknown relationship, is described below. In presumably 
essential characters, it is similar to the males described above, and it may be a 
giant form of S. reticulatus. It is, however, aberrant in shape and to a less degree, 
in the spines of the legs and the genitalia, so as to make the specific identification 
uncertain. 


Male, giant form (Fig. 80—89). — Head (Fig. 80, 87) large and robust, 
slightly wider than long. Compound eyes rather large, no ocelli. Epistomal margin 
shallowly emarginate, the median part indistinctly invaginated. Mandible (Fig. 84) 
short and robust, with two glands. Maxillary palp (Fig. 85) four-segmented, the 
segments approximately in ratio 8 : 10 : 4 : 9, with many long hairs, particularly 
on the dorsal discs of the first and second segments. Labial palp (Fig. 86) two- 
segmented, the first segment about twice as long as the second. Antennal toruli 
half closed when viewed from above, situated close together but widely spaced 
from the epistomal margin. Antenna (Fig. 88) much like that of the male 
described above, but the third funicular segment larger; the sensilla indistinct. 

Thorax (Fig. 87) distinct from that of the smaller males by its shape: the 
pronotum tapering in front, its maximum width nearly one and a half times the 
length; the lateral sclerites (presumably representing the metanotum) rather small, 
and less elongate than in the other males. Wing remnant large, pubescent. Fore 
leg (Fig. 82) essentially similar to that of the male described above; the tarsal 
segments approximately in ratio 15 : 10 : 9 : 8 : 40. Mid leg (Fig. 83): the 
tibia has more antiaxial spines at the ventral angle, and the distal row of peg-like 
spines is less complete; the tarsal segments approximately in ratio 10 : 5 : 5: 
4 : 24. Hind leg (Fig. 81): the apical armature of the tibia is reduced, the distal 
row consisting of a few scattered peg-like spines only; the tarsal segments ap- 
proximately in ratio 3 : 2 : 1 : 1 : 8. 

Gaster. Genitalia, Fig. 89; the claspers bear three claws. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.8 mm. Colour dark brown, the gastral tergites 
and sternites sclerotized, and distinctly darker than the connecting membranes. 


Sycoscapteridea stilifera spec. nov. 
(Fig. 91—102) 


Material. — 2 2, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 719; Sungei Liwagu, North Borneo, 
4000 ft., ex Ficus stupenda Mig. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB no. 2845); 
2 holotype, slide no. 719a. 


Female. — Head (Fig. 99) distinctly shorter than wide across the compound 


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Fig. 91—102. Sycoscapteridea stilifera spec. nov., female holotype. 91—92, apex of fore tibia, 
and metatarsus, 91, axial aspect, 92, detail in antiaxial view; 93—94, apex of hind tibia, 
93, antiaxial aspect; 94, detail in axial view; 95, maxillary palp, ventral aspect; 96, labial 
palp, ventral aspect; 97, end of ninth abdominal segment, lateral aspect; 98, antenna, antiaxial 
aspect; 99, head, frontal aspect (pubescence omitted); 100, scutellum (sculpturation only 
partly indicated); 101, scutum, pronotum and head, lateral aspect (semidiagrammatical) ; 
102, mandible, dorsal aspect. — Fig. 91—96, 102, X 250; 97—98, X 165; 99, 101, 
X 65; 100, X 100 


eyes, rather robust in lateral view (Fig. 101). Face moderately pubescent, 
sculpturation reticulate, a shallow groove runs from the median ocellus to the 
antennal toruli. Eyes large and slightly protruding, the longitudinal diameter twice 
as long as the cheek. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin only very faintly bilobed. 
Mandible (Fig. 102) bidentate, although the second tooth is again bilobed; with 
two glands; dorsal surface with hairs, ventral surface almost glabrous. Maxillary 
palp (Fig. 95) four-segmented, the segments approximately in ratio 4:6 : 7 : 14; 
the ultimate segment with about ten hairs. Labial palp (Fig. 96) two-segmented, 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 187 


the second segment twice as long as the first, with five hairs. Antenna (Fig. 98) 
consisting of 13 segments, three of which are annuliform, the last three shaped 
so as to form a club; the scape and the pedicel hirsute, the scape more than twice 
as long as the pedicel; the ring-segments each with a row of hairs; the funicular 
segments subequal in length, with hairs and irregular rows of long sensilla; the 
segments of the club diminishing in size toward the tip, otherwise similar to those 
of the funicle. 

Thorax almost glabrous, with reticulate sculpturation as indicated in Fig. 100. 
Pronotum (Fig. 101) wide and very long, about as long as the head; the scutum 
almost half as long as the pronotum, with two long black hairs on the parapsides 
(as on the axillae), the parapsidal furrows more nearly complete than in any of 
the other Sycoryctini described in this paper, but obsolete in the posterior fifth; 
scutellum (Fig. 100) more angular than in Arachonia borneensis, but almost of 
the same size and structure, more like Sycoryctes Ailli in general outline but 
distinctly smaller; metanotum short, narrower than the propodeum. Propodeum 
rather long, with the usual ridges, and with long hairs posterior to the spiracular 
peritremata and along the lateral margins. Fore wing (5 : 2), 2.2 mm long; the 
submarginal, marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins approximately in ratio 
16 : 18 : 7 : 18, the submarginal vein with two pustules, the stigmal with four in 
one row; the membrane moderately pubescent; the fringe of moderate length. 
Hind wing (3 : 1) rather broad, 1.2 mm long; the fringe long. Fore leg moderately 
pubescent on the antiaxial surfaces, subglabrous on the axial; with reticulate 
sculpturation; the coxa more than thrice as long as the trochanter, not much 
shorter than the femur; the tibia straight, its apical armature (Fig. 91—-92) 
consisting of two axial, dorsal, conical spines, one antiaxial, dorsal spine, and 
three peg-like spines close to the ventral spur, moreover, the dorso-apical angle is 
distinctly produced; the tarsus pentamerous, fimbriate along the plantar edge, 
hirsute, and provided with the usual spines, the segments approximately in ratio 
7: 4:2 : 3 : 9. Mid leg slender, hirsute; the tibia distinctly longer than the 
femur, its ventral spur normal, longer than that in Arachonia borneensis; the 
tarsal segments approximately in ratio 14 : 6 : 4 : 2 : 3. Hind leg moderately 
hirsute; the coxa about as long as the femur, the tibia slightly longer; the apical 
armature of the tibia (Fig. 93—94) consists of peg-like spines along the anti- 
axial distal margin, two ventral spurs (the one not nearly twice as long as the 
other), a row of spine-like hairs along the axial margin (Fig. 94), and two conical 
spines at the dorso-apical angle, the dorsal margin with a row of peg-like spines; 
the tarsus pentamerous, the segments approximately in ratio 20 : 11 : 8 : 3 : 6, 
the apical spines short. 

Gaster. The ninth urotergite is more than three times as long as the body, the 
tip bears small pygostyles (Fig. 97). 

Length (head and body up to and including the eighth abdominal segment), 
2.8 mm. Colour almost uniform yellowish brown. 


Remark. — This species differs from the species previously described in the 
genus Sycoscapteridea Ashmead, by several characters, some of which may be 
enumerated as follows. The antennal toruli are situated rather close to the epistomal 


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margin; there are three antennal ring-segments (versus one in the other species) ; 
the pronotum is particularly long; the ninth urotergite bears pygostyles. As JOSEPH 
(1953, 1957), in his descriptions of several species of Sycoscapteridea, evidently 
did not recognize the true morphological character of the “tail” of these insects, 
the pygostyles may have escaped his attention. 

The type species of the genus Sycoscapteridea Ashmead, viz. S yeoscapier mont- 
lifer Westwood, is known in the male sex only. 


Otitesellini 


Grandiana corneliae spec. nov. 
(Fig. 103—121) 


Material. — 14 9,2 &, coll. Mus. Leiden, no. 784; Sungei Liwagu, North 
Borneo, 4000 ft, ex Ficus stupenda Miq. (leg. et det. E. J. H. CORNER, RSNB 
no. 2845); 4 holotype, slide no. 784a, 2 allotype, slide no. 784b. 


Male. — Head (Fig. 103, 105) strongly transverse, approximately twice as 
wide as long, depress. Compound eyes rather large, no ocelli. Epistomal margin 
with a prominent median lobe directed ventrad; hypostomal margin, Fig. 104. 
Mandible (Fig. 107) tridentate, with three glands; the outer tooth long and acute, 
the two other almost truncate, directed towards the orifice. Maxillary palp (Fig. 
106) two-segmented, the segments subequal in length, partly fused; labial palp 
(Fig. 106) unisegmented; hairs and spines as in the figure. Antennal toruli almost 
lateral in position. Antenna (Fig. 110) consisting of ten free segments, two of 
which are annuliform; the scape large, slightly dilated, the apical dorsal ridge 
subhyaline, covering a groove for the reception of the pedicel; the pedicel nearly 
half as long as the scape; the funicular segments subequal in shape, the first 
largest, the fourth smallest, all with one antiaxial sensillum and with small hairs 
along the distal margins; the club as long as the pedicel, evidently composed of 
three fused segments, with a few sensilla and sensillar hairs. 

Thorax, Fig. 103. Terga shaped so as to form a carapace; the pronotum more 
than twice as wide as long; the mesonotum and metanotum fused, incompletely 
separated from the propodeum; the spiracular peritremata subcircular. Fore wing 
reduced, hind wing absent. Legs short and robust; the coxae transverse; the femora 
slightly expanded dorsad, also ventrad in the mid and hind legs; the tibiae with a 
great number of antiaxial, conical spines and long hairs, the axial surfaces flat and 
subglabrous; the tarsi tetramerous, long pubescent. Fore tibia and tarsus, Fig. 111; 
there is a distinct ventral spur; the tarsal segments approximately in ratio 
2:1:1 : 2. Mid tibia and tarsus, Fig. 109; the tarsal segments approximately in 
ratio 8 : 4 : 3 : 10. Hind tibia and tarsus, Fig. 112; the tarsal segments ap- 
proximately in ratio 10 : 5 : 4 : 13. 

Gaster short. Genitalia (Fig. 108) with three pairs of appendages, viz. the 
parameres with two long, apical hairs, the inner lobes with one hair, and the 
claspers with four claws. 

Length (head and thorax), 1.2 mm (paratype) to 1.5 mm (holotype). Colour 
yellowish brown, the legs (particularly the tibial spines) darker. 


J. T. WieBEs: Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 189 


Fig. 103—112. Grandiana corneliae spec. nov., male holotype. 103, head and thorax, dorsal 

aspect (pubescence omitted); 104, hypostomal margin, ventral aspect; 105, head, dorsal aspect 

(pubescence omitted); 106, labium and maxillae, ventral aspect; 107, mandible, ventral 

aspect; 108, penis and genital armature, ventral aspect; 109, mid tibia and tarsus, antiaxial 

aspect; 110, antenna, dorsal aspect; 111, fore tibia and tarsus, antiaxial aspect; 112, hind tibia 

and tarsus, antiaxial aspect. — Fig. 103, X 40; 104—105, X 65; 106—107, X 165; 
108, X 250; 109—112, X 100 


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Female. — Head (Fig. 117) little more than half as long as wide across the 
compound eyes, rather depress in lateral aspect. Face finely striate, with fine 
pubescence. Eyes large and bulging, the longitudinal diameter more than twice as 
long as the cheek. Three ocelli. Epistomal margin with two rounded, prominent 
lobes. Mandible (Fig. 119) tridentate, with three glands. Maxillary palp (Fig. 
113) four-segmented, the segments approximately in ratio 2 : 3 : 2 : 5. Labial 
palp (Fig. 113) two-segmented, the second segment one and a half times as long 
as the first. Antennal toruli rather widely spaced. Antenna (Fig. 116) consisting 
of 13 free segments, three of which are annuliform, the last three shaped so as 
to form a club; the scape slender, almost four times as long as the pedicel; the 
first two annuli subequal, the third distinctly wider and longer; the funicular 
segments subequal, long-pubescent so as to almost obscure the narrow sensilla, 
each segment with a row of approximately 15 sensilla in the distal half; the seg- 
ments of the club slightly shorter than those of the funicle, similar in pubescence 
and in the pattern of the sensilla. 

Thorax with reticulate sculpturation and sparse, short pubescence. Pronotum 
transverse, short but distinctly visible in dorsal aspect; the scutum twice as long 
as wide posteriorly, the maximum width equal to the length, the parapsidal fur- 
rows complete; the scutellum subpentagonal, with rounded edges, the maximum 
length three-quarters of the maximum width; the metanotum very short. Propo- 
deum short in the median part, dilated laterad, with two distinct ridges mediad of 
the subcircular spiracular peritremata, laterally with many, rather long hairs. 
Wings, Fig. 118. Fore wing more than twice as long as wide, 2.7 mm long; the 
submarginal, marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins approximately in ratio 
20 : 10 : 5 : 4, the stigmal vein with four pustules in one row; the membrane 
finely pubescent in the distal two-thirds, some darker patches occur in the proximal 
third; the fringe short but distinct. Hind wing (4 : 1), 2.0 mm long; the fringe 
longer. Fore leg sparsely hirsute, the coxa nearly thrice as long as the trochanter, 
four-fifths of the length of the femur, and as long as the tibia; the tibial armature 
(Fig. 114—115) consisting of a long, ventral spur accompanied by some antiaxial 
spines, two conical spines at the dorsal angle, and a row of four peg-like spines 
along the axial, distal margin; the tarsus pentamerous, the segments approximately 
in ratio 10 : 5 : 4 : 4 : 8, the first two segments with a plantar protuberance 
between the distal spines. Mid leg long and slender, moderately long-pubescent; 
the tibia longer than femur and coxa combined, with some spine-like hairs 
next to the ventral spur; the tarsus pentamerous, the segments approximately in 
ratio 13 : 6 : 4 : 3 : 5. Hind leg long-pubescent; the coxa, femur and tibia sub- 
equal in length; the tibial armature (Fig. 120) consisting of two ventral spurs 
(the one twice as long as the other), two spines at the ventral angle, three conical 
spines along the antiaxial, distal margin, a comb of axial, peg-like spines, and a 
row of about eight spines along the distal half of the dorsal margin; the tarsus 
pentamerous, with rather long hairs, stout but short apical spines, and a plantar 
comb of spine-like hairs; the segments approximately in ratio 18 : 6 : 5 : 3 : 5. 

Gaster scarcely depressed laterad, twice as long as the thorax, the distal seg- 
ments curved ventrad; the ovipositor valves distinctly projecting beyond the apex 
of the abdomen; the pygostyles (Fig. 121) with five long hairs. 


J. T. WIEBES : Fig wasps from Ficus stupenda 191 


IST 


QUMO 


Fig. 113—121. Grandiana corneliae spec. nov., female allotype. 113, labium and maxilla, 

ventral aspect; 114—115, apex of fore tibia, and metatarsus, 114, antiaxial aspect, 115, detail 

in axial aspect; 116, antenna, antiaxial aspect; 117, head, frontal aspect (pubescence omitted) ; 

118, wings; 119, mandible, dorsal aspect; 120, apex of hind tibia and base of metatarsus, 

antiaxial aspect; 121, pygostyl, lateral aspect. — Fig. 113—115, 119—120, X 165; 
116, X 100; 117, X 65; 118° X< 16; 121, X 250 


Length (head, thorax, and gaster), approximately 3 mm. Colour black bronze, 
the legs except for the black coxae, yellowish; the palps of the mouth parts and 
the antennae infuscated; the compound eyes pinkish red. 


Remark. — Grandiana corneliae, evidently related to Grandiana wassae Wiebes 
(1961 : 245—249, Fig. 1—19), may be distinguished in both male and female 
specimens by the more transverse head, the shape and pubescence of the antennal 
segments, and the greater number of tibial spines; the male, moreover, has two 
antennal ring-segments, versus one in G. wassae, and the toruli of the antennae 
are situated laterally, not ventrally; the postmarginal vein of the female fore wing 
is distinctly longer than in G. wassae. 

The host of the present species, Ficus stupenda Miq. (subgenus Urostigma, 
section Conosycea) is only remotely related to that of G. wassae, Ficus wassae 
Roxb. (subgenus Ficus, section Sycidium). 


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NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN APHIDS FROM PAKISTAN 
(HOMOPTERA, APHIDIDAE) 


BY 


D. HILLE RIS LAMBERS 
Bladluisonderzoek T.N.O., Bennekom, Netherlands 


ABSTRACT 


In this paper the following new genera and species are described from Northern Pakistan. 

Aphis longituba spec. nov., from unidentified herbaceous climber; Ceruraphis eastopi 
spec. nov., from Viburnum cotinifolium; Chaitophorus kapuri spec. nov., from Populus ciliata; 
Chaitophorus nigritus spec. nov., from Salix sp.; Chaitophorus pakistanicus spec. nov., from 
Salix acmophylla and S. tetrasperma; Cinara lachnirostris spec. nov., from Pinus (probably 
wallichiana); Cinara maculipes spec. nov., from Pinus wallichiana; Epipemphigus gen. nov., 
type-species Pemphigus imaicus Cholodkovsky, 1912; Globulicaudaphis gen. nov., type-species 
Globulicaudaphis pakistanica spec. nov., from Quercus (probably dilatata); Macrosiphum 
pachysiphon spec. nov., from Rubus lasiocarpus; Liosomaphis atra spec. nov., from Berberis 
sp.; Matsumuraja capitophoroides spec. nov., from Rubus lasiocarpus and Rubus sp.; Peri- 
phyllus vandenboschi spec. nov., from Acer sp.; Pseudessigella gen. nov., type-species 
Pseudessigella brachychaeta spec. nov., from Pinus wallichiana. 

Some notes on the identity of Chaitophorus himalayensis (Das, 1918), often mistaken for 
C. pakistanicus spec. nov., are given. It is suggested that Hayhurstia tataricae Aizenberg, 
1935, from Lonicera tatarica is a synonym of Brevicoryne coriandri Das, 1918, from Corian- 
drum, referred to Hyadaphis Kirkaldy, 1904, type-species Aphis xylostei Schrank, 1801, of 
which genus Neohayhurstia Aizenberg, 1954, type-species Hayhurstia tataricae Aizenberg, 
1935, becomes a synonym. The fundatrix of Epipemphigus imaicus (Cholodkovsky, 1912) 
is described for the first time, and a key to the apterous females of Matsumuraja Schumacher, 
1921, is given. 


Introduction 


Dr. R. VAN DEN BoscH, Berkeley, California, managed to collect, during a short 
stay in Northern West Pakistan, a considerable number of aphid samples which he 
most kindly gave to me for identification. Where not otherwise indicated, all the 
material originates from this collector. Several undescribed species which were 
already familiar to me from material received from my colleagues Mr. A. N. Basu 
and Mr. K. D. VERMA, will later be described by them. Other species are described 
here, partly also from material received for identification from the Commonwealth 
Institute for Biological Control. 

Types of new species are in the author’s collection, with the exception of those 
of Ceruraphis eastopi spec. nov. 


Aphis longituba spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 
In life pale green, mottled with darker green on abdomen; appendages pale 


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except siphunculi which are black-tipped. In mounted specimens body oval, about 
1.3—1.6 mm long. Tergum completely unpigmented. Extremely small marginal 
tubercles present, on abdominal segment I, where they are but little wider in 
diameter than the papilla of a marginal hair but rather taller than their basal width, 
and on segment VII, where they are a little wider than the porus of the nearest 
stigma. Dorsal hairs scarce, those on abdominal tergite III about 0.016—0.025 
mm long, stiff, subacute, but the 2 hairs on tergite VIII up to 0.060 mm long; 
marginal hairs on tergites II—IV usually in double pairs, sometimes in a single 
pair on tergite III. Front slightly sinuated. Antennae pale with the processus 
terminalis faintly smoky; flagellum imbricated; processus terminalis at most as 
long as segment III, usually shorter, 2—21/, times base of segment VI; hairs on 
segment III scarce (e.g. 7 or 9), half as long as basal diameter of the segment. 
Rostrum just reaching the hind coxae; last segment rather long, about 11/;—11/, 
times as long as second joint of hind tarsi, with 2, more rarely 3 hairs besides the 
3 subapical pairs. Siphunculi quite pale with apical 1/g—1/g blackish, gradually 
tapering from base to apex, in the middle about 11/, times as wide, at apex about 
as wide as the hind tibiae, imbricated, with rather small flange, about 1/;—2/, 
of length of body, 22/3—31/, times as long as cauda. Cauda small, at base about 
twice as wide as middle of siphunculi, more or less like that of Aphis gossypii 
Glover, cylindrical to tapering with rounded top, with 5—6 hairs. Legs rather 
long, pale with brownish tarsi; trochanter and femora on the underside with at 
least a few hairs fine and long, longer than the basal width of a femur; tibial hairs 
rather like those of A. gossypii, short; first tarsal joints with 3, 3, 2 hairs, second 
joints markedly imbricated. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
1. 1.50 1.02 0.29 0.16 0.15 (0.10 + 0.22) 0.33 0.12 
DI 1.42 0.95 0.23 015 0.13 (0.11-+ 0.22) 0.30 0.11 
3. 1.32 1.00 0.25 017 0.14 (0.10 <- 0.24) 0.32 0.10 
4, 1.46 0.91 0.25, 70513) 070.122 (OFOO 221021) 0.32 0.12 
Sk, 1.45 1.00 02800 7 Oe 20511. 210723) 0.33 0.12 
6. 1.47 0.95 0.25 0.13 0.14 (0.09 + 0.23) 0.32 0.13 


(1—6, from an unidentified plant, Murree, West Pakistan, 3.VII.1964). 


Discussion. This Aphis was collected from the curled tender tips (undersides) 
of a vine-like herbaceous plant. Species of the genus with such long, slender 
siphunculi that are pale are scarce, and I know of no other than A. farinosa 
Gmelin, very different as to marginal tubercles, and A. sdaez v. d. Goot which has 
much thinner siphunculi. Some species of the group infesting Ribes and Ona- 
graceae have such long pale siphunculi, but these always have more than 3 hairs 
on the basal half of the last rostral segment and longer antennal hairs. The long 
pale siphunculi with their Sonspicuously -dark.tips, and the small cauda, together 


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with the scarcity of marginal tubercles and the few rostral hairs make recognition 
of the species within the very large genus Aphis L. quite easy. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from an 
unidentified plant, Murree, West Pakistan, 3.VII.1964 (R. VAN DEN Bosch), 
P-VII-3a. Paratypes: 6 apterae viviparae with data as for the holotype. 


Ceruraphis eastopi spec. nov. 
(Fig. 1—2, p. 208) 


Alate viviparous female. 


Colour in life not known. In mounted specimens body about 2.70—3.15 mm 
long, elongated. Head and thorax blackish sclerotic; abdomen with extensive 
darkish dorsal sclerotisation consisting of thick spino-pleural bars which are 
mutually free on tergites I and II, but except medially sometimes almost com- 
pletely fused on tergites III—VI. Marginal tubercles variable, sometimes on all 
segments from I—VII, but always on II—IV, low, flat, on segments II—IV about 
0.015 mm in diameter. Spinal tubercles very small, very irregularly present on 
tergites I—VIII, mesonotum or vertex. Dorsal hairs fine, on tergite II} up to 
0.045 mm long; tergite IV with mostly single spinal and pleural pairs, but with 
up to 8 marginal pairs, on more anterior tergites usually with several additional 
spinal and pleural hairs; tergite VIII with 4—5 hairs. Posterior row of 6—8 hairs 
on vertex remarkably far from posterior margin of head. Front sinuated. Antennae 
blackish, about 3/, of length of body; segment III on basal one-third distinctly 
imbricated, with about 15—23 rather protruding, mostly large and partly markedly 
transversely oval rhinaria over whole length; segment IV with 1—5, rarely without 
such rhinaria; segment V rarely with a secondary rhinarium, but with an enormous 
primary rhinarium of about 0.10 mm long and 0.035 mm wide (Fig. 1), covering 
up to half the length of the segment; segment VI with a hardly smaller primary 
rhinarium, which covers much more than half the basal portion of the segment; 
hairs on segment III rather bent and adpressed, up to just longer than basal 
diameter of the segment. Rostrum reaching to half way the middle coxae; last 
segment rather elongated, about 10/,, of second joint of hind tarsi, with 2 hairs 
besides the 3 subapical pairs. Siphunculi tapering from base to apex or slightly 
constricted at base, dark, about 1/,, of length of body, in the middle 11/,)— 
11/, times as thick as middle portion of hind tibiae, dorsally from base to apex 
with a few wavy transverse lines of bluntish spinules, ventrally with very dis- 
persed imbrications bearing few blunt spinules, and these imbrications near apex 
running together to form cells (Fig. 2); flange hardly indicated. Cauda 2/3—4/5 
of siphunculi, dark, triangular with convex sides, rather acute, with 5 hairs. Legs 
rather long; femora blackish with pale base; tibiae dark with blackish base and 
apex; the hind tibiae over most of their length, the other tibiae near base, with 
a very curious, vague, wavy transverse striation similar to that on distal two-thirds 
of antennal segment III; first tarsal joints with 3, 3, 2 hairs. Venation of wings 
normal; subcostal vein system and pterostigma conspicuously pale. 


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Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Rhin. on segments 
of body IT PIV Gow) VI Siph. Cauda III IV V 
N Soli 1.88 0.47 0.25 0.23 (0.15 + 0.60) 0.17 0.12 16&18 2&4 0&0 
i, | 207 1.74 0.38 0.21 0.22 (0.15 + 0.61) 0.16 0.13 ICI CQO OCs 2 
Bo Colle) 1.69 0.36 0.21 0.21 (0.15 + 0.60) 0.16 013 21&23 1&5 0&0 
4. 2.77 1.72 0.39 0.22 0.20 (0.16-++ 0.59) 0.17 0.13 14&16 3&4 0&0 
> AD 1.74 0.40 0.20 0.21 (0.16 + 0.61) 0.16 013 21&22 1&3 0&0 
Gi ZS) 1.71 0.38 0.20 0.21 (0.16 + 0.60) 0.16 0.13 15&17 3&4 0&1 


(1—6, from Viburnum cotinifolium, Otrore, West Pakistan, 12.1X.1962, 
Commonwealth Inst. Biol. Control, C.I.E. no. 18753: 847). 


Larvae. 

Embryos in alatae. Antennae of 4? segments; processus terminalis (fully 
stretched) only 1.4 times base of last segment; base with one stout and one small 
hair; penultimate segment with two stout, and one small hair, last rostral segment 
0.065, with two hairs besides the 3 subapical pairs. 

Alatoid nymphs, last instar. On abdomen with small dark marginal sclerites 
bearing mostly 1 or 2 hairs and a tubercle. Spinally especially on the posterior 
tergites, from IV or V caudad, with very small, caudad much larger sclerites 
bearing one hair each, and besides, especially on tergites VII and VIII, a spinal 
tubercle; all tubercles more pronounced, and larger than in most adults. Primary 
rhinaria on antennal segments V and VI round, ciliate, rather large, about 0.025— 
0.035 mm across the rims. Hind tibiae without spinules. As in other species of the 
genus there is an unusually large distance between the first and the second pair of 
coxae. 


Discussion. The eight alatae that were collected evidently were not gynoparae 
returned from their secondary host plant, for the same sample contained a number 
of almost mature alatoid nymphs. Therefore the specimens must have developed 
on Viburnum. Notwithstanding the date of collecting, the fact that only alatae, 
and only alatoid nymphs were found, seems to suggest host alternation. Perhaps 
the specimens were leaving Viburnum for a secondary host plant. In other species 
of the genus the host plants are Cyperaceae, rarely Juncaceae. Indeed Dr. REMAU- 
DIERE has collected a Ceruraphis on some species of Carex in Iran which might be 
this species, but the alatae lack the gigantic primary rhinaria of C. eastopr. 

These rhinaria make recognition of the described morph very easy, for to my 
knowledge no other member of this subfamily with such primary rhinaria has 
been described. However, almost certainly other morphs do not have such unusual 
rhinaria: in the alatoid nymphs the primary rhinaria are of ordinary shape. The 
sculpture of the siphunculi may be useful for identifying the other morphs when 
these are found. 

The very short processus terminalis in the embryos inside the described alatae 
suggests that in apterae the processus terminalis 1s much shorter than in the 
described alatae. When the apterae are found they could be identified by the 
curious mixture of short and long hairs on the last two antennal segments of the 
embryos that they contain. 


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The species is named after Dr. V. F. Easrop, British Museum (Natural 
History), London. 

Types. Holotype: alate viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Viburnum 
cotinifolium, Otrore, West Pakistan, 12.IX.1962 (Commonwealth Inst. Biol. 
Control, C.I.E. no. 18753: 847). Paratypes: 7 alatae and 7 alatoid nymphs with 
data as for the holotype. The holotype and all but two alate paratypes are in the 
British Museum (Natural History), London. 


Chaitophorus himalayensis (Das, 1918) 


Das (1918) mentions in his description of Eichochaitophorus himalayensis that 
the siphunculi in the apterae viviparae are brown. The processus terminalis is 
about 21/ times as long as the base of antennal segment VI. These characters do 
not apply to material identified by TAKAHASHI and recorded by him from Siam, 
and to other specimens identified as himalayensis Das, from Pakistan and India. 

Material of a species from Salix from India agrees with the description of hima- 
layensis by Das in the pigmentation of the siphunculi and the length of the 
processus terminalis. The first tarsal joints of the apterae viviparae have 7 hairs, 
and the abdominal dorsum is distinctly nodulose. 


Chaitophorus kapuri spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

Colour in life not noted, but presumably largely blackish. Mounted specimens 
dorsally dark to blackish sclerotic with the head laterally, and a not sharply 
bordered median area from metanotum to about tergite III distinctly paler to pale. 
Abdominal tergites I—VI solidly fused, the other tergites mutually free. Dorsum 
not smooth but rather evenly covered with mostly irregularly arranged, not joined, 
semiobtuse to blunt spinules which in lateral view are little more than half as high 
as their basal width; locally these spinules are arranged in wavy transverse lines. 
Dorsal hairs acute or somewhat acuminate, stiff, not wavy; the longest spinal hairs 
on abdominal tergite III up to 6 times basal diameter of antennal segment III. 
Antennae about 5/7,—2/3 of length of body, with segment I and the part near 
the rhinaria on segment VI dusky to dark, the rest quite pale, slightly imbricated; 
segment III with on inner side 2—4 hairs of about 3—33/, times basal diameter 
of the segment, and with some much shorter hairs rather similar to those on outer 
side which are about as long as basal diameter of the segment; base of segment VI 
with 2—3 hairs, the longest of which is 12/,—2 times the shortest; for inter- 
relation of antennal segments vide measurements. Last rostral segment about as 
long as second joint of hind tarsi, with 2—4 hairs besides the 3 subapical pairs. 
Siphunculi very short, blackish, not surrounded by a membranous ring, with 3—4 
rows of transverse reticulations apically that are only well visible in lateral view. 
Cauda rather pale, distinctly knobbed, with the knob usually wider than long. Legs 
completely pale with only the apices of the tarsi slightly dusky; tibiae with a few 
short spinules at the very tip; first tarsal joints with 7, 7, 7 hairs; empodial hairs 
ribbon-shaped. 


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Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV Vv VI 
ile 1.53 1.11 0.29 0.14 0.14 (0.10 + 0.33) 0.05 0.11 
22 1.86 1.20 033 0.15 0.14 (0.10-+ 0.34) 0.06 092 
3. 157 1.16 0.31 0.16 0.14 (0.114 0.32) 0.06 0.10 
4. 1.56 1.14 0.30 0.16 0.13 (0.11 + 0.33) 0.06 0.10 
DI 1.95 1.34 0.37 0.21 0.15 (0.114 0.35) 0.07 0.10 
6. 1.92 1.14 0.36 0.20 0.15 (0.11 + 0.32) 0.07 0.10 


(1-4, from Populus ciliata, Murree (7000 ft), Pakistan, 30.VI.1964 (R. VAN 
DEN BoscH); 5—6, from Populus, Manali (6000 ft), India, 25.VI.1955 (A. P. 
KAPUR) ). 


Alate viviparous female. 

Colour in life not noted. Mounted specimens with black head and thorax, with 
on the abdominal dorsum thick spino-pleural, blackish, transverse bars from seg- 
ment II or HI to VIII, which bars tend to fuse to a central sclerite from tergites 
III to VI; marginal abdominal sclerites blackish, on segments II—V each with 
6—11 hairs and on the posterior part with a very slender tubercle that often 
looks like the socket of a large hair with the shaft broken near the base. Antennae 
3/4—5/ of the length of body, pigmented as in apterae, but with also the apex 
of segment V somewhat darkened; hairs on inner side of segment III considerably 
shorter than in apterae, but still up to 31/, times as long as basal diameter of 
segment III because the latter is constricted at base; segment III with about 10—12 
rather large rhinaria more or less in a row over the length of the segment. Siphun- 
culi conical, nearly as long as their basal width, dark, with 3—4 rows of basad 
transverse reticulations. Legs pallid as in apterae. Wings with normal venation, the 
veins very conspicuously and rather broadly darkly bordered. 


Measurements in mm. 


Noi (length "Ant: Ant, segments Siph. Cauda Rhin. 

of body HT, IV. Vv VI on III 
1. 1.70 1.29 0.35 0.18 0.15 (0.11-+ 0.36) 0.07 0.10 12 & 12 
2% 1.64 1.17 0.35 0:16 0.13 (OMO 0:30) 0.08 0.10 10 & 12 
38 1.62 1.30 0.33 0.19 0.15 (0.12 + 0.38) ? 0.09 10 & 11 
4, 1.63 1227 0.37 0.17 0.14 (0.11-++ 0.34) 0.07 0.09 10& ? 


(1—4, with apterae no. 1—4). 


Larvae. 

In mounted specimens head darkish, the rest pale, without dark scleroites at the 
bases of the dorsal hairs. Siphunculi blackish, apparently reticulated before adult- 
hood. 


Discussion. The insects infest the undersides of the leaves of Populus ciliata. 
No data are available on the attendance by ants. The completely unpigmented legs, 


D. Hire Ris LAMBERS : Aphids from Pakistan 199 


in sharp contrast to the dark body, and the strongly bordered veins ot the wings 
make recognition of this species very easy. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from 
Populus ciliata, Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964. Paratypes: apterae 
and alatae with the same collecting data. 


Chaitophorus nigritus spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life black with pale legs and antennae. In mounted specimens tergum evenly 
black with the head laterally just paler. Abdominal tergites II to VI completely 
fused, the rest mutually free. Tergum with very small bluntish nodules that are 
joined to wavy lines that mostly medially run more or less parallel, with on the 
thorax here and there a faint tendency to reticulation. Dorsal hairs slightly flexed, 
with fine apices; the longest spinal hairs on abdominal tergite III about 5 times as 
long as basal diameter of antennal segment III. Antennae pale with segment I, 
the distal half of the processus terminalis and sometimes the area near the rhinaria 
on the last segment dusky to dark, sometimes on one side of 5 segments, 1/,— 
5/g of the length of body; segment III on inner side with 3—6 hairs of up to 
21/9—3 times basal diameter of the segment and with some shorter ones that yet 
are 11/, times or more times that diameter and considerably longer than those ori 
outer side which are mostly shorter than that diameter; the longest of the 2, rarely 
3 hairs on the base of the last segment 21/,—3 times as long as the shortest. 
Last rostral segment very nearly as long as second joint of hind tarsi, with 2 hairs 
besides the 3 subapical pairs; one pair of the latter placed very far basad. Siphun- 
culi black, surrounded by a membranous area, more or less conical, distinctly 
reticulated on distal half. Cauda knobbed, pale with dusky knob, the latter wider 
than long. Legs pale with the tarsi wholly or distally dusky; tibiae only at the very 
apex with some spinules; first tarsal joints with 5 hairs; empodial hairs setaceous, 
blunt to acute. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
sla 1.30 0.73 0.16 0.09 0.10 (0.09 + 0.22) 0.04 0.05 
D} 1.13 0.67 0.15 0.08 0.10 (0.08-+ 0.18) 0.04 0.05 
5% 1.36 0.75 0.17 0.09 0.09 (0.09 + 0.22) 0.04 0.05 
4, 1.39 0.78 0.18 0.10 0.09 (0.09 + 0.21) 0.04 0.05 
5. 1611 0.63 0.12 0.09 0.08 (0.08 + 0.18) 0.03 0.04 
6. 1.42 0.80 0.17 0.10 0.10 (0.09 + 0.23) 0.05 0.05 


(1—6, from Salix sp., Murree (7500 ft), Pakistan, 27.VI.1964). 


Intermediate. 

Like apterae viviparae, but thorax rather like that in alatae, with small wing’ 
pads. Antennae with 8 and 11 small secondary rhinaria on segment III, with 2 
and 2 on IV, and with 0 and 1 on V. 


200 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 8, 1966 


Larvae. 
From birth with black scleroites to the bases of the dorsal hairs. 


Discussion. According to its collector the aphids live most characteristically in 
tight colonies around galls on the leaves of Salix sp. No data on myrmecophily 
are available. 

In structure and ornamentation of the dorsum this species strongly resembles 
Chaitophorus salicti (Schrank, 1801), but it can at once be distinguished by the 
membranous ring around the siphunculi, the shorter, less hairy last rostral seg- 
ment and unpigmented legs in, otherwise, solidly black specimens. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Salix 
sp., Murree (7500 ft), West Pakistan, 27.VI.1964. Paratypes: apterae viviparae 
with the same collecting data. 


Chaitophorus pakistanicus spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. : 

Colour in life not known, but almost certainly greenish or yellowish. Mounted 
specimens completely pale. Integumentum dorsally virtually smooth. Dorsal hairs 
variable in length, stiff, mostly rather thick, the marginal ones acute, the rest rarely 
partly acute, normally either partly acuminate or all with furcated apices; longest 
spinal hairs on abdominal tergite III from 3—51/, times basal diameter of an- 
tennal segment III. Antennae 4/,—5/, of length of body, always with the area 
near the rhinaria on segment VI and the apical half of the processus terminalis 
dark or dusky, sometimes with segment I, the apex of segment V, and the whole 
segment VI, dusky; base of segment III slightly attenuated; that segment on inner 
side with 2—5 rather stiff hairs with bluntish apices that are 11/,—2 times basal 
diameter of the segment, often hardly longer than some hairs on the outer side; 
basal part of segment VI with 2 rather short hairs of about equal length; processus 
terminalis 13/„—21/, times base of last segment. Last rostral segment only 3/4— 
5/4 of second joint of hind tarsi, with 2 long hairs as long as the longest of the 
3 subapical pairs; of the latter one pair placed far basad. Siphunculi not pigmented, 
very small, truncated conical or cylindrical, with only 2—3 rows of transverse 
reticulation at apex. Cauda pale, knobbed, the knob broader than long. Legs pale 
with dusky second tarsal joints; tibiae smooth, in some of the specimens from 
Kashmir with a few pseudosensoria; first tarsal joints with 5 hairs; empodial hairs 
thinly setaceous. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
1. 1.67 0.93 0:25), 0.13% 0522040 2020) 0.06 0.10 
De 172 0.88 0.23 0.12 0.11 (0.09 + 0.19) ? 0.10 
3. 152 0.81 0.25 0.12 0.10 (0.09 + 0.14) 0.06 0.10 
4. 1.64 0.79 0210 Ost 704109 2(0:09- 120217) 0.06 0.10 
5. 1.50 0.68 0.20 0.09 0.09 (0.08 + 0.12) 0.06 0.10 
6. 1.48 0.79 0.22 0.12 0.11 (0.08 + 0.14) 0.06 0.10 


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(1—2, from Salix acmophylla, Mardan, Pakistan, 3.XII.1962 (Commonwealth 
Inst. Biol. Control); 3—4, from Salix acmophylla, Hangu, Pakistan, 9.XII.1962 
(Commonwealth Inst. Biol. Control); 5—6, from Salix tetrasperma, Jammu, 
Kashmir, 24.11.1964 (K. D. VERMA)). 


Oviparous female. 
Mounted specimen similar to apterous viviparous female, but body larger, cauda 
not constricted, hind tibiae swollen with about 40 pseudosensoria. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
ik 1.98 0.92 DAD ORL (Om0- 019) 0.04 0.10 


(1, with apterae 3—4). 


Larvae. 
Dorsal hairs without pigmented sclerites at their bases. First two antennal seg- 
ments often brownish. 


Discussion. The few records published after that of Das (1918) of Chaito- 
phorus himalayensis (Das) probably relate to the present species, which in many 
respects agrees with the description by that author, except for its pale siphunculi 
and shorter processus terminalis. Specimens from Salix, Chiengmai, Thailand, 
5.V.1940, received from Dr. TAKAHASHI and identified and recorded by him as 
Chaitophorus himalayensis (Das) differ slightly from the material described above 
by having a few more hairs on antennal segment III. 

In a number of characters the new species agrees with colourless specimens of 
Chaitophorus salicti (Schrank), but the short last rostral segment and almost 
smooth abdominal tergum, as well as the short processus terminalis make recog- 
nition easy. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Salix 
acmophylla, Mardan, Pakistan, 3.XII.1962 (Commonwealth Inst. Biol. Control). 
Paratypes: apterae viviparae with collecting data as above; from Salix acmophylla, 
Hangu, Pakistan, 9.XII.1962 (Commonwealth Inst. Biol. Control); from Salix 
tetrasperma, Jammu, Kashmir, 24.11.1964 (K. D. VERMA). 


Cinara lachnirostris spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life small, darkish brown. Mounted specimens pale, with the head, pronotum, 
mesothoracic furca, the customary six longitudinal rows of small, roundish pleural 
intersegmental sclerites (‘‘Muskelplatten’”) more or less dark brown, the siphun- 
cular cones and a broken bar across abdominal tergite VIII light brown, and very 
vague, mottled pleuro-marginal areas on the mesonotum. Dorsal skin with even, 
very fine reticulation. Dorsal hairs on the thorax stiff, spinally somewhat acuminate 


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and not longer than basal diameter of antennal segment III, marginally acute and 
up to 11/, times that diameter; on the disc of abdomen caudad gradually shorter 
and blunter, till on tergite V the hairs are quite blunt and cylindrical and down 
to 1/3 or even 1/, the mentioned diameter, from where they again increase in 
length till on tergite VIII they are as long as the marginal hairs on abdomen and 
thorax; the short spinal hairs with dark sockets but not on sclerotic platelets. 
Ventral hairs much more numerous than dorsal hairs, about twice the mentioned 
diameter. Head not with a median suture, with acute thorny hairs like the spinal 
thoracic hairs. Antennae rather long, more than half as long as body with segment 
I as dark brown as the head, the other segments gradually darker towards segment 
VI which is mostly paler than segment I; segment VI always longer than segment 
V, the latter longer than segment IV which is 1/.—2/, of segment III; segment 
VI with small, roundish imbrications which begin to become apparent on distal 
half of segment V; the rest smooth; secondary rhinaria variable in number; pro- 
cessus terminalis at base as wide as the part below the rhinaria, 2—21/, times as 
long as its basal width, 1/,—2/, of the total length of the segment, with 8—11 
short spiny hairs; hairs on segment III stiff, acuminate, the shortest only half basal 
diameter of the segment, most of them about equal to that diameter, the longest 
hairs 11/9 times that diameter. Rostrum long, reaching to about abdominal sternite 
VI or VII, with surprisingly short ultimate segments; segment IV with 6 hairs 
besides the 3 pairs at the junction of “IV and V”; about 11/, times as long as its 
basal width; IV + V about 3/, of the length of second joint of hind tarsi. No 
trace of a mesosternal processus present. Siphuncular cones quite small, often in- 
conspicuous, in diameter just smaller than the length of rostral segment IV, with 
only about 25 hairs of the ventral type. Cauda normal. Legs rather thick, with the 
femora dark to blackish brown with the very base pale, tibiae with dark bases and 
apices, on the fore and middle legs the middle part brownish yellow, on the hind 
tibiae somewhat paler just past the base, but the rest gradually darker towards 
apex; hairs on basal half of hind tibiae stiff and acuminate, considerably shorter 
than width of tibiae; first tarsal joints with very numerous hairs and two short 
spines, ventrally about 12/3 times as long as dorsally, 5 times as long as the width 
at the basal articulation; empodial hairs just over half as long as the sclerite on 
which they are placed. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Diam. Cauda Rhin. on 
of body A Ms MI siph. bf A Vv 

Le 2577 1.40 0.49 0.18 0.25 0.28 0.15 0.11 O&O 2&3 0&1 
2e 2.83 1555 0.572.20:20720267,.030 0.16 0.11 3&3 2&2 1&0 
3. 2.56 1.48 0.52 0.21 0.23 0.30 0.15 0.09 O&O O&O O&O 
4. 2.47 1.39 OSIO 023028 0.14 0.08 O&O O&O O&O 
SE 2.49 Lal 0.55 0.19 0.26 0.31 0.15 - 0.10 O&O O&O O&O 
6. 2.51 1.40 0.49 0.19 0.23 0.29 0.14 0.11 0&0 0&0 0&0 


(1—6, from Pinus (probably wallichiana, syn. excelsa), Murree (7000 ft), 
Pakistan, 3.VII.1964). 


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Discussion. The new species can easily be distinguished from other Palaearctic 
species by the combination of very small siphuncular cones with the unusually 
long antennal segment VI and short dorsal hairs. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 3), from Pinus 
(wallichiana, syn. excelsa?), Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 3.VII.1964 (R. 
VAN DEN BoscH), no. P-3d. Paratypes: apterae viviparae with collecting data as 
for holotype. 


Cinara maculipes spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life pale brown. In mounted specimens head, pronotum and mesonotum 
somewhat mottled light brown; the small, roundish pleural intersegmental sclerites 
(“Muskelplatten”) dark brown; the small siphuncular cones, an interrupted bar 
across tergite VIII and the subgenital plate pale brownish; no further pigmentation 
present. Dorsum medially with fields of very fine reticulation. Dorsal hairs very 
stiff and thorny, on the mesonotum spinally and marginally about half as long as 
basal diameter of antennal segment III, on the disc of the abdomen only 1/,—1/, 
of that diameter, on tergite VIII as long as on mesonotum; hairs on sclerotic parts 
with a diffuse darker brownish zone around their bases, on membranous parts 
with dark sockets and a very small dark area around the socket. Ventral hairs also 
thorny, up to 12/5 times the mentioned diameter. Head with distinct, complete 
median suture, with hairs up to just longer than the mentioned diameter. Antennae 
about 2/;—4/, of length of body, pale, with segment I light brown like the head, 
tip of IV, most of V and the whole of VI blackish brown; segment VI, and seg- 
ment V distally imbricated, the rest smooth; for interrelation of segments see 
measurements; processus terminalis at base much (about 3/g) thinner than part 
basad of the rhinaria, a little less than 1/3 of the length of segment, with 9—12 
thorns; secondary rhinaria mostly absent; only no. 3 of the measurements with 1 
and 2 rhinaria on segment IV; antennal hairs thorny, the longest on segment III 
4/5 of basal diameter of the segment, but most of them much shorter. Rostrum 
reaching to abdominal sternite II or III; last joint short, “IV + V” only half as 
long as second joint of hind tarsi, with 6 long and fine hairs besides the 3 pairs 
at the junction of IV and V; V about 11/, times as long as its largest width. No 
trace of a mesosternal processus. Siphunculi on slightly pigmented, small cones 
with a diameter as large as the length of rostral segment IV or less than 2/5 the 
length of second joint of hind tarsi, with about 15—19 hairs most of which are 
long, fine and curved, but a few on the mesal side may be like dorsal abdominal 
hairs. Cauda rather long for the genus in comparison to its width, more or less 
low triangular with strongly bulging sides. Legs yellowish brown with the bases 
and apical parts of the tibiae darker to blackish brown, particularly the femora 
very conspicuously pantherine spotted, the tibiae to a lesser extent; hairs on the 
hind tibiae semiobtuse, on basal half 1/,—1/, of the local diameter of the tibiae; 
first tarsal joints with 2—3 short ventral spines and a great number of longer 
hairs, ventrally 12/, times as long as dorsally, 51/, times as long as the width 


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at the basal articulation; empodial hairs about 2/3 of the length of the sclerite on 
which they are placed. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Diam. Cauda Rhin. 

of body III IV Vv VI siph. on IV 
1 4.60 2.00 0.85 0.26 0.35 0.28 0.20 0.26 0&0 
2% 4.80 2.06 0.88 0.29 0.36 0.28 0.23 0.21 0&0 
Da 4.77 2.06 0.89 0.29 0.34 0.28 0.23 0.25 1&2 
4. 4.30 WOM 0.81 0.22 0.34 0.28 0.22 0.25 0&0 
Do 4.19 1.96 0.83 0.30 0.32 0.28 0.20 0.27 0&0 
6. 4.73 2.06 0.87 0.30 0.34 0.29 0.19 0.22 0&0 


(1—6, from Pinus wallichiana (syn. excelsa), Murree, Pakistan, 3.VII.1964). 


Alate viviparous female. 

Described from one specimen. Head and thorax darker mottled brown. Dorsal 
hairs about 50% longer, slightly thinner, their sockets not darkened, not sur- 
rounded by brown. Antennal segment III with very unevenly sized rhinaria more 
or less in a row; hairs on segment III 7/,,—7/4 of its basal diameter. Eyes 
slightly stalked, the stalk as high as the radius of the eye. Legs very dark with only 
a part near base of the middle and hind tibiae paler, the spotting not so conspicu- 
ous but still very distinct on transparent areas. Wings mutilated, venation incertain, 
only subcosta and pterostigma very dark. Other characters as in apterae. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant segments Diam. Cauda Rhin. on 
of body II IV Wr NAL siph. III IV Vv 


1. 4.23 1.92 0.75 0.34 0.34 0.26 0.15 0.18 15&18 3&5 O&O 


(with the above mentioned apterae). 


Discussion. The strongly spotted legs, very small siphuncular cones, and very 
short hairs on abdominal dorsum and tibiae make identification of this species 
very easy. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Pinus 
wallichiana (syn. excelsa), Murree, West Pakistan, 3.VII.1964 (R. VAN DEN 
BoscH), P-3c. Paratypes: apterae no. 2—6, and the alate viviparous female with 
collecting data as for holotype. 


Epipemphigus gen. nov. 


Fundatrix with four to five segmented antennae, without wax glands, without 
siphunculi, with 2—3 caudal hairs, with the empodial hairs very short, about 
1/4—1/3 of the length of the claws; embryos inside fundatrices also with short 
empodial hairs, with wax glands. Alatae of the second generation both as larvae 


D. Hire Ris LAMBERS : Aphids from Pakistan 205 


and as adults with minute, unpigmented and therefore nearly invisible siphunculi, 

perhaps not always, with simple media in the fore wings, with very distinctly 

ciliate secondary rhinaria, with very irregular chaetotaxy of the first tarsal joints 

(e.g. 4 ‚4, 4; 4, 2, 4; 4, 2, 2, etc.); embryos inside these alatae with mouth parts, 

and with the empodial hairs at most 1/3 of the length of the claws. 
Type-species: Pemphigus imaicus Cholodkovsky, 1912. 


Discussion. BORNER’s (1952) subdivision of Pemphigine genera has the at- 
traction of being very simple. By considering the lengths of the empodial hairs in 
new born offspring of fundatrigeniae (alatae of the second generation) he discerns 
two groups, those with short empodial hairs, the Pemphigini, and those with 
long empodial hairs, the Pachypappini. In BORNER & HEINZE (1957) one finds 
in addition that in Pemphigini the fundatrix and adult fundatrigeniae have long 
empodial hairs. 

A check on empodial hairs in embryos of viviparae showed that the American 
Paraprociphilus Mordv. from Acer and Alnus indeed have the required very long 
empodial hairs, and that the Asiatic Pemphigus baicalensis Chol. is, like Morp- 
VILKO (1929, 1935) suggested, a true Paraprociphilus. However, Paraprociphilus 
ucrainensis Mamontova, 1955, by the same standards is not a Paraprociphilus and, 
since KRZYWIEC (1962) showed that Mimeuria ulmiphila del Guercio is the same 
animal, this species should be placed not in Paraprociphilus Mordvilko, 1924, 
but in Mzmeuria Börner, 1952. 

The new genus unites a number of important characters of BORNER’s Pachy- 
pappini with some characters of his Pemphigini. The fundatrix has no wax glands, 
which is typical for Pachypappa Koch and Aszphum Koch, but it has short em- 
podial hairs. The embryos in fundatrigeniae have short empodial hairs, a character 
of Pemphigini, but also the fundatrix and fundatrigeniae have these short empo- 
dial hairs which as Pemphigini they should not have. The very markedly ciliate 
secondary rhinaria resemble to some extent the rhinaria with nodules, spinules or 
minute ciliae in some Prociphilus Koch and Stagona Koch, but again these taxa 
have embryos with long empodial hairs. Therefore there is no alternative but 
erecting a new genus for Pemphigus imaicus Chol. The species is here redescribed. 


Epipemphigus imaicus (Cholodkovsky, 1912) 


Fundatrix. 

Colour in life unknown. In mounted specimens body oval-rounded, about 
2.0—2.25 mm long. Head and sides of prothorax blackish sclerotic; the rest 
colourless and membranous, but stigmal plates, subanal plate and subgenital plate 
brown and the sockets of the dorsal hairs somewhat pigmented. No wax glands 
present. Dorsal hairs numerous, with long hairs of about 0.070—0.085 mm 
regularly arranged, but besides a great number of scattered shorter and thinner 
hairs of 0.040—0.070 mm long; the long hairs rather stout at base, but the apices 
of all hairs drawn out into very fine apices; the sockets of especially the long hairs 
distinctly pigmented; tergites VII and VIII both only with 4 long hairs of 0.08— 
0.11 mm long. Antennae as dark as the head, 1/,—1/, of length of body, of 


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4 or 5 segments; in case of 5 segments the division between segments III and IV 
somewhat abnormal; processus terminalis distinct, about as long as its basal width, 
with a few rows of spinules that extend somewhat over the under and outer side 
of basal part of last segment; primary rhinaria with long ciliae, roundish; hairs 
on flagellum sparse, undulate, up to 11/, times basal diameter of segment III. 
Rostrum reaching the middle coxae; apical joint about 9/j9 of second joint of 
hind tarsi, rather acute, or slightly rostrate, with only the 3 subapical pairs of 
hairs. Cauda inconspicuous, very broad, rather pale, with 2 long hairs. Rudi- 
mentary gonapophyses 2. Legs dark, short, thick; first tarsal joints with 2, 2, 2 
hairs; tarsi dorsally and laterally not even imbricated, but the second joints with a 
very small number of spinules on their soles; empodial hairs short, 1/:—1/, of 
the length of the claws. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments 
of body III IV Vv 
lo 2.20 0.35 0.11 0.12 — 
De 2:07 0.34 0,10 0.11 — 
3. DD 0.41 0.10 0.05 0.12 
4. 2.01 0.39 0.09 0.05 0.13 
5) 2.03 0.40 0.09 0.05 0.12 


(1—5, from Populus ciliata, Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964). 


Embryos in fundatrix. 

Antennae of 4 segments. Wax glands on abdomen visible but pattern cannot 
be made out. Empodial hairs short, half the length of the claws. Antennae with 
few hairs, but on the very short processus terminalis with some 8—10 hairs, which 
hairs persist in the later larvae and in the adult. 


Alate viviparous female (emigrant). 

Colour in life not known. In mounted specimens head and thorax black but a 
triangular median part on the mesonotum paler to pale; abdomen without local 
sclerotisation. No wax glands present on head and thorax, but abdomen with small 
wax glands as follows: marginal ones on segments I—VII; no pleural ones; spinal 
ones, mostly strongly transverse, fragmented or consisting only of a few cells on 
tergites I—VI, irregularly present on most of these segments, and rarely also (a 
few cells only) on tergite VIII. Dorsal hairs inconspicuous, mostly not placed on 
the wax glands but quite near them, rather short, about 0.020 mm long. Antennae 
of 6 segments, about 11/,—2 times as long as width of head through the eyes, 
2/,—1/. of length of body; segment III the longest, with 4—9 rather irregular 
very narrow rhinaria with wide rims on which rather long, very fine ciliae are 
implanted; IV with 2—5 rhinaria; V with 0—1, more rarely 2 secondary rhinaria 
and a primary rhinarium of very irregular shape, encircling about 2/3— 3/4 of the 
circumference of the segment and covering, measured through the outer rim, 
about 2/, of its length, with little islands or peninsulae sticking out from the 
margin; segment VI without secondary rhinaria, with a primary rhinarium of 


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much the same shape and size as, or larger than that on segment V; these primary 
rhinaria with long, often furcated ciliae, and on the peninsulae sometimes with 
tree-shaped, many-branched ciliae; processus terminalis markedly thinner at base 
than in the middle, with 8—10 hairs near apex. Rostrum short, reaching to half- 
way the middle coxae; last segment acute, conical with slightly convex sides, just 
less than half as long as second joint of hind tarsi, with only the 3 subapical pairs 
of hairs. Siphunculi perhaps sometimes present, but not pigmented and so un- 
developed that only irregularities in the microstructure indicate their presence. 
Cauda undeveloped, broad, with 2, sometimes 3 hairs. Legs dark to blackish, 
slender; the terminal spines of the tibiae not much different from the other hairs 
near their apex; first tarsal joints with 2—4 hairs, rarely with the same number 
on all legs, and with spinules; second tarsal joints with transverse lines of 
spinules, with about 5 pairs of ventral hairs; empodial hairs just less than half as 
long as the claws. Fore wings with simple media; the veins not bordered. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Rhin. on segments 
of body III IV V VI III IV V 
ils 2.06 0.66 0.18 0.08 0.10 (0.14 + 0.04) 5&6 2&2 0&0 
DJ 2.00 0.68 0.18 0.10 0.10 (0.14 + 0.05) 6&7 2&3 0&0 
3. 2.19 0.64 OSLGRNO.O RIE OSLO (014.220:05) CS 1283,00, Sal 
4. 2.10 0.70 0.18 0.10 0.11 (0.15 + 0.05) 6&7 2&3 0&1 
De 2.54 0.89 0.22 0.182.015 (0.16 + 0.05) 9&6 4&5 1&2 
6. 2.44 0.81 O22") TOS O12" (0:16 = 0105) CRC Aisa ORNE 


(1—4, from Populus ciliata, Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964 (R. 
VAN DEN BoscH); 5—6, from Populus ciliata, Muklisar, ubi?, 10.V.1930 (C. F. 
C. BEESON) ). 


Embryos in emigrants. 

Antennae of 4 segments; primary rhinaria both transversely oval, twice as long 
as wide, that on IV twice as large as that on III; processus terminalis with 5 hairs. 
Wax glands very large, more or less rectangular with rounded angles, in the 
transverse rows (of probably 4 per segment) at only about 0.004—0.006 mm 
from each other, each with a hair. Empodial hairs about 1/3—2/; of the length 
of the claws. 


Discussion. CHOLODKOVSKY (1912) gave with the original description a 
drawing of the emigrants’ antennae with their curious primary rhinaria, after 
material from Dehra-Dun, India. He writes that all the rhinaria are ciliate, but 
this has apparently escaped the notice of later authors. The gall which he also 
illustrates resembles that made by Pemphigus populinigrae Schrank on Populus 
nigra, irregularly sausage-like on the upperside of the leaf along the mid vein. 


Globulicaudaphis gen. nov. 


Apterous and alate viviparous females similar to each other in sclerotic pattern 
(paired, free, or partly fused spinal sclerites on abdominal tergites I—IV; mar- 


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ginal sclerites) with in apterae somewhat capitate, smooth-shafted hairs (4 spinals, 
4 marginal ones on the mentioned tergites) ; these hairs in alatae with only faintly 
swollen apices. No dorsal processes present. Head normal, in apterae with the 
customary faint median suture, with little developed frontal tubercles. Antennae 
as in Myzocallis Pass., with processus terminalis longer than basal part of segment 
VI, with roundish, faintly ciliate secondary rhinaria in alatae but none in apterae. 
Triommatidia normal. Wings with normal venation. Siphunculi truncated-conical, 
fused with the marginal sclerite of tergite VI which bears 2—3 hairs. Cauda not 
knobbed but consisting of a large smooth membranous colourless bladder on the 
underside of which a pale, sclerotic, transversely oval, spinulose part with hairs is 
present. Subanal plate with two widely separated large lobes. Two rudimentary 
gonaphyses. Subgenital plate not pigmented, normal. First tarsal joints with 2 
dorsal and 5 ventral hairs. 

First instar larvae with only single pairs of spinal and marginal long knobbed 
hairs on abdomen, placed singly on dark sclerites. Antennae of 4 segments with 


Fig. 1—2. Ceruraphis eastopi spec. nov., alate viviparous female. 1, ant. segments IV—VI, 
X 160; 2, siphunculus, X 160. Fig. 3. Globulicaudaphis pakistanica spec. nov., apterous 
viviparous female, posterior abd. segments, X 158. 


D. HırıE Ris LAMBERS : Aphids from Pakistan 209 


on segment III a pigmented spot where that segment subdivides at the next moult. 
Siphunculi free from the marginal sclerite of tergite VI. 
Type-species: Globulicaudaphis pakistanica spec. nov. 


Discussion. The genus differs from all described aphids by the structure of its 
anal tergite. There is a considerable resemblance in the sclerotic pattern to that of 
Hoplochaetaphis Aizenberg, 1959, but there the similarity ends. Myzocallis Pas- 
serini, 1860, is nearly related, and structurally quite close, but it may be separated 
at once by the caudal structure. 


Globulicaudaphis pakistanica spec. nov. 
(Fig 35) Bin) 


Apterous viviparous female. 

Colour in life “basically pale greenish marked with a darker olive green dorsal 
pattern and with what appears to be white paired waxy markings running laterally 
from the head about 2/3 the length of body. Legs pale with black knees, antennae 
pale, annulated with dark markings at joints”. In mounted specimens (Pl. 2) 
anterior part of head pale, posterior middle part with a dark smoky area that is 
partly fused with a similarly pigmented square spinal area on the pronotum, 
divided in two by a fine membranous suture with halfway a transverse rhomboidal 
membranous hole; from mesonotum to abdominal tergite IV each segment with a 
spinal pair of rectangular to square, dark sclerites spinally separated by narrow 
membranous sutures, but on tergite IV with their posterior halves fused; similar 
marginal sclerites present on abdominal segments I—III, but segment IV with 
only the posterior halves of such sclerites; occasionally a few very small round 
pleural sclerites present on tergites I—IV; on tergite V an irregularly shaped 
spino-marginal transverse bar which is not connected with the siphunculi; tergites 
VI and VII with pairs of transverse spinal sclerites and traces of marginal sclerites; 
tergite VIII with a sclerotic transverse bar; the sclerites from mesonotum caudad 
slightly darker than those more cephalad, all with the margins darker than the 
centres. Dorsal hairs rather long, straight, up to 4 times as long as basal diameter 
of antennal segment III, with slightly widened blunt or knobbed apex, on 
moderate sockets; the mentioned spinal sclerites on mesonotum each with 3 hairs, 
from metanotum to tergite IV with 2 hairs, on tergites VI and VII mostly with 2, 
sometimes with 1 hair; marginal sclerites with 2 or 3 hairs; bar across tergite V 
with 18—24 hairs; tergite VIII with 8 hairs that may be up to 61/, times the 
mentioned diameter; pleural hairs irregularly present on tergites I—IV. Ventral 
hairs fine, acute and inconspicuous, mostly shorter than the mentioned diameter. 
Head normal, Myzocallis-like; antennae subequal in length to body, very pale with 
the apices of all segments but II, blackish; no rhinaria on segment III; hairs on 
inner side of segments I and II similar to those on vertex, but shorter; those on 
inner side of segment III still capitate but small and just shorter than basal dia- 
meter of the segment. Rostrum reaching to middle coxae; last segment rather 
short, subequal to second joint of hind tarsi, with 4—6 hairs besides the 3 sub- 
apical pairs. Siphunculi truncated-conical, as dark as the dorsal sclerites, with paler 


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base, approximately smooth, caudad fused with the marginal sclerite of tergite VI, 
that bears 2—3 hairs. Cauda, if it shrinks in mounts (Fig. 3), seemingly semi- 
circular with all the 8—12 hairs on the underside; if it does not shrink, cauda 
globular and the hairs ventrally on basal half. Subanal plate bilobed, the lobes at 
their bases far apart, curved inwards apicad. Two rudimentary gonapophyses. Legs 
quite pale with a dark smoky band around each femur a little basad the tip; tibiae 
spinulose near the tips, the hind tibiae spinulose over distal 1/3 part; first tarsal 
joints ventrally with 5 hairs, dorsally with 2; empodial hairs strongly enlarged, 
flat. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 

1. 1.79 1.63 0.39 031 031 (0.19 + 0.29) 0.06 0.13 

22 1.51 1.51 0.37 0.27 0.29 (0.18 + 0.28) 0.06 0.13 

3. 1.74 1.62 0455203121029 (04170127) 0.06 0.12 

4. 1535, 1.39 0.40 0.23 0.26 (0.15 + 0.25) ? 0.11 


(1-4, from Quercus dilatata?, Murree (7000 ft), Pakistan, 30.VI.1964). 


Alate viviparous female. 

Described from one specimen. Vertex laterally pale, in the middle dark smoky, 
like: the middle portions of pronotum, the upper part of the meso- and meta- 
notum, incised spinal bars across tergites I—IV, a spino-pleural bar, not touching 
the marginal sclerites, across tergite V, small paired spinal sclerites on tergites VI 
and VII, a narrow bar across tergite VIII and marginal sclerites on tergites IV— 
VI; the rest pale. Dorsal hairs shorter and thinner, blunt or with incrassate apices. 
Antennal segment III with 2 and 3 rather large roundish rhinaria near base. 
Wings with normal venation. The veins hardly visible; basal vein markedly 
bordered with dark brown; cubitus and three branches of media with dark brown 
dots at their tips; cubitus with a darkened, bordered base; stigma mostly colour- 
less with the caudal margin bordered and with a large blotch near the base. Hind 
wings with a narrow dusky border along their apex. Other characters as in apterous 
female. 


Mesasurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda Rhin. 
of body III IV. +M VI on III 
ils 1.85 1877) 0.48 0.34 0.33 (0.19 + 0.29) 0.06 0.12 2&3 


(with the apterae viviparae). 


Larvae. 

First instar larvae with all the spinal hairs and most of the marginal hairs on 
dark sclerites; all the dorsal hairs at equal mutual distances, gradually increasing 
in length caudad from mesonotum; no pleural hairs present; antennae of 4 seg- 
ments; segment III with 2 hairs, IV with 1 hair. 


D. HırıE Ris LAMBERS: Aphids from Pakistan 211 


Discussion. According to the collector, Dr. R. VAN DEN Boscu, the species lives 
in colonies on the undersides of its host plant, Quercus dilatata? No ants were 
attending the aphids. 

The species, apart from its cauda and the rather unusual abdominal sclerotisa- 
tion, looks like a rather normal Myzocallis. In larvae the cauda has an almost 
normal appearance, but even in the first instar the two hairs on the cauda are 
distinctly on the underside, while in later instars the hairs seem to recede on the 
underside, because the upperside, almost invisible in dorsal view, protrudes more 
and more. During mounting the very thin upperside collapses. Afterwards the 
cauda in dorsal view looks semicircular and rather normal because the upperside 
is so transparent that the ventral, almost basal, position of the caudal hairs can 
hardly be detected. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from 
Quercus dilatata?, Murree (7000 ft), 30.VI.1964 (R. VAN DEN BoscH), P-30a. 
Paratypes: 11 apterae and one alata with collecting data as for holotype. 


Hyadaphis coriandri (Das, 1918) and H. tataricae (Aizenberg, 1935). 


A large sample of a small Hyadaphis collected near Murree (7500 ft), West 
Pakistan, 3.VII.1964, led to a closer study of the above two species. The resem- 
blance between material of coriandri from various Umbelliferae from India to 
East Africa, and three samples of apterous tatartcae from Lonicera tatarica from 
Russia and Poland is so great that they would seem to belong to the same species. 
The only difference that I could find is in the shape of the siphunculi which in 
apterous specimens from Umbelliferae usually slightly taper from the base over 
two-thirds of their length, while in my few specimens from Lonicera from Poland 
and Russia they tend to be wider in the middle than at their basal one-third part. 
In the Pakistan apterae the siphunculi are almost as in apterae from Umbelliferae, 
but the cauda is less thick, while in the alatae the rhinaria are more tuberculate 
and slightly larger than in alatae from Umbelliferae. 

These facts suggest that, like foeniculi Pass., H. coriandri (Das) is a host 
alternating species, with Lonicera tatarica and probably other species of Lonicera 
(in the case of the Pakistan material a climbing one) as primary host plants, and 
various Umbelliferae as summer hosts. Hayhurstia tataricae Aizenberg, 1935, type- 
species of Neohayhurstia Aizenberg, 1954, appears to be a synonym of Brevicoryne 
coriandri Das, 1918, referred to Hyadaphis Kirkaldy, 1904. Other synonyms 
(Hire Ris LAMBERS, 1948) are Hyalopterus obscurus Theobald, 1922, Hya- 
daphis conica Borner, 1932, and Hyalopterus peucedani Hall, 1932, and according 
to EASTOP (1958) also Hyalopterus carii Theobald, 1929, and probably Hyalo- 
pterus albus Monzen, 1929. 


Liosomaphis atra spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 
In life dark purplish brown except centre of abdominal dorsum which is almost 
dirty greenish; legs and antennae pale, siphunculi dark on distal half. In mounted 


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specimens body shortly oval, about 1.30—1.60 mm long. Tergum blackish sclerotic 
with abdominal tergites I—VI solidly fused to a shield, which like the head, 
thoracic segments, and abdominal tergites VII and VIII is strongly wrinkled; the 
middle anterior part of the abdominal shield is often paler. Siphuncular base sur- 
rounded by a rather large membranous colourless area. Marginal tubercles ap- 
parently absent. Dorsal hairs short, subacute, on abdominal tergite III about half 
as long as basal diameter of antennal segment III, the 2 hairs on tergite VIII not 
much longer. Front with the broad, almost straight, middle part projecting beyond 
the insignificant frontal tubercles. Antennae pale with dark basal segments and 
somewhat dusky apex, about half as long as body; hairs on segment III about 
1/3—2/; of basal diameter of the segment. Rostrum long for the genus, reaching 
to or past the third pair of coxae; last segment about 9/, of second joint of hind 
tarsi, with 2 hairs besides the 3 subapical pairs. Siphunculi rather evenly pale, to 
dusky with pale base, about 1/, of length of body, twice the length of the cauda, 
with basal 2/,—1/. consisting of an almost cylindrical stem which is 11/4 times 
as thick as the hind tibiae; from the stem they abruptly increase in width to the 
middle of their length, to a maximum of about twice the width of the stem from 
where they more gradually decrease in width to the small flange where they are 
as thick as the hind tibiae; most of the swelling is, as usual, on the inner side; 
surface quite smooth with only at the very apex some transverse striae. Cauda 
cylindrical, or near base constricted, with distal half to one-third part tapering to 
the semiobtuse apex, of the colour of the distal part of the siphunculi, with 5 
hairs. Legs pale to evenly pale brownish yellow; first tarsal joints with 3, 3, 3 
hairs. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
ik 1.54 0.78 OO. DOD On OE ONE) 0.32 0.17 
2} 1.46 0.74 0.18 0.10 0.10 (0.11 + 0.14) 0.32 0.15 
3. 1.53 0.70 0.18 0.09 0.10 (0.10 + 0.13) 0.31 0.16 
4. 157 0.81 0.19 0.11 0.11 (0.12 + 0.18) 0.33 0.18 
Da 1.54 0.76 0.20 0.11 0.10 (0.11 + 0.13) 0.34 0.17 
6. 1.36 0.64 0.16 0.07 0.09 (0.09 + 0.14) 0.29 0.14 


(1—6, from Berberis sp., Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964). 


Discussion. Recently some more Liosomaphis species have been described from 
Asia (L. lydiae Narzykulov, 1957, later made the type of Berberidaphis Narzy- 
kulov, 1960; L. twranicus Narzykulov, 1960; and L. himalayensis Basu, 1964); all 
are pale insects, without strong sclerotisation of the dorsum. As to structure of 
siphunculi and cauda our species most strongly resembles L. twranicus Narzykulov, 
also in the length of the processus terminalis. In L. himalayensis the antennae and 
the processus terminalis are absolutely and relatively longer. The rostrum of our 
new species is conspicuously longer than that in the other species in which it 
barely reaches past the middle coxae. 


D. HırLLE Ris LAMBERS : Aphids from Pakistan 213 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from 
Berberis sp., Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1960 (R. VAN DEN BoscH), 
P-30b. Paratypes: apterous viviparous females with data as for holotype. 


Macrosiphum pachysiphon spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life very pale pink with black siphunculi. In mounted specimens body about 
3.0—3.5 mm long. Tergum membranous and almost colourless with the exception 
of vague smoky roundish pleural intersegmental sclerites on abdomen and hardly 
more distinct antesiphuncular sclerites, but without marginal or postsiphuncular 
sclerites. Dorsal hairs numerous and conspicuous, stiff, blunt, on tergite HI about 
11/,—11/, times as long as basal diameter of antennal segment III; marginal 
hairs quite numerous, tergite III often with 7—9 hairs on each side, tergite VIII 
with 8—10 hairs. Marginal tubercles small and flat, rather regularly present on 
tergites II—IV. Frontal tubercles strongly diverging, little developed; depth of 
frontal furrow only about 1/,—2/,, of the distance between the antennal bases, 
with flat to concave bottom; each frontal tubercle with 5—8 hairs, nearly all on 
the underside. Antennae pale with apex of segment III dusky, that of IV and V 
dark brownish black and the whole of VI blackish, about 7/g—1 times length of 
body; IIIrd segment smooth with the very base imbricated, with 2—7 (average 
of 26 antennae: 4.0) curiously sunk rhinaria on slightly elevated parts of the 
segment near its base, and with numerous, some 30, hairs the longest of which are 
as long as basal diameter of the segment; processus terminalis 41/3—5 times 
length of base of last segment. Rostrum reaching just past the middle coxae; last 
segment as in many Sztobion spp. somewhat constricted at base, not very blunt, 
rather short, about 2/3 of second hind tarsal joint, with 4—7 hairs besides the 
3 subapical pairs. Siphunculi very conspicuously black, thick, evenly tapering, at 
base 21/,—3 times as thick as the hind tibiae, at apex 11/,)—11/, times as 
thick as that joint, about 1/, of length of body, superficially but sharply imbricated 
from base to about distal 1/7 part which is distinctly reticulated, with very small 
flange, about 14/5 times as long as the cauda. Cauda pale, usually constricted at 
basal 1/3 part, rather slender, bluntish, with about 13—17 hairs. Legs long, pale 
with only the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi dark smoky; first tarsal joints with 
SMN hars? 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda Rhin. 

of body III IV V VI on III 
1. 3.09 2.92 0.77 0.52 0.51 (0.17 + 0.71) 0.81 0.45 3&4 
2) 3.49 3.09 0.83 0.61 0.51 (0.17 + 0.73) 0.89 0.52 5 & 6 
3. 3.35 3.07 0.82 0.56 0.49 (0.17 + 0.79) 0.87 0.49 5 &7 
4. 3.14 2.77 0.76 0.49 0.44 (0.15 + 0.69) 0.87 0.48 2&3 
DI 3.09 3.14 0.84 0.60 0.51 (0.16 + 0.78) 0.85 0.47 5&6 
6. 3.01 3.03 0.83 0.54 0.51 (0.16 + 0.75) 0.88 0.46 3&4 


(1—6, from Rubus sp., Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964). 


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Alate viviparous female. 

Colour in life not known, but abdomen presumably as in apterae. In mounted 
specimens head and thorax brownish, the abdomen with an elaborate, smoky 
sclerotic pattern, consisting of irregularly fragmented spinal sclerites, bearing 
1—3 hairs each, very small pleural sclerites, rather large transverse pleural inter- 
segmental sclerites and squarish marginal sclerites with many hairs. Antennae with 
the basal segments and the very base of segment III brownish like the head, the 
rest dark to black, but segment III usually distinctly blacker than segments IV 
and V; segment III with about 20—30 rhinaria that are larger and less sunken 
than in apterae, along one side of the segment, in irregular arrangement on basal 
half but in single file on distal half. Siphunculi more cylindrical and thinner than 
in apterae with distal 1/, part reticulated. Cauda thinner and more acute than in 
apterae. Legs with the femora blackish brown with pale base, tibiae brownish 
yellow with blackish apices. Wings with normal venation, but stigma elongated 
and the same dark or blackish colour as the subcostal vein system, so that the 
wings seem to have an anterior dark margin. Other characters more or less as in 
apterae viviparae. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda Rhin. 

of body ih INA NY VI on III 
ils 2.96 3.17, 0.83 0.64 0.53 (0.17 + 0.79) 0.69 0.37 19 & 27 
29 3.08 2.98 0.89 0.63 0.54 (0.16 + 0.74) 0.67 0.37 22& 24 
3. 29141 3.08 0.73 0.67 0.50 (0.16 + 0.80) 0.61 0.30 24 & 28 
4. 2.45 2.84 0.66 0.59 0.49 (0.15 + 0.73) 0.59 0.28 25 & 29 


(1—2, with apterae no. 1—6; 3—4, from Rubus lasiocarpus, Shillong, Assam, 
India, 1964 (Commonwealth Inst. of Biol. Control) ). 


Discussion. According to Dr. R. VAN DEN BOSCH, who collected the Pakistan 
material, this aphid lives in tight colonies on the tender canes of the host plant. 
His sample consisted of apterae with two alatae, presumably of the second 
generation, but the sample from Assam consisted mainly of alatae with a few 
damaged apterae, of which unfortunately the date of collecting was not given. 

In many respects this species resembles a Sztobion, e.g. by the last rostral seg- 
ment, the black siphunculi, the sclerotic pattern of the abdomen in alatae, etc. 
But the long and very numerous hairs on body and antennae make it impossible 
to place it in Sitobion Mordv. The very pale integumentum of apterae with which 
the very thick black siphunculi strongly contrast distinguish the species from all 
known relatives. Alatae can easily be recognized by their very dark subcostal vein 
system and blackish pterostigma. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Rubus 
sp., Murree (7000 ft), West Pakistan, 30.VI.1964 (R. VAN DEN Bosch), P-VI- 
30-j. Paratypes: apterous and alate viviparae with data as for holotype. Further 
material: numerous alatae and some damaged apterae viviparae from Rubus lasio- 
carpus, Shillong, Assam, India, 1964 (Commonwealth Inst. Biol. Control). 


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Matsumuraja capitophoroides spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life pale yellow with only the apices of antennal segments III—V, the part 
near the primary rhinaria on VI, and the distal part of the processus terminalis 
dark to blackish. In mounted specimens body elongated oval, very variable in 
length, from 1.30 to 2.25 mm long. Tergum colourless, not visibly sclerotic but 
actually thickened and marginally with semiglobular papillae which in dorsal view 
look like small thick round to oval rings. Dorsal hairs thick (0.005 mm) and stiff, 
rather variable in length, so that the spinal hairs on abdominal tergite III are 
about 0.035 mm, the pleural hairs, if present, 0.030 mm, the hairs on tergite VIII 
about 0.065 mm; in large specimens (second generation) pleural hairs often all 
present from tergite I to VI, appearing as duplicated spinal hairs, but in small 
specimens sometimes nearly all pleural hairs absent; marginal hairs in single pairs 
on each of the anterior abdominal segments, similar to the spinal hairs; all dorsal 
hairs distinctly knobbed, placed on strong conical sockets which are on top of short 
processes which, including the socket, in the case of spinal hairs are about as long 
as the hair on top. Head, except on the middle of vertex, quite rough by small 
spinules, with markedly diverging frontal tubercles; depth of frontal furrow about 
1/, of the distance between the antennae; numerous capitate hairs on strong 
sockets present on upper and under side of the head, also on the front and on the 
inner and under side of the frontal tubercles. Antennae 2/3—7/,9 of length of 
body, pale with pigmentation as in the living insect; first segment on inner side 
with a sausage-shaped, quite blunt processus about as long as the segment, bearing 
2—3 knobbed hairs; flagellum lightly imbricated; segment III with a few rather 
thin knobbed hairs of various length, the thickest of which are about 3/7 of the 
diameter of the segment at its widened very base. Rostrum reaching just past the 
middle coxae; last segment with almost straight, sometimes just concave sides, just 
swollen near apex, and therefore not acute, about as long as second joint of hind 
tarsi, with 2 hairs besides the 3 subapical pairs, one of which is placed far basad. 
Siphunculi pale with only the very apex dusky, about 1/,—2/, of length of body, 
lightly bluntly imbricated from base, but apical 1/7 part smooth, cylindrical and 
about 11/, times as thick as the hind tibiae, to just swollen on distal half where 
the diameter may be up to 11/, times the smallest on basal half, slightly attenu- 
ated (9/, 9 of minimum width on basal half) just below the small flange, 3— 
31/, times as long as the cauda. Cauda pale, bluntly triangular with slightly con- 
vex sides, with 4 hairs. Legs rather long, pale with dusky tarsi; first tarsal joints 
with 3, 3, 2 hairs. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
of body III IV V VI 
ie 1.51 1.07 0.24 0.16 0.16 (0.10 + 0.30) 0.34 0.12 
D 1.49 1.12 OS 0 TS “Oley (01021030) 0.39 0.12 
3. 2.06 1.33 OZ :0:210..0229. (022% 033) 0.50 0.14 
4. 1.97 1.39 OST 0:21, 1023, (092159037) 0.49 0.14 
5% 2.13 1.40 DD OPI OLD ODE OE) 0.47 0.16 
6. 2.12 1.41 01330 0022000220 (0113/1037) 0.51 0.15 


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(1—2, from Rubus sp., Murree (7500 ft), West Pakistan, 5.VII.1964; 3—4 
as 1—2, but 27.VI.1964). 


Discussion. According to Dr. R. VAN DEN BOSCH this species lives in often large 
colonies on the underside of the leaves of its host plant, a Rxbs species that 
apparently also serves as host to Macrosiphum pachysiphon spec. nov., of which 
a sample was received from Rubus lasiocarpus. It would seem that this species 
does not have host alternation as suggested by TAKAHASHI (1959) for Matsumu- 
raja rubifoliae Tak. The sample collected by Dr. VAN DEN BoscH on 30.VI on 
Rubus consisted of apterae with one alatoid nymph. In a species with host 
alternation such a composition of the population on its secondary host would seem 
unlikely in that area at that time, because many other aphid species were only in 
their second generation. From samples received from other sources it appears that 
the species is widely distributed along the southern slopes of the Himalayas. 

The present species can be distinguished from those species of which I have 
material available with the following key: 


Key to Matsumuraja Schumacher (apterae viviparae) 


1 (2). Antennal segment I at inner apex merely very angular or slightly 
protracted, not with a finger-shaped process that is much longer than its 
width halfway its length. On Rubus peltatus. Japan. . . M. sorini Tak. 

2 (1). Antennal segment I at inner apex with a long finger-shaped process 
that is longer than its width halfway its length. 

3 (6). Abdominal tergites I—V without long capitate hairs on strong sockets 
or processes, and only the short marginal hairs on these tergites, though 
short, sometimes capitate. Tergites VII and VIII always with long 
capitate hairs on processes, and sometimes also tergite VI. 

4 (5). Tergites VI—VIII with long capitate hairs. Siphunculi not or hardly 
swollen. Antennal segment III with the apical portion dark to blackish. 
On Rubus palmatus. Japan. . . . . . M. rubiphila Tak. 

5 (4). Tergites VII and VIII with long tele hairs. Siphunculi thick, 
distinctly somewhat swollen. Antennal segment III with pale apex. 


On Rubus sp. Japan. . . . re WE ge Role: 
6 (3). At least some spinal hairs on Kar I—V with capitate hairs on 
processes. 


7 (8). Marginal processes very long, the posterior ones as long as the siphun- 
culi, or rather two of the marginal processes are the siphunculi. On 
Clethra. Japan. According to TAKAHASHI (1959): ee of: 

M. rubifoliae Ta 

ST). All ae and oe, Ses ie present, very much shorter than 
the siphunculi. 

9 (10). Marginal processes on abdominal segments IV and V about as long as 
last rostral segment. Processus on antennal segment I very slenderly 
conical, almost pointed. On Rubus sp. Formosa. . . M. rubicola Tak. 

10 (9). Marginal processes absent, but the marginal hairs on strong conical 


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sockets. Processus on antennal segment I more cylindrical, or near apex 
thicker than halfway its length. 

11 (12). Long spinal processes present which are more than 3 times as long as 
their width in the middle and on abdominal tergite VI nearly half as 
long as the siphunculi. On Rubus. Japan. . . . . M. rubi Mats. 

12 (11). No long spinal processes present, but all the dorsal hairs on conical 
sockets, that together with the short processus are about as long as the 
hair on top. 

13 (14). Siphunculi with about distal 1/, part blackish, distinctly swollen, thicker 
at distal 1/, part than at basal 2/, part. Rostrum not with acutely 
triangular apical segment. Spinal hairs on abdominal tergites III—IV 
normally in single pairs. On Rubus. Japan.. . . M. rubifoliae Tak. 

14 (13). Like the preceding, but siphunculi with the apices hardly darker or only 
the very apex dusky, curved inwards, from the strongly tapering base 
almost completely cylindrical with a constriction at the tip. Rostrum 
with acutely triangular last segment. A few or all spinal hairs ne 
of the de Hi On Rubus sp. W. Pakistan. . 

BER, rh: : M. capitophoroides spec. nov. 


In the above key Matsumuraja formosana Tak., 1925, is not considered because 
I have no authentic specimens. According to the description it resembles M. capz- 
tophoroides spec. nov. closely, but the spinal processes on the anterior abdominal 
tergites must be much larger, as long as or longer than the second antennal seg- 
ment, while spinally additional capitate hairs may occur. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Rubus 
sp., Murree (7500 ft), West Pakistan, 5.VII.1964. Paratypes: apterous viviparous 
females with data as for holotype, and others collected on 27.VI.1964 and 30.VI. 
1964. 


Periphyllus vandenboschi spec. nov. 


Apterous female. 

Colour in life not known, but probably light green with pitch black siphunculi. 
In mounted specimens body about 1.35—2.00 mm long, rather slender. Tergum 
completely unpigmented with antennal segment I brown, and the apex of segment 
V and the whole segment VI dark to blackish. Hairs on dorsum numerous and 
long, the long spinal hairs on abdominal segment III 6—7 times as long as basal 
diameter of antennal segment III, with extremely fine apices. Front straight to 
just concave. Antennae 3/,—7/g of length of body; hairs on segment III 
numerous, up to 51/,—6 times basal diameter of the segment; base of segment VI 
with 2 hairs, the longest of which is about 0.12 mm, 14 times diameter of proces- 
sus terminalis, 11/, times the length of the basal part of the segment; the shortest 
of the two 0.09 mm; processus terminalis about as long as antennal segment III, 
3—4 times basal part of segment VI. Rostrum reaching to the hind coxae; last 
segment rather thick and obtuse, just shorter than second joint of hind tarsi, with 
4—7 hairs besides the 3 subapical pairs. Siphunculi deep black, 2/3 of the second 


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joints of hind tarsi in length, cylindrical or with smallest width in the middle and 
there about 0.045 mm thick, only on the wide flange reticulated with one row of 
cells with sometimes one or two cells of a second row. Cauda pale, rather well 
developed, 1/,—2/; times as long as its basal width, semioval to semicircular, not 
constricted at base, with many hairs. Legs pale with the tarsi dusky, rather slender; 
first tarsal joints with 5, 5, 5 hairs. 


Measurements in mm. 


Length Ant. Ant. segments Siph. Cauda 
No. of body III IV V VI 
ile 1.63 1.32 0.36 0.24 0.17 (0.09 + 0.34) 0.09 0.07 
D, 1.58 1.29 036 0.21 0.17 (0.09 + 0.34) 0.09 0.07 
3. 1.68 1.33 0.36 023 0.16 (0.11 + 0.35) 0.09 0.07 
4. 1.93 1.48 0390268 102100 (0010037) 0.09 0.07 
5. 1.40 1.14 0302. O03” O25) (OLS 082) - 0.07 0.05 
6. 1.84 1.44 0.38 024 0.20 (0.11 + 0.37) 0.08 0.07 


_ (1—3, Acer sp., Murree (7500 ft), West Pakistan, 4. VII.1964; 4—6, idem but 
.27.V1.1964). 


Larvae. 

First instar larvae with the siphunculi black as in adults, all with long and fine 
hairs, without pleural hairs on abdomen, with 2 caudal hairs, with 4 hairs on the 
subanal plate; hairs on last antennal segment (fourth) as in adults. 


Discussion. Two large samples of this aphid, consisting only of apterae vivi- 
parae and larvae were collected on the petioles of an Acer sp. near Murree. The 
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, most kindly supplied the 
information that the most likely Acer spp. in the vicinity of Murree would be 
A. caesium Wall. ex Brand, A. villosum Wall. or A. pictum Thunb. The aphid 
colonies were heavily attended by ants. 

Very few Periphyllus species have only 5 hairs on the first tarsal joints normally, 
though this may occur in small specimens of some species that normally have 7 
tarsal hairs. Characteristic for the adult apterae are the complete absence of local 
sclerotisation or pigmentation in contrast to the quite black cylindrical siphunculi, 
the embryos with normal hairs, and the length and interrelation of length of the 
two long hairs on the basal part of antennal segment VI. In most respects the 
species resembles P. obscurus Mamontova from Acer campestre, but that species 
has conical and slightly more reticulated siphunculi, pigmentation on the head 
and abdominal tergite VIII, faint sclerites at the bases of the dorsal hairs, and 
7, 7, 7 hairs on the first tarsal joints. A nearly related species from Iran has nor- 
mally 3, considerably longer, hairs on the basal part of last antennal segment, 
7, 7, 7 hairs on the first tarsal joints, and aestivating larvae with foliate marginal 
hairs. 

The species is named after Dr. R. van DEN BoscH, Berkeley, California, who 
discovered this and nearly all the other species described in this paper. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1), from Acer 


D. HıLıE Ris LAMBERS: Aphids from Pakistan 219 


sp., Murree (7500 ft), West Pakistan, 4.VII.1964 (R. VAN DEN BoscH), P-VII-4a. 
Paratypes: many apterous viviparae with data as for holotype, and others collected 
on 27.VI.1964 (R. VAN DEN BoscH), P-VI-27a. 


Pseudessigella gen. nov. 


Body elongated, narrow, with few hairs. Eyes without distinct triommatidia. 
Antennae in adults of 5 segments. Last rostral segment not subdivided, very short 
and blunt. Siphunculi, rimmed pores on a very small, hairless sclerite. Cauda 
rounded. First tarsal joints with 5 ventral hairs, in apterae not with dorsal hairs, 
those of hind legs ventrally 11/, times as long as dorsally. Claws not with cleft 
apices. 

Type-species: Pseudessigella brachychaeta spec. nov. 


Discussion. The genus is nearly related to Ewlachnus del Guercio. It lives like 
that genus on the needles of Pinus spp. If differs from Ewlachnus in having 5 
instead of 6 antennal segments and in that respect agrees with the American genus 
Essigella del Guercio which it also strongly resembles in the extremely short 
processus terminalis. It differs from Essigella in having claws with simple, acute 
apices. 


Pseudessigella brachychaeta spec. nov. 


Apterous viviparous female. 

In life pale green. In mounted specimens body about 2.0—2.6 mm long, very 
elongated, about 31/, times as long as its maximum width. Tergum membranous, 
with extremely small fuscous sclerites around the bases of the dorsal hairs, with 
similarly coloured roundish pleural and marginal intersegmental sclerites (‘‘Mus- 
kelplatten”) of about 0.02 mm in diameter, and with pleural, longitudinal groups 
of 2—3 irregular sclerites pigmented like the smoky stigmal plates. Dorsal hairs 
on abdominal tergite III about 14 in number, 8 of which are marginal, curved, 
with incrassate apex, only about 0.0125—0.017 mm long. Head pale brownish 
yellow, dorsally and frontally with hairs like the dorsal ones, ventrally with thin 
acute hairs of about 0.046 mm long. Front strongly convex. Antennae short and 
curved, evenly pale brownish yellow with slightly darker apex, 1/.—1/4 of length 
of body, about 11/3 times as long as the width of the head across the eyes, without 
secondary rhinaria; segment I and II smooth, but the other segments very in- 
conspicuously imbricated; primary rhinaria of segment IV about equal to basal 
diameter of segment V, hardly larger than the primary rhinarium of segment V 
which is only 1/, of its diameter from the tip of the segment, and round in shape; 
hairs on segment III sparse, blunt, short, only half as long as the diameter of the 
segment as its narrowed base. Rostrum reaching beyond the middle coxae; apical 
segment very blunt, short, about 1/3 of the second joint of hind tarsi, with only 
the 3 subapical pairs of hairs. Siphunculi small, only 0.02 mm in diameter, hardly 
elevated, placed on a pale brown hairless sclerite of about 0.042—0.046 mm in 
diameter. Abdominal tergite VIII consisting of one wide dusky sclerotic ring, 
with 16—18 very short hairs. Cauda semilunar, blunt, thick, over twice as wide as 


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long, with some 30 hairs of various lengths. Legs pigmented like the head, with 
the fore and middle femora very strongly swollen on basal 1/, part dorsally, 
ventrally almost straight; hind tibiae nearly twice as long as the middle tibiae; 
first tarsal joints elongate, those of hind legs ventrally 11/, times as long as 
dorsally, 21/9 times diameter of the joint, with 3 (one short, two long) hairs 
ventro-apically and 2 hairs ventrally more basad; second tarsal joints only at the 
very apex darkened; claws slender and acute. 


Measurements in mm. 


No. Length Ant. Ant. segments Diam. Cauda 
of body III IV Vv siph. 
ils 2.25 0.49 0.20 0.08 0.09 0.02 0.07 
Di 2.44 0.52 0.21 0.09 0.10 0.02 0.07 
3. 2.09 0.47 0.18 0.08 0.09 0.02 0.07 
4. 217 0.52 0.20 0.08 0.10 0.02 0.07 
5. 2.53 0.55 0.21 0.09 0.11 0.02 0.07 
6. 2.43 0.51 0.20 0.09 0.10 0.02 0.07 


(1—6, from Pinus wallichiana (P. excelsa), Murree, West Pakistan, 4.VII. 
1964). 


Discussion. This aphid lives on the very long needles of the host plant, like 
members of the genera Ewlachnus and Essigella. It is easy to distinguish the 
species from related aphids: no other species of this group is known with simple, 
sharp claws and five antennal segments. 


Types. Holotype: apterous viviparous female (measurements no. 1) from Pinus 
wallichiana (excelsa), Murree, West Pakistan, 4.VII.1964 (R. VAN DEN BOSCH), 
P-VII-4d. Paratypes: apterae viviparae with data as for holotype. 


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Dr. J. T. Wiebes (1966—1969), Leiden. 


BESTUUR DER AFDELING VOOR TOEGEPASTE ENTOMOLOGIE 
Dr. A. F. H. Besemer, Voorzitier, Wageningen. 
Ir. P. Gruys, Secretaris, Rheden. 
Dr. Ir. L. Bravenboer, Naaldwijk. 
J. J. Laarman, Leiden. 
Dr. Ir. J. B. M. van Dinther, Bennekom. 


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UNIVERSITY 


CATALOGUS DER NEDERLANDSE MACROLEPIDOPTERA 
(DERTIENDE SUPPLEMENT) 


DOOR 


B. J. LEMPKE 


Amsterdam 


ABSTRACT 


This part of the catalogue contains the end of the subfamily Amphipyrinae and the sub- 
families belonging to the group of the Quadrifinae, being the last part of the family Noctuidae. 

The particulars for each species are given in the same sequence as in the preceding parts: 
time of appearance, discussion of the biotope(s), new localities and variation. 


AMPHIPYRINAE 
(voortzetting) 


Charanica Billberg 


Charanica trigrammica Hufnagel. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 87; Cat. VII : (414). 
In het Hafdistrict en het westelijke deel van het Fluviatiele District zijn enkele 
nieuwe vindplaatsen bekend geworden: Sexbierum (1964, STOBBE), Aerdt (1965, 
PEERDEMAN), Middelie (1952, DE BOER), Purmerend (1946, in aantal, HUISEN- 
GA), Capelle aan den IJssel (VERKAIK), Melissant (1959, HUISMAN). Waarschijn- 
lijk zijn dit voor het grootste deel toch wel zwervers van de zandgronden, hetzij 
uit het duingebied (op Goeree komt de vlinder ook voor), hetzij dat zij behoorden 
tot een populatie van een nabij gelegen spoorbaan. Daarentegen schijnt de vlinder 
wel tot de fauna van het Amsterdamse Bos te behoren, daar hij hier vrij geregeld, 
doch niet in groot aantal, wordt gevangen (PEERDEMAN). Een merkwaardige 
vindplaats is ook Botshol (WOLSCHRIJN c.s.), hoewel dit moerasgebied meer 
„zandgrondsoorten” heeft opgeleverd. Overigens is aan de in 1943 gegeven ver- 
spreiding niets nieuws toe te voegen, ook niet wat het voorkomen op de wadden- 
eilanden betreft. 

De vliegtijd kan al begin mei aanvangen. De vroegste datum is nu: 5.V, in 
1963 waargenomen door Pater MUNSTERS te Stein, zodat de uiterste data nu 
worden: 5.V—27.VII. 

Variabiliteit. De donkere vormen zijn over het algemeen zeldzaam en 
ontbreken op vele plaatsen zelfs volkomen. Van een toename is niets te bespeuren. 
Of ze dominant zijn, is zeer te betwijfelen. COCKAYNE vermeldt in Ent. Rec. 37 : 
142 (1925) het resultaat van een kweek, afkomstig van een prachtig donker 9. 
Geen enkel exemplaar van de F,-generatie was donker. Zeer waarschijnlijk was 
de vorm dan ook recessief. 

f. albescens Lenz, 1927. Exemplaren met zeer lichte haast witachtige voorvleu- 


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gels zijn zeldzaam. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Stein 
(Missiehuis). 

f. erubescens Turati, 1909. Exemplaren met opvallend roodachtig gekleurde 
voorvleugels zijn evenmin gewoon. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Frederiksoord, Heems- 
kerk (Zoöl. Mus.); Stein (Missiehuis). 

f. semifuscans Haworth, 1809. Exemplaren waarbij de voorvleugels vanaf de 
schaduwlijn duidelijk donkerder zijn dan de basale helft (plaat 3 fig. 1), werden 
nog aangetroffen te: Holten (LUKKIEN); Zeist (GORTER); ‘s-Graveland (WEs- 
TERNENG); Den Haag, Oostkapelle, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.) ; Stein (Missiehuis, VAN 
DE POL). : 

f. fuscolimbata nov. De voorvleugels verdonkerd vanaf de tweede dwarslijn 
tot de achterrand. Plaat 3 fig. 2. Twello, 4, 2.VI.1938 (holotype), Vijlen, &, 
1963 (Zoöl. Mus.); Nieuwkuik, &, 1952 (DIDDEN); Montfort, 4, 1960 
(MAASSEN). 


[Fore wings darkened from the postmedian to the outer margin.] 


f. paradoxa nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels donkerbruin, maar de ruimte 
tussen eerste dwarslijn en schaduwlijn lichtbruin, zodat een brede lichte midden- 
band ontstaat. Plaat 3 fig. 3. Stein, &, 29.V.1960 (holotype, VAN DE Por). Een 
exemplaar van 1961 in de collectie van het Missiehuis aldaar. 


[Ground colour of the fore wings dark brown, but the area between central shade and 
postmedian pale brown, so that a broad pale central band results.] 


f. brunnea Lenz, 1927. De vorm met eenkleurig donker bruinachtige voor- 
vleugels met min of meer duidelijke dwarslijnen werd verder bekend van: Apel- 
doorn (LEFFEF); Warnsveld (CARON); Ruurlo (LUKKIEN) ; Babberich (ELFRINK) ; 
Slijk-Ewijk, Rijckholt, Eijs (VAN DE POL); Zeist (GORTER); Oostvoorne (LUCAS); 
Geulem, Eperheide, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Stein (Missiehuis); Gronsveld (VAN 
AARTSEN ). 

f. obscura Tutt, 1891. De vorm met donkere zwartachtig grijze voorvleugels 
met meestal slechts twee dwarslijnen werd nog aangetroffen te: Holten (LuK- 
KIEN) ; Twello, Doetinchem, Gronsveld, Eperheide, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Eiber- 
gen (VAN WESTEN); Babberich (ELFRINK); Amersfoort (CARON); Oostvoorne 
(Lucas); Stein (Missiehuis). 

(De donkere vormen worden dus vooral in het oosten en zuidoosten van het 
land gevonden en niet zelden beide op dezelfde vindplaatsen). 

f. pallidalinea Tutt, 1891. Eenkleurig donkere exemplaren, waarbij de eerste 
en tweede dwarslijn opvallend licht afgezet zijn, werden gevangen te: Twello, 
Berg en Dal (Zoöl. Mus.); Hoog-Keppel (LEFFEF); Stein, Rijckholt (VAN DE 
Por). Blijkbaar vrij zeldzaam. 

f. basivoluta Wihan, 1917. Van de vorm waarbij de halve en de eerste dwarslijn 
langs de voorrand van de voorvleugels met elkaar verbonden zijn door een don- 
kere lijn, werden de volgende nieuwe vindplaatsen bekend: Colmschate, Hoog- 
Keppel, Bussum, Rotterdam, Geulem (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. approximata Haworth, 1809. Exemplaren, waarbij de schaduwlijn en de 
eerste dwarslijn elkaar aan de binnenrand van de voorvleugels sterk naderen, zijn 


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stellig niet zeldzaam. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Amerongen (GORTER); Amsterdam, 
Heemskerk, Eperheide (Zoöl. Mus.); Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH); Leiden, 
Oostvoorne (Lucas); Rijckholt (VAN DE POL). 

f. convergens Wihan, 1917. Van de vorm, waarbij schaduwlijn en eerste dwars- 
lijn elkaar aan de binnenrand raken, werden enkele nieuwe vindplaatsen bekend: 
Zeist (GORTER); Heemskerk (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. fasciata Krombach, 1920. Een exemplaar met duidelijk verbrede midden- 
schaduw is afgebeeld op plaat 3 fig. 4. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Noordlaren, Heem- 
stede, Stein (VAN DE Por); Havelte (VAN DER MEULEN); Wilp (TER LAAG); 
Woudenberg, Bunnik (CARON); Zeist (GORTER); Heemskerk (AUKEMA); Oost- 
voorne (LUCAS); Deurne (Nies); Eperheide (Zoöl. Mus.). Blijkbaar een vrij 
verbreide vorm. 


[KROMBACH writes: “Mit auffallend verbreiteter Mittelbinde”, with strikingly widened 
central band. In my opinion this means that it is the central shade which is widened, not the 
central area (‘‘Mittelfeld’’ in German). TURNER’s translation “with extraordinarily wide 
band” in Brit. Noct., suppl. 1: 322 (1934) is not exact.} 


f. obsoleta Lempke, 1943. Een eenkleurig donkerbruin exemplaar van Doetin- 
chem mist alle dwarslijnen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. renata Lenz, 1927. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van exemplaren met donker gerande 
niervlek: Putten (Zoöl. Mus.); Bennekom (VAN DE Por). 

f. oculata Wihan, 1917. Nieuwe vindplaats van exemplaren met donker gevulde 
niervlek (die dan in de schaduwlijn ligt): Leiden (Lucas). 

Dwerg. Blaricum (BERGMAN). 

Teratologisch exemplaar. Linker achtervleugel te klein. Ermelo 
(BRANGER). 


Hoplodrina Boursin 


Hoplodrina alsines Brahm. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 96; Cat. VII : (423). Van 
de waddeneilanden is de soort nu bekend van Schiermonnikoog (VAN WISSE- 
LINGH), Terschelling (gewoon, LEFFEF, TANIS) en Vlieland (CAMPING). Overi- 
gens is aan de in 1943 opgegeven verbreiding van de haast overal gewone vlinder 
niets nieuws toe te voegen. 

De uiterste data van de vliegtijd blijven bijna ongewijzigd: 3.VI—16.VIII. 

Variabiliteit. f. suffusa Tutt, 1891. De vorm met sterk verdonkerde 
vleugels is niet zeldzaam en komt vrij verbreid onder de soort voor. 

f. elegans Lempke, 1943. Exemplaren met helder geelbruine scherp getekende 
voorvleugels werden nog aangetroffen te: Borne (VAN WESTEN); Apeldoorn 
(Zoöl. Mus.) ; Heemstede (VON HERWARTH); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD). 

(f. rufescens Lempke, 1943. Moet vervallen. Het exemplaar behoort zonder 
twijfel tot Hoplodrina blanda; de roodachtige tint is geheel verdwenen. De twee 
soorten zijn naar de genitalién niet met zekerheid te determineren. 

f. bimaculata nov. Voorvleugels met scherp afstekende geheel donker gevulde 
ronde en niervlek. Plaat 3 fig. 5. Zeist, &, 8.VII.1949 (holotype, GORTER). 


[Upper side fore wings: orbicular and reniform completely filled with a dark colour 
(black-brown), strongly contrasting with the ground colour.} 


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f. centrifasciata nov. Voorvleugels met opvallend donkere middenschaduw. 
Plaat 3 fig. 6. Slijk-Ewijk, 4, 13.VI.1960 (holotype, VAN DE Por); Eindhoven 
(VAN DER WOLF). 


[Fore wings with strikingly dark central shade.] 


f. clausa Lempke, 1943. Behalve het holotype van Twello (3, 8.VII.1930), 
dat zich nu in het Zoòl. Mus. bevindt, zijn geen andere exemplaren bekend ge- 
worden. Bij deze vorm raken eerste en tweede dwarslijn elkaar aan de binnenrand. 
Zie plaat 3 fig. 7. 

Dwerg. Gronsveld (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Hoplodrina blanda Schiff. Tijdschrift Entom. 85 : 94; Cat. VII : (421). Al is 
de minder bont getekende soort over het algemeen niet zo gewoon als de vorige, 
uit de combinatie van beide lijsten van vindplaatsen blijkt wel, dat hij toch in 
vrijwel het gehele land is aan te treffen, evenmin zonder duidelijke voorkeur voor 
een of meer bepaalde biotopen. De vlinder is nu bekend van drie van de wadden- 
eilanden. 

De vliegtijd kan tot begin september duren. De uiterste data zijn nu: 12.VI— 
6.IX. De laatste datum werd in 1951 genoteerd door LANDSMAN. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling, Vlieland, Leeuwarden, Tjerkwerd, Friens, Olter- 
terp, Wijnjeterp, Oosterwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Rijs. Gr.: Borgercompagnie, Ter 
Borgh. Dr.: Donderen, Eelde, Zuidlaren, Eext, Schoonlo, Odoorn. Ov.: Volthe, Saasveld 
(Molenven), Rijssen, Holten, Rechteren, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Deventer, Zwartsluis, Vollen- 
hove, Marknesse. Flevoland: Lelystad. Gdl.: Ermelo, Hulshorst, Epe, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, 
Uchelen, Empe, Laag-Soeren, Hoenderlo, Wageningen, Eefde, de Voorst, Wientjesvoort, 
Ruurlo, Hoog-Keppel, Loerbeek, Babberich, Aerdt; Berg en Dal, Ingen, Slijk-Ewijk. Utr.: 
Soesterberg, Maarsseveen, Hollandse Rading, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Naarden, 
Bussum, Kortenhoef, Weesp, Zaandam, Wormerveer, Middelie, Hoorn, Den Helder, Egmond 
aan Zee, Heilo, Heemskerk, Velzen, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Noorden, Reeuwijk, Oegstgeest, 
Wassenaar, Meijendel, Voorschoten, Leidschendam, Staelduin, Vlaardingen, Capelle aan den 
IJssel, Arkel, Gorkum, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Oostvoorne, Middelharnis, Melis- 
sant, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Zoute- 
lande, Goes, Groede, Cadzand. N.B.: Sint Michielsgestel, Haaren, Best, Nuenen, Bergeijk, 
Someren, Deurne, Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis, Gassel. Lbg.: Geijsteren, Sevenum, Griends- 
veen, Grubbenvorst, Swalmen, Roggel, Montfort, Stein, Heerlerbaan, Kerkrade, Geulem, 
Bunde, Cannerbos, Gronsveld, Bocholtz, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. suffusa Prout, 1895. Op het ogenblik is de donker 
bruingrijze vorm de overheersende vorm van het 2 geworden. Bij het ¢ komt hy 
daarentegen veel minder voor (in het Zoöl. Mus. slechts vijf exemplaren van 
Doetinchem, Amsterdam, Oostkapelle en Valkenisse). Plaat 3 fig. 8. Een extreem 
& met bruinzwarte voorvleugels van Melissant (HUISMAN). 

f. redacta Haworth, 1809. Exemplaren met zuiver grijsachtige voorvleugels nog 
van Apeldoorn, Wiessel, Valkenisse en Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Leiden (Lucas). 

f. pallidior Lenz, 1927. Een goed exemplaar met licht grijsbruine onduidelijk 
getekende voorvleugels van Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE Por) is afgebeeld op plaat 3 
fig. 9. 

f. bimaculata nov. Voorvleugels met scherp afstekende geheel donker gevulde 
ronde en niervlek. Plaat 3 fig. 10. Lelystad, 4, 1.VII.1961 (holotype, VAN DE 
Por). 


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[Upper side fore wings: orbicular and reniform completely filled with a dark colour, 
strongly contrasting with the ground colour.] 


Dwerg. Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 


Hoplodrina ambigua Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 95 : 278; Cat. XI : (889). Het 
is nu wel duidelijk, dat deze soort in de loop van de veertiger jaren van onze eeuw 
zijn areaal in noordelijke richting heeft uitgebreid en daarbij ook ons land heeft 
bereikt. Daar hij elk jaar in de trekverslagen is opgenomen, is het niet moeilijk 
een goede indruk te krijgen van het verloop van het voorkomen hier te lande. Na 
de vangst van het eerste exemplaar in 1946 werd ambigua pas weer in 1949 ge- 
meld, nu in acht stuks. Maar reeds de drie volgende jaren vloog het aantal omhoog 
tot 110, 280 en 223 stuks. In 1954 en 1955 vielen de totalen terug tot resp. 98 
en 64 stuks, maar beslist slecht waren 1956, 57 en ’58 met 17, nul en 16 stuks, 
zodat het er op begon te lijken, dat de vlinder zich hier op de duur niet zou kun- 
nen handhaven. Doch het jaar daarop kwamen we weer tot bijna 200 stuks. Op- 
vallend goed waren 1961 en 1962 met 2863 en 2388 getelde exemplaren. 1963 
bracht het slechts tot 135 stuks, maar 1964 was weer veel beter (480 stuks). Zeer 
slecht was 1965 (38 stuks). Er zijn dus sterke schommelingen in de aantallen, 
die voor een belangrijk deel wel veroorzaakt worden door oecologische factoren. 

Hoewel de vlinder op verscheidene plaatsen benoorden de grote rivieren is 
waargenomen, is toch wel duidelijk geworden, dat hij zich ten zuiden ervan het 
beste thuis voelt. Hier wordt hij het regelmatigst waargenomen en hier zijn de 
aantallen in de regel ook het grootst. 

De vliegtijd kan in de tweede helft van mei beginnen en nog voortduren tot in 
oktober. De uiterste data zijn nu: 21.V—10.X. Ongetwijfeld komen er twee gene- 
raties voor, waarvan de grens in juli ligt. Alle jaren bij elkaar geven echter geen 
scherpe scheiding meer te zien, hoewel die er in de afzonderlijke seizoenen in de 
regel wel is. 

Op de waddeneilanden is ambigua tot nog toe alleen op Terschelling aange- 
troffen (1956, LEFFEF). De in 1953 vermelde vindplaats Leeuwarden bleek later 
onjuist te zijn. Overigens volgt hierna een volledige lijst van alle plaatsen, waar 
de vlinder tot nog toe is waargenomen, zonder verdere biezonderheden, daar die 
in de trekverslagen te vinden zijn. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: West-Terschelling, Nijetrijne. Ov.: Deventer. Gdl.: Wiessel, 
Apeldoorn, Wageningen, Bennekom; Gorssel, Eefde, Warnsveld, de Voorst, Rekken, Hack- 
fort, Aalten, Hoog-Keppel (Ulenpas), Groessen; Hatert, Slijk-Ewijk. Utr.: Zeist, Utrecht. 
N.H.: Amsterdamse Bos, Castricum, Heemskerk, Overveen, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Leiden, Den 
Haag, Staelduin, Oostvoorne, Nieuw Helvoet, Hellevoetsluis, Melissant, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, 
Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Goes, Cadzand. N.B.: Hoogerheide, Chaam, 
Oostelbeers, Best, Eindhoven, Nuenen, Deurne. Lbg.: Plasmolen, de Hamert, Arcen, Griends- 
veen, Sevenum, Grubbenvorst, Velden, Venlo, Tegelen, Steijl, Swalmen, Maasniel, Roggel, 
Moesel, Roermond, Maalbroek, Melick, Sint Odiliënberg, Montfort, Echt, Sittard, Stein, 
Brunssum, Heerlen, Chrèvremont, Kerkrade, Geulem, Neercanne, Sint Pietersberg, Cadier, 
Gronsveld, Rijckholt, Epen, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. brunnescens Lempke, 1953. Exemplaren met bruingrijze 
voorvleugels werden verder nog bekend van: Oostvoorne (Lucas); Melissant 
(HUISMAN). 


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f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels sterk verdonkerd. Plaat 3 
fig. 11. Wageningen, Slijk-Ewijk, 9, 13.VII.1960 (holotype, VAN DE Por); 
Burgh (GORTER); Bergeijk, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH); Maalbroek (Mus. Rotter- 
dam); Montfort (BOGAARD). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings strongly darkened. ] 


f. protensa nov. Ronde vlek wortelwaarts uitgerekt tot de eerste dwarslijn. 
Maasniel, 4, 13.IX.1960 (holotype, Mus. Rotterdam). 


[Orbicular lengthened in the direction of the base and touching the antemedian.] 


f. juncta nov. Ronde vlek en niervlek raken elkaar. Melissant, 9, 4.IX.1960 
(holotype, HUISMAN). 


[Orbicular and reniform touch each other. } 


f. benesignata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels met scherpe donkere eerste en 
tweede dwarslijn. Aalten, 4, 28.VIII.1950 (holotype, VAN GALEN); Melissant, 
4, 12.VI.1962 (HUISMAN). 


[Fore wings with sharp dark antemedian and postmedian.] 


Dwergen. Melissant (HUISMAN); Oostkapelle (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Spodoptera Guenée 


Spodoptera exigua Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 85: 104; Cat. VII: (431). 
Het voorkomen in Nederland, zoals wij dat tot nog toe kennen, demonstreert weer 
duidelijk, dat voor verschillende soorten de laatste 20 jaar een gunstiger periode 
is aangebroken, die hen in staat stelt veel verder noordwaarts te komen, dan dat 
daarvoor het geval was, ook al houden we rekening met het intensievere vangen 
in de moderne tijd. Na de eerste vangst in 1868 duurde het tot 1937, vòòr de 
soort weer in ons land gesignaleerd werd, terwijl het volgende jaar zelfs tien stuks 
gevangen werden. 1941 leverde één waarneming, maar vanaf 1944 tot nu is de vlin- 
der in meer dan de helft van het aantal jaren hier te lande aangetroffen. In de 
regel echter is het aantal exemplaren klein, maar een enkele keer komt het boven 
de tien (1952 met 13, 1958 met 14). Alles overtreffend echter was het jaar 1962, 
toen hier niet minder dan 227 stuks geteld werden, die tussen 5 mei en 20 oktober 
voor het grootste deel in het westen van het land werden waargenomen. Deze 
immigratie hing duidelijk samen met de Britse. Onze overburen bereikten echter 
een totaal van 746 stuks, wat ook voor hen een record betekende dat vooral 
veroorzaakt werd door de gunstiger ligging van de Engelse zuidkust. 

Exceptioneel was de vangst van een exemplaar op 3 maart 1952 (VAN WISSE- 
LINGH). Ook blijkens de Engelse ervaring is dat jaar de migratie zeer vroeg be- 
gonnen. Soms worden de aanvliegers in mei waargenomen (1958, 1962, 1964) 
of in juni (1946, 1962, 1964). Juli-vangsten zijn evenmin gewoon (1868, 1937, 
1938, 1952, 1962, 1964), maar komen blijkens het aantal jaren dat ze plaats von- 
den, toch wat meer voor. Augustus echter is nu wel duidelijk de beste maand voor 
de soort. In verschillende jaren is de vlinder ook in september gevangen en zelfs 


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in oktober. De kroon echter spant het jaar 1963, toen maar één enkel exemplaar 
werd gemeld, en wel op 9 november! In alle jaren, dat er vroege immigranten 
werden waargenomen (maart, mei, juni), werden ook later in het seizoen weer 
exemplaren gevangen. Dit is een aanwijzing, dat het dier zich hier in de zomer 
althans één generatie kan voortplanten. Niets wijst er echter op, dat exigua in 
staat zou zijn ook wel eens onze winter door te komen. Na het topjaar 1962 kwam 
in het volgende jaar alleen de ene november-vangst! 

In het volgende overzicht zijn alle vindplaatsen na 1943 vermeld met de jaren 
van waarneming zonder verdere biezonderheden. Deze zijn steeds in de trekvlin- 
derverslagen te vinden. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Sexbierum (1962). Dr.: Ruinen (1962). Ov.: Holten (1952). 
Flevoland: Lelystad (1962). Gdl.: Ede (1948), Dieren (1962); Warnsveld (1947); Buren 
(1962). Utr.: Zeist (1959). N.H.: 's-Graveland (1958), Amsterdamse Bos (1962), Halfweg 
(1962, 1966), Middelie (1949), Heemskerk (1962), Overveen (1964), Aerdenhout (1946, 
1947, 1952, 1958), Heemstede (1956). Z.H.: Leiden (1952), Staelduin (1952), Arkel 
(1962), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (1964), Oostvoorne (1958, 1962, 1964), Melissant (1958, 
1966), Ouddorp (1966). Zl.: Haamstede (1962), Burgh (1962), Westenschouwen (1962), 
Oostkapelle (1962, 1964), Valkenisse (1962, 1964). N.B.: Best (1962), Bergeijk (1962), 
Deurne (1944, 1945, 1946). Lbg.: Belfeld (1964), Swalmen (1958, 1959), Stein (1958, 
1962, 1964), Heerlerbaan (1958), Schaesberg (1952), Epen (1958). 


Variabiliteit. De grondkleur van de voorvleugels varieert van een lichter 
tot een donkerder grijs. De ronde vlek heeft soms nauwelijks een donkerder kern, 
meestal is deze donker bruinachtig, soms is de kern mooi roodbruin en kan de vlek 
vrijwel geheel vullen. Al deze verschillen gaan echter zo geleidelijk in elkaar over, 
dat het met het thans beschikbare materiaal vrijwel onmogelijk is bepaalde vormen 
te onderscheiden. De reeds beschreven vormen kon ik onder het Nederlandse 
materiaal niet terug vinden. 

Dwergen. Heemskerk, Haamstede (Zoöl. Mus.). 


{Spodoptera littoralis Boisduval. Tijdschr. Entom. 85: 104; Cat. VII: (431), noot 1. 
Van deze adventief is nog altijd slechts het ene exemplaar bekend, dat in 1922 uit een te 
Alkmaar in geïmporterde bananen gevonden rups werd gekweekt. 

VIETTE heeft aangetoond, dat Sp. litura Fabricius, 1775, en Sp. littoralis Boisduval, 1834, 
twee verschillende soorten zijn, practisch alleen te onderscheiden aan het genitaalapparaat. 
De eerste soort komt voor in zuidoost-Azië, op Java, in Australië, op Nieuw Caledonië en 
op de Fidsji eilanden. De tweede is bekend van grote delen van Afrika, van Spanje, het 
zuiden van Frankrijk en van Syrië. Zie Bull. Soc. Linn. de Lyon 32: 145—148, 1963. In 
Frankrijk werd littoralis voor het eerst omstreeks 1935 te Parijs aangetroffen. De soort is 
daarna in vele exemplaren op verschillende plaatsen in het zuiden van de Basses Alpes tot 
de Pyreneeën gevangen en is er mogelijk geacclimatiseerd (DuFAY, 1962, Alexanor 2 : 207). 

In Proc. Trans. South London ent. nat. Hist. Soc. 1963 : 48 (1964) wordt meegedeeld, 
dat littoralis op chrysanten in kassen in de zuidelijke helft van Engeland is aangetroffen, 
waar het dier een ernstige plaag kan zijn, daar het in staat is zich het hele jaar door in de 
kassen voort te planten en de rups van tal van planten kan leven, o.a. van sla en tomaten. 

Ook in Denemarken is de rups herhaaldelijk ingevoerd, met bloemen uit Italië, met bana- 
nen, met sla van de Canarische eilanden (in 1953 zelfs meer dan 40 rupsen) (HOFFMEYER, 
De Danske Ugler, 2de druk : 247, 1962). 

Uit al deze gegevens blijkt wel, dat nieuwe rupsevondsten in Nederland beslist niet uit- 
gesloten zijn. Het enige tot nu toe bekende Nederlandse exemplaar behoort inderdaad tot 
littoralis. Het is afgebeeld op plaat 4 fig. 8.]. 


228 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (878) 


Caradrina Ochsenheimer 


Subgenus Caradrina Ochsenheimer 


Caradrina (Caradrina) morpheus Hufnagel. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 94; Cat. 
VII : (421). Met uitzondering van Texel, waar hij ongetwijfeld ook zal voor- 
komen, is de vlinder nu van alle waddeneilanden bekend. Op Rottum ving Dip- 
DEN in 1959 twee exemplaren. Overigens is aan de in 1943 opgegeven verbreiding 
niets toe te voegen. 

Wat de vliegtijd betreft, na de publicatie van Cat. VII is gebleken, dat mor- 
pheus niet zelden een (partiële) tweede generatie kan voortbrengen. De vliegtijd 
van de eerste kan iets eerder beginnen en wordt nu: 9.V (in 1959 genoteerd, 
Lucas) tot 7.VIII. De tweede is waargenomen van eind augustus tot in de tweede 
helft van oktober (30.VIII—21.X). Hij werd vermeld in 1949, 1953, 1959, 1960 
en 1961. Vooral 1959 met zijn zeer droge en zonnige zomer en herfst leverde 
veel gegevens op. Uit dit jaar stammen ook de beide uiterste data van deze gene- 
ratie. (In 1950 trof VAN WISSELINGH op 24 februari een vers exemplaar in zijn 
huis aan. Dit had zich daar ongetwijfeld wel ontwikkeld). 

Variabiliteit. De typische vorm met niet al te donkere voorvleugels 
blijkt de hoofdvorm te zijn, ook bij het moderne materiaal. 

f. ochracea Lenz, 1927. De vorm met licht geelbruine voorvleugels komt niet 
veel voor. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Zeist (GORTER); Halfweg (VAN AARTSEN, in 
Zoöl. Mus.); Zaandam (WESTERNENG); Bergeijk, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH); 
Oisterwijk (Lucas); Eindhoven (VAN DER WOLF). 

f. fuscomarginata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de ruimte tussen tweede 
dwarslijn en achterrand sterk verdonkerd. Ruurlo, 3, 6.VII.1961 (holotype, 
LUKKIEN); Ratum (PEERDEMAN); Zeist (GORTER); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (Bo- 
GAARD); Ouddorp (VROEGINDEWEIJ). 


[Upper side fore wings: the area between postdiscal and outer margin strongly darkened.] 


f. spalleki Kitt, 1917. Van deze vorm, waarbij ook het wortelveld verdonkerd 
is, zijn geen nieuwe vangsten bekend geworden. 

f. obscura Tutt, 1891. De vorm met bruinzwarte of zwartachtige voorvleugels 
is vrij gewoon, vooral onder het moderne materiaal, maar is over het geheel ge- 
rekend zeker niet de hoofdvorm. 

f. semiconfluens Lempke, 1943. Exemplaren, waarbij ronde vlek en niervlek 
smal met elkaar verbonden zijn, werden nog aangetroffen te: Vledder, Den Haag 
(Zoöl. Mus.) ; Bennekom (VAN DE Por); Aalten (VAN GALEN); Zeist (GORTER) ; 
Leiden (VAN DER WOLF); Oostvoorne, Eperheide (Lucas); Melissant (Huts- 
MAN); Nuenen (NEIJTS); Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. confluens nov. Ronde vlek en niervlek samengesmolten tot één vlek. Zeist, 
&, 15.VII.1960 (holotype, GORTER); Ouddorp, &, 1962 (HUISMAN). 


[Orbicular and reniform coalescent, so forming one large spot.] 


f. tangens Lucas, 1960, Ent. Ber. 20 : 230. De eerste en de tweede dwarslijn 
ontmoeten elkaar even boven de binnenrand van de voorvleugels en lopen dan 
weer uit elkaar. Oostvoorne (LUCAS). 


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f. brevipennis nov. Voor- en achtervleugels duidelijk te kort. Hendrik-Ido- 
Ambacht, @, 4.VI.1956 (holotype, BOGAARD). 


[Fore and hind wings distinctly too short.} 


Dwergen. Odoorn, Amsterdam, Someren (PEERDEMAN); Marknesse, Wage- 
ningen (VAN DE PoL); Zaandam (AUKEMA); Maarheeze (VERHAAK); Chèvre- 
mont (LUKKIEN). 


Subgenus Paradrina Boursin 


Caradrina (Paradrina) selini Boisduval. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 93; Cat. VII: 
(420). Er kan niet de minste twijfel aan bestaan, dat de soort bij ons inheems is. 
De vlinder is vooral in het Duindistrict en op enkele waddeneilanden aangetrof- 
fen, maar is ook bekend van vrij veel vindplaatsen in het oosten en zuiden van het 
land, waar hij toch wel in hoofdzaak beperkt is tot de zandgronden. Hier is hij 
overal schaars. 

Het areaal in het omringende gebied is zeer verbrokkeld. In Denemarken is de 
vlinder bekend van de eilanden Bornholm (hier verbreid) en Anholt (niet zeld- 
zaam), terwijl in 1932 een exemplaar bij Skagen in het noorden van Jutland 
gevangen werd. Uit het aan ons land grenzende Duitse gebied ken ik alleen een 
vermelding van Bremen (in 1952, JACK, 1953, Bombus 1: 322). In Belgié is 
selini alleen bekend van de Kempen, hoofdzakelijk van Sutendael, volgens mede- 
deling van de heer DE LAEVER. Op de Britse eilanden is de soort nooit aange- 
troffen. 

De vliegtijd kan in de laatste week van mei beginnen en voortduren tot in de 
eerste week van augustus (27.V—4.VIII). De vroegste datum werd in 1951 te 
Amerongen vastgesteld (BENTINCK), de laatste in 1962 (Westenschouwen, LEF- 
FEF). Bij uitzondering blijkt ook bij deze soort nu en dan een zeer partiéle tweede 
generatie te kunnen voorkomen (8 september 1961, twee exemplaren te Burgh, 
LEFFEF). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (betrekkelijk gewoon, LEFFEF), Vlieland. Gdl.: 
Wageningen; Winterswijk. Utr.: Amerongen, Zeist, Soest. N.H.: Schoorl, Egmond aan Zee, 
Heemskerk, Heemstede. Z.H.: Meijendel, Staelduin, Rotterdam (Kralingerhout), Arkel 
(1963, ZWAKHALS), Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle. N.B.: Bergen op 
Zoom, Schijf, Kampina, Bergeijk, Deurne, Someren. Lbg.: De Hamert, Geijsteren, Sevenum, 
Swalmen, Heel, Buchten, Brunssum, Meerssen. 


Variabiliteit. Botspuvat beschreef de soort naar materiaal uit het Zuid- 
zwitserse kanton Valais (Wallis) en gaf er de volgende diagnose van: „alis anticis 
argenteo-cinereis, strigis obscurioribus, macula reniformis strigaque fulgurali rufo- 
ferrugineis: alae posticae cinereae, ad basin dilutiores”. Zijn holotype is afgebeeld 
door Curor (Noct. et Géom. d'Europe 1, pl. 46 fig. 15). In overeenstemming met 
de beschrijving heeft het exemplaar lichtgrijze voorvleugels met twee duidelijk 
afstekende donkere dwarslijnen. Ook de niervlek steekt goed af. Voor de golflijn 
staat een rij donker roodbruine pijlvlekken. Exemplaren uit de Basses Alpes (zuid- 
Frankrijk) uit de collectie-CARON stemmen ermee overeen (plaat 4 fig. 1—3). 

De Nederlandse exemplaren behoren niet tot deze nominaatvorm. De meeste 


230 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (880) 


hebben donkergrijze voorvleugels, sommige zijn wat lichter van tint, maar vrijwel 
alle hebben een zeer onduidelijke tekening (fig. 4—6). 

Onze populaties komen daarentegen goed overeen met die van Pommeren, 
zoals URBAHN die beschrijft (Stett. ent. Z. 100 : 594, 1939). De oudste naam 
hiervoor is milleri Schultz (1862, Ent. Z. Stettin 23 : 367), beschreven als een 
van clavipalpis verschillende soort, die bij Misdroy aan de Oostzeekust gevangen 
werd. Ook daar variéren de vlinders van een lichter tot een donkerder grijs en zijn 
ze bijna alle zeer onduidelijk getekend. 

[The Dutch populations do not belong to the nominate form, described by BoIsDUVAL 
after a specimen from the Swiss canton Valais and figured by CULOT (l.c.). Our specimens 
differ by having indistinctly marked fore wings with the ground colour varying from a paler 
to a darker grey. Cf. plate 4, figs. 1—6. 

The oldest name for this indistinctly marked subspecies is milleri Schultz, 1862, described 
as a species after some specimens from Misdroy near the coast of the Baltic in the former 


German province of Pommern. URBAHN gives an excellent description of this subspecies 
(1939, I. c.), clearly showing that it perfectly corresponds with our Dutch populations. } 


Caradrina (Paradrina) clavipalpis Scopoli. Tijdschr. Entom. 85: 91; Cat. 
VII : (418). Met uitzondering van Texel (waar de vlinder ook wel zal voorko- 
men) en Rottum is clavipalpis nu bekend van alle waddeneilanden. Overigens 
is aan de in 1943 opgegeven verbreiding niets toe te voegen. 

De vliegtijd, die in Cat. VII werd gegeven (3.IV—24.XII), blijkt nog te 
beperkt geweest te zijn. Wij kennen nu vangsten uit alle maanden van het jaar. 
Op 22 januari 1946 werd een gaaf 3 binnenshuis te Steijl aangetroffen (Broeder 
ANTONIUS). 12 februari (jaar?) vond KNoop een exemplaar binnenshuis te 
Almelo. Op 26 februari 1961 ving TER LAAG een gaaf exemplaar te Bussum op 
licht. Op 25 maart 1953 werd door vAN GALEN een volkomen vers dier te Aalten 
gevangen. Op 1 april 1962 ving TER LAAG een exemplaar te Hilversum. Op 7.IV. 
1948 vond GORTER een volkomen gaaf exemplaar te Zeist. Maar natuurlijk blijven 
wintervangsten uitzonderingen. Overigens zijn we nog niet veel wijzer dan in 
1943. 

Variabiliteit. f. quadripunctata Fabricius, 1775. Exemplaren, waarbij het 
franjeveld van de voorvleugels opvallend verdonkerd ís, zijn niet gewoon, maar 
komen toch vrij verbreid onder de soort voor. 

f. paradoxa nov. Niet alleen het franjeveld, maar ook het wortelveld van de 
voorvleugels verdonkerd. Het middenveld steekt dus licht af. Stein, 4, 18.IX.1958 
(holotype, Missiehuis). 

[Upper side fore wings: basal area and marginal area darkened, central area contrasts as 
a pale band.] 


f. obscura Prout, 1895. Exemplaren met geheel verdonkerde voorvleugels zijn 
vrij gewoon, zowel bij 4, als by 9. 

f. pallida Lempke, 1943. Exemplaren met opvallend lichtgrijze voorvleugels 
komen veel minder voor. Bolsward, Den Haag (Zoöl. Mus.); Wassenaar (VAN 
WISSELINGH) ; Montfort (MAASSEN). 

f. bimaculata nov. Voorvleugels met scherp afstekende geheel donker gevulde 
ronde en niervlek. Plaat 4 fig. 7. Wageningen, 4, 2.VII.1953 (holotype, VAN 
DE POL). 


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{Upper side fore wings: orbicular and reniform completely filled with a dark colour, 
strongly contrasting with the ground colour. } 


f. obsoleta Lempke, 1943. Exemplaren zonder dwarslijnen op de voorvleugels 
werden nog bekend van Havelte (VAN DER MEULEN); Deventer (LUKKIEN); 
Wiessel, Weesp (Zoöl. Mus.); Bennekom (VAN DE POL). 

f. distincta nov. Voorvleugels met scherpe zwarte dwarslijnen. Nuenen, 19, 
28.VIII.1959 (holotype) en 3, 5.IX.1959 (NEIJTS). 


[Fore wings with sharp black transverse lines. } 


f. signata nov. De golflijn over de gehele lengte aan de binnenzijde opvallend 
donker afgezet en daardoor scherp afstekend. Sittard, &, 13.VII.1949 (holotype, 
DIEDEREN). 


[The submarginal line of the fore wings bordered on its inner side by a striking dark line 
and therefore sharply contrasting. | 


Dwergen. Naardermeer (Zoöl. Mus.); Amsterdamse Bos (PEERDEMAN); Den 
Helder (Lucas); Haarlem, Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH) ; Eindhoven (VAN DER 
WOLF). 


Chilodes Herrich-Schäffer 


Chilodes maritima Tauscher. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 342; Cat. VI: (390). De 
vlinder blijkt inderdaad verbreider te zijn dan in 1941 bekend was, hoewel hij 
uiteraard beperkt blijft tot min of meer vochtige terreinen, waar riet groeit. Toch 
valt het aantal nieuwe vindplaatsen niet mee, al kunnen bij de 10 van 1941 nu 34 
nieuwe gevoegd worden, waarbij zelfs één van de waddeneilanden. Op de meeste 
vindplaatsen is het dier vrij schaars, wat mogelijk echter meer schijn dan werke- 
lijkheid is. 

De vliegtijd blijkt vrij lang te zijn. De vroegste datum is nu 10 juni (1948, 
Meerssen, RıJK), maar de vlinder is waargenomen tot eind augustus en zelfs tot 
ver in september toe: 25.VIII.1959, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD), 2.IX. 
1956, Groessen (VAN DE POL), 28.IX.1941, een klein exemplaar. Botshol (PIET). 
Mogelijk is hier een enkel exemplaar van een dan wel zelden voorkomende (par- 
tiéle) tweede generatie bij. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (enkele exemplaren in West-Terschelling in 1956, 
LEFFEF), Sexbierum, Leeuwarden, Eernewoude, Nijetrijne (gewoon, LEFFEF). Ov.: Vollen- 
hove. Gdl.: Ermelo, Apeldoorn, Lunteren; de Voorst, Korenburgerveen, Groessen; Hatert, 
Buren. Utr.: Botshol. N.H.: Hilversum, Naardermeer, Weesp, Muiderberg, Hoorn, Castri- 
cum, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Spijk, Arkel, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Oostvoorne, Melis- 
sant. Zl.: Haamstede (enkele, LEFFEF). Lbg.: Sevenum, Griendsveen (gewoon tijdens het 
Rivon-onderzoek, LEFFEF), Moesel, Montfort, Stein, Meerssen, Rijckholt. 


Variabiliteit. TAUSCHER beeldt zijn exemplaar van Noctua maritima af 
met grijze voorvleugels, waarop de donkere aderen duidelijk afsteken en zijn be- 
schrijving is met deze figuur in overeenstemming (,,Alae anticae cinerascentes 
venosae ...... ”) (1806, Mém. Moscou 1: 211, pl. XIII, fig. 5). Weinig Neder- 
landse exemplaren komen hiermee overeen. Wel bezitten veel exemplaren grijze 


232 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (882) 


voorvleugels, maar de donkere adertekening is zelden zo sterk als door TAUSCHER 
beschreven en afgebeeld wordt. Zijn exemplaar werd in 1805 aan de Oostzeekust 
in Koerland gevangen en het is mogelijk dat de soort daar sterker getekend is 
dan bij ons. Zo lang hierover niets bekend is, lijkt het me het beste alle exemplaren 
met grijze voorvleugels zonder afwijkende tekening als typisch te beschouwen. 
Niet zelden is deze grijze tint met iets bruin gemengd, zodat overgangen naar 
f. ulvae ontstaan. 

f. ulvae Hübner, [1818—1819}. HÜBNER beeldt twee verschillende vormen 
af onder deze naam. De eerste (fig. 635, 636) die uiteraard de prioriteit heeft, is 
een vorm met lichtbruine voorvleugels, waarbij het achterrandsveld echter grijs is 
(althans bij het exemplaar van de „Sammlung” in de bibliotheek van de Ned. Ent. 
Ver.). Een dergelijke maritima heb ik nooit gezien. Voorlopig zou ik de naam 
willen gebruiken voor alle exemplaren met bruine voorvleugels, zoals SOUTH er 
ook één afbeeldt in de oude editie van „British Moths’. Het merkwaardige is, dat 
deze vorm onder het moderne Nederlandse materiaal nauwelijks meer voorkomt! 
Zelfs overgangs-exemplaren met bruingrijze voorvleugels zijn schaars (bijv. Lun- 
teren, BRANGER). In de collectie van het Zoöl. Mus. bevinden zich alleen enkele 
exemplaren van Zevenhuizen met zuiver bruine voorvleugels. Dat dit verkleurde 
dieren zouden zijn, die oorspronkelijk grijs waren, is uitgesloten. 

f. bipunctata Haworth, 1812. Vrij geregeld in een enkel exemplaar onder de 
soort. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Leeuwarden, Eernewoude (CAMPING); Nijetrijne 
(LEFFEF); Ermelo (VAN DER MEULEN); Apeldoorn, Buren, Kortenhoef (Zoöl. 
Mus.); Hoorn (KUCHLEIN). 

f. wismariensis Schmidt, 1858. Exemplaren met de zwarte lengtestreep zijn veel 
zeldzamer. Ermelo (VAN DER MEULEN); Groessen (VAN DE Por); Kortenhoef 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Melissant (HUISMAN). 

f. nigristriata Staudinger, 1871. Is naast de door TAUSCHER afgebeelde vorm 
nauwelijks te handhaven. 

Dwerg. Rijckholt (VAN DE POL). 


Athetis Hübner 


Athetis gluteosa Treitschke. Alleen enkele malen in het zuiden van Limburg 
aangetroffen. Of de soort hier nu inheems is, of dat we met nu en dan vanuit 
Belgié tot in ons land doordringende exemplaren te doen hebben, is op het ogen- 
blik moeilijk uit te maken. Daarvoor wordt in dit gebied op te weinig plaatsen 
intensief verzameld. Enkele Nederlandse exemplaren zijn afgebeeld op plaat 4 
fig. 9 en 10. 

In Denemarken en het omringende Duitse gebied is gluteosa nergens aange- 
troffen. De dichtstbij bekende Duitse vindplaats is het Mombacher Wald by 
Mainz, waar de vlinder omstreeks 1850 werd gevangen (RÖSSLER, 1881, Fauna 
Wiesbaden). Overigens slechts bekend van Karlsruhe (1952). Wijlen Dr. G. 
WARNECKE verstrekte mij nog deze gegevens. In België is g/uteosa alleen in het 
bergachtige oosten gevangen. HACKRAY vermeldt Aye-Marche-en-Famenne (in 
het noorden van Belgisch Luxemburg) (1947, Rev. frans. Lép. 11 : 19) en voor 
zover ik kon nagaan, is dit de enige bekende Belgische vindplaats van deze eeuw. 


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(DERENNE kende alleen een oude vangst van Han-sur-Lesse, zie zijn „Addenda” 
etc.: 77, 1928). Op de Britse eilanden is de soort nooit gevonden. 
Alle Nederlandse exemplaren werden in juli gevangen (11.VII—24.VII). 


Vindplaatsen. Lbg.: Stein, 9, 11.VII.1963 (Missiehuis); Epen, 9 24.VII.1954, 
® 18.VII.1955, drie mannetjes 18.VII.1955 (VAN WISSELINGH). 


Athetis pallustris Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 103; Cat. VII: (430). De 
vlinder blijft een zeer lokale soort in ons land, wat wel duidelijk blijkt uit het feit, 
dat bij de zes vindplaatsen, die in 1943 bekend waren, slechts negen nieuwe ge- 
voegd kunnen worden. Opvallend is het voorkomen op één van de waddeneilan- 
den en in het Duindistrict. Het behoeven dus zeker geen uitgebreide moerassige 
terreinen te zijn, die de soort als biotoop nodig heeft. Wel natuurlijk plaatsen, 
waar de voedselplant van de rups, de moerasspiraea, groeit. 

In Denemarken schijnt de vlinder minder zeldzaam geworden te zijn. In de 
2de druk van De Danske Ugler (1962, p. 257) vermeldt HOFFMEYER tenminste, 
dat in 1944 een flink aantal exemplaren op Seeland gevangen is, terwijl vooral 
sinds 1950 vrij veel nieuwe vondsten bekend geworden zijn. In België is pallustris 
nog steeds niet aangetroffen. Mogelijk is hierdoor te verklaren, waarom de vlinder 
nog nooit in de zuidelijke helft van ons land gevangen is. Een interessant artikel 
over de biologie en het voorkomen in Engeland werd gepubliceerd door EDELSTEN, 
FRYER en ROBINSON (1944, Entomologist 77 : 49 etc.). 

De vliegtijd kan al half mei beginnen en tot in de tweede helft van juli voort- 
duren. De nu bekende uiterste data zijn: 18.V—20.VII (de laatste datum in 1965 
te Wijnjeterp, G. DIJKSTRA). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr. Vlieland, 4, 10.VI.1951 (CAMPING); Wijnjeterp, juli 1965 
(G. DijKsTRA). Dr: Roden, 18.V.1946 (Brom); Assen, &, 8.VI.1954 (VAN DE POL); 
Ruinen, 6.VI.1960 (VAN DER MADE & Vis). Ov.: Balkbrug, 7.VI.1966 (LEFFEF); Raalte, 
29.V.1956 (FLINT); Olst, 24.V.1949 (KUCHLEIN); Marknesse, 11.V.1961 (VAN DE POL). 
N.H.: Heemskerk, 31.V.1959, 23.V (twee exemplaren) en 24.V.1961 (VAN AARTSEN); 
Overveen, &, 9.VI.1964 (LEFFEF). 


Agrotis Hübner 


Agrotis venustula Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 85 : 104; Cat. VII: (431). De 
vlinder komt niet alleen in het oosten en zuiden voor, maar ook op zandgronden 
in het noorden, is op een van de waddeneilanden aangetroffen en blijkt tevens 
vrij verbreid in het Duindistrict te zijn. Hoewel venustula in het goede biotoop 
geregeld is aan te treffen, is het dier toch maar zelden werkelijk gewoon. 

De vliegtijd kan iets langer duren dan in 1943 werd opgegeven. De uiterste data 
worden nu: 15.V—19.VII. Aanmerkelijk hier buiten valt een vangst op 4.VIII. 
1962 te Westenschouwen (LEFFEF), blijkbaar een extreem laat exemplaar. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling, verscheidene exemplaren in 1956 en 1957 (LEFFEF), 
Eernewoude, Beetsterzwaag, Fochtelo, Appelscha, Nijetrijne. Gr.: Glimmen. Dr.: Westervelde, 
Schipborg, Eext, Schoonlo, Hooghalen. Ov.: Saasveld (Molenven), Almelo, Rijssen, Balk- 
brug, Oud-Leusen, Zandbelt (Diepenveen). Gdl.: Ermelo, Hulshorst, Vierhouten, Epe, 
Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Uchelen, Empe, Laag-Soeren, Hoenderlo, Kootwijk, Kootwijkerveen; 


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Gorssel, de Voorst, Warnsveld, Almen, Ruurlo, Winterswijk, Aalten, Hoog-Keppel; Slijk- 
Ewijk. Utr.: Amerongen, Leersum, Zeist. N.H.: Schoorl, Egmond aan Zee, Bakkum, Heems- 
kerk, Overveen. Z.H.: Leiden, Meijendel. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Cadzand. 
N.B.: Sint Michielsgestel, Gassel, Mill, Kampina, Bergeijk, Eindhoven, Valkenswaard, So- 
meren, Helenaveen. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, Roggel, Heel, Tegelen, Belfeld, Swalmen, 
Maasniel, Vlodrop, Montfort, Putbroek, Echt, Stein, Schinveld, Brunssum, Heerlerbaan, 
Geulem, Kannerbos, Cadier en Keer, Gronsveld, Rijckholt, Vijlen. 


MELICLEPTRIINAE 


Chloridea Duncan 


Chloridea viriplaca Hufnagel, 1766 (dipsacea L., 1767). Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 
337; Cat. VI: (385). Het voornaamste biotoop van de vlinder blijkt het duin- 
gebied, zowel van het vasteland als van de waddeneilanden. Het tweede is het 
zuiden van Limburg en dan speciaal het Krijtdistrict. Buiten deze twee gebieden 
zijn behalve de paar reeds in 1941 vermelde vindplaatsen slechts enkele nieuwe 
bekend geworden. 

Uit kweekresultaten is gebleken, dat er inderdaad twee generaties voorkomen. 
Lucas ving 15 juni te Katwijk enige vlinders en vond twee rupsen op slangekruid, 
die 30.VI en 2.VII verpopten. In de tweede helft van juli kwamen beide poppen 
uit. In 1959 vond AUKEMA te Egmond een rups op nachtsilene (Silene nutans L.). 
De vlinder daarvan kwam 4.VIII uit de pop. De hoofdvliegtijd valt ongetwijfeld 
in de maand juni. Van juli bezit ik op het ogenblik acht data, zonder duidelijk 
hiaat verspreid over de hele maand. Dan nog vijf in augustus en twee in mei. De 
reeds in 1941 vermelde aprildatum schijnt wel een grote uitzondering te zijn. 
Voor zover de gegevens het nu toelaten, kunnen we de twee generaties als volgt 
vaststellen: de eerste (bij uitzondering in april) de tweede helft van mei (20.V) 
tot in juli (16.VII nog?), de tweede van de tweede helft van juli tot de tweede 
helft van augustus (21.VII—20.VIII). Deze tweede generatie is waarschijnlijk 
slechts partieel. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (TANIS), Vlieland (CAMPING). N.H.: Amsterdam 
(in 1952, 1958 en 1959 op opgespoten reeds begroeide terreinen, PEERDEMAN), Bergen aan 
Zee, Egmond aan Zee, Egmond aan den Hoef, Castricum, Heemskerk, Bloemendaal, Aerden- 
hout. Z.H.: Katwijk aan Zee, Meijendel, Voorschoten. N.B.: Nuenen, 29.VII.1948 (NEIJTS), 
Valkenswaard. Lbg.: Wittem, Epen. 


Variabiliteit. f. pallida nov. Voorvleugels bleek met zeer zwakke teke- 
ning, achtervleugels normaal. Egmond, ¢, 28.VI.1964 (holotype, AUKEMA). 


[Fore wings pale with obsolete markings, hind wings normal. } 


Dwergen. Overveen (WITMOND); Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH). 


Chloridea maritima Graslin. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 336; Cat. VI: (384). De 
vlinder is vooral verbreid in heidestreken, maar blijkt ook hier en daar in het 
Duindistrict voor te komen en is zelfs van één van de waddeneilanden bekend. 
Over het algemeen is hij niet gewoon. 

De vliegtijd kan iets vroeger beginnen dan in 1941 bekend was. De uiterste data 


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worden nu: 20.V—18.VIII. De meeste vangsten stammen uit juni en juli. De 
tweede generatie is hoogstwaarschijnlijk partieel. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Vlieland (CAMPING). Dr.: Peize, Roden, Donderen, Norg, 
Assen, Geuzingerveld (Ruinen), Uffelte, Vledder. Ov.: Lutterzand, Breklenkamp, Dene- 
kamp, Almelo, Nijverdal, Boetelerveld, Zandbelt (Diepenveen), Steenwijk. Flevoland: Lely- 
stad (1962, VAN DE Por). Gdl.: Ermelo, Elspeet, Hulshorst, Vierhouten, Velp, Hoenderlo, 
Kootwijk, Wageningen, Bennekom; Almen, Vorden, Meddo. Utr.: Maarn. N.H.: Bussum, 
Overveen (1942, HELMERS). Z.H.: Wassenaarse Slag (1942, Zoöl. Mus.). N.B.: Hilvaren- 
beek, Hooge Mierde, Kampina, Esch, Eindhoven, Nuenen, Gerwen, Lierop, Asten, Helena- 
veen, De Rips. Lbg.: Meijel, Sevenum, Lomm, Swalmen, Melick, Heerlen, Epen. 


Variabiliteit. De nominaatvorm vliegt in de Vendée. De bontere sub- 
species van het noordwesten van Europa, waartoe dus ook onze populaties behoren, 
werd door HOFFMEYER onderscheiden als subsp. septentrionalis. Deze naam is 
echter gepreoccupeerd. BOURSIN gaf als nieuwe naam subsp. warneckei (1963, 
Linn. Belg. 2: 125, noot 3; 1964, Bull. mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon 33 : 240). 


Chloridea peltigera Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 335; Cat. VI: (383). In de 
loop van de jaren is de vlinder ín alle provincies behalve Utrecht aangetroffen, 
maar hij blijft een zeldzaamheid, die lang niet elk jaar in Nederland wordt waar- 
genomen. Het hoogste aantal exemplaren werd tot nog toe in 1958 geteld, name- 
lijk 11 stuks. 

Wat de vliegtijd betreft, is peltigera in alle maanden van mei tot in de tweede 
helft van september gevangen. Alle exemplaren van mei, juni en zeker nog van 
begin juli zijn immigranten, die van de tweede helft van juli en later afstamme- 
lingen daarvan. Maar of de laatste zich steeds hier te lande ontwikkeld hebben, 
blijft de vraag. De beste maand ís augustus. Uit september zijn slechts vijf vangsten 
bekend en uit oktober geen enkele. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Vlieland, 10.VII.1952 (CAMPING). Gr.: Groningen, 9.V.1958 
(WILMINK). Dr.: Havelte, 19.VIII.1955 (VAN DER MEULEN). Ov.: Raalte, 12.VIII.1958 
(FLINT); Abdij Sion, 17.V.1964 (Pater AMADEUS). Flevoland: Lelystad, 18.VI.1962 (VAN 
DE Por). Gdl.: Apeldoorn, 7.VII.1952 (LEFFEF, in Zoöl. Mus.), 23.V.1958 (LEFFEF); 
Lunteren, 14.VIII.1945, e. 1. (BRANGER); Zeddam, 16.VIII.1946 (SCHOLTEN). N.H.: Am- 
sterdam, 2.VIII.1945 (BOTZEN); Hembrug, 20.IX.1947 (ANDERSEN); Beemster, 15.V.1958 
(HUISENGA); Hoorn, 20.VIII.1958 (Zoöl. Mus.); Wieringermeerpolder, 31.VIII.1958 (DE 
Vries). Z.H.: Rijnsburg, twee rupsen op goudsbloem, waarvan één 26.VII.1945 de vlinder 
leverde (WITPEN); Schiedam, vier exemplaren in juli 1945 (NIJSSEN); Rotterdam, 10.V.1958 
(ELFFERICH); Oostvoorne, 22.VIII.1959 (Lucas); Melissant, 29.VIII, 1.IX en 6.IX.1958 
(HUISMAN); Ouddorp, 20.VIII.1965 (VROEGINDEWEIJ). Zl: Burgh, 11.VIII.1964 (Boor); 
Haamstede, 29.V.1965 (VAN RANDEN); Westenschouwen, 10.VIII.1962 (WILMINK). N.B.: 
Bergen op Zoom, 5.VIII en 7.VIII.1945 (NIJSSEN); Eindhoven, 17.VI.1964 (VAN DER 
WOLF). Lbg.: Bunde, 27.VIII.1964 (LEFFEF). 


Variabiliteit. De vlinder is zeer variabel, zowel wat de grondkleur van 
de voorvleugels als wat de sterkte van de tekening betreft. In een voortreffelijk 
artikel heeft KETTLEWELL aangetoond, dat beide in elk geval voor een groot deel 
afhangen van de temperatuur van de actieve fase van de pop, dat wil zeggen van 
de fase gedurende welke de afgebroken weefsels van de rups omgezet worden in 
die van de vlinder. En daar de temperatuur weer de lengte van deze fase bein- 
vloedt, hangen kleur en tekening dus af van de duur van de actieve fase. Daaren- 


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tegen heeft de temperatuur gedurende de passieve fase (dat is de fase van de 
afbraak, de tijd onmiddellijk na de verpopping) niet de minste invloed. Zie Proc. 
Trans. South London ent. nat. Hist. Soc. 1943—1944 : 69—79, pl. I, 1944. Het 
op plaat 4 fig. 11 afgebeelde exemplaar heeft zeer lichte voor- en achtervleugels 
en komt overeen met KETTLEWELL’s experiment 4. De poppen hiervan werden 
gedurende de actieve fase aan een hoge temperatuur blootgesteld (37° C.), zodat 
ze zich snel ontwikkelden. Dit zou er op kunnen wijzen, dat zulke lichte exem- 
plaren immigranten uit tropisch Afrika zijn. Een dergelijk licht exemplaar is ook 
dat van Eindhoven (1964), terwijl een groot deel van de andere hier gevangen 
dieren min of meer er mee overeenstemmen. 

f. condolens Schawerda, 1914, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 64 : 365. De zwarte 
band langs de achterrand van de achtervleugels is sterk verbreed en mist de lichte 
vlek bij de binnenrandshoek. Plaat 4 fig. 12. Bunde, 1964 (LEFFEF). 

(Het exemplaar lijkt het meest op de nummers 4 en 5 van KETTLEWELL’s expe- 
riment 7, dat betrekking had op poppen, die niet konden overwinteren, maar zich 
onmiddellijk moesten ontwikkelen. De achtervleugels zijn echter donkerder). 

f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van voor- en achtervleugels witachtig met iets créme 
tint, maar de voorvleugels sterk verdonkerd door de zware donker bruingrijze 
tekening: het gehele wortelveld is donker, een brede donkere band loopt basaal- 
waarts van de golflijn en de rest van de voorvleugels is min of meer donker be- 
stoven. De vorm lijkt het meest op KETTLEWELL’s exemplaren van experiment 5, 
maar de grondkleur is witter. Plaat 4 fig. 13. Hoorn, 4, 20.VIII.1958 (holotype, 
Zool. Mus.). 


{Ground colour of the fore wings whitish with slight creamy tint, but the fore wings 
strongly darkened by the heavy dark brown-grey markings: the whole basal area is dark, a 
broad band basad of the submarginal, and the remainder of the fore wings more or less 
covered by dark scales. ] 


Chloridea armigera Hübner. Tydschr. Entom. 84: 335; Cat. VI: (383). 
Terwijl van deze soort in 1941 negen vangsten in ons land bekend waren en van 
de vorige soort slechts drie, zijn sinds dat jaar van armigera veel minder nieuwe 
waarnemingen bekend geworden dan van peltigera, zoals duidelijk uit het vol- 
gende lijstje van nieuwe vondsten blijkt. Van 1941 tot en met 1965 is armigera 
slechts in vier jaren waargenomen met als hoogste totaal drie stuks in 1950. De 
vlinder behoort dan ook tot onze zeer zeldzame trekvlinders. 

Voorjaarsimmigranten zijn tot nu toe nog nooit bij ons gezien. Alle exemplaren 
zijn laat in de zomer of in de herfst gevangen, namelijk tussen 9 augustus en 11 
oktober. Evenmin zijn hier ooit rupsen gevonden. 


Vindplaatsen. Dr.: Grollo, 18.IX.1962 (LEFFEF). Utr.: Soest, 24.VIII.1944, een 
vrij gaaf Q overdag honing zuigend op dophei (LEMPKE, nu in Zoöl. Mus.). N.H.: Aer- 
denhout, 20.VIII.1950 (VAN WISSELINGH). Z.H.: Leiden, 20.IX.1956 (Kroon). Zl.: Burgh. 
3.IX.1962 (PEERDEMAN), 11.X.1962 (LEFFEF). Lbg.: Swalmen, 4.X.1950 (LÜCKER); Stein, 
4.X.1961 (Missiehuis); Brunssum, 7.X.1950 (DIEDEREN). 


Variabiliteit. Het is niet onmogelijk, dat armigera op ongeveer dezelfde 
wijze op de temperatuur reageert tijdens het gevoelige stadium van de pop als 
peltigera. Proeven zijn met deze soort echter tot nog toe niet genomen. 


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f. fusca Cockerell, 1889, Entomologist 22 : 4. De auteur verwijst alleen naar 
Entomologist 11 : 24, waar staat: „a dark brown variety”. Zo een donker exem- 
plaar wordt door WARREN afgebeeld in „Seitz” 3, pl. 50 rij k fig. 7. Een vrij ex- 
treem exemplaar van de vorm is dat van Brunssum. De voorvleugels zijn nog 
slechts rondom de discale vlek licht geelbruin, overigens zwartbruin, de achtervleu- 
gels hebben een brede donkere achterrand en ook de wortelhelft is donkerder 
getint. 


Chloridea scutosa Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 334; Cat. VI : (382). Tot 1941 
was slechts één Nederlands exemplaar bekend, dat in 1878 te Wolfheze gevangen 
was. Daarbij komen negen nieuwe waarnemingen, meer dus dan van de vorige 
soort. Toch is ook scutosa bij ons een zeldzaamheid. Slechts in één enkel jaar 
werden twee stuks gevangen, in de weinige andere jaren dat de vlinder hier gezien 
werd, telkens slechts één. 

In Denemarken werd scutosa voor het eerst in 1942 aangetroffen, maar toen 
meteen al in niet minder dan een dozijn exemplaren. En in de daarop volgende 
jaren vermeldt HOFFMEYER in de tweede druk van zijn „Danske Ugler” (1962, 
p. 305) tal van vangsten. Ook Finland kende zeer goede scutosa-jaren (1953 en 
1960) en in Noorwegen werd de soort in 1953 eveneens in aantal gevangen. 
Het lijkt er daarom op, dat de vlinder over het algemeen een meer oostelijk gele- 
gen trekbaan heeft, want in 1953 werd in Nederland slechts één exemplaar gevan- 
gen en in 1960 zelfs geen enkel. Hierop wijst ook het feit, dat in 1953 in Groot- 
Brittannië geen enkel exemplaar aangetroffen werd en in 1960 slechts één. 
Volgens een mededeling van wijlen Dr. WARNECKE was scutosa in 1942 talrijk in 
Noord-Duitsland en werden veel rupsen gevonden. Verschillende berichten hier- 
over zijn te vinden in Ent. Z. Frankfurt 56 (1942 en 1943), terwijl URBAHN in 
hetzelfde tijdschrift (57 : 9—14, 1943) een uitvoerig artikel over dit voorkomen 
publiceerde met een kaart. In 1954 werd nog een exemplaar in de omgeving van 
Hamburg gevangen. Overigens zijn mij geen nieuwe gegevens over het omringen- 
de gebied bekend. 

Wat de vliegtijd betreft, zijn de vangsten hier te lande verdeeld over de maan- 
den juni tot en met september met een (overigens zeer laag) maximum in augus- 
tus. 

Vindplaatsen. Gdl.: Didam, &, 12.VIII.1942 (SCHOLTEN). Utr.: Rhenen, een 
rups in 1943, die mislukte (DoETs); Soest, 14.VIII.1945, een vrij goed & overdag zuigend 
op dophei (LEMPKE, in Zoöl. Mus.); Groenekan, 2.IX.1942, een exemplaar zuigend op 
bloeiende hei (BERK). N.H.: Blaricum, 26.VIII.1956 (BERGMAN). Z.H.: Leiden, 12.VI.1953 


(Kroon). N.B.: Geldrop, 5.IX.1958 (HAANSTRA). Lbg.: Sittard, 18.VIII.1947 en 10.VII. 
1948 (DIEDEREN); Simpelveld, VIII.1954 (VAN DE Por); Rijckholt, 10.VIII.1954 (idem). 


Pyrrhia Hübner 


Pyrrhia umbra Hufnagel. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 341; Cat. VI: (389). Uit de 
beide gecombineerde lijsten van vindplaatsen blijkt duidelijk, dat de vlinder over 
vrijwel het gehele land verbreid is zonder duidelijke voorkeur voor een bepaald 
biotoop. Hij is zowel op de zandgronden aangetroffen als in het Hafdistrict en 
het Fluviatiel District. Het menu van de rups is ook zeker niet zo beperkt als in 
verschillende boeken staat. Behalve de door iedere auteur vermelde Ononis (stal- 


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kruid) werd in Cat. VI al wilg genoemd, terwijl LEFFEF de rups bij Wiessel op 
wilgenroosje aantrof. SEPP schrijft (7 : 37), dat VAN MEDENBACH DE Rooy hem 
een rups stuurde, die hij volwassen op Pelargonium had gevonden. Of het dier 
ook op deze plant opgegroeid was, is echter niet zeker. Te kweken is de rups heel 
makkelijk met varkensgras, ook uit het ei, maar het staat al weer niet vast, of hij 
ook in de vrije natuur op Polygonum voorkomt. In elk geval verklaart het blijkbaar 
vrij gevarieerde menu het voorkomen van de soort in diverse biotopen. P. #mbra 
is nu bekend van twee van de waddeneilanden. 

De vliegtijd kan al in de tweede helft van mei beginnen (25.V.1960, Lucas; 
27.V.1960, BOGAARD) en voortduren tot in de tweede helft van augustus (14. VIII. 
1950, Neercanne, Leids Mus.; 17.VIII.1942, Almelo, KNoop; 19.VIII.1959, 
Oostvoorne, Lucas). Opvallend laat is een zeer vers exemplaar van 17.IX.1931 
(VAN WISSELINGH). Dit behoort ongetwijfeld tot een wel zelden voorkomende en 
zeer partiële tweede generatie. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (vrij gewoon, LEFFEF), Vlieland, Leeuwarden, 
Tietjerk, Eernewoude, Wijnjeterp (bij de Rivon-inventarisatie in 1965 gewoon, G. DIJKSTRA), 
Oosterwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Rijs. Gr.: Veendam, Vlagtwedde, Ter Borgh. Dr.: 
Roderwolde, Roden, Peize, Norg, Westervelde, Veenhuizen, Eext, Grollo, Odoorn, Dwingelo, 
Vledder, Havelte. Ov.: Volthe, Denekamp, Albergen, Almelo, Aadorp, Nijverdal, Raalte, 
Abdij Sion, Bathmen, Colmschate, Deventer, Balkbrug, Kalenberg, Marknesse. Flevoland: 
Lelystad. Gdl.: Elspeet, Vierhouten, Epe, Heerde, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Uchelen, 
Teuge, Empe, Hall, Loenen, Laag-Soeren, Hoenderlo, Kootwijk, Wageningen, Bennekom, 
Ede, Lunteren; Epse, de Voorst, Zutfen, Ruurlo, Winterswijk, Ratum, Aalten, Hoog-Keppel, 
Didam, Babberich, Aerdt; Heteren, Slijk-Ewijk, Buren, Tiel. Utr.: Austerlitz, Zeist, Maars- 
sen, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Hilversum, Blaricum, Huizen, Bussum, Kortenhoef, 
Weesp, Amsterdamse Bos (weinig, PEERDEMAN), Halfweg, Zaandam, Wormerveer, Beem- 
ster, Oosthuizen, Hoorn, Schoorl, Egmond aan Zee, Heemskerk, Bloemendaal, Aerdenhout. 
Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Noordwijk, Oegstgeest, Staelduin, Vlaardingen, Capelle aan den 
IJssel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Arkel, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (geregeld, in 1966 
gewoon), Rhoon, Oostvoorne, Rockanje, Hellevoetsluis, Melissant, Goedereede, Ouddorp. 
Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Valkenisse. N.B.: Udenhout, Waalwijk, 
Sint Michielsgestel, Uden, Velp (bij Grave), Best, Eindhoven, Nuenen, Helmond, Someren, 
Maarheeze, Helenaveen. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, de Hamert, Steijl, Belfeld, Swalmen, 
Weert, Moesel, Heel, Sint Odiliënberg, Montfort, Stein, Brunssum, Heerlerbaan, Chévremont, 
Geulem, Bemelen, Bunde, Neercanne, Sint Pietersberg, Gronsveld, Epen, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. marginata Fabricius, 1787. Exemplaren met gele grond- 
kleur van de voorvleugels zijn niet zeldzaam, maar schijnen vooral bij de mannetjes 
voor te komen. Soms is de kleur bleekgeel en wordt de tint van de achterrands- 
band van de voorvleugels bleekpaars, terwijl dan ook de donkere band op de 
achtervleugels lichter van kleur wordt. 

f. suffusa Lempke, 1941. Exemplaren met roodbruin bestoven en daardoor 
donkerder dan normale voorvleugels werden nog bekend van: Frederiksoord, 
Ruurlo, Amsterdam, Best (Zöol. Mus.) ; Wolvega, Aerdenhout, Welterberg, Epen 
(VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. depurpurata nov. De rode band langs de achterrand van de voorvleugels 
zonder paarse tint. Wiessel, 4, 31.VII.1954 (holotype, VAN DE Por); Amsterdam 
(PEERDEMAN) ; Beemster (HUISENGA); Chèvremont (LUKKIEN). 


[The red band along the outer border of the fore wings without purple tint.] 


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f. postclara nov. Achtervleugels eenkleurig geelachtig wit met scherp afsteken- 
de zwarte band langs de achterrand. De donkere bestuiving aan de wortel ont- 
breekt dus geheel. Plaat 5 fig. 1. Valkenisse, 4, 7.VII.1963 (holotype), 
Oostkapelle, &, 1962 (VAN AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Hind wings unicolorous yellowish white with sharply contrasting black band along the 
outer margin. The dark suffusion of the base fails completely. ] 


f. postfasciata nov. Achtervleugels eenkleurig zwart op een scherp afstekende 
lichte submarginale band na. Rotterdam (Kralingerhout), 21.VII.1961 (holotype, 
(VAN DER AA). 


[Hind wings unicolorous black with the exception of a sharply contrasting pale sub- 
marginal band.] 


f. juncta nov. De ronde vlek en de niervlek raken elkaar. Frederiksoord, &, 
1.V11.1930 (holotype, Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Orbicular and reniform touch each other.] 


Dwergen. Lelystad, Bennekom, Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE Por); Zaandam (AUKE- 
MA); Oosthuizen (DE BOER); Dordrecht (kapelaan GROENENDIJK). 


Panemeria Hübner 


Panemeria tenebrata Scopoli. Tijdschr. Entom. 84 : 342; Cat. VI: (390). De 
vlinder blijkt een zeer grote verbreiding in ons land te hebben en zeker niet 
beperkt te zijn tot de zandgronden. Ook in het Hafdistrict en het Fluviatiel 
District is hij op verschillende plaatsen aangetroffen zonder dat steeds aan een 
verbreiding via de spoorbanen gedacht kan worden. Tevens is hij nu van een van 
de waddeneilanden vermeld. 

Hoewel tenebrata plaatselijk heel gewoon kan zijn, is het verschillende verza- 
melaars opgevallen, dat het dier op plaatsen, waar het voorheen geregeld voor- 
kwam, later niet meer te vinden is. Zo schreef wijlen KNOOP me, dat hij de vlinder 
na 1950 niet meer in Twente gezien had. En BOGAARD merkte op, dat de omge- 
ving van Ottoland van 1958—1961 een zeer goede vliegplaats was (op 5 mei 
1960 werden 25 stuks in een half uur gevangen), maar dat daarna geen enkele 
vlinder meer werd waargenomen. Dit kan mogelijk in verband staan met veran- 
deringen in de flora van het betreffende gebied. Overigens is de rups zeker niet 
aan één enkele Cerastzum-soort gebonden. In het Zoöl. Mus. bevindt zich een lange 
serie, die door DOETS gekweekt werd uit rupsen, die hij bij Kortenhoef op Ceras- 
tium triviale (Hoornbloem) vond, terwijl Boor in zijn tuin te Haamstede de 
rupsen op de gekweekte Cerastium aantrof (C. tomentosum of C. biebersteinit). 

LEFFEF schreef me de volgende interessante opmerking: „De vlinders zijn 
moeilijk te zien. Ze vliegen razend snel in de zon, de mannetjes tot ongeveer 14 
uur. De wijfjes vliegen echter door. Zodra de zon weg is, bv. door bewolking, is 
geen beest te zien. Ik heb de moeite genomen eens af te wachten, waar zo’n dier 
zich dan ging verschuilen. Dat is mij één keer gelukt. Het bleek, dat zodra een 
wolk voor de zon kwam, de vlinder gewoon onder de bloem kroop en daar met 
het kopje omlaag tegen de steel vlak onder de kelkverdikking ging zitten. Natuur- 
lijk volkomen onzichtbaar voor al wie boven op de bloem kijkt.” 


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De vliegtijd kan tot begin juli duren. De uiterste data worden nu: 27.1V— 
5.VII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (langs polderwegen, LEFFEF), Wolvega (in mei 
1956 talrijk, G. Dijkstra), Rijs. Dr.: Peizermade, Peize, Paterswolde, Norg, Veenhuizen, 
Vries, Eext, Gasteren. Ov.: Volthe, Albergen, Agelo, Weerselo, Almelo, Aadorp, Elzen, 
Bathmen, Colmschate, IJsselmuiden, Dalfsen, Steenwijkerwold, Vollenhove. Gdl.: Hoog- 
Soeren, Teuge, Heelsum, Bennekom; Warnsveld, Eefde, Lochem, Hoog-Keppel, Babberich, 
Tolkamer, Aerdt. Utr.: Grebbe, Amerongen, Maarn, Zeist, Amersfoort, Soesterberg, Hollandse 
Rading. N.H.: Kortenhoef, Amstelveen, Aalsmeer, Cruquius (Haarlemmermeer), Hembrug, 
Zaandam, Assendelft, Overveen, Heemstede. Z.H.: Voorburg, Nootdorp, Staelduin, Capelle 
aan den IJssel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Lekkerkerk, Ottoland, Schelluinen, Rozenburg, Me- 
lissant, Ouddorp. Zl: Burgh. N.B.: Bergen op Zoom, Ulvenhout, Hilvarenbeek, Kampina, 
Boxtel, Best, Nederwetten, Nuenen, Valkenswaard, Veghel, Uden, Velp (bij Grave). Lbg.: 
Sevenum, Tegelen, Blerick, Heel, Herkenbosch, Stein, Schinveld, Wijnandsrade, Wijlre, 
Maastricht, Sint Pietersberg, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. tenuivittata nov. Bovenzijde achtervleugels met opval- 
lend smalle gele band. Chèvremont, 9, 15.V.1956 (holotype, LUKKIEN). 


[Upper side hind wings: yellow band distinctly narrowed.] 


f. pallida nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels bleekbruin. Nederwetten, :9, 
2.VI.1965 (holotype, VAN DER WOLF). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings pale brown.] 


f. nigrescens nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels zwartachtig met nauwelijks 
zichtbare tekening. Nederwetten, :9, 14.V.1966 (holotype, VAN DER WOLF). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings blackish with hardly visible markings. ] 


Dwerg. Vaals (VAN WISSELINGH). 
Periphanes Hübner 


Periphanes delphinii L. Tijdschr. Entom. 84: 340; Cat. VI: (388). Geen 
enkel nieuw gegeven is over deze fraaie soort bekend geworden. Hy is in onze 
omgeving stellig sinds lang uitgestorven. 


Axylia Hübner 


Axylia putris L. Tijdschr. Entom. 82: 236; Cat. IV: (243). Uit de hierbij 
afgedrukte verspreidingskaart (fig. 44) blijkt, dat de soort in allerlei biotopen is 
aan te treffen en moeilijk een typische bewoner van zandgronden genoemd kan 
worden. Ook in het Hafdistrict en het Fluviatiel District is hij thuis en kan daar 
op zeer vochtige plaatsen voorkomen (Naardermeer, Nieuwkoopse plassen enz.). 
Op verschillende plaatsen in het lage land is pufris gewoon (Tjerkwerd, Halfweg, 
Beemster, Hoorn, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht). In 1963 was de vlinder op laatstge- 
noemde plaats zelfs zeer talrijk. Op 2.VII trof BOGAARD in zijn vangapparaat 
480 stuks aan, op 5.VII niet minder dan 714! Ook bij het Rivon-onderzoek te 
Aerdt (1965) bleek putris gewoon te zijn, terwijl hij in 1964 bij honderden uit 
de Rivon-val te Roggel te voorschijn kwam (PEERDEMAN). LEFFEF vat zijn veel- 


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Fig. 44. Verbreiding van Axylia putris L. in Nederland. 


jarige ervaring aldus samen: vrijwel overal opgemerkt, maar vooral in cultuur- 
gebieden in zeer bescheiden aantallen, vergeleken met bijv. Amathes c-nigrum en 
 Ochropleura plecta. Overigens sterk afwisselend in de mate van voorkomen, al 
naar de seizoenen. 
Met uitzondering van Rottum is pztris nu van alle waddeneilanden bekend. 
De eerste generatie kan al in de eerste decade van mei beginnen te vliegen. 
De grenzen ervan worden nu: 5.V (1961, Stein, Missiehuis) tot 1.VIII. Die van 
de (partiële) tweede worden: 5.VIII tot 14.IX. In zeer gunstige jaren komt echter 
zelfs een (heel kleine) derde generatie voor. Met zekerheid is deze waargenomen 


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in 1953, 1959, 1961, 1963 en 1964, van eind september tot half oktober (verse 
exemplaren!). De uiterste data ervan zijn: 26.IX—16.X. 

Variabiliteit. De vlinder is variabeler dan oppervlakkig lijkt. Vooral de 
tint van de voorvleugels en de uitgebreidheid van de donkere kleur erop schom- 
melen nogal. Maar ook in de tekening komen soms interessante afwijkingen voor. 

f. lignosa Hübner, [1800—1803}. Exemplaren met donkerder grondkleur van 
de voorvleugels, meer geelachtig oker, komen vrij verbreid onder de soort voor. 

f. ruficosta nov. Voorrand van de voorvleugels donker roodbruin. Weesp, 
Haarlem, ¢, 19.V.1962 (holotype, beide in Zoöl. Mus.). 


: [Costa of the fore wings dark red-brown.} 


f. obscura nov. De donkere tekening langs de costa zo verbreed, dat ronde 
vlek en niervlek erin vallen. Bovendien is de kleur ervan verdonkerd tot zwart- 
bruin. Plaat 5 fig. 2. Apeldoorn, Halfweg, &, 22.VI.1961 (holotype, beide in 
Zoöl. Mus.); Lelystad, Wageningen, Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE POL). 


[The dark markings along the costa of the fore wings broadened, so that they reach beyond 
the orbicular and the reniform. Moreover, their colour is black-brown.] 


f. clara nov. Voorvleugels zeer licht, costa slechts iets of in het geheel niet 
verdonkerd, tekening langs de achterrand bijna verdwenen, alleen ronde vlek en 
niervlek duidelijk afstekend; achtervleugels eenkleurig geelachtig wit. Plaat 5 
fig. 3. Zeist (GORTER); Utrecht (Leids Mus.); Hilversum, Laren, Amsterdam 
(2, 14.VII.1907, holotype) (Zoöl. Mus.); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD); 
Melissant (HUISMAN); Nuenen (NEIJTS); Tegelen (OTTENHEIJM); Heer (VAN 
DE Por). Blijkbaar geen zeldzame vorm. 


[Fore wings very pale, costa only a little or not at all darkened, markings along the outer 
border nearly absent, only orbicular and reniform distinctly contrasting; hind wings uni- 
colorous yellowish-white. } 


f. unimacula nov. De ronde vlek ontbreekt. Oosterbeek, 9, 20.VI.1908 (holo- 
type), Hilversum, Amsterdam (Zoöl. Mus.); Warnsveld, Rotterdam (Leids Mus.). 

[The orbicular is absent. ] 

f. bilineata nov. Voorvleugels met volledige eerste en tweede dwarslijn. Maas- 
tricht, &, 17.VI.1939 (holotype, KORTEBOS). 

[Fore wings with complete antemedian and postmedian.] 

f. tangens nov. Als de vorige vorm, maar de beide dwarslijnen raken elkaar 


even boven de binnenrand en lopen dan weer uit elkaar. Oostvoorne, 16.VII.1961 
(holotype, Lucas). 


[As the preceding form, but the two transverse lines meet each other a little above the 
inner margin and then separate again. } 


Dwergen. Nuenen (VERHAAK). 


QUADRIFINAE 


De onderfamilies behorende tot de quadrifine uilen (met vier anaaladeren in de 
achtervleugels) zijn grotendeels gerangschikt volgens het systeem van Dr. Ch. 


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Duray, de Franse specialist van deze groep, met enkele correcties op de door hem 
gebruikte nomenclatuur. 


JASPIDIINAE 


Porphyrinia Hübner 


Porphyrinia parva Hübner. Immigrant uit Zuid-Europa, die voor het eerst in 
een paar exemplaren in 1964 in ons land is aangetroffen. Uit Denemarken en het 
omringende Duitse gebied zijn mij geen vangsten bekend. In Belgié werd de 
vlinder op 7 juni 1958 te Wavreille bij Han-sur-Lesse aangetroffen (Lambillionea 
59 : 55, 1959). In Engeland is parva herhaaldelijk vooral in de graafschappen 
langs de zuidkust gesignaleerd. In mei en juni 1953 was het dier er zelfs talrijk 
(„SOUTH”, nieuwe editie 1: 348, 1961). In 1947 werden twee exemplaren in 
Ierland gevangen. 

Van de vliegtijd hier te lande is uiteraard nog niet veel bekend. Twee exem- 
plaren werden in juni gevangen, het derde in augustus. 


Vindplaatsen. Z.H.: Melissant, 13.VI.1964 (HUISMAN, afgebeeld in Ent. Ber. 25: 
153). Lbg.: Roggel, 6.VI.1964 (PEERDEMAN); Cadier, 28.VIII.1964 (VAN AARTSEN, nu 
afgebeeld plaat 5 fig. 4). 


Porphyrinia ostrina Hübner. Deze soort, eveneens een immigrant, is tot nu toe 
slechts éénmaal in ons land aangetroffen, namelijk in 1958. Ook hiervan zijn geen 
waarnemingen uit Denemarken en het omringende Duitse gebied gemeld, maar 
evenmin uit België. Wel is ostrina weer bekend van het zuiden van Engeland, 
maar is er toch veel minder waargenomen dan parva. Uit Ierland is slechts één 
vangst bekend van 1947. Zie overigens „SOUTH”, I. c.: 347. 

In Ent. Ber. 19 : 135—137 (1959) heeft KUCHLEIN na zijn vangst een artikel 
over de soort gepubliceerd met foto van het exemplaar en kaart van de vind- 
plaatsen in West-Europa. 


Vindplaats. N.H.: Overveen, 24.V.1958, & (KUCHLEIN). 
Jaspidia Hübner 


Jaspidia pygarga Hufnagel. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 89; Cat. VIII : (499). Het 
voornaamste biotoop wordt in ons land ongetwijfeld gevormd door bosachtige 
gebieden en deze worden het meest aangetroffen op de zandgronden en in het 
Krijtdistrict. Toch zijn nu opvallend veel vindplaatsen in het Hafdistrict en het 
Fluviatiel District bekend geworden, hoewel het bijna steeds vangsten van enke- 
lingen betreft. Het merendeel zal dan ook wel betrekking hebben op zwervers. 
Zulke vindplaatsen zijn: Sexbierum (1963, STOBBE), Zwartsluis (HARSEVOORD), 
Weesp (Zoòl. Mus.), Amsterdamse Bos (weinig, PEERDEMAN), Nek (N.H., 1964, 
WIEDIJK), Hoorn (HOUTMAN), Slijk-Ewijk (5.VI en 19.VI.1961, VAN DE POL), 
Buren (1962, idem), Heteren (1961, HUISMAN), Geldermalsen (1962, Tuinbouw- 
school), Leiden (hier gewoon, Lucas), Arkel (1963, ZWAKHALS), Schelluinen 
(1955, SLoB), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (vrij gewoon, BoGAARD), Melissant (1961, 


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HUISMAN). Vermeldenswaard is verder Cadzand (PEERDEMAN). De vlinder is nu 
ook bekend van Terschelling. 

De vliegtijd kan al in de eerste decade van mei beginnen. De uiterste data van 
de hoofdgeneratie worden nu: 9.V—14.VIII. De vroegste datum werd in 1959 
door Lucas te Oostvoorne waargenomen. Het is nu wel zeker, dat in gunstige 
seizoenen nog een zeer kleine partiële tweede generatie kan voorkomen. Deze is 
bekend uit de jaren 1925, 1943, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1957 en 1963. Behalve de 
reeds in Cat. VIII vermelde vangsten kennen we nu de volgende: 10.1X.1943, 
Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH), 7.X.1950, Twello (COLDEWEIJ), 9.X.1953, Aer- 
denhout (VAN WISSELINGH), 7.1X.1957, Epen (idem), 28.IX.1957, Gassel (VAN 
DE Por), 22.IX.1963, Helenaveen (LEFFEF). De uiterste data ervan zijn dus: 
7.1X—9.X. 

Variabiliteit. f. albilinea Haworth, 1809. Deze verdonkerde vorm komt 
vrijwel overal onder de soort voor. Er zijn zoveel nieuwe vindplaatsen, dat het geen 
zin heeft ze alle op te sommen. 

f. nigra nov. Voorvleugels eenkleurig zwart, de dwarslijnen en de omtrekken 
van de vlekken nog net zichtbaar; achtervleugels donkergrijs. Tegelen, ¢, 4.VI. 
1961 (holotype, OTTENHEIJM). 


[Fore wings unicolorous black, the transverse lines and the circumscriptions of the stig- 
mata hardly visible; hind wings dark grey. ] 


f. brunnescens Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaats: Roermond (LUCKER). 

f. albomarginata Spuler, 1907. Van de vorm met brede witte band op de voor- 
vleugels franjewaarts van de tweede dwarslijn, doorlopend van voorrand tot bin- 
nenrand, zijn enkele nieuwe vindplaatsen bekend geworden: Bilthoven, Vijlen 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. ochrea Derenne, 1928. Exemplaren, waarbij de voorvleugels een geelachtige 
in plaats van een witte vlek hebben, komen wat meer voor. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: 
Eext (WITMOND); Abdi Sion (FLINT); Wageningen, Gassel (VAN DE POL); 
Babberich (ELFRINK); Aalten (VAN GALEN); Scheveningen (KALLENBACH) ; Oost- 
kapelle, Best, Vijlen (VAN AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.); Eindhoven (NEIJTS); Heeze 
(VAN WISSELINGH). 

Dwerg. Apeldoorn (LEFFEF). 


Jaspidia deceptoria Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 89; Cat. VIII: (499). De 
vlinder is er zonder twijfel in geslaagd de laatste 15 jaar vaste voet in ons land 
te krijgen. Hij is al verscheidene jaren plaatselijk zeer gewoon in het zuiden van 
Limburg, maar werd ook aangetroffen op verschillende plaatsen in het oosten van 
het land. 

Ook in Denemarken is deceptoria sinds 1950 minder zeldzaam geworden en 
is nu op enkele plaatsen zelfs gewoon (HOFFMEYER, De Danske Ugler, 2de druk : 
314, 1962). Nieuwe vindplaatsen voor Sleeswijk-Holstein en de omgeving van 
Lübeck worden vermeld in Mitt. faun. Arb.gemeinsch. Schleswig-Holstein etc. 
N. F. 4: 51 (1951), 6: 57 (1953), 7: 12 en 40 (1954). Voor Belgié wordt 
alleen een vangst te Romont gemeld (Lambilionea 55 : 11, 1955). Na de eerste 
vangst in 1948 werden in het zuiden van Engeland enkele exemplaren gevangen, 


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in 1952 en 1954 in Kent (cf. Ent. Rec. 78 : (316), 1966), 1952 (in het noord- 
oosten van Sussex, Ent. Rec. 64: 262) en in 1956 (in het oosten van Sussex, 
Ent. Gaz. 8 : 29, 1957). Hier lijkt de vlinder dus een immigrant gebleven te zijn. 

De vliegtijd kan al in de laatste decade van april beginnen en voortduren tot 
de laatste decade van juli. De uiterste data zijn nu: 24.IV—25.VII. De vroegste 
vangst stamt uit 1959 (Cadier, Nies), de late uit 1962 (Montfort, MAASSEN). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Wijnjeterp (1965, G. Dijkstra). Dr.: Grollo (1960, LEFFEF). 
Ov.: Ommen (1964, VAN WISSELINGH); Abdij Sion (1964, Pater AMADEUS). Gdl.: Wage- 
ningen (1954, VAN DE Por); Vorden (1939, HARDONK). Lbg.: Sevenum (1954, VAN DE 
Por); Swalmen (1957 en volgende jaren, Pijpers, LUCKER); Vlodrop (1959, LÜCKER); 
Meijnweg (1966, MAASSEN) ; Montfort (1962, dezelfde); Brunssum (CLAASSENS, DIEDEREN); 
Simpelveld (1954, VAN DE Por); Kunrade (LEFFEF); Wijlre (idem); Eijs (1957, VAN DE 
Por); Gerendal (LEFFEF); Bemelen (idem); Cadier en Keer (vele verzamelaars); Vijlen 
(1962, LEFFEF); Vaals (1953, LÜCKER). 


Variabiliteit. De vlinder varieert heel weinig. 
f. latefasciata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de witte gewaterde band duidelijk 
verbreed. Plaat 5 fig. 6. Simpelveld, &, VI.1954 (holotype, VAN DE POL). 


[Upper side fore wings: the white submarginal band distinctly widened.} 


Eustrotia Hübner 


Eustrotia bankiana Fabricius, 1775 (olivana Schiff., 1775; zie voor de priori- 
teit van de in 1775 gepubliceerde werken supplement VII : (449)). Tijdschr. 
Entom. 90 : 91; Cat. VIII: (501). Er kan weinig twijfel aan bestaan, dat het 
oorspronkelijke Nederlandse biotoop werd gevormd door moerassige gronden, 
zoals dan ook in Cat. VIII werd geschreven, en nog altijd zijn zulke terreinen de 
aangewezen plaatsen om naar de gemakkelijk op te jagen vlinder uit te kijken. 
Ook op de Britse eilanden (waar hij in Engeland zelf zeer sterk achteruit gegaan 
is, zie ,,SOUTH”, nieuwe editie, Moths 1 : 351, 1961), is dit eigenlijk het enige 
biotoop, waar de vlinder is aangetroffen. 

Maar in Nederland is bankiana zich de laatste decennia thuis gaan voelen in 
heel andere biotopen, droge zandgronden, al of niet bebost. Van tal van zulke 
plaatsen is het dier bekend geworden, veel te veel en veel te regelmatig, dan dat 
nog aan zwervers gedacht kan worden. We hebben hier een fraai voorbeeld van 
areaaluitbreiding door aanpassing aan diverse biotopen. Een biezonder plezierig 
verschijnsel, want het oorspronkelijke biotoop verdwijnt hoe langer hoe meer. 

De soort is nu ook van één van de waddeneilanden bekend geworden. 

De vliegtijd kan tot in de eerste decade van augustus duren. De uiterste data 
worden nu: 13.V—8.VIII. De laatste datum werd in 1960 door FLINT waarge- 
nomen in het Boetelerveld. In sommige jaren komt echter nog een zeer kleine 
(en dus partiéle) tweede generatie voor. Die is nu bekend uit de jaren 1957 (VAN 
DE POL), 1963 en 1964 (LEFFEF). De uiterste data ervan zijn: 26.VIII—22.IX. 
Ietwat twijfelachtig is de datum 16.VIII.1963, toen LEFFEF een exemplaar te Empe 
ving. Vermoedelijk is dit toch ook al een vertegenwoordiger van de tweede gene- 
ratie geweest. 


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Vindplatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (alleen in de Kooibosjes, LEFFEF), Wijnjeterp, 
Nijetrijne. Dr.: Paterswolde, Norg, Zuidlaren, Schoonlo. Ov.: Bergvennen, Denekamp, Volthe, 
Saasveld (Molenven), Enschede, Aamsveen, Balkbrug, Ommen, Oudleusen, Rechteren, Leme- 
lerveld, Wechele, Boetelerveld, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Tjoene (droog dennenbos, 
LUKKIEN), Schalkhaar, Colmschate, Deventer, Platvoet (langs spoordijk, LUKKIEN), Olst 
(tussen eikenhout, idem). Gdl.: Epe, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Apeldoorn, Laag-Soeren, Leuven- 
heim, Spankeren, Hoenderlo, Kootwijk, Kootwijkerveen, Gerritsfles, Wageningen, Bennekom, 
Lunteren; de Voorst, Warnsveld, Almen, Barchem, Ruurlo, de Boggelaar, Korenburgerveen, 
Winterswijk, Ratum, Kotten, Woold, Aalten, Ulenpas, Beek bij Didam, Montferland, Aerdt; 
Sint Jansberg (op het droogste gedeelte, GORTER), Slijk-Ewijk, Geldermalsen. Utr.: Ame- 
rongen, Leersum. N.H.: Naarden, Naardermeer, Hoorn, Overveen. Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, 
Noorden, Nieuwkoop, Arkel, Schelluinen, Ottoland, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (vier stuks in 
1959, BOGAARD), Melissant (4 in 1950, HUISMAN). ZI: Burgh, Westenschouwen. N.B.: 
Wouw, Halsteren, Bergen op Zoom, Strijbeek, Drunen, Loon op Zand, Kampina, Boxtel, 
Waalre, Heeze, Maarheeze, Eindhoven, Nederwetten, Nuenen, Gerwen, Deurne, Liessel, 
Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis, Mill, Gassel. Lbg.: Plasmolen, Horst, Sevenum, America, Griends- 
veen (talrijk, LEFFEF), Nederweert, Weert, Moesel, Roggel, Beegden, Panheel, Heel, Itter- 
voort, de Hamert, Arcen, Lottum, Lomm, Tegelen, Belfeld, Swalmen, Maalbroek, Vlodrop, 
Montfort, Annendaal, Koningsbos, Echt, Susteren, Stein, Geleen, Schinveld, Brunssum, 
Gerendal, Meerssen, Bunde, Cadier en Keer, Gronsveld, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. De exemplaren van de tweede generatie, die LEFFEF in 
september 1963 in de Peel aantrof, waren kleiner en donkerder dan die van de 
eerste generatie. 

f. renigera nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: aan de binnenkant van de buitenste 
witte dwarslijn bevindt zich op de plaats, waar deze in de regel iets naar binnen 
gebogen is, een volledig ontwikkelde witte donker gekernde niervlek. Plaat 5 
fig. 8 en 9. Slijk-Ewijk, 4, 19.V.1960 (holotype), Winterswijk, &, 15.VI.1958, 
een exemplaar, dat tegelijk het kenmerk van f. obsoleta bezit (beide in collectie 
VAN DE POL). 


[Upper side fore wings: on the inner side of the white postmedian a fully developed white 
reniform with dark centre in the place where this line, as a rule, is slightly bent inwards. ]} 


f. edentata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren zonder uitstekende tanden aan de eerste 
dwarslijn komen vrij regelmatig onder de soort voor. 

f. signata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren, waarbij de twee witte dwarslijnen door 
dunne zwarte lijnen afgezet zijn, zijn zeldzamer. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Empe, 
Bergen op Zoom (Zoöl. Mus.); Kotten, Plasmolen, Lottum (VAN WISSELINGH); 
Noorden, Kampina, Heeze (Lucas); Nuenen (Nets); Annendaal (MAASSEN). 

f. obsoleta Tutt, 1892, Brit. Noct. 4: 7. Exemplaren, waarbij de twee witte 
banden sterk gereduceerd zijn en nog slechts als dunne witte lijntjes aanwezig 
zijn. Een prachtig 4 ving LEFFEF 6.VII.1955 te Empe (Zoöl. Mus.). Een minder 
extreem exemplaar met smalle gebroken banden van Waalre (VAN WISSELINGH). 

Dwergen. Hatert, Rijen, Best (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Eustrotia uncula Clerck. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 90; Cat. VIII : (500). Met de 
lijst van 1949 mee een lange rij van vindplaatsen, die bewijst, dat de vlinder een 
sterke verbreiding in ons land heeft. Daar de rups volgens de literatuur niet alleen 
op zeggen, maar ook op ruwe grassen leeft, is het wel te verklaren, dat de vlinder 
in zijn voorkomen niet beperkt is tot moerassige plaatsen, al vormen die ook het 


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voornaamste biotoop voor de soort. Hij is nu ook op drie van de waddeneilanden 
aangetroffen. 

De eerste generatie kan al in de eerste meidagen beginnen te vliegen en in 
gunstige seizoenen waarschijnlijk zelfs al in de laatste week van april. De uiterste 
data ervan zijn nu: 1.V—20.VII. De tweede generatie is nog tot in september 
waargenomen. De laatste datum ervan wordt nu: 10.IX (in 1955, Koor). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Ameland, Terschelling (vrij gewoon in 1956 en 1957, LEFFEF), 
Vlieland, Leeuwarden, Tietjerk, Olterterp, Duurswoude, Bakkeveen, Haule, Wijnjeterp, 
Fochtelo, Oosterwolde, Oudehorne, Oldeberkoop, Nijetriine, Oudemirdum, Delburen. Gr.: 
Zevenhuizen (Leek), Glimmen, Noordlaren, Veendam. Dr.: Roden, Steenbergen, Lieveren, 
Norg, Westervelde, Veenhuizen, Paterswolde, Eelderwolde, De Punt, Donderen, Vries, 
Schipbeek, Zuidlaren, Eext, Gieten, Gasselte, Schoonlo, Hooghalen, Ruinen, Hoogeveen. Ov.: 
Denekamp, Volthe, Ootmarsum, Vasse, Agelo, Reutum, Albergen, Bornerbroek, Delden, 
Balkbrug, Beerze, Oudleusen, Rechteren, Dalfsen, Gerner, Lemelerveld, Boetelerveld, Abdij 
Sion, Zwartsluis, Vollenhove, Marknesse. Gdl.: Staverden, Epe, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, 
Teuge, Uchelen, Empe, Tonden, Deelen, Wolfheze, Hoenderlo, Otterlo, Gerritsfles, Hars- 
kamp, Kootwijk, Kootwijkerveen, Gorssel, Eefde, Ruurlo, Korenburgerveen, Wooldse veen, 
Hoog-Keppel, Babberich; Groesbeek, Slijk-Ewijk, Geldermalsen. Utr.: Bilthoven, Achttien- 
hoven, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Naardermeer, Callantsoog, Heemskerk, Overveen, 
Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Noorden, Nieuwkoop, Asperen, Arkel, Schelluinen, 
Ottoland, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (één exemplaar in 1959, BOGAARD), Oostvoorne, Helle- 
voetsluis, Melissant (1966, HUISMAN), Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, 
Oostkapelle, Goes, Cadzand. N.B.: Strijbeek, Waalwijk, Drunen, Haaren, Kampina, Sint 
Michielsgestel, Boxtel, Bergeijk, Eindhoven, Someren, Helenaveen, Erp, Mill, Gassel. Lbg.: 
Well, de Hamert, Lomm, Swalmen, Roggel, Moesel, Herkenbosch, Melick, Sint Odiliënberg, 
Montfort, Stein, Huls, Wijlre, Geulem, Gronsveld. 


Variabiliteit. f. rufotincta Kolb, 1930, Mitt. Münchener ent. Ges. 20: 
62. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels van een warm roodbruine tint. Hatert (VAN 
WISSELINGH) ; Noorden, Wouw (Lucas); Deurne (Br. ANTONIUS). 

f. obscurior Spuler, 1907. Grondkleur sterk verdonkerd, ook de tekening die 
anders licht is, is bruinachtig getint. Nuenen (NEIJTS); de Peel (Helenaveen), 
een exemplaar, waarbij de voorvleugels bruinzwart zijn met donkere costa en de 
achtervleugels eveneens verdonkerd zijn (Nrs). 

f. lineola Dannehl, 1926. Vrijwel overal onder de soort, een lange rij van vele 
vindplaatsen ín Zoöl. Mus. 

f. clarivittata Nordström, 1940 (clarivittata Lucas, 1959, Ent. Ber. 19 : 205). 
De vorm met een brede witachtige achterrandsband (en in de regel ook brede 
lichte voorrand) is niet zo gewoon, maar blijkbaar ook tamelijk verbreid. Noord- 
laren, Marknesse, Bennekom, Wageningen (VAN DE Por); Almen, Nieuwkoop, 
Kampina (Lucas); Melissant (HUISMAN); Nuenen (VERHAAK). 

f. triangulata Lempke, 1949. Niet zeldzaam, verbreid onder de soort. 

f. pupillata Lempke, 1949. Hetzelfde geldt voor exemplaren met donker ge- 
kernde niervlek. 

f. bipartita nov. De langgerekte lichte niervlek in tweeën gedeeld. Plaat 5 
fig. 10. Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 9, 9.VII.1959 (holotype, BOGAARD). 


[The long pale reniform divided into two parts.] 


Teratologisch exemplaar. Linker voorvleugel te klein. Meerssen 
(RIJK). 


248 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (898) 
Emmelia Hübner 


Emmelia trabealis Scopoli. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 92; Cat. VIII: (502). Het 
geregeldst komt de vlinder bij ons in het zuiden en midden van Limburg voor, 
al is het ook hier meestal beslist geen gewoon dier. In elk geval is het toch steeds 
een slechts plaatselijk voorkomende soort. Buiten deze provincie alleen enkele 
vangsten in Gelderland en Noord-Brabant. 


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Fig. 45. Histogram van Emmelia trabealis Scopoli. 


De eerste generatie kan al in de eerste helft van mei beginnen te vliegen. De 
vroegste datum is nu: 12 mei. Toen werd in 1960 een exemplaar te Slijk-Ewijk 
gevangen (VAN DE Por). De laatste datum van de tweede generatie blijft 10.VIII. 
Uit het hierbij gegeven histogram (fig. 45) blijkt, dat de beste tijd voor de eerste 
generatie de eerste helft van juni is. De tweede generatie is duidelijk schaarser. 
Er zijn althans minder gegevens over beschikbaar. De hoofdvliegtijd hiervan 
schijnt de eerste helft van juli te zijn, wat dan wel op een snelle ontwikkeling van 
deze generatie moet wijzen. Heel laat is een exemplaar, dat TOLMAN 27.1X.1948 
te Milsbeek ving (zeer partiéle derde generatie?). 


Vindplaatsen. Gdl.: de Voorst (1953, LEFFEF); Slijk-Ewijk (1960, VAN DE Pot). 
N.B.: Sint Michielsgestel (1950, KNIPPENBERG); Eindhoven (1954, 1955, VAN DULM); 
Heeze (1959, BENTINCK). Lbg.: Milsbeek (1948, TOLMAN); Horst (1960, LEFFEF); 
Swalmen (1950—1954, diverse verzamelaars); Sint Odiliénberg (1948, Mus. Rotterdam; 
1949, LUCKER; 1960, VERBEEK); Linne (1953, LUCKER); Montfort (1960, MAASSEN); 
Echt (1959, VAN AARTSEN); Sint Joost (1960, idem). 


f. confluens Stauder, 1924. Echt (Zoöl. Mus.). 
f. nigricosta Stauder, 1924. De drie exemplaren in het Zoöl. Mus. zijn alle 


overgangsexemplaren, waarbij wel de twee basale gele vlekjes langs de costa ver- 
dwenen zijn, maar niet het derde. 


Acontia Ochsenheimer 


Acontia lucida Hufnagel. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 196; Cat. VIII : (606). Van 
dit fraaie dier is tot nog toe geen tweede exemplaar uit ons land bekend geworden. 
Ook uit het omringende gebied zijn geen nieuwe gegevens te vermelden. 


Acontia luctuosa Schiff. Ook van deze soort is slechts één enkele vangst uit 
Nederland bekend (1963). In Denemarken werd op 15.VII.1949 het eerste exem- 
plaar op Bornholm gevangen (1949, Flora og Fauna 55 : 116), het tweede in 
1965 op Seeland (op. cit. 72: 122, 1966). Uit het omringende Duitse gebied 
vermeldt PEETS het dier als zeer zeldzaam voor de omgeving van Hannover 


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(Jahresber. Naturhist. Ges. Hannover 55—57 : 247, 1908). Uit Belgié wordt de 
vlinder vermeld van verschillende plaatsen in het zuiden van de provincies Namen 
en Luxemburg. Op de Britse eilanden is /wctwosa bekend van het zuiden van 
Engeland en is vooral langs de kuststrook van het zuidwestelijk deel gewoon. 

Van vliegtijd is hier te lande uiteraard vrijwel niets bekend. Het exemplaar 
werd in de tweede helft van juli gevangen. 


Vindplaats. N.H.: Heemskerk, 22.VII.1963 (VAN AARTSEN, afgebeeld plaat 5 
fig. 13). 


NYCTEOLINAE 


Nycteola Hübner 


Nycteola revayana Scopoli. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 92; Cat. VII: (502). In 
verband met het voorkomen van rupsen op eik is de soort in hoofdzaak beperkt 
tot de zandgronden, maar hier is hij dan ook goed verbreid. Toch is het geen 
soort, die gewoon genoemd kan worden. De aantallen, die met de menglicht- 
lampen gevangen worden, zijn in de regel klein. Wanneer men het materiaal in 
de oudere collecties bekijkt, rijst het vermoeden, dat de vlinder toen gewoner was 
(en veel variabeler) dan nu. Het is mogelijk, dat met het verdwijnen van de cul- 
tuur van eikehakhout (voor de schors) ook het voor de rups meest geschikte bio- 
toop is achteruit gegaan. 

Naast de vindplaatsen op de zandgronden zijn er vrij veel daarbuiten bekend 
geworden. Voor een deel is dit te verklaren door het feit, dat de eik niet beperkt 
is tot deze grondsoort, maar een aantal van deze vondsten moeten betrekking 
hebben op zwervers, daar ze afkomstig zijn van plaatsen, waar wijd en zijd geen 
eik te bekennen is. De vlinder is nu bekend van één van de waddeneilanden. 

Wat de vliegtijd betreft, er is nauwelijks een grens tussen de beide generaties, 
daar Lucas na 19.VIII nog 20.VIII (1944) en 21.VIII (1960) vermeldt, al zal 
er in elk jaar waarschijnlijk wel een korte onderbreking zijn. De tweede generatie 
kan bij gunstig weer tot in december blijven vliegen (7.XII.1956, Lucas), ter- 
wijl overwinterde exemplaren reeds half maart kunnen verschijnen (vroegste 
datum nu: 16.111, in 1950 waargenomen te Twello door COLDEWEIJ). 

Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (enkele, LEFFEF), Wijnjeterp. Gr.: Glimmen. 
Dr.: Roden, Schoonlo, Wijster. Ov.: Volthe, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Holten, Colm- 
schate, Vollenhove. Gdl.: Ermelo, Epe, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Otterlo, Lunteren; Gorssel, 
Warnsveld, Ruurlo, Boekelo, Korenburgerveen, Hoog-Keppel, Didam, Loerbeek; Slijk-Ewijk. 
Utr.: Rhenen, Doorn, Bunnik, Bilthoven, Amersfoort, Hollandse Rading, Botshol (Wor- 
SCHRIJN). N.H.: Valkeveen, Naardermeer, Weesp, Amsterdam (1959, PEERDEMAN), Halfweg 
(1960, VAN AARTSEN), Schoorl, Heemskerk, Heemstede. Z.H.: Den Haag, Rotterdam 
(Lucas), Dordrecht (1964, BOGAARD), Oostvoorne, Melissant (1960, HUISMAN). Zl.: Burgh, 
Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Cadzand. N.B.: Hoogerheide, Haaren, 
Sint Michielsgestel, Bergeijk, Valkenswaard, Someren, Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis, Gassel. 
Lbg.: Grubbenvorst, Tegelen, Belfeld, Swalmen, Heel, Montfort, Nieuwstadt, Brunssum, 
Treebeek, Maastricht, Gronsveld, Epen, Camerig, Vijlen. 

Variabiliteit. Exemplaren, die met Scororr's beschrijving overeenstem- 
men, zijn nog altijd niet in ons land aangetroffen. 

f. grisea ter Haar, [1899 of 1900}. Exemplaren met grijze voorvleugels en de 
zwarte streep uit de wortel werden nog bekend van: Ermelo (VAN DER MEULEN); 


250 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (900) 


Rhenen (Landb. Hschool); Doorn (VAN DER WOLF); Zeist (GORTER); Weesp 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. ramosana Hübner, 1793. Van de vorm, waarbij de voorvleugels boven de 
streep bruin zijn en eronder grijs, werden de volgende nieuwe vindplaatsen be- 
kend: Lage Vuursche, Bussum (Zoöl. Mus.); Belfeld (OTTENHEIJM). VAN 
WISSELINGH bezit een exemplaar van Wassenaar, waarbij bijna de gehele voor- 
vleugel bruin is, behalve langs de achterrand, die grijs is. Dit kan toch wel het 
beste tot ramosana gerekend worden. 

f. atrata Sheldon, 1919. Van deze zeer donkere vorm, waartoe ik ook de 
zwartachtige zonder bruine tint (maar waarbij de diepzwarte ramosana-streep nog 
steeds duidelijk afsteekt) zou willen rekenen, werden nog exemplaren gevangen 
te Ruurlo (LUKKIEN), Aalten (VAN GALEN), Zeist (GORTER), Bussum (KUCH- 
LEIN), Bergeijk, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH), Sint Anthonis (PEERDEMAN). 

f. dilutanoides Lempke, 1958, Ent. Ber. 18 : 163 (dilutana auct. nec Hubner). 
De vorm is beslist niet gewoon. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Doorn (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. fusculana Schmid, 1885. Ook van deze vorm slechts enkele nieuwe vind- 
plaatsen: Aerdenhout, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. obsoleta Sheldon, 1919. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Bussum (Zoöl. Mus.); Aer- 
denhout, Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. lathamiana Swederus, 1787. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Arnhem, Laren-Gdl. 
(Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. ilicana Fabricius, 1781. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Lage Vuursche, Bussum, 
Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. notata Sheldon, 1919. De zilvergrijze vorm met zwarte stippen werd gevan- 
gen te Montfort (MAASSEN). 

f. afzeliana Swederus, 1787. Rotterdam (Lucas). 

f. adusta Sheldon, 1919. Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. lichenodes Sheldon, 1919. Putten (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. undulana Hübner, [1796}. Hoofdvorm. 

f. plumbea Sheldon, 1919. Bussum (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. melanosticta Sheldon, 1919. Apeldoorn, Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); 
Bunnik (C. DE JONG). 

f. nigricans Sheldon, 1919. Gewoon. 

f. conjuncta Cockayne, 1951, Ent. Rec. 63 : 162. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: van 
de niervlek loopt een zwarte streep naar de eerste dwarslijn. Arnhem, 1871 (Zoöl. 
Mus.); Amersfoort (Landb. Hschool). 


Nycteola degenerana Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 95; Cat. VIII: (505). 
Uit ons land zijn geen nieuwe gegevens bekend geworden. De soort is hier stellig 
niet inheems. 

(De laatste jaren zijn in de buitenlandse literatuur verschillende publicaties 
over het geslacht Nycteola verschenen. De uitvoerigste is de monografie van 
Ch. Duray, Révision des Nycteola Hübner (Sarrothripus Curtis) paléarctiques, 
Ann. Soc. ent. France 127 : 107—132, pl. H en III, 1958. Er blijken in de weste- 
lijke helft van Europa niet minder dan vijf verschillende soorten voor te komen. 


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In het omringende gebied is behalve de twee uit Nederland bekende nog N. asia- 
tica Krulikovski aangetroffen (één vondst in Denemarken, verschillende in het 
uiterste zuiden van Belgisch Luxemburg). Deze soort heeft eveneens groene voor- 
vleugels, maar is kleiner dan degenerana (net als revayana) en heeft meer hoekige 
voorvleugels. Heel goed zijn de verschillen te zien in HOFFMEYER’s Danske Ugler, 
2de druk, plaat 22, fig. 19 en 20 (1962). Behalve de vangsten van asiatica in het 
zuiden van Belgié maken overigens alle andere in onze omgeving, zowel van 
degenerana als van asiatica, de indruk, dat we met zwervers te doen hebben). 


Earias Hubner 


Earias clorana L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 99; Cat. VIII : (509). Zeer verbreid 
in ons land, vooral in het lage deel. Opvallend veel nieuwe vindplaatsen in het 
Hafdistrict en in het Fluviatiel District, wat natuurlijk in verband staat met de 
levenswijze van de rups, die in de samengesponnen topscheuten van smalbladige 
wilgen leeft, vooral van Salix alba en Salix viminalis. Nu van drie van de wad- 
deneilanden bekend. 

De eerste generatie kan reeds in de laatste week van april beginnen te vliegen. 
De vroegste datum is nu: 25.IV (1946, Stein, collectie Missiehuis), de laatste 
12.VII. Het is thans zeker, dat in gunstige jaren nog een partiéle derde generatie 
kan voorkomen. Na 28.VIII, de laatste in 1949 bekende datum, werden exem- 
plaren gevangen op 1.IX.1959, 1 en 2.IX.1961, 4.IX.1957 en 1959, 10.IX.1956, 
16.1X.1965 (koud en laat jaar). Mogelijk zijn dit althans gedeeltelijk nog late 
vertegenwoordigers van de tweede generatie geweest. Zekere derde generatie 
dieren waren echter: 20.IX.1956, Stein (Missiehuis), 13.1X.1959, vers exemplaar, 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD), 15, 16 en 21.IX.1963, Arkel (ZWAKHALS), 
2.X.1959, vers exemplaar, Heemskerk (VAN AARTSEN), 7.X.1961 en 18.X.1962, 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling, Vlieland, Sexbierum, Leeuwarden, Tietjerk, 
Ternaard, Eernewoude, Wijnjeterp, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Nijemirdum, Dedgum, Tjerk- 
werd. Gr.: Glimmen. Dr.: Westervelde, Norg, Donderen, Schoonlo, Ruinen. Ov.: Volthe, 
Albergen, Almelo, Vriezenveen, Holten, Balkbrug, Rechteren, Dalfsen, Abdij Sion, Platvoet, 
Zwartsluis, Vollenhove, Kalenberg. Flevoland: Lelystad. Gdl.: Harderwijk, Vierhouten, 
Wiessel, Terwolde, Uchelen, Empe, Laag-Soeren, Gerritsfles, Wageningen, Bennekom; 
Gorssel, Eefde, Warnsveld, Almen, Ruurlo, Hoog-Keppel, Aerdt, Groessen; Berg en Dal, 
Slijk-Ewijk, Neerijnen. Utr.: Amersfoort, Utrecht, Harmelen, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, 
Naarden, Naardermeer, Muiden, Weesp, Halfweg, Katham, Beemster, Wormerveer, Oost- 
Knollendam, Hoorn, Koog-Texel, Schoorl, Bergen, Castricum, Bakkum, Heemskerk, Velzen, 
Overveen, Haarlem, Aerdenhout, Heemstede, Vogelenzang. Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Noor- 
den, Nieuwkoop, Noordwijk, Oegstgeest, Wassenaar, Leidschendam, Voorburg, Delft, Vlaar- 
dingen, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Krimpen aan de Lek, Reeuwijk, Asperen, Arkel, Schelluinen, 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Hoogvliet, Oostvoorne, Rockanje, Hellevoetsluis, Middelharnis, Me- 
lissant, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Koudekerke, Val- 
kenisse, Kamperland, Goes, Cadzand. N.B.: Galder, Strijbeek, Chaam, Waalwijk, Sint 
Michielsgestel, Kampina, Boxtel, Best, Eindhoven, Geldrop, Helmond, Helenaveen, Sint 
Anthonis. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, Moesel, Roggel, Steijl, Tegelen, Swalmen, Maasniel, 
Montfort, Echt, Stein, Heerlerbaan, Chèvremont, Eijs, Geulem, Bunde, Heer, Kannerbos, 
Sint Pietersberg, Gronsveld, Epen, Vijlen, Vaals. 


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Variabiliteit. De groene kleur van de voorvleugels varieert iets in tint. 

f. lacticolor nov. Voorvleugels roomwit, de aderen, die bij typisch gekleurde 
exemplaren donkerder groen zijn, zijn nu donkerder grijs. Arkel, 9, 5.VIII.1960 
(holotype, ZWAKHALS). 


[Fore wings creamy white, the nervures, darker green in typically coloured specimens, 
are now darker grey.] 


Dwerg. Bennekom (VAN DE Por). 


Earias vernana Fabricius. Tot nog toe is slechts één exemplaar bekend, dat in 
1954 in het noorden van het land werd gevangen. Volgens de literatuur leeft de 
rups uitsluitend op de witte abeel en dat is nu niet bepaald een algemeen voor- 
komende boom in Nederland. 

In Denemarken is de vlinder lokaal, maar komt op alle grote eilanden voor en 
is ook bekend van Jutland. De vlinder zelf wordt niet veel aangetroffen, maar de 
rups komt vaak in aantal voor (zie HOFFMEYER, De Danske Ugler, 2de druk: 
327—328, 1962). In het noordwesten van Duitsland is vernana bekend van 
Sleeswijk-Holstein (één exemplaar in 1937), van de omgeving van Hamburg 
(twee oude vondsten in 1895 en 1909, daarna weer op licht in 1952, 1953 en 
1954), bij Bremen (een 9 in 1934), van Hannover (één exemplaar in 1951 op 
licht bij de stad) en verder in het bergachtige deel: Göttingen, Bückeburg. Niet 
bekend uit Westfalen. In de voormalige Rijnprovincie een 9 bij Düsseldorf in 
1910 en een & zonder datum van Krefeld. Niet aangetroffen in België en op de 
Britse eilanden. 

Van vliegtijd is hier uiteraard vrijwel niets bekend. In Denemarken heeft de 
vlinder twee generaties van mei tot in augustus. 


Vindplaats. Dr.: Donderen, 5.VI.1954 (BLOM, afgebeeld plaat 5 fig. 12). 


Hylophila Hübner 


Hylophila fagana Fabricius (prasinana auct.). Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 99; Cat. 
VII : (509). De soort met de drie zilverkleurige dwarslijnen op de voor- 
vleugels. De in 1949 gegeven verbreiding is goed, al zijn heel wat nieuwe vind- 
plaatsen bekend geworden. Hierbij zijn ook enkele in het Hafdistrict en het Flu- 
viatiel District, die beslist van zwervers afkomstig moeten zijn. De vlinder is nu 
van twee van de waddeneilanden bekend. 

De normale eerste generatie kan tot in de tweede helft van juli vliegen, zodat 
de uiterste data nu worden: 24.1V—24.VII (de late datum in 1962 te Stein, col- 
lectie Missiehuis). De zeer partiéle tweede generatie, die zeker niet alle jaren 
voorkomt, werd aangetroffen in 1952 (Apeldoorn, Bennekom), vooral in 1953 
(Apeldoorn, Bennekom, Aerdenhout, Melissant), in 1955 en 1957 (Wiessel, 
Apeldoorn), van 12.VIII—1.IX. Merkwaardig is vooral het 4 (stellig een zwer- 
ver), dat HUISMAN 12.VIII.1953 te Melissant ving, terwijl er nog nooit een 
exemplaar van de eerste generatie is gezien! 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (weinig, vooral in het beboste westen, LEFFEF), 
Tietjerk, Beetsterzwaag, Olterterp, Duurswoude, Wijnjeterp, Oosterwolde, Oudehorne, 


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Nijetrijne, Balk, Nijemirdum, Oudemirdum. Gr.: Noordlaren. Dr.: Eelde, Roden, Een, Norg, 
Westervelde, Eext, Schoonlo. Ov.: Ootmarsum, Volthe, Saasveld (Molenven), Enschede, 
Ommen, Rechteren, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Colmschate, Zwartsluis. Gdl.: Ermelo, Hulshorst, 
Nunspeet, Soerel, Hattem, Epe, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Uchelen, Beekbergen, Ellecom, 
Hoenderlo, Otterlo, Bennekom, Ede; Eefde, Warnsveld, Lochem, Ruurlo, Hoog-Keppel; 
Groesbeek, Hatert. Utr.: Amerongen, Doorn, Overlangbroek, Soesterberg, Soestduinen, Lage 
Vuursche. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Amsterdamse Bos (matig, PEERDEMAN), Halfweg 
(26.VI.1960, 2, VAN AARTSEN), Den Burg (Texel, P. A. SMIT), Schoorl, Bergen aan Zee, 
Heemskerk, Santpoort, Aerdenhout, Heemstede. Z.H.: Leiden, Wassenaar, Duinrel, Scheve- 
ningen, Staelduin, Rotterdam (Kralinger Hout), Arkel (drie exemplaren op 8.VI.1961, 
ZWAKHALS), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (in 1962 en in 1963 telkens één exemplaar, BOGAARD), 
Melissant (12.VIII.1953, 4, HUISMAN), Ouddorp. Zl.: Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oost- 
kapelle. N.B.: Dorst, Galder, Strijbeek, Ulvenhout, Teteringen, Nieuwkuik, Sint Michiels- 
gestel, Boxtel, Kampina, Eindhoven, Heeze. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, Tegelen, Belfeld, 
Swalmen, Sint Odiliënberg, Meijnweg, Montfort, Stein, Schinveld, Brunssum, Heerlen, Val- 
kenburg, Maastricht, Gronsveld, Bocholtz, Epen, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. fzorii Costantini, 1911 (bzlinea Richardson, 1952, Ent. 
Rec. 64: 271, pl. XI fig. 26). Exemplaren van de tweede generatie, die aan de 
beschrijving voldoen, zag ik van: Apeldoorn (Lucas); Bennekom (VAN DE Por); 
Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Melissant (HUISMAN). 

(De tweede generatie is nu ook uit Engeland bekend, maar werd ook daar weer 
als een nieuwe vorm beschreven. Blijkens de foto komt de loop van de twee aan- 
wezige dwarsijnen geheel overeen met de beschrijving van COSTANTINI). 

f. sylvana Fabricius, 1794. Exemplaren zonder de binnenste dwarslijn op de 
voorvleugels werden nog aangetroffen te: Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Nijmegen, 
Haarlem, Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Vijlen (PEERDEMAN). 

f. bilineata Slevogt, 1901. Exemplaren zonder de buitenste dwarslijn op de 
voorvleugels werden nog bekend van: Eext, Wiessel, Apeldoorn, Heemskerk 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Ruurlo (LUKKIEN); Soestduinen (BERK); Bussum (TER LAAG); 
Santpoort (AUKEMA); Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Heemstede (von HER- 
WARTH); Wassenaar (Lucas); Den Haag (Landb. Hschool); Valkenburg (TER 
LAAG). 

f. unilinea nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: van de drie dwarslijnen is alleen de 
buitenste aanwezig. Paterswolde, &, 15.1V.1930, e. I. (holotype, Landb. Hschool). 


[Upper side fore wings: only the outermost transverse line is present] 


f. & millieri Capronnier, 1883. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van de vorm met rode 
middelste dwarslijn en binnenrand van de voorvleugels zijn: Abdij Sion (FLINT); 
Apeldoorn, Den Haag (Zoöl. Mus.); Bennekom (BRANGER); Amerongen, Zeist 
(GORTER); Bussum (TER LAAG); Santpoort (AUKEMA); Wassenaar (VAN WIs- 
SELINGH) ; Montfort (MAASSEN). Blijkbaar vrij verbreid onder de soort. 

f. © rubrociliata Obraztsov, 1950, Ent. Z. Frankfurt 60 : 72. De franje van de 
voorvleugels over de hele lengte roodachtig, net als bij het 4. Zeker geen zeld- 
zame vorm. Of hij genetisch iets te maken heeft met de vorige is niet bekend. 
Beetsterzwaag (G. DijKSTRA); Deventer, Putten, Tongeren, Apeldoorn, Soest, 
Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.); Ruurlo (LUKKIEN); Zeist (GORTER); ’s-Graveland 
(WESTERNENG) ; Deurne (NIES). 

f. caerulescens Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van deze blauwgroene 


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vorm: Abdij Sion, 9, 1963 (FLINT); Apeldoorn, twee wijfjes (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Heemstede (VAN DE POL). 

f. flava Spuler, 1906, Schmetterl. Eur. 2 : 126 (xanthophilana Obraztsov, 1943, 
Iris 56: 157). Grondkleur van de voorvleugels diepgeel, met donkerder gele 
strepen (de schaduwen langs de nu nauwelijks zichtbare dwarslijnen); achter- 
vleugels lichter geel. Een prachtig gaaf & van Apeldoorn, 19.VI.1957 (LEFFEF 
leg., Zoöl. Mus.). 


[In 1950 (l. c.) OBRAZTSOV declares his xanthophilana not to be identical with Spuler’s 
f. flava. However the differences indicated by him are mainly caused by the fact that 
SPULER described his form after a ¢, whereas OBRAZTSOV’s xanthophilana is a 9 .} 


Bena Billberg 


Bena prasinana L. (bicolorana Fuessly, 1775). Tydschr. Entom. 90: 100; 
Cat. VIII : (510). De grotere soort met de twee gele dwarslijnen op de voor- 
vleugels. Evenals de vorige soort vooral verbreid in bosachtige gebieden, maar 
over het algemeen toch iets minder gewoon, althans als imago. Opmerkelijk is 
ook, dat vrijwel geen zwervers buiten het normale biotoop bekend zijn. Een inte- 
ressante opmerking schreef LEFFEF me over het dier: „Mijn ervaring is, dat van de 
soort meer rupsen gevonden worden dan imagines, die bovendien niet goed op 
licht komen. Ook lijkt het me toe, dat er iets van achteruitgang is te merken. Een 
feit is, dat de rupsen niet op struiken leven, maar vooral in bossen bestaande uit 
uitgegroeide eikespaartelgen en in niet al te zwaar gestamde eiken-berkenbossen.” 
De vlinder is nu bekend van één van de waddeneilanden. 

Geen correctie op de vliegtijd. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (enkele in 1956, LEFFEF), Leeuwarden, Tietjerk, 
Beetsterzwaag, Oudemirdum. Gr.: Veendam, Vlagtwedde. Dr.: Peize, Norg, Donderen, 
Zeijen, Schipborg, Zuidlaren, Assen, Schoonlo, Odoornerveen, Hooghalen, Vledder, Havelte. 
Ov.: Ootmarsum, Volthe, Enschede, Boekelo, Raalte, Abdij Sion. Gdl.: Ermelo, Tongeren, 
Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Uchelen, Hoog-Buurlo, Hoenderlo, Laag-Soeren, Wolfheze, 
Bennekom; Eefde, de Voorst, Almen, Hoog-Keppel; Hatert, Groesbeek, Neerijnen. Utr.: 
Doorn, Achterveld, Amersfoort, Soesterberg. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Huizen, Bergen, 
Heemskerk, Bloemendaal, Aerdenhout, Zandvoort. Z.H.: Oegstgeest, Wassenaar. Zl.: Wes- 
tenschouwen. N.B.: Ulvenhout, Hilvarenbeek, Waalwijk, Sint Michielsgestel, Haaren, 
Oisterwijk, Kampina, Schijndel, Middelbeers, Bergeijk, Eindhoven, Someren, Helenaveen, 
Mill. Lbg.: Mook, Velden, Tegelen, Sevenum, Meijnweg, Montfort (in 1963 massaal, daarna 
weinig, MAASSEN), Linne, Echt, Stein, Amstenrade, Brunssum, Geulem, Bunde, Cannerbos, 
Gronsveld, Eperheide, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Note. The specific nomenclature of the last two species is in accordance with my article 
on this subject in Entomologist 80 : 127—132 (1947), notwithstanding the note I published 
in part X of the Catalogue: (806)—(807) (1951). Mr. D. S. FLETCHER (British Museum, 
Nat. Hist.) wrote to me: “Your article of 1947 quite clearly selects a lectotype. The para- 
graph “Through the intermediary … but the moth is the type, contemporary with Syst. 
Naturae ed. X” is beyond dispute. 

Whatever second thoughts you may have had or whatever the views of Dr. DE LATTIN 
may be, this settlement of the name cannot be altered without a sanction of the Commission 
for Zoological Nomenclature.” 

The same specific nomenclature as in the present supplement is to be found in the new 
edition of “SOUTH”. 


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PANTHEINAE 


Panthea Hübner 


Panthea coenobita Esper. Tijdschr. Entom. 82 : 197; Cat. IV : (204). Er zijn 
op het ogenblik twee verspreidingsgebieden in Nederland bekend, nl. het zuiden 
en midden van Limburg (op zichzelf ook weer geen samenhangend gebied) en 
een deel van de oostelijke helft van Drente. Dank zij de inventarisaties van het 
RIVON blijkt de vlinder in het laatstgenoemde gebied zelfs gewoner te zijn dan in 
het zuiden van het land. Toch heeft hij zich hier waarschijnlijk pas kunnen vesti- 
gen na de aanleg van de Staatsbossen. De rups leeft op spar, den (volgens HoFF- 
MEYER in „De Danske Ugler”, 2de druk : 15 vooral op Weymouth-den) en lork. 
En juist deze laatste is in Drente in flink aantal aangeplant. 

In Denemarken is de vlinder thans niet alleen van de meeste eilanden bekend, 
maar ook van tal van plaatsen in Jutland. In Sleeswijk-Holstein heeft coenobita 
zich de laatste decennién over het gehele gebied verbreid en is daar nu een ge- 
regelde, maar niet talrijk voorkomende verschijning op de lamp (Mitt. faun. Arb.- 
gemeinsch. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg u. Lübeck, N.F. 5 : 43, 1952). In het 
linker gedeelte van de voormalige Rijnprovincie werd de vlinder aangetroffen bij 
Elmpt (1939) en bij Hüls (in 1941). 

Volgens de nu bekende gegevens duurt de vliegtijd bij ons van half mei tot 
in de tweede helft van juli (18.V—19.VII). 


Vindplaatsen. Gr.: Glimmen (VAN DE Por). Dr.: Eext (1.VII.1963, elf exem- 
plaren, WITMOND); Schoonlo (in 1960 en volgende jaren, vrij gewoon, LEFFEF). Lbg.: 
Montfort (5.VII.1957, MAASSEN); Brunssum (7.VII.1946, GIELKENS; 25.VI.1957, CLAAS- 
SENS); Geulem (20.VI.1953, HARDONK, in Zoöl. Mus.); Epen (15.VII.1954, VAN DE Por, 
1.VII.1966, VAN DER WOLF); Vaals (27.VI.1936, LANGOHR, eerste vangst in Nederland! 
JUSSEN, diverse exemplaren tussen 18.VI. en 8.VII; PIJPERS en JACOBI in 1947). 


Variabiliteit. De zwarte tekening op de voorvleugels kan nu eens 
sterker, dan weer zwakker zijn. Enkele exemplaren zijn ter illustratie hiervan 
afgebeeld op plaat 5 fig. 14—16. 


Colocasia Ochsenheimer 


Colocasia coryli L. Tijdschr. Entom. 82 : 198; Cat. IV : (205). De vlinder 
blijkt ook in bosachtig terrein buiten de zandgronden voor te kunnen komen. 
VAN DER AA trof hem in de Kralinger Hout (Rotterdam) aan. In het Amster- 
damse Bos is hij tot nu toe echter nog niet opgemerkt. Van de waddeneilanden is 
coryli nu bekend van Terschelling (1956, LEFFEF) en van Texel (Koog, 1959, 
FISCHER). In beide gevallen werd slechts één exemplaar gevangen, zodat de vlin- 
der er blijkbaar nog niet gewoon is. Vindplaatsen buiten bosachtig terrein zijn 
niet bekend geworden, met uitzondering van Zwartsluis (HARSEVOORD). 

De eerste generatie kan tot half mei vliegen. De uiterste data ervan zijn nu: 
8.IV—12.VI. De tweede kan nog tot in september voorkomen, zodat de grenzen 
ervan nu worden: 6.VII—5.IX. De laatste datum werd door Lucas genoteerd in 
1956. 


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Variabiliteit. De vlinder is zeer variabel in allerlei kleine details, zowel 
wat de tekening als wat de kleuren betreft. 

f. avellanae Huene, 1901. De vorm met eenkleurig grijze maar duidelijk gete- 
kende voorvleugels is niet zeldzaam en komt vrijwel overal onder de soort voor. 

f. medionigra Vorbrodt, 1911. Hetzelfde geldt voor de vorm met zwartbruin 
middenveld van de voorvleugels. 

f. seminigra nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: wortelveld en middenveld zwart- 
achtig, achterrandsveld vrijwel normaal. Ruurlo, ¢, 1.VIII.1962 (holotype, 
LUKKIEN). 


[Upper side fore wings: basal and central areas blackish, outer area practically normal. } 


f. melanotica Haverkampf, 1906, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 50 : 158. Voorvleugels 
eenkleurig zwart met nog zichtbare tekening; achtervleugels eveneens verdonkerd. 
Plaat 6 fig. 1. Zonder enige twijfel een moderne melanistische vorm. De auteur 
beschreef hem naar een exemplaar, dat in het begin van deze eeuw bij Elberfeld 
gevangen was. Bij Hamburg werden de eerste exemplaren ín 1948 aangetroffen, 
evenals bij Hannover (Bombus 1: 230, 231, 1953). Overigens zijn mij geen 
vermeldingen uit het buitenland bekend. Het eerste Nederlandse exemplaar da- 
teert van 1954. Daarna is de vorm verschillende malen gevangen, steeds in het 
oosten en vooral het zuiden van het land, maar altijd in een enkel exemplaar. 
Wilp, 20.VII.1959 (TER LAAG); Gassel, 2.VIII.1957 (VAN DE POL); Geijsteren, 
1964 (NEIJTS), 1965 (VERHAAK); Tegelen, 1.VIII.1961 (OTTENHEIJM); Swal- 
men, 9.V.1954 (LÜCKER); Maalbroek, 16.VII.1959 (LANDSMAN, in Mus. Rotter- 
dam); Roggel, 1964 en Tegelen, 1966 (PEERDEMAN). 

f. deleta Cockayne, 1951, Ent. Rec. 63 : 163. Op de bovenzijde van de voor- 
vleugels ontbreken de dwarslijnen. Zulke zeer zwak getekende en meestal opval- 
lend licht gekleurde exemplaren zag ik van Bennekom (VAN DE Pot), Arnhem, 
De Bilt, Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.), Den Dolder (CARON), Zeist (GORTER). Een 
normaal gekleurd exemplaar, maar eveneens zonder spoor van dwarslijnen, van 
Westervelde (Zoòl. Mus.). 

f. protensa nov. De ronde vlek wortelwaarts uitgerekt tot de eerste dwarslijn. 
Putten, 4, 2.VIII.1918 (holotype, Zoöl. Mus.). 


[The orbicular lengthened in the direction of the base and touching the antemedian.] 


f. juncta nov. Ronde vlek en niervlek raken elkaar. Arnhem, ©, Naarden, 4, 
17.VII.1883 (holotype) (Zoöl. Mus.). 


[The orbicular and the reniform touch each other} 


f. trilinea nov. Voor de tweede dwarslijn staat een volledige van costa naar 
binnenrand doorlopende donkere middenschaduw. Plaat 6 fig. 2. Vrij verbreid 
onder de soort. Holotype: ¢ van Eext, 11.V.1963 (Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Before the postmedian is a complete dark central shade, extending from costa to inner 
margin of the fore wings. The form is not rare.] 


Diloba Boisduval 


Diloba caeruleocephala L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 123; Cat. VII : (533). Aan 


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de in 1949 gegeven verbreiding is weinig nieuws toe te voegen. De mate van 
voorkomen hangt uiteraard vooral af van de aanwezigheid van meidoorn en slee- 
doorn in een bepaald gebied. Het enige waddeneiland, waarvan de vlinder tot nu 
toe bekend is, is Terschelling. Enkele exemplaren van dit eiland bevinden zich in 
de kleine collectie van het Museum voor het Onderwijs te Den Haag, terwijl 
LEFFEF de rupsen in 1957 overal op meidoorn aantrof. 

Geen correctie op de vliegtijd, die dus blijft: 30.VII—8.XI. 

Variabiliteit. f. sfumata Schwingenschuss, 1918, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien 68: (150). Thorax, abdomen, voorvleugels en achtervleugels zwartbruin, 
de vlekken op de voorvleugels geel. Een min of meer verdonkerde vorm dus, maar 
dan met gele vlekken. Bij ons tot nog toe een rariteit. Halfweg, 9, 1965 (VAN 
AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.); Oostvoorne, ¢, 1960 (Lucas). 

f. medionigra van Wisselingh, 1966, Ent. Ber. 26 : 183. Thorax en abdomen 
zwart, halskraag donker bruinachtig grijs; voorvleugels met zwart middenveld en 
normaal licht gekleurde vlekken, wortelveld en gewaterde band donker bruin- 
achtig grijs, franjeveld zwartachtig; achtervleugels donker grijs. Plaat 6 fig. 3. 
Epen, 4, 1.X.1965 (holotype, VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. nigrescens nov. Voorvleugels egaal zwartachtig verdonkerd, de beide vlekken 
normaal, scherp afstekend; achtervleugels verdonkerd; lichaam zwart. Plaat 6 
fig. 4. Eext, Amsterdamse Bos, Heemskerk (Zoöl. Mus.); Best (TER LAAG). 

Holotype: 4, Heemskerk, 9.X.1961, in collectie Zoöl. Mus. 


[Fore wings of a uniform blackish tint, the two spots normal, sharply contrasting; hind 
wings darkened; body black.} 


f. bipartita Strand, 1903. Exemplaren met volkomen gescheiden ronde vlek en 
niervlek komen vrij verbreid onder de soort voor. 

f. orbimaculata Strand, 1903. Exemplaren met een derde vlek tussen de eerste 
dwarslijn en de beide andere vlekken is veel zeldzamer. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: 
Hoog-Keppel (Zoöl. Mus.); Groessen (VAN DE POL); Oostvoorne (LUCAS). 

f. coalita Meves, 1914. De vorm, waarbij ronde vlek en niervlek samengesmol- 
ten zijn, maar waarbij de twee kernen nog afzonderlijk zichtbaar blijven, is 
gewoon en overal onder de soort aan te treffen. 

f. confluens Dammer, 1922, Ent. Z. Frankfurt 35 : 100 (confluens Bergmann, 
1953, Großschm. Mitteld. 3 : 452). Ronde en niervlek samengesmolten tot één 
vlek, waarin niet meer twee verschillende kernen te zien zijn. Plaat 6 fig. 5. Aer- 
denhout, 1948 (tegelijk f. protensa, VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. protensa Lempke, 1949. De vorm met wortelwaarts uitgerekte ronde vlek 
(plaat 6 fig. 6) werd nog aangetroffen te: Hoog-Keppel (Zoöl. Mus.); Aerden- 
hout (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. trimaculata nov. De niervlek in tweeën gedeeld, waardoor drie kernen ont- 
staan, die even donker als de grondkleur zijn, met scherpe lichte ringen. Raalte, 
&, 19.X.1956 (holotype, FLINT). 


[The reniform devided into two parts as a result of which there are three centres, as dark 
as the ground colour, each encircled by sharply contrasting pale rings. ] 


f. clausa Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van deze vrij zeldzame vorm zijn: 
Amsterdamse Bos (PEERDEMAN); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD). 


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Dwergen. Terschelling (Mus. Onderwijs Den Haag); Amsterdamse Bos (Zoöl. 
Mus.); Heerlerbaan (LUKKIEN). 


PLUSIINAE 


Syngrapha Hübner 


Syngrapha interrogationis L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 110; Cat. VIII: (520). 
Na de vangst van het eerste exemplaar in 1919 heeft het 35 jaar geduurd vòòr de 
vlinder weer in Nederland werd aangetroffen, maar sinds dat ogenblik (in 1955) 
werden we met verschillende vangsten van deze rariteit verrast. Dit meer buiten 
zijn normale areaal optreden is niet tot ons land beperkt gebleven. Ook in het 
omringende gebied zijn daarvan voorbeelden bekend geworden. HOFFMEYER 
vermeldt 1955 en 1959 als biezonder goede jaren voor Denemarken (De Danske 
Ugler, 2de druk : 352, 1962). In hetzelfde jaar 1959 werd een exemplaar bij 
Hamburg gevangen (Bombus 2, supplement Heft 1 : 10, 1959). In het zuiden 
van Engeland (volkomen buiten het normale Britse biotoop dus) werd in 1955 
een vlinder te Westcliff-on-Sea (Essex) gevangen, in 1959 weer één op dezelfde 
plaats en in 1964 een derde in Oost-Norfolk. Combineert men deze gegevens met 
die uit ons land (1959 het topjaar), dan blijkt er een duidelijke samenhang tussen 
te bestaan. Blijkbaar bestaat in een goed jaar voor de soort in noordelijker gebieden 
de kans bij ons, dat de vlinder ook hier is aan te treffen. 

Alle vangsten stammen uit juli en augustus. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling, VII.1956 (LEFFEF, in Zoöl. Mus.). Ov.: Schalk- 
haar, 27.VII.1961 (OorD). Utr.: Zeist, 8.VIII.1959 (GORTER); Utrecht, 4.VIII.1959 (BERK); 
Amersfoort, 26.VII.1955 (prachtig exemplaar, NIEUWLAND). N.H.: Castricum, 12.VIII.1955 
(BANK). Z.H.: Leiden, 1.VIII.1959 (KROON); Katwijk aan Zee, 31.VII.1959 (Lucas); 
Oostvoorne, 1.VIII.1959 (VESTERGAARD). 


Trichoplusia McDunnough 


Trichoplusia ni Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 119; Cat. VIII: (529). Deze 
vlinder blijft wel een van de zeldzaamste immigranten voor onze fauna. Na de 
eerste vangst in 1931 is slechts één exemplaar binnen onze grenzen aangetroffen, 
namelijk in 1958, toen het een zeer goed vliegjaar voor de soort in het zuiden van 
Europa was. Ook uit het omringende gebied is weinig nieuws bekend geworden. 
Alleen in de nieuwe editie van ,,SOUTH” worden een aantal Britse vangsten na 
1931 opgesomd, waarbij 1952 en 1953 zelfs als goede jaren genoemd worden. 
De laatste melding daar is die van twee stuks in 1962 (in Surrey en Sussex). 


Vindplaats. Lbg.: Stein, 5.IX.1958 (collectie Missiehuis). 


Autographa Hübner 
Subgenus Chrysaspidia Hübner 


Autographa (Chrysaspidia) festucae L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 111; Cat. VIII: 
(521). Aan de reeds vrij lange lijst van vindplaatsen van Cat. VIII kan een zo 


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mogelijk nog langere toegevoegd worden, waaruit blijkt, dat de vlinder in ons land 
sterk verbreid is. Vooral het Hafdistrict is een ideaal gebied voor de soort, maar 
ook in het Fluviatiel District en trouwens ook op de hogere gronden, mits deze 
maar niet te droog zijn, kennen we tal van vindplaatsen. Op vochtige terreinen is 
de vlinder gewoon, maar hij is toch nooit zo talrijk als de volgende soort kan zijn. 
Van de waddeneilanden is behalve Terschelling en Texel nu ook Vlieland als 
vindplaats bekend geworden. 


To 


50 


10 


m j j 2 Ss (o) 


Fig. 46. Histogram van Autographa festucae L. (Cf. fig. 48) 


De vliegtijd kan al in de eerste helft van mei beginnen. De vroegst bekende 
datum is nu 4.V. Uit het hierbij afgebeelde histogram (fig. 46) is te zien, dat 
festucae in deze maand echter schaars is. Juni is de goede maand voor de eerste 
generatie. Reeds begin juli neemt het aantal sterk af om geleidelijk over te gaan 
in de tweede generatie. Over alle jaren samen gerekend is er geen onderbreking 
in de vliegtijd, maar per seizoen is er in de regel wel een klein hiaat. De tweede 
generatie is talrijker dan de eerste en bereikt tegen het eind van augustus zijn 
maximum om in september ook weer snel in aantal af te nemen. In oktober vliegen 
dan soms nog enkele late exemplaren (laatste datum 17.X). Dit kunnen nakomers 


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van de tweede generatie zijn, maar het is niet uitgesloten, dat er een snel ontwik- 
keld exemplaar bij is, dat dan tot een (zeer partiéle) derde generatie zou behoren. 
DE Roo van WESTMAAS schrijft in „Sepp”, 2de serie 1: 53 (+ 1858), dat 
SNELLEN in september 1857 rupsen vond op mannagras (Glyceria fluitans R. Br.), 
waarvan de vlinders 1 oktober uitkwamen. Deze rupsen kunnen heel goed afkom- 
stig geweest zijn van vroege vlinders van de tweede generatie, zodat de vlinders 
dan derde generatie-dieren waren. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: (van het reeds vermelde eiland Terschelling schrijft LEFFEF me: 
„In de Kooibosjes, te Westterschelling en Hoorn vrij gewoon’), Vlieland, Sexbierum, 
Akkrum, Eernewoude, Olterterp, Wijnjeterp, Oosterwolde, Fochtelo, Noordwolde, Nijetrijne, 
Oudemirdum, Rijs, Hemelum, Hieslum, Tjerkwerd. Gr.: Haren, Glimmen, Noordlaren, 
Borgercompagnie, Veendam. Dr.: Paterswolde, Eelde, Peize, Roden, Steenbergen, Een, Norg, 
Veenhuizen, Donderen, Zuidlaren, Annen, Eext, Schoonlo, Havelte. Ov.: Volthe, Rectum, 
Beerse, Den Ham, Ommen, Rechteren, Dalfsen, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Slagharen, Deventer, 
Zwolle, IJsselmuiden, Zwartsluis, Vollenhove, Marknesse. Flevoland: Lelystad. Gdl.: Hoop- 
huizen, Ermelo, Vierhouten, Wezep, Vaassen, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Teuge, Empe, Laag- 
Soeren, Rozendaal, Otterlo, Kootwijkerveen, Wageningen, Bennekom, Lunteren; Gorssel, 
Eefde, Warnsveld, Zutfen, Almen, Winterswijk, Hoog-Keppel, Didam, Aerdt, Groessen; 
Ochten, Ingen, Buren, Geldermalsen, Slijk-Ewijk. Utr.: Cothen, IJsselstein, Harmelen, Bilt- 
hoven, Den Dolder, Spakenburg, Vinkeveen, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Korten- 
hoef, Ankeveen, Naarden, Naardermeer, Weesp, Uithoorn, Amsterdamse Bos, Halfweg, 
Zaandam, Westzaan, Wormerveer, Beemster, Oosthuizen, De Koog, Groet, Catrijp, Schoorl, 
Bergen, Overveen, Haarlem. Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Noorden, Nieuwkoop, Reeuwijk, 
Meijendel, Voorschoten, Leidschendam, Rijswijk, Delft, Staelduin, Maassluis, Capelle aan den 
IJssel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Vianen, Arkel, Spijk, Gorkum, Schelluinen, Ottoland, 
Sliedrecht, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Rhoon, Barendrecht, Oostvoorne, Rockanje, Hellevoetsluis, 
Middelharnis, Melissant, Ouddorp. Zl.: Haamstede, Burgh, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle. 
N.B.: Bergen op Zoom, Dorst, Lage Zwaluwe, Waalwijk, Sint Michielsgestel, Haaren, 
Kampina, Vessem, Bergeijk, Eindhoven, Nederwetten, Geldrop, Helenaveen, Uden, Gassel. 
Lbg.: Geijsteren, Sevenum, Roggel, De Hamert, Grubbenvorst, Velden, Blerick, Tegelen, 
Maalbroek, Sint Odiliënberg, Vlodrop, Herkenbosch, Montfort, Stein, Nuth, Amstenrade, 
Brunssum, Schinveld, Bunde, Maastricht, Gronsveld, Epen, Cottessen, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. coalescens Schultz, 1905. De vorm, waarbij de twee 
discale zilvervlekken op de voorvleugels met elkaar verbonden zijn (wat kan varië- 
ren van rakend tot geheel samengesmolten) komt in klein percentage vrijwel 
overal onder de soort voor, zodat geen vindplaatsen meer genoemd worden. 

f. parvomaculata nov. De buitenste discale zilvervlek op de bovenzijde van de 
voorvleugels is sterk verkleind. Stein, 4, 22.VII.1959 (holotype, collectie Missie- 
huis). 


[The outermost discal silver spot on the upper side of the fore wings is very small. } 


f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels sterk verdonkerd, donker 
bruinachtig, de grootste discale vlek dikwijls donker gekernd; achtervleugels 
grijszwart. Plaat 6 fig. 7. Niet al te zeldzaam, althans onder het moderne materiaal. 
Nijetrijne, Borgercompagnie, Lelystad, Apeldoorn, Halfweg, Woerdense Verlaat, 
Hellevoetsluis (Zoöl. Mus.); Groessen (VAN DE Por); Bussum (TER LAAG); 
Zaandam (AUKEMA); Bergeijk (VAN WISSELINGH). 

Holotype: 9 van Halfweg, 23.VI.1962, in collectie Zoöl. Mus. 


[Ground colour of the fore wings strongly darkened, dark brownish, the larger discal spot 
often with dark centre; hind wings grey-black.} 


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f. alepica nov. Achtervleugels op een smalle baan langs de achterrand na geheel 
onbeschubd. Plaat 6 fig. 8. Halfweg, ¢, 8.VIII.1959 (holotype, VAN AARTSEN 
leg., Zoöl. Mus.). 

{Hind wings without scales with the exception of a narrow band along the outer margin.] 

Dwergen. Veenhuizen (Zoöl. Mus.); Twello, Zwammerdam (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Deventer (LUKKIEN); Amsterdam (PEERDEMAN); Nuenen (Neijrs); Blerick, 
Swalmen (OTTENHEIJM); Sint Odiliénberg, Montfort (MAASSEN). 


Autographa (Chrysaspidia) gracilis Lempke. Zie voor de beschrijving van 
deze soort Ent. Ber. 26 : 64—71, plaat 1 (1966). Hoewel de verspreiding ervan 


Fig. 47. De nu bekende verbreiding van Autographa gracilis Lempke in Nederland 


262 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (912) 


nog slechts gedeeltelijk bekend is, is het toch reeds duidelijk, dat het ideale biotoop 
voor de vlinder gevormd wordt door niet te kleine moerassige terreinen. Vooral 
de vangsten met de RIVON-vallen door LEFFEF en G. DIJKSTRA in zulke vroeger 
nooit goed doorzochte gebieden hebben hiervoor belangrijke gegevens geleverd. 
Op de goede vliegplaatsen blijkt het dier in de regel zijn verwant A. festucae in 
aantal duidelijk te overtreffen. 

Uit de hierbij gegeven verspreidingskaart (fig. 47) is reeds goed te zien, dat de 
vlinder niet tot een klein deel van ons land beperkt is, zodat we in de toekomst 
ongetwijfeld nog meldingen van nieuwe vindplaatsen kunnen verwachten. Op- 
vallend is het aantal vondsten in het noorden van Drente. Maar ook in Friesland 
zal de soort wel veel verbreider zijn dan we nu weten. Hetzelfde zal waarschijnlijk 
het geval zijn in het Hollands-Utrechtse deel van het Hafdistrict. 

Over het voorkomen van de soort in Denemarken verscheen intussen een 
artikel van F. NAABYE, Plusia tvillinger P. festucae Linn. og P. gracilis Lmk., in 
log Ole Haunar 12): 19 85, 119.1 47.1960): 


70 


50 


10 


m j j a S (o) 
Fig. 48. Histogram van Autographa gracilis Lempke. 
(The histogram is mainly composed from the data of 1964 and 1965. Cf. fig. 46!) 


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Vergelijkt men het hierbij gegeven histogram (fig. 48) met dat van A. festucae 
(fig. 46), dan blijkt een duidelijk verschil tussen het voorkomen van de beide 
generaties te bestaan. Terwijl bij festucae de top in de tweede generatie valt, is bij 
gracilis de eerste generatie het talrijkst. Bovendien is deze generatie veel talrijker 
dan die van festucae en vliegt veel langer. Hierbij moet men wel bedenken, dat 
we voor gracilis slechts over de gegevens van een paar seizoenen beschikken. 
Zouden de waarnemingen over een reeks van jaren voortgezet worden, dan zouden 
de verschillen ongetwijfeld nog groter zijn. 

De eerste generatie vliegt van de tweede helft van mei tot de tweede helft van 
augustus (21.V—23.VIII). Vangsten van mei en de eerste decade van juni zijn 
echter uitzonderingen. Pas in de tweede helft van juni begint de vlinder goed te 
vliegen om in juli zijn hoogtepunt te bereiken. In de tweede helft van augustus 
vliegen nog slechts volkomen afgevlogen dieren. 

De veel schaarsere tweede generatie vliegt van half september tot begin oktober 
(17.IX—6.X). Of hij elk jaar voorkomt, is niet zeker. In het ongunstige seizoen 
1965 werd er in elk geval geen enkel exemplaar van gevangen. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Eernewoude (Princehof, Oude Venen), Wijnjeterp (talrijk), 
Nijetrijne (talrijk). Gr.: Glimmen. Dr.: Een, Westervelde, Veenhuizen, Norg, Donderen, 
Bunnerveen, Eext, Wijster. Ov.: Lemelerveld. Gdl.: Empe; Hatert. Utr.: Botshol. N.H.: 
Ankeveen, Bussum, Naardermeer. Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Noorden, Asperen, Hellevoet- 
sluis. N.B.: Eindhoven, Nuenen, Helenaveen. Lbg.: Griendsveen (talrijk), Sevenum, Weert, 
Moesel, Maalbroek, Bunde. 


Variabiliteit. De grondkleur van de voorvleugels varieert nogal in tint. 
Soms zijn de vleugels prachtig rood van kleur, dan weer is het rood sterk geredu- 
ceerd en overheerst een meer gele tint. Deze uitersten zijn echter door allerlei 
nuances zo met elkaar verbonden, dat het onmogelijk is er duidelijk omgrensde 
kleurgroepen in te onderscheiden. De enige goed omschrijfbare vorm is weer een 
donkere, die vrijwel geheel overeenstemt met de donkere vorm van festwcae. 

f. obscura nov. Voorvleugels donkerbruin zonder enige rode tint, achtervleugels 
grjszwart. Wijnjeterp (het Schar), &, 26/27.VII.1965 (holotype), Nijetrijne 
(Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Fore wings dark brown without any reddish tint, hind wings grey-black.} 


f. coalescens nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de twee discale zilvervlekken met 
elkaar verbonden, net als bij festucae variërend van elkaar rakend tot geheel 
samengesmolten. Plaat 6 fig. 9. In klein percentage vrijwel overal onder de soort 
voorkomend, daar de vorm in elke niet te kleine serie aanwezig is. 

Holotype: ¢ van Nijetrijne, 30.VII.1964, in collectie Zoöl. Mus. 


[Upper side fore wings: the two discal silver spots united, varying from just touching to 
completely coalescing. } 


f. disconulla nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de twee discale zilvervlekken ont- 
breken geheel. Plaat 6 fig. 10. Ongetwijfeld een zeer zeldzame mogelijk reces- 
sieve vorm. Griendsveen, ¢, 21.V.1964 (holotype, LEFFEF, in Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Upper side fore wings: the two discal spots fail completely. } 


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Autographa (Chrysaspidia) bractea Schiff. Deze fraaie immigrant (afgebeeld 
op plaat 6 fig. 11) werd voor het eerst in 1954 in het zuiden van ons land 
waargenomen. Daarna zijn nog een viertal vangsten bekend geworden. In Dene- 
marken werd de vlinder voor het eerst in 1962 aangetroffen (zeven stuks op 
Bornholm, zie KAABER & NORGAARD, 1963, Flora og Fauna 69 : 109). In het 
noordwesten van Duitsland werd in 1952 een exemplaar bij Harburg gevangen 
(Bombus 1 : 314, 1952). In België werd de eerste bractea in 1940 te Loén ver- 
zameld, gevolgd door vangsten te Losheimergraben (in het oosten van Luik) in 
1959, te Uccle (Brussel) in 1962 en in 1963 te Buzenol (in het zuiden van de 
provincie Luxemburg). Op de Britse eilanden is de vlinder inheems. Hij is sterk 
verbreid en gewoon in Ierland, verbreid in Schotland en het noorden van Enge- 
land, maar ook aangetroffen in het zuiden van Wales en ten noorden van Bristol. 
Bovendien in 1956 in de omgeving van Londen (zwerver of trekker). 

(In Frankrijk komt de vlinder voor in het hoge oostelijke gedeelte, van de 
Basses-Alpes tot in de Vogezen — zie LHOMME, Cat. Lép. de France et de Bel- 
gique : 319 —, zodat het met het oog op de Nederlandse en Belgische vindplaat- 
sen toch wel het meest voor de hand liggend is, dat onze immigranten vanuit 
zuidelijke richting naar ons land komen. Toch zit in de Britse populaties ook wel 
enige beweging blijkens de vangst van een exemplaar in de naaste omgeving van 
Londen, zodat we een overvliegen vanuit het noorden van Engeland of Schotland 
niet geheel kunnen uitsluiten.) 


Vindplaatsen. Z.H.: Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 3.VII.1959 (tweede Nederlandse exem- 
plaar, BOGAARD); Oostvoorne, 26.VII.1964 (VAN DER MADE c.s.). N.B.: Helenaveen, 2.VII. 
1963 (LEFFEF, afgebeeld). Lbg.: Gulpen, 3.VII.1963 (F. J. vAN OosTERHOUT); Epen, 
18.VIII.1954 (eerste vangst in Nederland, VAN WISSELINGH). 


Subgenus Autographa Hübner 


Autographa (Autographa) jota L. Tidschr. Entom. 90: 114; Cat. VIII: 
(524). Hoewel enkele vindplaatsen in het Hafdistrict en het Fluviatiel District 
bekend geworden zijn, is de verspreiding in ons land toch wel in grote trekken, 
zoals die in 1949 werd aangegeven. In het Waddendistrict is de vlinder nu van 
een van de eilanden bekend. 

Er is geen correctie op de vliegtijd. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (gewoon, LEFFEF), Leeuwarden, Beetsterzwaag, 
Duurswoude, Wijnjeterp (gewoon, G. DijKsTtRA), Oosterwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, 
Nijemirdum. Gr.: Groningen, Haren, Noordlaren. Dr.: Peize, Roden, Steenbergen, Norg, 
Westervelde, Donderen, Vries, Zuidlaren, Eext, Schoonlo. Ov.: Volthe, Saasveld (Molenven), 
Rechteren, Dalfsen, Ommen, Raalte, Diepenveen, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Deventer, Kalenberg. 
Gdl.: Garderbroek, Putten, Vierhouten, Nunspeet, Tongeren, Epe, Wenum, Wiessel, Teuge, 
Empe, Laag-Soeren, Wageningen, Bennekom, Ede, Lunteren; Gorssel, Eefde, de Voorst, 
Ruurlo, Ratum, Winterswijk, Woold, Hoog-Keppel, Babberich, Loerbeek; Ubbergen, Gelder- 
malsen, Neerijnen. Utr.: Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Huizen, Bussum, Naarder- 
meer, Muiderberg, Weesp, Amsterdamse Bos (één exemplaar in 1957), Zaandam, Schoorl, 
Bergen, Heemskerk, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Meijendel, Staelduin, Oostvoorne, Rockanje, Nieuw- 
Helvoet, Hellevoetsluis, Melissant, Ouddorp. Zl.: Haamstede, Burgh, Westenschouwen, 
Oostkapelle. N.B.: Strijbeek, Dorst, Drunen, Nieuwkuik, Sint Michielsgestel, Haaren, Oister- 
wijk, Boxtel, Best, Nederwetten, Nuenen, Eindhoven, Valkenswaard, Velp bij Grave. Lbg.: 


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Geijsteren, Sevenum, Griendsveen, Moesel, Roggel, de Hamert, Venlo, Tegelen, Belfeld, 
Swalmen, Maalbroek, Sint Odiliénberg, Meijnweg, Montfort, Wijnandsrade, Brunssum, 
Bocholtz, Geulem, Bunde, Gronsveld, Vijlen, Lemiers, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. baltica Speyer, 1875. Deze donkere vorm werd nog 
bekend van: Eelde, Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Wiessel, Vierhouten, Meijendel 
(Lucas); Aalten (VAN GALEN); Stein (Missiehuis). 

f. percontationis Treitschke, 1826. De vorm met verbonden zilvervlekken is 
inderdaad zeldzaam, maar is toch zeer verbreid onder de soort blijkens de vele 
nieuwe vindplaatsen, die ervan genoteerd konden worden. Een opsomming daar- 
van blijft dan ook achterwege. 

f. incipiens Lempke, 1949. Hetzelfde geldt voor de vorm, waarbij de droppel 
ontbreekt. 

f. inscripta Esper, [1788]. Exemplaren zonder spoor van de zilvertekening zijn 
zeldzaam. Epe (KAIJADOE); Wageningen, Bennekom (VAN DE Por); Ratum 
(PEERDEMAN) ; Nederwetten, Eindhoven (VAN DER WOLF); Swalmen (LÜCKER). 
Bij overgangen naar deze vorm zijn nog min of meer duidelijke resten van de 
droppel aanwezig: Oosterwolde (VAN RANDEN); Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH). 

Dwerg. Swalmen (LÜCKER). 


Autographa (Autographa) pulchrina Haworth. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 114; 
Cat. VIII : (524). Veel minder verbreid dan de vorige soort. Het meest voorko- 
mend in het Duindistrict, hoewel de vlinder ook hier op de vliegplaatsen lang niet 
ieder jaar even gewoon is. Daarnaast min of meer lokaal op de zandgronden van 
het binnenland en in het Krijtdistrict. Opvallend zijn vooral de vindplaatsen in 
het westelijk deel van het Fluviatiel District en in het Hafdistrict. In het Wadden- 
district nu van één van de eilanden bekend. 

De vliegtijd kan tot in de tweede helft van juni duren. De uiterste data zijn 
nu: 14.V—22.VII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (weinig, LEFFEF), Wijnjeterp, Nijetrijne, Oude- 
mirdum (in 1964 opvallend gewoon, LEFFEF). Dr.: Schoonlo. Ov.: Colmschate. Gdl.: 
Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Empe, Laag-Soeren, Lunteren; Hoog-Keppel. Utr.: Amersfoort, Zeist. 
N.H.: Amsterdamse Bos (weinig, maar geregeld, PEERDEMAN), Schoorl, Heemskerk, Aerden- 
hout (in 1952 gewoon, VAN WISSELINGH), Vogelenzang, Heemstede. Z.H.: Oegstgeest, 
Meijendel, Arkel, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Oostvoorne, Hellevoetsluis, Ouddorp. 
Zl.: Haamstede, Burgh, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle. N.B.: Dorst, Boxtel, Best, Eind- 
hoven. Lbg.: Sevenum, Griendsveen, Meijnweg, Stein, Brunssum, Aalbeek, Geulem, 
Maastricht, Gronsveld, Epen, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. gammoides Speyer, 1875. De vorm met violetgrijze 
grondkleur werd nog bekend van Aerdenhout (gewoon), Vogelenzang (VAN 
WISSELINGH); Heemstede, Eijs (VAN DE POL); Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Vaals 
(LUKKIEN). 

f. derosea van Wisselingh, 1954, Ent. Ber. 15 : 19. Grondkleur van de voor- 
vleugels grijsbruin, zonder spoor van rood of violet. Aerdenhout (vAN WISSE- 
LINGH). 

f. percontatrix Aurivillius, 1888—1891. De vorm met verbonden zilvervlekken 
werd nog gevangen te: Heemskerk (DE Boer); Aerdenhout, Epen (VAN WISSE- 


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LINGH); Heemstede (van DE Por); Arkel (ZwAKHALS); Schelluinen (Stop). 
Een overgang met bijna verbonden vlekken van Leiden (Lucas). 

f. incipiens Schawerda, 1929. De vorm met ontbrekende droppel is veel zeld- 
zamer. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH, één exemplaar in 
een serie van bijna 100!); Heemstede (VAN DE Por); Arkel (ZWAKHALS). 

f. circumscripta nov. De v-vormige zilvervlek is van boven gesloten. Aerden- 
hout, 17.V.1952, 3, holotype (VAN WISSELINGH). 


[The v-shaped silver spot is closed on its upper side. } 


f. obsoleta nov. De tekening van de vlekken op de bovenzijde van de voor- 
vleugels is wel aanwezig, maar mist de zilverkleur, zodat hij slechts zwak zicht- 
baar is. Vaals, 4, 5.VI.1964, e. L., holotype (LUKKIEN). 


{The spots on the upper side of the fore wings are present, but without the silver colour, 
so being only feebly visible. ] 


Dwerg. Gronsveld (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Autographa (Autographa) gamma L. Tydschr. Entom. 90 : 116; Cat. VIII: 
(526). Aan de verbreiding is slechts toe te voegen, dat de vlinder nu ook van 
Vlieland bekend is, zodat alleen Rottum nog in de rij der waddeneilanden ont- 
breekt. 

In de regel komen de eerste immigranten in de loop van april. Toch zijn een 
enkele maal reeds in maart gamma-uilen waargenomen (1961, 1964, 1965). Dit 
waren dieren, die buiten in de vrije natuur werden aangetroffen als de eerste 
voorlopers van hun later opdagende soortgenoten. In dít opzicht van minder 
belang is een vlinder, die 24 maart 1960 in een kas te Aalsmeer werd gevangen, 
al is het een aanwijzing, welke mogelijkheid er ook soms voor het dier is om 
zich in ons klimaat te ontwikkelen. Hoe het verder met de soort in de loop van 
het jaar zal gaan, hangt in sterke mate van het seizoen af. In de regel is het wel 
zo, dat de grote top in het begin van de herfst valt (september, begin oktober). 
In sommige jaren zijn duidelijk twee toppen te onderscheiden, ook een in de loop 
van juli en augustus. Meestal gaat het aantal exemplaren in de eerste helft van 
oktober (maar niet zelden ook al vroeger) in zeer korte tijd heel snel achteruit, 
wat vermoedelijk toegeschreven moet worden aan een terugtrek naar het zuiden, 
die dan vrij plotseling plaats vindt. Achterblijvers kunnen evenwel nog tot ver in 
november aangetroffen worden. Zelfs in december blijken bij gunstig weer spora- 
disch nog dieren actief te zijn, zoals in 1948. Te beginnen met 1952 zijn ze elk 
jaar waargenomen met uitzondering van 1958, 1963 en 1965. Hierop sluiten dan 
een paar meldingen van januari-exemplaren aan (15 en 22.1.1957, Den Haag; 
10.1.1960, Castricum). Waarnemingen uit februari zijn echter nog niet bekend. 
Dit wijst er op, dat de kans voor een imago om hier de winter door te komen, in 
elk geval uitermate klein is. 

Wel gelukt dit een enkele maal aan rupsen, niet alleen in het gunstige micro- 
klimaat van kassen (hoewel hier natuurlijk veel gespoten wordt) en bakken, maar 
ook buiten in de vrije natuur, waar sommige ervan in staat blijken te zijn behoor- 
lijk lage temperaturen (10 of meer graden vorst) te doorstaan (1950, 1952, 1964, 


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1965). Verse vlinders, die hier in mei of juni vliegen, kunnen van zulke rupsen 
afstammen, maar het is even goed mogelijk, dat het pas ontwikkelde exemplaren 
uit het subtropische Middellandse Zee-gebied zijn. 

Variabiliteit. De grondkleur van de voorvleugels varieert sterk. Soms 
is de achterrand zeer licht en is de grondkleur zelf van een koude donkere, soms 
zelfs zwartachtig grijze tint (een mooie kleurvorm overigens), dan weer is de 
grondkleur meer met bruin of roodachtig gemengd. 

f. pallida Tutt, 1892. Alle lichtere delen van de voorvleugels (wortel, voor- 
rand, achterrand) lichtgrijs. Plaat 7 fig. 2. Onder al onze generaties voorkomend 
en waarschijnlijk niet al te zeldzaam (in Zoöl. Mus. exemplaren van Westervelde, 
Wiessel, Apeldoorn, Nijmegen, Den Haag en Boxtel). 


[From TuTtT’s text (Brit. Noct. 4: 32, 1892) one gets the impression that he had not 
actually seen specimens answering to the description, but that he only gave a name to 
GUENÉE's “Var. A”, the description of which (literally translated by TUTT) is rather mis- 
leading. For the French author refers to Esper, Schmetterl. in Abb. 4, 1, pl. 111 fig. 2 
(cf. Noctuélites 2: 349, 1852). ESPER’s figure 1 is a specimen with very dark fore wings, 
whereas fig. 2, which he calls “Eine Abänderung des Weibchens” has the head, thorax and 
all the pale parts of the fore wings (basal, costal and outer areas) of a pale grey colour 
(in the specimen figured with a slightly rosy tint, but this must be extremely rare). The 
form occurs in all Dutch generations and is not rare. A good specimen is figured on plate 7 
fig. 2, with a typical specimen for comparison. } 


f. alba Cockayne, 1951, Ent. Rec. 63 : 164 (effusa van Wisselingh, 1959, Ent. 
Ber. 19 : 197). Grondkleur van de voorvleugels witachtig, de tekening licht grijs- 
achtig. Plaat 7 fig. 3. Epen, ¢, 2.IX.1958 (VAN WISSELINGH). 

(Van deze uiterst zeldzame vorm kende COCKAYNE één exemplaar uit Engeland. 
Bovendien verwijst hij naar CuLoT, Noct. et Géom., plaat 71 fig. 17. Het daar 
afgebeelde exemplaar uit Silezié komt volkomen met het Nederlandse overeen). 

f. rufescens Tutt, 1892. De diagnose, die in Cat. VIII gegeven werd, is niet 
juist. De naam moet gebruikt worden voor exemplaren met opvallend roodachtige 
voorvleugels. Deze vorm is niet gewoon. In Zoöl. Mus. exemplaren van Putten, 
Halfweg en Valkenburg. 

f. brunnea nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels zuiver bruin, overigens nor- 
maal. Kollum, Arnhem, Hilversum ( 4, 7.VIII.1879, holotype), Wijk aan Zee 
(Zoöl. Mus.) ; Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 1959 (BOGAARD). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings pure brown, for the rest normal. } 


f. lilacina Lempke, 1949. Het holotype bevindt zich thans in de collectie van 
het Zoöl. Mus. Andere exemplaren zijn niet bekend. 

f. fuscescens Goodson, 1966, Ent. Rec. 78 : 152, pl. VI fig. 4. Voor- en ach- 
tervleugels overdekt door een donker bruinachtige tint, waardoor ze veel een- 
kleuriger zijn; het gamma-teken bruinachtig goudkleurig, nog duidelijk, maar 
veel minder afstekend. Zie plaat 7 fig. 4. Apeldoorn, ¢, 20.1X.1953 (Lucas). 

f. nigricans Spuler, 1907. Exemplaren met zeer donkere, haast zwartachtige 
voorvleugels blijken niet zulke grote zeldzaamheden te zijn. Een prachtig exem- 
plaar uit de collectie-Lucas is afgebeeld op plaat 7 fig. 5. Apeldoorn, Halfweg 
(Zoöl. Mus.) ; Slijk-Ewijk, Heemstede (VAN DE Por); Rhenen (VON HERWARTH) ; 
Amersfoort (NIEUWLAND); Zeist (GORTER); Middelie (DE BOER); Castricum 


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(BANK); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD, Lucas); Oostvoorne (Lucas); Sint 
Michielsgestel (KNIPPENBERG); Bergeijk (VAN WISSELINGH); Mechelen (PEER- 
DEMAN). 

f. postfusca nov. De wortelhelft van de achtervleugels sterk verdonkerd, niet 
scherp gescheiden van de donkere achterrand; voorvleugels normaal. Nes op 
Ameland, 2, VIII.1938 (holotype, Zoöl. Mus.). 


[The basal half of the hind wings strongly darkened, not sharply separated from the dark 
band along the outer margin; fore wings normal.} 


f. microgamma nov. Voorvleugels met normaal gevormde maar sterk verkleinde 
gamma-vlek. Plaat 7 fig. 6. Marknesse, &, 21.VI.1951 (holotype), Buren, 9, 
21.VI.1962 (VAN DE POL). 

[The gamma spot on the fore wings has the normal shape, but it is strongly reduced in 
size.] 

f. comma Ostrejkówna, 1929. De vorm, waarbij de gamma gereduceerd is tot 
een tamelijk dik gebogen staafje, werd nog aangetroffen te: Harderwijk (A. VAN 
BEEK); Apeldoorn, Amsterdam (Zoöl. Mus.); Heemskerk (BANK); Melissant 
(HUISMAN); Stein (Missiehuis). 

f. bipartita Orstadius, 1929. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van de vorm met doorgebro- 
ken gamma zijn: Grollo (LEFFEF); Apeldoorn (LEFFEF, vier exemplaren, in Zoöl. 
Mus.); Doorn (VAN DER WOLF); Amersfoort (NIEUWLAND); Zeist (GORTER); 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD); Melissant (HUISMAN); Geldrop (HAAN- 
STRA); Stein (Missiehuis). 

f. tiltscheri Diöszeghy, 1935. De vorm met ontbrekende droppel werd gevangen 
te: Apeldoorn, Amsterdam (Zoöl. Mus.); Gorssel (S. R. DIJKSTRA); Weesp 
(WESTERNENG); Oegstgeest (KAIJADOE); Oostvoorne (VESTERGAARD); Melis- 
sant (HUISMAN); Nuenen (NEIJTS); Stein (Missiehuis). 

f. incipiens Cockayne, 1955, Entomologist 88: 75, pl. III fig. 8. Alleen de 
droppel is nog van de zilvervlek over. Zutfen (S. R. DijKsTRA); Melissant 
(HUISMAN). 

f. inscripta van de Pol, 1963, Ent. Ber. 23 : 63, fig. De gamma-tekening ont- 
breekt geheel. Heemstede, &, 1954 (VAN DE POL). 

Teratologische exemplaren. Rechter achtervleugel te klein. Ben- 
nekom, Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE POL). 

Rechter voorvleugel te klein. Heemstede (VAN DE POL). 

Beide rechter vleugels te klein. Bennekom (VAN DE POL). 

Pathologisch exemplaar. Achtervleugels gedeeltelijk verbleekt. 
Valkenburg (STAMMESHAUS). 


Macdunnoughia Kostrowicki 1) 


Macdunnoughia confusa Stephens. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 119; Cat. VIII : 
(529). Na de eerste vangsten hier te lande in 1934 en 1945 werd de vlinder weer 


1) Paraplusia Mukerji & Krishnamorthy, 1955, Proc. 42nd Indian Sci. Congr. 3: 295. 
Type species: P. confusa Stephens. The name is nine years older than the one introduced by 
KOSTROWICKI, but as far as I could ascertain it was never accompanied by a valid description, 
so that it remains a nomen nudum. 


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in 1949 aangetroffen en te beginnen met dat jaar werd hij een vrij geregelde, 
hoewel over het algemeen zeldzame, verschijning. Alleen in de jaren 1957, 1958 
en 1962 werden geen meldingen over het voorkomen in Nederland ontvangen. 
Een echte migrant is confusa niet. Hij behoort tot de soorten, die de laatste decen- 
nién hun areaal uitgebreid hebben. Of het hem echter duurzaam zal gelukken hier 
vaste voet te krijgen, moeten we afwachten. Er zijn verschillende tekenen, dat 
confusa zich hier maar met moeite kan handhaven: de zeer kleine eerste generatie, 
die in vele jaren, dat de zomergeneratie wel aanwezig is. zelfs niet eens wordt 
waargenomen, de meestal zeer kleine jaartotalen, de hiaten in de jaren van voor- 
komen of in elk geval van waargenomen worden. Ook in de ons omringende 
gebieden is de vlinder nergens een gewone soort geworden, integendeel, Neder- 
land slaat tot nog toe het beste figuur (wat voor een deel ook kan liggen aan het 
aantal en het enthousiasme van de waarnemers). 

Wat de Nederlandse vindplaatsen betreft, op Groningen en Drente na is de 
vlinder in alle provincies aangetroffen. Maar de meeste vondsten stammen uit 
Limburg. Nieuwe gegevens uit de omringende gebieden zijn de volgende. In 
Denemarken werd in 1949 een exemplaar te Randers gevangen en in 1950 een 
tweede te Aabenraa (beide in Jutland). In de omgeving van Hamburg werd 
confusa byna alle jaren van 1948 tot 1954 waargenomen, by Hannover in 1948, 
in de voormalige Rijnprovincie in 1953 en 1954 bij Rheidt (KUNNERT, Ent. Z. 
Frankfurt 67 : 152, 1957). Uit België zijn alleen vangsten gemeld van Grand- 
menil en Argenteau (beide in de provincie Luxemburg) (Lambillionea 57 : 47, 
1957; 63 : 22, 1964). Maar onze Limburgse ervaringen wijzen er duidelijk op, 
dat de vlinder bij onze zuidelijke buren althans in het oosten van hun land meer 
te vinden moet zijn. In Groot-Brittannië is confusa een paar maal in het zuiden 
van Engeland waargenomen: in 1951 in Essex, in 1955 in Norfolk, Kent en Surrey 
en in 1962 in Devon. Vaste voet heeft de soort hier blijkbaar niet gekregen. 

De gunstigste periode was bij ons het tijdvak 1950—1955 (maximum in 1955 
met 31 stuks), waarmee de ervaringen om ons heen over het algemeen dus vrij 
goed overeenstemmen. 


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Fig. 49. Histogram van Macdunnoughia confusa Stephens. 
(Composed from the data of 176 specimens). 


m j 


De vlinder is bij ons waargenomen tussen 14 mei (1954, Eindhoven, VAN 
DuLm) en 30 oktober (1951, Swalmen). In het histogram (fig. 49) zijn de 
gegevens verwerkt van alle 176 Nederlandse exemplaren, waarvan de juiste datum 
bekend is. Vangsten in de tweede helft van mei en de eerste helft van juni komen 
sporadisch voor. Tussen 10.VI en 4.VII is slechts één enkele waarneming bekend. 
Pas de tweede helft van juli is wat beter voor de soort. Deze gunstige periode kan 
voortduren tot omstreeks 20.VIII. Een tweede periode valt in de tweede helft van 
september en houdt nog aan in oktober. Het lijkt er dus op, dat er in een gunstig 


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seizoen drie generaties kunnen voorkomen, de eerste tussen half mei en half juli, 
de tweede van half juli tot begin september en de derde van half september tot 
eind oktober en mogelijk zelfs begin november (nog vijf stuks op 30.X!). EIk 
seizoen is echter weer anders en onze gegevens zijn nog te klein om een definitief 
oordeel mogelijk te maken. Bovendien weten we nog niets van de biologie van 
de soort in ons klimaat. 

Een Nederlands exemplaar is afgebeeld op plaat 6 fig. 12. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Sexbierum (1964), Nijetrijne (1964). Ov.: Buurse (1952), 
Olst (1954). Gdl.: Wageningen (1953, 1954, 1955, 1960); Warnsveld (1950), Aalten 
(1950, 1951, 1956); Malden (1960). Utr.: Amerongen (1958), Zeist (1953, 1955, 1959, 
1960, 1961), Amersfoort (1953). N.H.: Hilversum (1955), Blaricum (1955). Z.H.: Arkel 
(1960). Zl.: Oostkapelle (1956). N.B.: Boxtel (1965), Eindhoven (1953, 1954, 1955), 
Helenaveen (1963). Lbg.: Horst (1954), Sevenum (1954, 1955), Grubbenvorst (1953), 
Arcen (1961), Velden (1961), Venlo (1961), Tegelen (1949, 1951, 1955, 1961), Swalmen 
(1949 tot en met 1953, 1955, 1960, 1964), Maalbroek (1953, 1954, 1955, 1960), Roermond 
(1956), Melick (1953), Sint Odiliénberg (1949), Montfort (1959, 1960, 1961), Stein 
(1961, 1963), Brunssum (1959), Heerlerheide (1950), Heerlen (1960), Simpelveld (1954, 
1955), Kannerbos (1950), Gronsveld (1954), Epen (1953, 1954, 1955), Vaals (1953, 1954). 


Variabiliteit. f. brunnescens nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels 
lichter, helderder bruin. Swalmen (LUCKER); Simpelveld (VAN DE POL); Epen, 
&, 28.VIII.1954 (holotype) plus een tweede exemplaar van hetzelfde jaar en 
dezelfde vindplaats (VAN WISSELINGH). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings paler, of a clearer brown. | 


f. bigutta Staudinger, 1892, Mém. Rom. 6: 545. De zilvervlek op de boven- 
zijde van de voorvleugels in tweeén gedeeld. Maalbroek, 1953 (Mus. Rotterdam) ; 
Epen, 1954 (VAN WISSELINGH). 


Plusia Ochsenheimer 


Plusia chrysitis L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 112; Cat. VIII: (522). De vlinder 
kan plaatselijk zeer algemeen zijn, zowel in vochtiger biotopen als in het droge 
duingebied, zoals de laatste jaren duidelijk gebleken is bij de inventarisaties door 
het RIVON: lange series uit Nijetrijne en de Peel, maar even goed uit Overveen 
en van de Schouwense duinen. In het Waddendistrict is de soort nu bekend van 
Terschelling (hier vrij gewoon volgens TANIS), Vlieland en Texel. 

De vliegtijd kan van de eerste week van mei tot de derde week van oktober 
duren. De vroegste datum is nu 6.V, de laatste 21.X (in 1956 te Heerlen, CLAAS- 
SENS). Daar ik door het onderzoek naar het voorkomen van de vermeende Plusia 
tutti Kostrowicki (zie Ent. Ber. 25 : 73—79, 1965, en 26 : 25—26, 1966) over 
gegevens van honderden exemplaren kon beschikken, heb ik hiervan een histo- 
gram samengesteld (zie fig. 50). Hieruit blijkt, dat de vlinder in de loop van mei 
geleidelijk aan gewoner begint te worden en dat de eerste generatie het talrijkst is 
in de tweede helft van juni en de eerste twee weken van juli. Daarna neemt het 
aantal duidelijk af, maar reeds in de tweede decade van augustus neemt de vlinder 
weer in aantal toe om in de laatste week van augustus het maximum van de tweede 
generatie te bereiken. Na de eerste week van september wordt het dier veel 
schaarser en in de laatste week van september en in oktober worden nog slechts 


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Fig. 50. Histogram van Plusia chrysitis L. 


sporadisch exemplaren gevangen. Een scherpe grens tussen eerste en tweede gene- 
ratie is er niet, al kan dit in een bepaald jaar natuurlijk wel het geval zijn. Zo nam 
Pater AMADEUS ALMA tussen 29.VII en 15.VIII.1965 geen enkel exemplaar waar 
in de val van de Plantenziektenkundige Dienst, die opgesteld stond bij de Abdij 
Sion (Overijsel) en die zonder onderbreking elke nacht in werking was. 

De eerste generatie is wat talrijker dan de tweede. Of er nog een (zeer partiële) 
derde generatie kan voorkomen, is lang niet zeker. De late exemplaren zijn in de 
regel sterk afgevlogen. Bovendien merkte VAN AARTSEN, die de vlinder twee maal 
uit het ei opgekweekt heeft, dat de rupsen van hetzelfde legsel zich zeer onregel- 
matig ontwikkelen. Naast snel doorgroeiende exemplaren komen ook veel lang- 


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zamer groeiende voor en het is best mogelijk, dat late vlinders van zulke trage 
groeiers afstammen. Van eieren afkomstig van een wijfje van de tweede generatie 
verscheen een vlinder op 4 november 1964. Dit derde generatie-exemplaar kwam 
dus uit op een moment, dat buiten geen enkele chrysitis meer vliegt. En het was 
afkomstig van een rups, die met nog enkele andere snel doorgegroeid was, terwijl 
de rest van het broedsel wilde overwinteren. 

Interessant is ook het (helaas zeer magere) resultaat van een eikweek van 
Knoop. Van een op 3 juli 1940 gevangen ‘9 verschenen drie nakomelingen nog 
hetzelfde jaar tussen 3 en 20 september en drie andere pas tussen 4 en 20 juni 
1941. De tweede generatie kan dus partieel zijn (in welke mate dat het geval is, 
weten we natuurlijk nog niet) en dit verklaart, waarom het totaal aantal exem- 
plaren ervan kleiner is dan dat van de eerste generatie. 

Variabiliteit. Gemiddeld verschillen exemplaren van de eerste generatie | 


| 


door hun meerdere grootte van de later vliegende dieren. Dit is fraai te zien op 


plaat 1 in Ent. Ber. 25 (1965). Er zijn echter nogal wat uitzonderingen, dieren 
van de eerste generatie, die opvallend klein zijn (fig. 5 van de plaat) en exem- 
plaren van de tweede generatie, die voor de eerste niet onder doen in grootte. 
Bovendien zijn er ook overgangen tussen beide grootteklassen (fig. 17 en 19). 
De verklaring van dit verschijnsel ligt nog in het duister. 

Een ander (eveneens gradueel) verschil tussen beide generaties betreft de teke- 
ning op de voorvleugels. De twee metaalkleurige banden kunnen al of niet met 
elkaar verbonden zijn. Vergelijkt men nu grote aantallen met elkaar, dan blijken 
er duidelijke procentuele verschillen tussen de twee generaties te bestaan. Terwijl 
in de eerste generatie beide groepen ongeveer even talrijk voorkomen, zijn in de 
tweede generatie exemplaren met verbonden banden duidelijk in de meerderheid 
(zie de tabel). 


banden niet verbonden banden verbonden 

(bands not connected) (bands connected) 
generatie I 731 (49,74%) 781 (50,26%) 
generatie II 248 (33,11%) 497 (66,89%) 


[N ote. The table clearly shows, that the markings on the fore wings of Plusia chrysitis 
differ in both generations. In the first generation the two coppery bands are separated nearly 
as often as connected. In the second generation the bands are connected much more often 
than separated. The most probable explanation seems to be that this character depends on a 
combination of hereditary and environmental factors.] 


Zoals bekend variéren de banden ook sterk in kleur, van zuiver goudgeel (zeld- 
zaam) via kopergeel (een minder diepe tint), groenachtig geel en groenachtig 
naar blauwgroen. Een interessante discussie hierover is te vinden in The Entomolo- 
gist 28 (1895). Op p. 159 schrijft THORNHILL, dat van een lange gevangen serie 
een kwart groenbrons was en de rest goudbrons. Het volgende jaar ving hij eerst 
een serie zeer verse dieren en kweekte er ook een paar. Al deze dieren waren goud- 
brons. Later in het seizoen, toen de vlinders meer afgevlogen waren, ving hij er 
weer en deze waren alle groenbrons. Zijn conclusie is daarom, dat de groene tint 
een verkleuring is van de gouden. Deze mening wordt gedeeld door Kaye (1. c.: 
181). Ook zijn gekweekte exemplaren waren alle goudkleurig, terwijl afgevlogen 


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dieren een groenachtige tint hadden. Op p. 204 deelt BUNN mee, dat van een 
serie gevangen zeer gave exemplaren ongeveer de helft goudkleurig was en de 
andere helft een groenachtige tint had. Tenslotte schrijft THORNHILL (p. 229), 
dat hij van mening is, dat de goudbronzen tint die van de pas uitgekomen vlin- 
ders is, doch dat deze door invloed van het licht in groenbrons verandert. Jammer 
genoeg is later geen enkele lepidopteroloog meer op dit onderwerp terug gekomen. 
(De Engelse auteurs bedoelen met goudbrons of goudkleurig ongetwijfeld de 
gewone kopergele kleur, de echte goudkleur is veel zeldzamer.) 

Na het zien van honderden exemplaren in allerlei stadia van ouderdom geloof 
ik, dat THORNHILL het bij het rechte eind had. Alle gekweekte vlinders die ik 
gezien heb (maar dat zijn er helaas betrekkelijk weinig), hadden prachtige koper- 
kleurige banden zonder groene tint. En ook SEPP beeldt zijn (gekweekte) exem- 
plaren zo af (Ned. Ins. 1, vijfde stuk, Tab. I, fig. 11 en 12). Hij schrijft (I. c.: 
7), dat de tint overeenkomt „met den Glans van blank geschuurd geel Koper”. 

Bij de lange serie gevangen exemplaren in de collectie van het Zoöl. Mus. 
komen zowel exemplaren zonder als met de groene tint in het geel voor. Er ís geen 
scherpe scheiding tussen deze twee groepen. Naarmate de dieren langer gevlogen 
hadden, is de groene tint intensiever. Tenslotte verandert de kleur in blauwgroen 
of zelfs blauwachtig. Heel verse dieren met laatstgenoemde kleuren heb ik nooit 
gezien en ze bestaan waarschijnlijk ook niet. De kleurvorm scintillans is dan ook 
geen echte vorm, maar een ouderdomsverschijnsel. Hetzelfde geldt waarschijnlijk 
voor de virescens-groep. Er blijken echter ook exemplaren te zijn, die nooit een 
groene tint krijgen, maar waarvan de banden steeds geel blijven. Wel wordt de 
tint steeds doffer en is tenslotte nauwelijks meer zichtbaar, maar er komt geen 
kleurverandering. Zo lang we door kweken niet meer van de tintverschillen van 
verse dieren afweten, lijkt het me het beste de groene en blauwe dieren niet meer 
afzonderlijk te vermelden. 

Wel vermeldenswaard daarentegen zijn naar mijn mening de exemplaren met 
zuiver goudkleurige banden. Deze zijn van een prachtige diep donkergele kleur, 
die onmogelijk door verkleuring uit de koperkleurige tint ontstaan kan zijn. Deze 
tint is beslist zeldzaam. De enige exemplaren, die ik zelf gezien heb, zijn de vol- 
gende: 

f. disiuncta Schultz, 1900. Met niet verbonden banden. Warga, Soest (Zoöl. 
Mus.); Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE Por). 

f. aurea Huene, 1901. De banden verbonden. Ruurlo (LUKKIEN); Groessen, 
Buren (VAN DE Por); Den Haag (Leids Mus.); Rotterdam (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Aanvullingen op de afwijkingen in de tekening van de voorvleugels: 

f. juncta Tutt, 1892. Zeer gewoon. Zie de tabel. 

f. decorata Dannehl, 1933. Exemplaren met opvallend brede verbinding tussen 
de twee metaalkleurige banden op de voorvleugels komen in klein aantal vrij ver- 
breid onder de soort voor, zodat geen vindplaatsen meer vermeld worden. 

f. croesus Bryk, 1923. Exemplaren met goudkleurige niervlek komen weinig 
voor. Roggel (PEERDEMAN). 

Dwergen. Zeer kleine exemplaren, zelfs vergeleken met die van de tweede 
generatie, zag ik van Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Aerdt, Groet (PEERDEMAN). 


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Note. Reference is made to the observation of THORNHILL and others in Entomologist 
28: 159 etc. (1895) about the colour of the bands of the fore wings. THORNHILL is of 
opinion that all bred or very fresh specimens have coppery bands without green tint, and 
that this tint is only a question of fading. 

Having examined hundreds of specimens in all stages from very fresh to utterly worn I 
am inclined to agree with TORNHILL. The older the specimens are the greener they become, 
till at last they are blue-green or even quite bluish. Yet there are specimens the bands of 
which always remain yellowish. The colour becomes duller and duller, till at last it is hardly 
visible, but it never shows a trace of greenish. I therefore prefer not to accept colour forms 
of chrysitis till more is known about their nature, except the rare ones with the pure deep 
gold colour (disiuncta and aurea). 


Plusia chryson Esper. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 112; Cat. VIII : (522). Na de vijf 
in Cat. VIII vermelde vangsten zijn slechts twee nieuwe uit ons land bekend ge- 
worden. Erg toegenomen is de neiging om tot in Nederland door te trekken dus 
niet. Uit Denemarken en het omringende Duitse gebied zijn in de literatuur geen 
nieuwe meldingen te vinden. Wel werd de vlinder weer aangetroffen in het zuiden 
van Belgisch Luxemburg: Ethe-Laclaireau (1939), Virton (1963), Buzenol (twee 
exemplaren in 1963). In het groothertogdom zelf werd in 1951 een exemplaar 
in de onmiddellijke nabijheid van de hoofdstad gevangen. 

Van de verbreiding in het zuiden van Groot-Brittannié geeft HAGGET het vol- 
gende overzicht: zeer verbreid in het zuiden en oosten van Engeland en het zuiden 
van Wales tot in Cardiganshire toe. Een van de beste lokaliteiten is op het ogen- 
blik de Test Valley in Hampshire (Proc. Trans. South London ent. nat. Hist. Soc. 
1957 : 94—95, 1958). 

De in ons land waargenomen vliegtijd ligt nu tussen half juli en eind augustus 
(16.VII—27.VIIT). 


Vindplaatsen. Lbg.: Stein, 16.VII.1963 (collectie Missiehuis); Vaals, 27.VIII.1952 
(LÜCKER). 


Chrysoptera Latreille 


Chrysoptera c-aureum Knoch. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 121; Cat. VIII: (531). 
De vlinder is zonder twijfel inheems en komt lokaal vooral op moerassige plaatsen 
verspreid in het land voor. Hij komt goed op licht, maar is spoedig min of meer 
afgevlogen. Het zoeken van de rupsen is echter niet zo eenvoudig. Zie hiervoor 
G. DIJKsTRA in Ent. Ber. 21 : 182, 1961. 

De vliegtijd kan al in de eerste helft van juni beginnen en voortduren tot half 
augustus. De uiterste data zijn nu: 10.VI—15.VIII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Wolvega (CAMPING, G. DIJKSTRA, rupsen en vlinders). Gr.: 
Ter Borgh, 28.VII.1956 (Brom). Ov.: Wiene, 21.VII.1951 (KLEINJAN); Kalenberg (hier 
bleek de soort gewoon te zijn tijdens het Rivon-onderzoek in 1964 en 1965, AUKEMA); 
Marknesse, 7.VII.1959 (VAN DE Por). Gdl.: Slijk-Ewijk, 10.VII.1961 (dezelfde). Utr.: 
Amerongen, 7.VII.1959 (BENTINCK); Botshol (gewoon, LOURENS c. s.). N.H.: ’s-Graveland, 
26.VI.1959 (Nat.hist. Mus. Zaandam); Bussum, 10.VII.1958, 23.VI.1960 (TER LAAG); 
Aalsmeer, 27.VII.1957 (KEESSEN). Z.H.: Noorden, 1956 en volgende jaren geregeld 
(Lucas); Arkel, 10.VI.1962, 1964, 1965, vlinders en rupsen (SLOB, ZWAKHALS). N.B.: 
Sprang, 4.VII.1954 (DIDDEN). 


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Polychrisia Hübner 


Polychrisia moneta Fabricius. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 120; Cat. VIII: (530). 
Het voorkomen van de vlinder hangt af van de aanwezigheid van ridderspoor en 
monnikskap in tuinen. In de regel is het dier vrij schaars, althans op licht, in 
sommige jaren echter veel talrijker. Zo was de eerste generatie in 1956 talrijk te 
Bennekom, de tweede in 1953 (VAN DE Por). LEFFEF vermoedt, dat de vlinder 
vooral in de schemering vliegt en dan bloemen bezoekt, zodat hij schaarser lijkt 
dan hij in werkelijkheid is (in litt.). De rupsen zijn in elk geval niet zelden in 
het voorjaar op de voedselplanten in aantal te vinden. 

In het Waddendistrict is de soort nu van één van de eilanden bekend. Interes- 
sant is, dat het eerste exemplaar voor Ierland pas in 1939 werd gevangen, het 
tweede in 1952 (E. S. A. BAYNES, Ent. Gazette 4 : 286, 1953). 

De vliegtijd van de tweede generatie kan al half augustus beginnen (17.VII. 
1943, e. l., 19.VIII.1959, wild, Lucas) en voortduren tot half oktober (14.X. 
1953, Wageningen, VAN DE POL). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (LEFFEF), Sexbierum, Leeuwarden, Oenkerk, Wijn- 
jeterp, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Rijs, Tjerkwerd. Gr.: Haren, Glimmen, Veendam. Dr.: 
Roden, Steenbergen, Een, Westervelde, Eelde, Zuidlaren, Eext, Schoonlo. Ov.: Rechteren, 
Raalte, Abdij Sion, Deventer, Zwolle, Vollenhove, Kalenberg, Marknesse. Gdl.: Harderwijk, 
Epe, Vaassen, Wiessel, Teuge, Lunteren; Gorssel, de Voorst, Eefde, Warnsveld, Ruurlo, 
Hoog-Keppel, Groessen; Slijk-Ewijk, Rumpt (gem. Deil). Utr.: Doorn, Botshol. N.H.: 
’s-Graveland, Blaricum, Bussum, Naarden, Weesp, Amsterdamse Bos (PEERDEMAN vond eens 
een spinsel op kardinaalsmuts!), Halfweg, Landsmeer, Wormerveer, Beemster, Oosthuizen, 
Hoorn, Groet, Schoorl, Bergen. Z.H.: Oegstgeest, Leidschendam, Capelle aan den IJssel, 
Krimpen aan den IJssel, Arkel, Gorkum, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Oostvoorne, 
Hellevoetsluis, Oude Tonge. Zl: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen. N.B.: Waalwijk, 
Valkenswaard, Geldrop, Helenaveen. Lbg.: Sevenum, Moesel, Belfeld, Montfort, Amstenrade, 
Chèvremont, Bocholtz, Gronsveld, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. pallescens Lempke, 1949. Een enkele keer hebben exem- 
plaren van de tweede generatie dezelfde grondkleur als die van de eerste, maar in 
de regel zijn ze toch iets kleiner. Exemplaren van de eerste generatie met de lichte 
grondkleur zijn vermoedelijk niet al te zeldzaam. In Zoöl. Mus. nog van Apel- 
doorn, Twello, Hilversum, Leidschendam. Verder bekend van Voorburg (Lucas). 

Een fraai exemplaar van deze bleke vorm uit de collectie-VAN WISSELINGH is 
afgebeeld op plaat 7 fig. 7. 

f. aurea Lempke, 1949. Geen nieuwe vindplaatsen. 

f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels sterk verdonkerd, achtervleu- 
gels zwartachtig, vooral langs de achterrand. Plaat 7 fig. 8. Halfweg, 4, 8.IX. 
1963 (holotype, VAN AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.), plus een tweede minder extreem 
exemplaar van dezelfde vindplaats van 20.VI.1959; Wormerveer (HUISENGA). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings strongly darkened, hind wings blackish, especially along 
the outer border. } 


f. maculata Lempke, 1949. Het holotype is afgebeeld op plaat 7 fig. 9. Nieuwe 
vondsten zijn niet bekend. 

f. renitangens Lempke, 1949. De vorm, waarbij de niervlek aan boven- en 
onderzijde de middenschaduw raakt, zijn niet zeldzaam en komen waarschijnlijk 


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op de meeste plaatsen onder de soort voor, zodat geen vangsten meer vermeld 
worden. 

Dwerg. Zeist (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Pathologisch exemplaar. Een exemplaar met onregelmatige witte 
vlekken op de achtervleugels van Oosthuizen (DE BOER). 


Abrostola Ochsenheimer 


Abrostola trigemina Werneburg (triplasia auct. nec Linnaeus). Tydschr. 
Entom. 90 : 122; Cat. VIII : (532). De soort dus met (bij typische exemplaren) 
licht bruinachtig wortelveld op de bovenzijde van de voorvleugels en iets gegolfde 
tweede dwarslijn. Reeds in 1864 toonde WERNEBURG aan, dat dit niet de door 
Linnaeus beschreven soort is (Beitr. Schmetterl.k. 1 : 247— 248), maar pas in de 
moderne publicaties wordt zijn correctie toegepast (o.a. in de nieuwe editie van 
SOUTH). 

Uit beide lijsten van vindplaatsen blijkt, dat de vlinder over vrijwel het gehele 
land verbreid is. Opvallend is het grote aantal nieuwe vindplaatsen in het westen. 
Hier en in het noorden is de soort beslist gewoner dan de volgende. In het zuiden 
van het land is op vele plaatsen daarentegen het omgekeerde het geval. Tot nog 
toe pas op één van de waddeneilanden aangetroffen. 

Wat de vliegtijd betreft, zekere data van de derde generatie zijn thans: 17.1X— 
10.X. De zeer late datum werd in 1962 genoteerd door VAN AARTSEN. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (LEFFEF), Sexbierum, Friens, Beetsterzwaag, Oos- 
terwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Rijs, Tjerkwerd. Gr.: Borgercompagnie, Veendam. Dr.: 
Paterswolde, Een, Westervelde, Donderen, Zuidlaren, Eext, Schoonlo, Hooghalen, Vledder. 
Ov.: Volthe, Albergen, Weerselo, Saasveld (Molenven), Rectum, Enschede, Wiene, Delden, 
Holten, Balkbrug, Dalfsen, Raalte, Abdij Sion, IJsselmuiden, Zwartsluis, Vollenhove. Gdl.: 
Ermelo, Leuvenum, Vierhouten, Wezep, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Teuge, Wilp, Laag-Soeren, 
Lunteren; Gorssel, de Voorst, Eefde, Almen, Wientjesvoort, Ruurlo, Winterswijk, Hoog- 
Keppel, Didam, Aerdt; Berg en Dal, Ochten, Buren, Slijk-Ewijk, Neerijnen. Utr: Grebbe, 
Maarsseveen, Vinkeveen, Botshol. N.H.: Blaricum, Ankeveen, Bussum, Naarden, Naarder- 
meer, Weesp, Amsterdamse Bos, Halfweg, Zaandam, Wormerveer, Oost-Knollendam, 
Beemster, Hoorn, Den Helder, Schoorl, Bergen, Heemskerk, Overveen. Z.H.: Woerdense 
Verlaat, Noorden, Katwijk, Meijendel, Voorschoten, Leidschendam, Den Haag, Loosduinen, 
Delft, Staelduin, Vlaardingen, Capelle aan den IJssel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Arkel, 
Gorkum, Schelluinen, Dubbeldam, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Barendrecht, Oostvoorne, Rockanje, 
Hellevoetsluis, Sommelsdijk, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen (op Schou- 
wen veel minder dan de volgende soort, LEFFEF), Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Cadzand. N.B.: 
Chaam, Oosterhout, Drunen, Haaren, Kampina, Sint Michielsgestel, Boxtel, Oirschot, Acht, 
Overwetten, Eindhoven, Vessem, Someren, Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis, Uden. Lbg.: Griends- 
veen, Sevenum, Moesel, Roggel, De Hamert, Swalmen, Maasniel, Sint Odiliënberg, Montfort, 
Stein, Sittard, Geleen, Heerlerheide, Heerlerbaan, Chèvremont, Bocholtz, Geulem, Bunde, 
Cannerbos, Sint Pietersberg, Heer, Vijlen, Lemiers, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. monotona Lempke, 1949. De eenkleurig donkere vorm 
werd nog aangetroffen te Eindhoven (VAN DULM). 

f. juncta Lempke, 1949. Bennekom (vAN DE Por); Breda (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. semiconfluens Lempke, 1949. Breda (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Dwergen. Apeldoorn, Valkenburg (Zoöl. Mus.); Melissant (HUISMAN). 


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Abrostola triplasia L., 1758 (¢ripartita Hufnagel, 1766). Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 
123; Cat. VIII: (533). De soort met (bij typische exemplaren) licht wortel- 
veld en licht achterrandsveld, terwijl de tweede dwarslijn alleen iets gebogen is. 

In de noordelijke helft (ongeveer tot aan de grote rivieren) is de vlinder bijna 
overal duidelijk minder gewoon dan de vorige soort, in de zuidelijke helft daaren- 
tegen is in de regel het omgekeerde het geval. Hoewel vindplaatsen op de Veluwe 
bekend zijn, schrijft LEFFEF me, dat hijzelf de soort nog nooit daar heeft aange- 
troffen, wat wel iets zegt omtrent de zeldzaamheid in dit gebied. In de hierna 
volgende lijst van nieuwe vindplaatsen valt ook het kleine aantal ten noorden van 
Ryn en Lek op (slechts één enkele op de Veluwe!). Tussen de grote rivieren 
wordt het al dadelijk beter (ook in het westen) en vooral Limburg komt met een 
lange serie goed uit de bus. Mogelijk hebben we in dit geval met klimatologische 
invloeden te doen. 

In het Waddendistrict is ook deze soort slechts van één van de eilanden bekend. 

De vlinder kan in gunstige voorjaren al in de tweede helft van april beginnen 
te vliegen. De vroegste datum is nu 19 april (in 1964 te Nuenen, Nets). De 
tweede generatie kan eveneens belangrijk vroeger verschijnen dan in 1949 bekend 
was. Van een op 29 juni gevonden rups kwam de vlinder reeds op 22.VII uit de 
pop (HUISMAN). Er zal dan ook zeer waarschijnlijk geen scherpe grens tussen 
beide generaties bestaan. De vliegtijd kan iets later eindigen dan in Cat. VIII 
vermeld is: op 11.IX.1963 nog een exemplaar te Stein (collectie Missiehuis). 
Duidelijke aanwijzingen van een derde generatie kan ik bij deze soort evenwel 
niet vinden. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (weinig, LEFFEF), Leeuwarden, Tietjerk, Wijnje- 
terp, Oosterwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Tjerkwerd. Gr.: Delfzijl, Veendam. Dr.: Veen- 
huizen, Donderen, Eext, Schoonlo. Ov.: Volthe, Almelo, Enschede, Delden, Abdij Sion, 
Vollenhove. Gdl.: Hoenderlo; Eefde, Warnsveld, Winterswijk, Hoog-Keppel (hier vrij ge- 
woon, LEFFEF), Aerdt; Ubbergen, Malden, Slijk-Ewijk, Ochten, Buren, Geldermalsen, 
Neerijnen. Utr.: Utrecht. N.H.: Amsterdamse Bos, Schoorl (heel weinig, LEFFEF), Bergen, 
Castricum, Heemskerk, Santpoort, Bloemendaal, Heemstede. Z.H.: Noorden, Reeuwijk, 
Rijswijk, Staelduin, Capelle aan den IJssel, Vianen, Arkel, Gorkum, Schelluinen, Dubbeldam, 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (meer dan de vorige soort !), Barendrecht, Rhoon, Brielle, Oostvoorne, 
Rockanje, Hellevoetsluis, Middelharnis, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen 
(op Schouwen veel gewoner dan de vorige soort volgens de inventarisatiegegevens van het 
Rivon), Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Cadzand. N.B.: Wouw, Roosendaal, Ulvenhout, Tilburg, 
Waalwijk, Drunen, Sint Michielsgestel, Kampina, Best, Acht, Nederwetten, Eindhoven, 
Vessem, Bergeijk, Heeze, Someren, Deurne, Mill, Gassel. Lbg.: Mook, de Hamert, Arcen, 
Horst, Sevenum, Griendsveen, Moesel, Roggel, Swalmen, Heel, Sint Odiliënberg, Montfort, 
Stein, Sittard, Amstenrade, Heerlerheide, Heerlen, Heerlerbaan, Chèvremont, Bocholtz, 
Geulem, Ulestraten, Bunde, Kannerbos, Sint Pieter, Gronsveld, Rijckholt, Heer, Noorbeek, 
Camerig, Cottessen, Vijlen, Lemiers, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. HÜBNER's wrficae is niet te scheiden van de typische vorm. 
Alle exemplaren met min of meer wit afgezette dwarslijnen moeten hiertoe gere- 
kend worden. 

f. plumbea Cockayne, 1947. Naast de eenkleurig donkere exemplaren komen 
er ook voor met even donkere voorvleugels, maar die iets van de witte tekening in 
wortel- en achterrandsveld bezitten. Ook COCKAYNE vermeldt zulke exemplaren. 
De vorm is afgebeeld op plaat 7 fig. 11. Oude Nederlandse exemplaren bestaan 


278 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (928) 


er niet van. Het is stellig een moderne melanistische vorm, die zich bovendien 
snel uitgebreid heeft. Kon in Cat. VIII nog slechts één vindplaats vermeld worden, 
thans zijn vooral in het zuiden en midden van Limburg tal van vindplaatsen be- 
kend, waaraan die in het oosten van Noord-Brabant aansluiten. Ook in Zeeland 
zijn al exemplaren gevangen, bovendien in Twente. Nergens is de vorm echter zo 
verbreid als in het zuidoosten van het land. Hier werd hij ook voor het eerst 
waargenomen (Valkenburg, 1910). 

In het Limburgs-Oostbrabantse gebied komt de vorm thans practisch op alle 
vindplaatsen onder de soort voor, zodat deze niet opnieuw opgesomd behoeven 
te worden. Daarbuiten ken ik thans de volgende: Volthe (VAN DER MEULEN); 
Bennekom (Landb. Hschool); Aerdt (PEERDEMAN); Aerdenhout, Bergeijk (VAN 
WISSELINGH); Gorkum (BRANGER); Ouddorp (VROEGINDEWEIJ); Haamstede 
(Zool. Mus.); Sint Michielsgestel (KNIPPENBERG ). 

f. juncta Lempke, 1949. Oostvoorne (Lucas); Gronsveld (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. semiconfluens Lempke, 1949. Gewoon, van tal van vindplaatsen bekend. 

Dwergen. Delft (A. VAN BEEK); Montfort (MAASSEN). © 


CATOCALINAE 
Mormonia Hiibner 


Mormonia sponsa L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 101; Cat. VIII: (511). De in 
1949 gegeven verbreiding is goed. Het aantal nieuwe vindplaatsen is klein. 
LEFFEF schreef me enkele interessante details over het gedrag van het dier. In 
1946 zag hy op klaarlichte dag twee exemplaren, die steeds maar om een middel- 
grote eik vlogen langs de weg van Hoenderlo naar Otterlo. Aan de stam was 
geen lekkende plek, zodat het niet om het sap te doen geweest kon zijn. Zijn erva- 
ring is overigens dat de vlinder in de schemering begint te vliegen en dan zeer 
schuw is. Na half elf komen de dieren goed op de stroop en zitten dan zelfs in 
het felle licht van een sterke lamp goed vast. Maar op menglichtlampen en kwik- 
damplampen komen ze maar heel zelden, evenmin trouwens als Catocala promissa. 

Geen correctie op de vliegtijd, die dus blijft: 10.VII—16.IX. 


Vindplaatsen. Ov.: Volthe, Borne, Abdij Sion. Gdl.: Vaassen, Wiessel (in 1925 
en 1926 op smeer, later nooit meer, LEFFEF), Hoenderlo; Hackfort, Wientjesvoort, Groenlo, 
Miste, Bijvank, Babberich. Utr.: Hollandse Rading. N.H.: Bussum (14.VIII.1963, A. VAN 
Tuijr), Amsterdamse Bos (1947, NIEUWLAND). Lbg.: Bocholtz. 

Variabiliteit. f. demaculata Heinrich, 1916. Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. fasciata Spuler, 1908, Schmetterl. Eur. 1: 367 (variegata Lempke, 1949). 
Geen nieuwe vangsten. 

f. brunnea nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels zuiver bruin zonder grijs of 
zwart. Paterswolde, 9, 7.VII.1905, a. o. (holotype, plus een tweede 19 van de- 
zelfde kweek; Zoöl. Mus.). 


[Ground colour of the fore wings pure brown without grey or black.} 


Catocala Schrank 


Catocala fraxini L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 104; Cat. VIII: (514). De vlinder 
blijft een grote zeldzaamheid, die zeer onregelmatig nu eens hier, dan weer daar 


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wordt gevangen. Ik geloof dan ook, dat hij niet in staat is zich hier te handhaven, 
maar dat hij steeds weer opnieuw naar ons land moet immigreren. De hiaten in 
de jaren van waarneming en de zeer kleine aantallen zijn hiervoor wel een sterke 
aanwijzing. 

Merkwaardig is, dat de soort na de Tweede Wereldoorlog vaste voet in het 
zuiden van Engeland gekregen heeft. Zowel in Kent als in Norfolk zijn herhaal- 
delijk vlinders gevangen en rupsen gevonden (zie T. G. HOWARTH, 1950, Ent. 
Gazette 1: 41—46). De laatste jaren heb ik geen enkele melding meer in de 
Engelse tijdschriften gezien, zodat het de vraag is, of deze vestiging wel duurzaam 
geweest is. 

De vliegtijd kan al in de eerste helft van juli beginnen. Reeds 10.VII.1956 
werd een exemplaar te Epe gevangen. De slotdatum verschuift ook iets: de laatste 
dag van waarneming wordt nu 13.X (in 1953 te Bennekom). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Wolvega, juli 1955 (van Tut); Rijs, 5.VIII.1950 (O. DE 
VRIES). Ov.: Almelo, 17.VIII.1940 (KNoop). Gdl.: Epe, 10.VII.1956 (W. DE VRIES); 
Bennekom, 13.X.1953 (VAN DE Por); Ulenpas, 17.IX.1956 (LEFFEF); Nijmegen, 1928, e. 1. 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Wijchen, 23.VIII.1964 (Aarts). Utr.: Rhenen, 11.IX.1958 (Mus. Rotter- 
dam); Maarn, 9.IX.1952 (BERK); Linschoten, 4.VIII.1964 (VAN DER Voo). N.H.: Amster- 
dam, 25.IX.1939 (Zoöl. Mus.), VIII.1952 (T. van Dijk); Den Helder, 1939 (NIESTHOVEN); 
Heemskerk, 3.IX.1949 (BANK); Bloemendaal, 23.IX.1956 (ALDERS); Heemstede, 25.IX.1956 
(VAN DE Por). Z.H.: Leiden, 23.VIII.1950 (J. KROON); Meijendel, 1954 (van ToL); Den 
Haag, 16.VIII.1950 (Zoöl. Mus.); Kethel, 18.IX.1954 (W. VINK). N.B.: ’s-Hertogenbosch, 
1910 (Plantenz. Dienst). Lbg.: Swalmen, 27.IX.1950 (Pijpers); Kerkrade, 1955 (volgens 
LUKKIEN); Vaals, 1946 (plus vier ongedateerde exemplaren, JUSSEN), 28.VII.1949 (JACOBI), 
1953 (volgens GERRIS). 


Variabiliteit. f. moerens Fuchs, 1889. Slechts enkele exemplaren van 
deze vorm werden nog gevangen: Epe (W. DE VRIES); Maarn (BERK). 


Catocala nupta L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 103; Cat. VIII : (513). De in 1949 
gegeven verbreiding is goed. In het Waddendistrict is de vlinder nu bekend van 
de volgende eilanden: Schiermonnikoog (VAN MINNEN), Terschelling (hier ge- 
woon, LEFFEF), Vlieland (CAMPING). 

De vliegtijd kan tot in november duren: 8.X1.1962, Burgh (LEFFEF), 9.XI. 
1962, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD), 10.XI.1949, Heemstede (von HER- 
WARTH), zodat de uiterste grenzen nu worden: 10.VII—10.X1. 

Variabiliteit. f. variegata Lempke, 1949. De vorm met bonte voorvleu- 
gels werd nog aangetroffen te Empe, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Middelie (DE BOER); 
Sint Michielsgestel (KNIPPENBERG); Gassel, Rijckholt (VAN DE Por); Swalmen 
(Mus. Rotterdam); Lemiers (DELNOYE). 

f. nigrata, nom. nov. pro nigra Cockayne, 1951, Ent. Rec. 63 : 162, pl. V, 
fig. 4, nec Lempke, 1949. Thorax en voorvleugels bijna zwart; op de voorvleugels 
nog sporen van de lichte vlek onder de niervlek en van de lichte golflijn. Am- 
sterdam, &, 25.IX.1961 (VAN AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.). Fig. 51. 

f. sanguinea Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren met dieprode achtervleugels zijn niet 
zeldzaam en komen verbreid onder de soort voor. 

f. salmonea Cockayne, 1946. Exemplaren met rose achtervleugels zijn zeldzaam. 


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Fot. J. HUISENGA 
Fig. 51. Catocala nupta L., f. nigrata nov. 


Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Steenwijk (VAN WISSELINGH); Apeldoorn (Lucas); 
Beemster (HUISENGA). 

f. caerulescens Cockerell, 1889. Van deze rariteit zag ik een exemplaar, dat 
gekweekt werd uit een rups van Rotterdam en 17.VIII.1955 uit de pop kwam 
(VAN TUIJL). 

f. concubina Borkhausen, 1792. De vorm, waarbij de zwarte middenband van 
de achtervleugels tot de binnenrand doorloopt, blijkt in de lange serie in het Zoöl. 
Mus. gewoner te zijn dan de typische vorm, waarbij de band de binnenrand niet 
bereikt. 

Dwergen. ’s-Graveland (Zoöl. Mus.); Rotterdam (Vis); Dordrecht (VERHEIJ); 
Nuenen (NEIJTs); Maastricht (KORTEBOS). 

Pathologische exemplaren. Linker achtervleugel; zwarte achter- 
randsband bij de apicale hoek verbleekt. Rotterdam (VAN DER AA). 

Linker achtervleugel: een lichte vlek in de rode middenband. Hoog-Keppel 
(Zoöl. Mus.). 

Rechter achtervleugel: de basale helft verbleekt. Hoog-Keppel (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Beide achtervleugels: een brede baan langs de voorrand verbleekt. Eindhoven 
(HAANSTRA). i 


Catocala electa Borkhausen. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 103; Cat. VIII: (513). 
Geen nieuwe vangsten, noch in ons land, noch in de ons omringende gebieden. 
Alleen vond ik in een collectie nog een exemplaar, dat indertij;d aan de aandacht 
ontsnapt is, zodat het totale aantal, dat uit ons land bekend is, acht stuks bedraagt. 


Vindplaats. Z.H.: Alblasserdam, 23.VIII.1900 (RIJK). 


Catocala promissa Esper. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 101; Cat. VIII: (511). Het 
voorkomen in ons land blijft even raadselachtig als het in 1949 was. Na de publi- 
catie van Cat. VIII in 1949 is de vlinder slechts in enkele jaren bij ons aangetrof- 
fen. Heel wonderlijk is daar een vangst bij van een grote serie in de omgeving 


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van Apeldoorn, die bestond uit vrijwel alleen prachtige gave exemplaren, wat de 
indruk wekt, dat ze ook in die omgeving hun ontwikkeling doorgemaakt hadden. 
Maar alle pogingen de soort in latere jaren op dezelfde plaats terug te vinden, 
hebben tot nog toe schipbreuk geleden. Het is daarom niet uitgesloten, dat de 
vlinder niet in staat is zich hier te lande constant te handhaven, een conclusie, die 
me in 1949 ook al de meest waarschijnlijke leck. 

Uit het omringende gebied zijn mij geen nieuwe gegevens bekend geworden. 

Een kleine correctie op de vliegtijd, waarvan de uiterste data nu worden: 
15.VI—20.VIII. 


Vindplaatsen. Dr.: Eelde, 20.VIII.1955 (Koor leg., Zoöl. Mus.). Gdl.: Ermelo, 
1964 (BoGAARD); Apeldoorn, VIII.1946, één exemplaar (BANK), van 15.VII—15.VIII.1953 
niet minder dan 33 exemplaren (LEFFEF, een kleine serie hiervan bevindt zich in Zoöl. Mus.). 
Lbg.: Rijckholt, 21.VIII.1954 (VAN DE Por); Nieuwenhagen, vers & in 1965 (NEIJTS); 
Vaals (geen datum, JUSSEN). 


Variabiliteit. f. contigua Lempke, 1949. Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Minucia Moore 


Minucia lunaris Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 106; Cat. VIII : (516). De vlin- 
der komt in hoofdzaak op de zandgronden van het binnenland voor. In het Duin- 
district is hij veel lokaler. 

Geen correctie op de vliegtijd, die blijft: 25.IV—7.VII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Beetsterzwaag, Balk. Dr.: Norg, Westervelde, Schoonlo, Odoor- 
nerveen, Hoogeveen, Dwingelo. Ov.: Volthe, Rijssen, Eerde, Vilsteren, Raalte, Tjoene, 
Platvoet: Gdl.: Terschuur, Barneveld, Ermelo, Epe, Wiessel, Empe, Hoenderlo, Harskamp, 
Kootwijkerveen, Ede; Gorssel, Almen, Ruurlo, Groesbeek. Utr.: Rhenen, Amerongen, Doorn, 
Driebergen, Zeist, Woudenberg, Leusden, Vlasakkers. N.H.: Laren, Naarden, Aerdenhout. 
Z.H.: Katwijk. Zl.: Oostkapelle. N.B.: Princenhage, Kampina, Geldrop, Maarheeze, Mill. 
Lbg.: Geijsteren, Arcen, Belfeld, Roggel, Maalbroek, Montfort, Stein, Schinveld, Gronsveld, 
Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. meretrix Fabricius, 1781. De vorm met witte (eigenlijk 
licht gele) dwarslijnen werd aangetroffen te Dwingelo, Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Bennekom (VAN DE Por). 

t. bitincta Dannehl, 1926. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Dwingelo (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Aalten (VAN GALEN). 

f. clara Lempke, 1949. Zeist (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. marginata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: ruimte tussen golflijn en achter- 
rand donker, scherp afstekend. Hoenderlo, Dabbelo, Bilthoven, Hilversum, Breda 
(Zoöl. Mus.). Blijkbaar geen al te zeldzame vorm. 

Holotype: :9 van Hilversum, 25.1V.1948, in Zoöl. Mus. 


[Upper side fore wings: area between submarginal line and fringe dark, sharply contrasting.] 


f. ochrea Krombach, 1919. Geen nieuwe gegevens. 

f. brunnea Lempke, 1949. Deurne (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. brunneogrisea Lempke, 1949. Norg, Apeldoorn, Soest, Breda (Zoöl. Mus.). 
f. obscura Favre, 1899. Dwingelo (Zoöl. Mus.). 


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f. nigromarginata nov. De band langs de achterrand van de achtervleugels is 
niet donker bruinachtig, maar zwart. Bergeijk, 9, 13.V.1966 (holotype, VAN 
WISSELINGH). 


[The band along the outer border of the hind wings is not dark brownish, but black.] 


f. privata Dannehl, 1926. Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Bennekom (VAN DE Por); 
Aalten (VAN GALEN); Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. cingulata Lempke, 1949. Vrij gewoon. 

f. clausa Lempke, 1949. Hulshorst, Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. simplex nov. De geelachtige lijn, die langs de eerste en de tweede dwarslijn 
loopt, ontbreekt. Bennekom, &, 15.V.1953 (holotype, VAN DE POL). 


[The yellowish line which borders the antemedian and the postmedian, is absent. ] 


f. fuscociliata nov. Voorvleugels met scherp afstekende donkere franje. Mont- 
fort, 2, 2.1V.1961 (holotype, MAASSEN). 


[Fore wings with sharply contrasting dark fringes. } 


Callistege Hübner 


Callistege mi Clerck. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 108; Cat. VIII: (518). Van de 
waddeneilanden is de vlinder nu ook bekend van Vlieland (CAMPING) en Ter- 
schelling. Op het laatstgenoemde eiland trof LEFFEF hem heel gewoon aan, zowel 
in het duin als in de polders en langs de dijken. Alleen Rottum ontbreekt dus nog 
in de rij. Overigens is niets nieuws over de verspreiding te vermelden. 

De normaal enige generatie kan nog iets vroeger beginnen te verschijnen dan 
in 1949 bekend was. De vroegste datum is nu 2.V (1946, Heemskerk, Lucas). 
Een tweede juli-vangst is 16.VII.1949 op Texel. Mogelijk was dit een vertegen- 
woordiger van een overigens wel erg zeldzame tweede generatie. Zeker behoorde 
er het exemplaar toe, dat VAN OorscHoT 30.VIII.1949 te Nijverdal ving. 

Variabiliteit. Typische exemplaren met witte achtervleugels (of sterke 
overgangen met bijna witte vleugels) komen op de meeste plaatsen onder de soort 
voor. 

f. illuminata Warren, 1913. Deze lichte scherp getekende vorm is niet zeld- 
zaam en komt vrijwel overal onder de soort voor. 

f. obscura Lempke, 1949. Ook deze vorm is niet zeldzaam, bekend van tal van 
vindplaatsen. 

f. desagittata nov. De zwarte wigvormige vlekken aan de binnenzijde van de 
golflijn op de bovenzijde van de voorvleugels ontbreken geheel. Nuenen, ©, 
1.VI.1950 (holotype, NEIJTS). 


[The black sagittate markings on the inner side of the submarginal line on the upper side 
of the fore wings fail completely. } 


Dwergen. Vogelenzang (Zoöl. Mus.); Schore (WILMINK). (Volgens WILMINK 
zijn alle Zeeuwse exemplaren van de soort kleiner dan die van andere vindplaat- 
sen. Ik kan dit door gebrek aan materiaal noch bevestigen noch ontkennen). 


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Ectypa Billberg 


Ectypa glyphica L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 109; Cat. VIII : (519). De in 1949 
aangegeven verbreiding is in grote trekken juist. De vlinder is nu van een der 
waddeneilanden bekend geworden. In het Hafdistrict is hij een rariteit en ook in 
het Duindistrict wordt g/yphica maar weinig aangetroffen. In het Fluviatiel Dis- 
trict komt hij meer voor. Maar opvallend is vooral zijn sterke verbreiding in het 
zuiden en midden van Limburg. Hier is de vlinder wel overal aan te treffen, waar 
voldoende klaver groeit. 

De eerste generatie kan iets eerder beginnen te vliegen dan in 1949 bekend was 
en de tweede kan iets later eindigen. De uiterste data van beide generaties worden 
nu: I van 21.1V—30.VI en II van 7.VII—9.VIll. Het valt me op, dat de collectie 
van het Zoöl. Mus. veel meer materiaal van de eerste generatie bevat dan van de 
tweede. Zeer waarschijnlijk is de laatste slechts partieel. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (in de Kooibosjes en langs de dijk bij West- 
Terschelling, LEFFEF). Gr.: Onstwedde, Vlagtwedde, Laude. Dr.: Veenhuizen, Vries, Zuid- 
laren, Annen, Anlo, Eext, Schoonlo, Lheebroek. Ov.: Brekkelenkamp, Volthe, Agelo, Oot- 
marsum, Reutum, Weerselo, Borne, Bornerbroek, Stokkum, Buurse, Haaksbergen, Delden, 
Hardenberg, Stegeren, Junne, Vilsteren, Oudleusen, Rechteren, Raalte, Zandbelt, Frieswijk, 
Zwolle, Vollenhove, Noordoostpolder. Gdl.: Wapenveld, Wiessel, Teuge, Laag-Soeren; 
Eefde, Zutfen, Harfsen, Hoog-Keppel, ’s-Heerenberg, Tolkamer; Berg en Dal, Elst, Culem- 
borg. Utr.: Grebbe, Renswoude, Amerongen, Wijk bij Duurstede. N.H.: Hoorn. Z.H.: 
Schelluinen, Ottoland, Sliedrecht (31.V.1957 bij honderden, BOGAARD). Zl.: Burgh. N.B.: 
Hilvarenbeek, Kaatsheuvel, Drunen, Sint Michielsgestel, Oirschot, Nederwetten, Nuenen, 
Valkenswaard, Geldrop, Liessel, Deurne, Veghel. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Belfeld, Swalmen, 
Haelen, Herkenbosch, Maasbracht, Vlodrop, Montfort, Roosteren, Born, Stein, Katsop, Huls, 
Welterberg, Colmond, Eijs, Wijlre, Schin op Geul, Bemelen, Cadier, Gronsveld, Mesch, 
Camerig, Nijswiller. 


Variabiliteit. f. marginata Spuler, 1907. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Borner- 
broek (KLEINJAN); Ingen (Zoöl. Mus.); Nuenen (NEIJTS). 

f. tristicula Schultz, 1908. Deze extreem donkere vorm is blijkbaar een zeld- 
zaamheid. Ik ken er geen enkele nieuwe vindplaats van. 

f. meridionalis Strand, 1901. Slechts één nieuwe vindplaats: Welterberg (VAN 
WISSELINGH). 

f. demaculata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de donkere subapicale vlek ont- 
breekt. Schelluinen, klein 19, 17.V.1964 (holotype, ZWAKHALS). 


[Upper side fore wings: the dark subapical spot is absent. ]} 


f. costovata Foltin, 1944. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Wiessel, Oisterwijk, Deurne 
(Zool. Mus.). 

f. angustelineata Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Wiessel (Zoöl. Mus.) ; 
Schelluinen (Lucas); Montfort (MAASSEN). 

f. obsoleta Strand, 1901. De vorm is vrijwel overal onder de soort aan te tref- 
fen. Alle exemplaren in Zoöl. Mus. zijn mannetjes! 

f. lata Strand, 1901. Schelluinen (Lucas); Welterberg, Epen (van WISSE- 
LINGH). 

Dwergen. Norg, Arnhem (Zoöl. Mus.); Albergen (VAN DER MEULEN); 
Schelluinen, Maastricht (Lucas). 


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OTHREINAE 
Scoliopteryx Germar 


Scoliopteryx libatrix L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 124; Cat. VIII: (534). De 
vlinder is door CAMPING op Vlieland aangetroffen, zodat hij nu van vier van de 
waddeneilanden bekend is. Overigens komt hij overal voor, waar maar smalbladige 
wilgen groeien. 

De vroegste datum, waarop een overwinterend exemplaar werd gevangen, is 
thans 1 maart. Op die datum ving kapelaan GROENENDIJK in 1960 een prachtig 
Q van de f. suffusa te Willemsdorp. 

Dank zij waarnemingen van LEFFEF weten we nu zeker, dat een deel van de 
vlinders univoltien is. In juli 1963 werden in de Rivon-vallen in de Peel zeer gave 
dieren aangetroffen. Deze werden alle weer losgelaten nadat ze eerst gemerkt 
waren door een hoek uit de achterrand van de rechter voorvleugel te knippen. In 
de periode van 6—16 oktober 1963 werden drie van deze gemerkte dieren terug 
gevangen tegelijk met vele andere exemplaren, waarvan zeker 40% verkleurd was, 
terwijl de rest een veel helderder tint had. In mei 1964 werd weer een gemerkt 
roesje in de Peel gevangen, dat dus van juli 1963 dateerde! Daarnaast zijn er 
natuurlijk ook veel exemplaren, die bivoltien zijn en waarvan de vele nazomer- 
rupsen afstammen, die nog hetzelfde jaar de vlinder leveren. Dit komt dus inder- 
daad vrijwel overeen met de gang van zaken als bij Aglais urticae. Alleen is het 
merkwaardig, dat de vlinders, die zich niet hetzelfde jaar voortplanten, blijkbaar 
(althans voor een deel) actief blijven, terwijl die van A. wrticae al vrij spoedig 
na het uitkomen in diapauze gaan. 

Variabiliteit. f. pallidior Spuler, 1907. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van deze 
bleke vorm zijn: Denekamp, Hilversum, Weesp, Groede (Zoöl. Mus.); Rhenen 
(CARON); Den Haag (HARDONK). 

f. suffusa Tutt, 1892. De vorm zonder een spoor van de roestrode kleur in het 
achterrandsveld van de voorvleugels is onder het moderne materiaal in elk geval 
gewoon en komt practisch overal onder de soort voor. Vaak is ook de rode kleur 
aan de wortel en in het middenveld gereduceerd, zodat de dieren er dan opvallend 
donker uitzien. 


Fot. J. HUIZENGA 
Fig. 52. Scoliopteryx libatrix L. Links ©, Hilversum, 29.IX.1937, e. 1.; rechts f. postnigres- 
cens nov., &, Ruurlo, 24.IX.1965 (holotype). 


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f. flavoinspersa nov. Grondkleur van voor- en achtervleugels dof grijsachtig 
bruin, bestuiving aan wortel en in middenveld van de voorvleugels niet rood- 
achtig, maar geelachtig. Deventer, 19, 30.VIII.1952, e. 1. (holotype, LUKKIEN). 


[Ground colour of fore and hind wings dull greyish brown; base and central area of the 
fore wings not dusted with reddish, but with yellowish.} 


f. postnigrescens nov. Achtervleugels duidelijk donkerder dan de voorvleugels, 
zwartachtig, alleen aan de wortel lichter. Zie fig. 52. Ruurlo, &, 24.1X.1965, e. I. 
(holotype, LUKKIEN). 


[Hind wings distinctly darker than the fore wings, blackish, only the base is paler.] 


f. impuncta Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren zonder de witte middenstip op de 
voorvleugels komen weinig voor. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Weesp (VAN SCHAIK); 
Nuenen (VERHAAK); Helmond (KNIPPENBERG). 

Dwergen. Schalkhaar (LUKKIEN) ; Amsterdamse Bos (PEERDEMAN) ; Eindhoven 
(VAN DER WOLF). 


Lygephila Billberg 


Lygephila pastinum Treitschke. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 126; Cat. VIII : (536). 
De in 1949 gegeven verbreiding is correct. De vlinder wordt maar zelden in flink 
aantal gevangen. Hij is nu van twee der waddeneilanden bekend. 


j j 


Fig. 53. Histogram van Lygephila pastinum Treitschke. 


Het hierbij afgebeelde histogram (fig. 53) laat zien, dat de hoofdvliegtijd in de 
laatste week van juni en in de eerste twee decaden van juli valt. De vroegste vangst 
is een exemplaar van 3 juni 1901 te Voorschoten (in Zoöl. Mus.). De vliegtijd 
van de eerste generatie eindigt in de eerste decade van augustus en de grenzen 
ervan worden nu: 3.VI—9.VIII. De zeer partiële tweede generatie kan in de 
derde decade van augustus en de eerste helft van september vliegen (20.VIII— 
11.IX, vers dier in 1959 te Montfort door MAASSEN, dus zeker is ook nog een 
latere datum mogelijk). Alleen in gunstige seizoenen is deze generatie, waarvan de 
vertegenwoordigers in de regel duidelijk kleiner zijn, te verwachten. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (Kooibosjes, langs sommige polderdijken, LEFFEF). 
Dr.: Veenhuizen. Ov.: Ootmarsum, Volthe, Saasveld (Molenven), Markelo, Abdij Sion, 
Tjoene, Deventer, Olt. Gdl.: Vaassen, Wiessel, Empe, Laag-Soeren; De Voorst, Wientjes- 
voort, Ruurlo, Hoog-Keppel; Slijk-Ewijk, Heteren. N.H.: Schoorl, Castricum, Bakkum. Z.H.: 


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Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (één exemplaar in 1960, BOGAARD), Nieuw-Helvoet, Hellevoetsluis, 
Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Westenschouwen, Kapelle, Cadzand. N.B.: Bergen op Zoom, Kampina, 
Boxtel, Best, Nederwetten, Eindhoven, Bergeijk, Helmond, Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis. Lbg.: 
Griendsveen, Sevenum, Moesel, Panheel, Sint Odiliënberg, Posterholt, Meijnweg, Montfort, 
Spaubeek, Heerlerbaan, Hulst, Simpelveld, Eijs, Wijlre, Kunrade, Colmond, Schin op Geul, 
Heer, Gronsveld, Camerig, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. pallida Tutt, 1892. Aalten (VAN GALEN); Hatert, 
Welterberg, Eijs (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. ludicra Haworth, 1809. Vrij gewoon onder de soort. 

f. impuncta Lempke, 1949. Eveneens vrij gewoon. 

f. confluens nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de niervlek en de zwarte stip op de 
plaats van de ronde vlek samengesmolten tot één grote wigvormige vlek. Plaat 5 
fig. 17. Aalten, &, 2.VII.1952 (holotype), plus een tweede uit het ei gekweekt 
& van 4.VII.1954 en een derde 4 van 1955 (VAN GALEN). Het feit, dat de 
vorm op dezelfde plaats in drie verschillende jaren te voorschijn komt, wijst er 
duidelijk op, dat hij erfelijk is. 

[Upper side fore wings: the reniform and the black point in the place of the orbicular 


united so as to form a single wedge-shaped spot. The form appeared in the same locality 
in three different years, a clear indication that it is hereditary. } 


Dwerg. Agelo (VAN DER MEULEN). 


Catephia Ochsenheimer 


Catephia alchymista Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 126; Cat. VIII: (536). 
Toen de tekst voor Cat. VIII werd samengesteld, was juist de bloeiperiode voor de 
soort begonnen, die in de loop van de vijftiger jaren en het allereerste begin van 
de zestiger jaren zijn hoogtepunt zou bereiken, maar die sinds 1962 (voorlopig?) 
weer voorbij is. Of deze achteruitgang van tijdelijke aard is, zullen we moeten 
afwachten. In elk geval worden nu nog slechts enkele exemplaren aangetroffen 
op dezelfde plaatsen, waar nog maar een paar jaar geleden tientallen gevonden 
konden worden. Overigens is dit niet zo verwonderlijk voor een soort, die hier 
de uiterste grens van zijn areaal bereikt en daardoor extra gevoelig zal zijn voor 
ongunstige factoren, waarbij we wel in de eerste plaats aan het klimaat zullen 
moeten denken. 

Het midden van Limburg is blijkbaar het meest ideale gebied voor de vlinder 
in ons land, waar het oosten van Noord-Brabant dan goed bij aansluit. In de gun- 
stigste periode reikte zijn areaal tot in Utrecht en Gelderland, maar uit deze pro- 
vincies zijn al jaren lang geen nieuwe vangsten meer gemeld. 

Uit het omringende gebied zijn vrijwel geen nieuwe gegevens bekend geworden, 
hoewel de bloeiperiode onmogelijk tot Nederland beperkt gebleven kan zijn. 
Een nog niet vermelde Belgische vindplaats is Lanaeken, vanwaar zich een exem- 
plaar in de collectie-Rijk te Maastricht bevindt. 

De vliegtijd kan tot half juli duren. De grenzen zijn nu: 27.IV—15.V1. 
Bovendien is een enkele maal een exemplaar van een zeer partiële tweede generatie 
in augustus gevangen: 11.VIII.1953 te Wageningen, augustus 1954 te Sevenum 
(beide in collectie-VAN DE Por). Dat we hier niet met late exemplaren van de 
normale generatie te doen hebben, bleek duidelijk uit een eikweek van Pijpers 


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in 1960. Alle poppen overwinterden, behalve één, die op 6.VIII de vlinder 
leverde. 


Vindplaatsen. Gdl.: Wageningen, 1953 (VAN DE PoL); Zutfen, 1954 (VISSER); 
Aalten, 1950 (VAN GALEN). Utr.: Zeist, 1951, 1960 (GORTER). N.B.: Uden, 1937 (Br. 
ANTHONIUS); Eindhoven, 1943 (NEIJTS). Lbg.: Arcen, 1953 (S. R. DiJKSTRA); Belfeld, 
1950 (Br. ANTHONIUS), 1958—1962 vrijwel alle jaren (diverse verzamelaars, soms ge- 
woon), 1965 slechts twee exemplaren (OTTENHEIJM); Reuver, 1959 (50 stuks! PIJPERS), 
1960 (OTTENHEIJM); Beesel, 1958 gewoon, 1959, 1960 (OTTENHEIJM); Sevenum, 1954 
(VAN DE Por); Haelen, 1961 (Zoöl. Mus.), Sint Odiliënberg, 1954 (LÜCKER); Posterholt, 
1954, 1958, 1960 (LÜCKER); Linne, 1959, vrij talrijk in 1961 (MAASSEN); Montfort, 1959 
(ruim 60 stuks! MAASSEN); Echt, 1959 (verschillende verzamelaars, soms gewoon), 1960 
(OTTENHEIJM), 1961 (vrij talrijk, MAASSEN), 1962 (OTTENHEIJM); Sint Joost, 1960 
(VAN AARTSEN); Stein, 1963 (Missiehuis). 


Variabiliteit. Deze is zeer gering. Sommige exemplaren zijn op de 
voorvleugels wat bonter getekend dan de meerderheid der exemplaren, maar een 
duidelijke afgrenzing van een bepaalde vorm is niet te geven. 


Laspeyria Germar 


Laspeyria flexula Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 130; Cat. VIII : (540). De in 
Cat. VIII gegeven verspreiding is goed. Van diverse plaatsen op de zandgronden 
wordt de vlinder als gewoon gemeld. In het Hafdistrict is hij tot nog toe vrijwel 
nergens aangetroffen. Opvallend zijn de vindplaatsen in het Fluviatiel District. 
Ook is flexula nu bekend van twee van de waddeneilanden. 

De vliegtijd kan wel een week eerder beginnen dan in 1949 bekend was. Ook 
de laatste datum schuift iets op. De grenzen zijn nu: 6.VI (in 1959 genoteerd 
door Lucas) tot 17.VIII (in 1955 te Apeldoorn, SOUTENDIJK). Heel zelden komt 
toch ook bij ons een exemplaar voor van een zeer partiële tweede generatie. Hier- 
toe moet een gaaf dier behoord hebben, dat GORTER in de warme zomer van 1947 
op 15 september te Zeist ving. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (vrij gewoon, LEFFEF), Vlieland (CAMPING), 
Beetsterzwaag, Wijnjeterp, Oosterwolde, Fochtelo, Appelscha, Wolvega, Oudemirdum. Gr.: 
Glimmen, Noordlaren. Dr.: Roden, Norg, Westervelde, Vries, Schipborg, Zuidlaren, Eext, 
Schoonlo (zeer gewoon, LEFFEF), Odoorn, Vledder. Ov.: Denekamp, Volthe, Vasse, Reutum, 
Saasveld (Molenven), Nijverdal, Markelo, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Wesepe, Rechteren, Vol- 
lenhove. Gdl.: Harderwijk, Hulshorst, Vierhouten, Tongeren, Epe, Heerde, Wiessel, Hoog- 
Soeren, Assel, Uchelen, Beekbergen, Laag-Soeren, Imbosch, Dabbelo, Hoenderlo, Otterlo, 
Kootwijk, Garderbroek, Lunteren, Ede; Gorssel, Eefde, Almen, Ruurlo, Woold, Hoog-Keppel, 
Loerbeek; Berg en Dal, Groesbeek, Geldermalsen. Utr.: Veenendaal, Amersfoort. N.H.: 
Blaricum, Naardermeer, Schoorl, Bergen, Castricum, Heemskerk, Heemstede, Aerdenhout. 
Z.H.: Leiden, Oegstgeest, Meijendel, Den Haag, Arkel, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht 
(één exemplaar in 1958), Oostvoorne, Rockanje, Hellevoetsluis, Ouddorp. Zl: Burgh, 
Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle. N.B.: Strijbeek, Galder, Dorst, Rovert (Hilvaren- 
beek), Nieuwkuik, Sint Michielsgestel, Kampina, Boxtel, Best, Oirschot, Vessem, Bergeijk, 
Schaft, Eindhoven, Nuenen, Valkenswaard, Someren, Deurne, Helenaveen, Sint Anthonis, 
Gassel. Lbg.: Geijsteren, Sevenum, Griendsveen (zeer talrijk, LEFFEF), Roggel, de Hamert, 
Velden, Swalmen, Heel, Meijnweg, Vlodrop, Montfort, Stein, Brunssum, Chèvremont, 
Geulem, Heer, Gronsveld (gewoon, LEFFEF), Mechelen, Epen, Holset, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. obscura Lempke, 1949. Niet zeldzaam, van vrij veel 
vindplaatsen bekend. 


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f. grisea Lempke, 1949. Gewoon. 

f. impuncta Lempke, 1949. De vorm zonder de beide zwarte punten op de 
voorvleugels is ongetwijfeld een zeldzaamheid. Ik zag geen nieuwe exemplaren 
ervan, alleen een trans. met nauwelijks zichtbaar stipje van Zeist (GORTER). 

f. signata Lempke, 1949. Hetzelfde geldt voor deze vorm: geen nieuwe 
vangsten. 

Dwergen. Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH). 


Colobochyla Hübner 


Colobochyla salicalis Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 131; Cat. VIII: (541). 
De vlinder is vooral verbreid in het zuiden en midden van Limburg en de ooste- 
lijke helft van Noord-Brabant en is daarnaast ook aangetroffen op verschillende 
plaatsen in Gelderland (vooral in de Achterhoek) en in Twente. In het eerstge- 
noemde gebied is hij plaatselijk gewoon, zoals uit de recente inventarisaties voor 
het Rivon door LEFFEF is gebleken. Hij vond de rupsen in de Peel op Populus 
tremula! 

In het omringende gebied is salicalis nu ook bekend van het Deense eiland 
Lolland en van enkele plaatsen in Sleeswijk-Holstein en aangrenzend gebied (zie 
Mitt. faun. Arb.gemeinsch. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg u. Lübeck N.F. 4 : 52, 
1951; 5 : 44, 1952). Vlak over de grens bij Sittard ving CLAASSENS de vlinder in 
1954 te Susterseel. 

Er is slechts één generatie, die van de tweede helft van mei tot begin augustus 
kan voorkomen (20.V—1.VIII). De hoofdvliegtijd ligt tussen begin juni en 
de eerste helft van juli, al naar gelang het seizoen. 

Vindplaatsen. Ov.: Volthe, 1958 (VAN DER MEULEN); Lemselo, 1945 (KLEINJAN); 
Saasveld (Molenven), 1957, 1959 (KNOOP, VAN DER MEULEN). Gdl.: Apeldoorn, 1952 
(Lucas); Winterswijk, 1956 (VAN DE Por); Aalten, 1956, 1958 (VAN GALEN); Hoog- 
Keppel (Ulenpas), 1956 (LEFFEF). N.B.: Boxtel, 1964 (VERHAAK), 1965 (AUKEMA); Best, 
1960 (VAN AARTSEN), 1962 (TER LAAG); Nederwetten, 1966 (v. D. WOLF); Nuenen, 
weer in 1947 en volgende jaren (NEIJTS); Deurne, weer in 1955 en volgende jaren (NIES); 
Helenaveen, 1962 (LEFFEF). Lbg.: Griendsveen, 1963, 1964, gewoon (LEFFEF); Sevenum, 
1963, 1964 (idem); Roggel, 1965 (PEERDEMAN); De Hamert, 1966, gewoon (diverse ver- 
zamelaars); Velden, 1965 (OTTENHEIJM); Tegelen, 1963 (idem); Belfeld, 1964 (Cox); 
Swalmen, 1951 en volgende jaren (diverse verzamelaars); Meijnweg, 1966 (MAASSEN c. s.); 
Vlodrop (LÜCKER); Stein, 1931, 1963 (Missiehuis); Brunssum, weer in 1937, 1947 en 
volgende jaren (diverse verzamelaars); Gronsveld, 1960, 1961 in aantal (LEFFEF). 


Parascotia Hübner 


Parascotia fuliginaria L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 127; Cat. VIII : (537). Uit de 
combinatie van de beide lijsten van vindplaatsen blijkt, dat de vlinder vooral ver- 
breid is in de zandstreken van het oosten en het zuiden van het land. In het Haf- 


district ontbreekt hij vrijwel volkomen, terwijl hij in het Duindistrict slechts zeer 


plaatselijk is aangetroffen. Opvallend zijn de vondst op één van de waddeneilan- 
den en de vindplaatsen in het westelijk deel van het Fluviatiel District. Over het 
algemeen is het dier vrij schaars. 

De vliegtijd kan iets vroeger beginnen dan in 1949 bekend was en voortduren 
tot eind augustus (26.VIII.1948 te Aalten, VAN GALEN, 28.VIII.1941 te Benne- 


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kom, VAN DE Por), zodat de uiterste data nu worden: 23.VI (in 1947 te Ben- 
nekom, VAN DE Por) tot 28.VIII. Bovendien komen in biezonder gunstige 
seizoenen soms enkele exemplaren voor, die tot een partiële tweede generatie 
moeten behoren: 3.IX.1956, vers exemplaar te Aalten (VAN GALEN), 5.IX.1959, 
vers klein & te Montfort (MAASSEN), 3.X.1956 een exemplaar te Aalten (VAN 
GALEN). 

In Ent. Ber. 25 : 152 (1965) geeft ELFFERICH een beschrijving van een ab ovo- 
kweek met foto's van de verschillende stadia. De grote moeilijkheid is het juiste 
vochtgehalte van de lucht, waarbij de Polyporus (of Polysticcus, de twee hoofd- 
voedselplanten) niet mag verschrompelen, maar ook niet mag schimmelen. Een 
uitvoerig artikel over de biologie (en de verspreiding in Groot-Brittannië) publi- 
ceerde H. D. SWAIN in Ent. Gazette 1 : 186—200 (1950). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (alleen enkele exemplaren in West, LEFFEF), 
Boornbergum, Wijnjeterp, Oosterwolde, Fochtelo, Oudemirdum. Dr.: Peize, Eelde, Een, 
Zuidlaren, Schoonlo (hier gewoon door de vochtige bossen met veel fungi, LEFFEF). Ov.: 
Denekamp, Volthe, Albergen, Hellendoorn, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Deventer. Gdl.: Garderbroek, 
Ermelo, Tongeren, Vaassen, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Beekbergen, Hoenderlo, Wolfheze, 
Wageningen, Lunteren; Gorssel, Warnsveld, Ruurlo, Neede, Woold, Didam. Utr.: Ameron- 
gen, Doorn, Amersfoort, Soesterberg, Hollandse Rading, Botshol. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, Bussum, 
Overveen. Z.H.: Den Haag, Staelduin, Schelluinen, Arkel, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (vrij 
gewoon), Oostvoorne. Zl.: Haamstede, Westenschouwen. N.B.: Bergen op Zoom, Ulvenhout, 
Dorst, Sint Michielsgestel, Vessem, Best, Acht, Schaft, Nuenen, Aarle-Rixtel, Helenaveen. 
Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, Moesel, Swalmen, Sint Odiliënberg, Montfort, Stein, Amsten- 
rade, Schinnen, Brunssum, Heerlerbaan, Klimmen, Valkenburg, Gronsveld (gewoon, LEFFEF), 
Epen, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. variegata Lempke, 1949. Een exemplaar van de bonte 
vorm met licht achterrandsveld van de voorvleugels werd nog gevangen te Zeist 
(GORTER). Een fraai bont exemplaar van Aarle-Rixtel (PEERDEMAN) is afgebeeld 
op plaat 7, fig. 12. 

f. nigra nov. Zeer donkere vorm: behalve de dwarslijnen en de lichte vlek bij 
de binnenrandshoek van de achtervleugels ontbreekt alle lichte tekening. Zeist, 4, 
12.VII.1956 (GORTER); Montfort, 4, 1963 (MAASSEN). 


[Very dark form; with the exception of the transverse lines and the pale spot at the anal 
angle of the hind wings all pale markings are absent. 

(EsPER figures a fuliginaria with black ground colour under the name of Geometra carbo- 
naria ({1799], Schmetterl. in Abb. 5, pl. 32, fig. 3—5) and describes it under the name of 
Phalaena Geometra carbonaria (l. c.: 182, [1799]}). In both cases the name is preoccupied, 
so that it cannot be used to designate this dark form).] 


Dwergen. Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Lunteren (BRANGER); Aalten (VAN GA- 
LEN); Amerongen, Slijk-Ewijk (VAN DE Por); ’s-Graveland (Mus. Zaandam); 
Acht (VERHAAK). 


Epizeuxis Hübner 


Epizeuxis calvaria Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 132; Cat. VIII : (542). Geen 
enkele nieuwe vangst, noch in ons land, noch in de omringende gebieden. 


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Phytometra Haworth 


Phytometra viridaria Clerck. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 128; Cat. VIII: (538). 
De voedselplant van de rups, de vleugeltjesbloem (Polygala vulgaris L.), groeit 
volgens de flora van HEIMANS, HEINSIUS en THIJSSE in de duinen, op lichte 
plaatsen in bossen en langs beschaduwde zandwegen en daardoor is de verbreiding 
van de vlinder in ons land ook tot dergelijke terreinen beperkt. Een enkele Zuid- 
limburgse vindplaats zou er op kunnen wijzen, dat de rups daar op de alleen in 
dat gebied voorkomende Polygala comosa leeft. Het gewoonst is viridaria in de 
duinen, vooral op enkele der waddeneilanden. Hier is de soort nu alleen nog niet 
op Texel en Rottum aangetroffen. In het binnenland is hij lokaal en vrij schaars. 


Fig. 54. Histogram van Phytometra viridaria Clerck. 


De vangdata van alle exemplaren, die ik kon achterhalen, zijn in het histogram 
(fig. 54) verwerkt. Daaruit blijkt duidelijk, dat de soort twee generaties heeft. De 
eerste kan al omstreeks half april verschijnen, maar de hoofdvliegtijd valt in de 
tweede en derde decade van mei met enkele nakomers in de eerste en tweede 
decade van juni. De uiterste data ervan zijn nu: 17.1V—17.VI. 

De tweede generatie, die gewoner is, begint eind juni te vliegen. De hoofd- 
vliegtijd ervan valt in juli en begin augustus en nakomers rekken het soms tot de 
laatste week van augustus. De uiterste data zijn nu: 30.VI—27.VUI. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Schiermonnikoog (VAN MINNEN), Terschelling (talrijk op de 
Bosplaat in 1957, LEFFEF), Vlieland (CAMPING). Dr.: Veenhuizen, Uffelte, Havelte. Ov.: 
Almelo. Gdl.: Tongeren, Hoge Veluwe; Ruurlo, Haaksbergen. N.H.: Bergen, Egmond aan 
Zee, Castricum, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Katwijk, Oostvoorne, Hellevoetsluis. Zl.: Burgh, Haam- 
stede, Valkenisse, Cadzand. N.B.: Putte, Drunen, Someren. Lbg.: Griendsveen, Sevenum, 
Swalmen, Montfort, Meerssen. 


Variabiliteit. f. aenea Hübner, [1803—1808}. Apeldoorn, Egmond 
aan Zee, Domburg (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. reducta Lempke, 1949. Aalten (Zoöl. Mus.); Meijendel, Oostvoorne (Lu- 
CAS). 

f. ljungdahli Nordström, 1940. Niet zeldzaam: Veenhuizen, Epe, Vogelen- 
zang, Putte (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. fusca Tutt, 1892. Overal onder de soort. 

f. semipurpurea Kiefer, 1941. Donderen, Brunssum (VAN WISSELINGH). 


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Rivula Guenée 


Rivula sericealis Scopoli. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 129; Cat. VIII: (539). 
CAMPING trof de vlinder ook op Vlieland aan, zodat hij nu van drie van de 
waddeneilanden bekend is. Overigens is niets biezonders over de verspreiding te 
vermelden. 

De vliegtijd kan al aan het begin van de derde decade van mei beginnen. De 
vroegste datum is nu: 21.V, in 1953 te Bennekom (VAN DE POL). In gunstige 
herfsten kan de vlinder nog tot in de tweede helft van oktober voorkomen en 
vliegt dan ongetwijfeld in een partiéle derde generatie, daar deze late exemplaren 
verse dieren zijn. Tweede en derde generatie gaan dan zonder grens in elkaar 
over, zoals blijkt uit de volgende waarnemingen van Lucas: 3.X.1959 een afge- 
vlogen exemplaar (laatste datum van de tweede generatie), maar 10.X.1959 een 
vers dier; ook 3.X.1962. Andere late data zijn: 11.X.1947 te Aerdenhout (VAN 
WISSELINGH), 13.X.1953 een vers exemplaar te Bennekom (VAN DE POL), 
17.X.1959 te Hendik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD), 20.X.1958 te Stein (slotdatum 
van de derde generatie, collectie Missiehuis). 

Variabiliteit. f. expressa Lempke, 1949. De vorm met twee duidelijke 
dwarsliinen werd nog aangetroffen te: Glimmen, Wageningen, Slijk-Ewijk, Gassel 
(VAN DE Por); Wiessel, Halfweg, Boxtel (Zoöl. Mus.); Aerdenhout (VAN WIs- 
SELING); Nederwetten (VAN DER WOLF). 

f. lutea Lempke, 1949. De vorm met eenkleurig gele voorvleugels, alleen ge- 
tekend met de donkere middenstip, komt vrij verbreid onder de soort voor, zodat 
geen vindplaatsen opgesomd behoeven te worden. 

f. limbata Spuler, 1907. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van exemplaren met verdonkerde 
achterrand zijn: Apeldoorn, Hilversum, Kortenhoef, Halfweg, Woerdense Verlaat 
(Zoöl. Mus.); Delfzijl, Hatert, Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Oostvoorne 
(Lucas). Blijkbaar niet zeldzaam. 

f. signata Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Amsterdamse Bos, Sint Antho- 
nis (PEERDEMAN). 

f. oenipontana Hellweger, 1922. Niet al te zeldzaam: Apeldoorn, Eefde, Half- 
weg, Best (Zoöl. Mus.) ; Bennekom, Groessen, Horst (VAN DE Por); Aerdenhout, 
Haarlem (VAN WISSELINGH); Acht (VERHAAK); Rotterdam (VAN DER AA). 


HYPENINAE 


Herminia Latreille 


Herminia barbalis Clerck. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 137; Cat. VIII : (547). Geen 
nieuwe gegevens over de verspreiding, wat dus ook inhoudt, dat de vlinder nog 
niet op de waddeneilanden is aangetroffen. 

De vliegtijd kan iets eerder beginnen dan in 1949 bekend was en later eindigen. 
De uiterste data zijn nu: 20.V—14.VII. Op de vroege datum werd in 1919 te 
Helmond een exemplaar gevangen (collectie-KNIPPENBERG), terwijl de laatste 
in 1956 door Lucas genoteerd werd. 

Variabiliteit. f. signata Lempke, 1949. Opvallend scherp getekende 


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exemplaren werden nog aangetroffen te: Wiessel (Zoöl. Mus.); Arnhem (VAN 
WISSELINGH). 

f. demaculata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren zonder middencelvlek zijn blijkbaar 
niet zo zeldzaam. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Imbosch, Arnhem (VAN WISSELINGH) ; 
Nijmegen, Soest, Valkenburg (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. obsoleta Lempke, 1949. Zwak getekende exemplaren werden nog bekend 
van: Apeldoorn, Renkum, Eemnes, Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.); Harskamp, Hoen- 
derlo (Lucas); Bennekom (VAN DE POL); Gorssel (WILMINK); Heemstede 
(LEEFMANS) ; Aerdenhout, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH); Geulem (Landb. Hschool). 

f. approximata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren, waarbij de eerste en de tweede 
dwarslijn dicht bij elkaar staan, werden aangetroffen te Beetsterzwaag (Landb. 
Hschool); Arnhem, Nijmegen, Oisterwijk (Zoöl. Mus.); Eindhoven (NEIJTS). 

f. bilineata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de golfliin ontbreekt. Eindhoven, 
&, 26.V.1950 (holotype, NEIJTS). 


[Upper side fore wings: the submarginal line is absent.] 


Dwergen. Winterswijk, Oud-Leusden (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Chytolita Grote 


Chytolita cribrumalis Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 135; Cat. VIII: (545). 
Wel in hoofdzaak een soort van moerassige plaatsen, onverschillig op welke 
grondsoort die zich bevinden en daardoor in het Hafdistrict vrijwel beperkt tot 
de plassengebieden. Op het ogenblik nog slechts van één van de waddeneilanden 
bekend. 

De vliegtijd kan zowel vroeger beginnen als later eindigen dan in 1949 bekend 
was. De uiterste data zijn nu: 4.VI (in 1959, Lucas) tot 22.VIII (in 1959 te 
Glimmen, VAN DE Por). 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling (plaatselijk zeer gewoon: Dodemanskisten, Kroon- 
polders, Kooibosjes, Hoornerkooi, LEFFEF), Ternaard, Eernewoude, Wolvega, Nijetrijne 
(gewoon, LEFFEF), Oudemirdum. Gr.: Glimmen. Dr.: Zuidlaren, Schoonlo. Ov.: Vriezen- 
veen, Boetelerveld (bij Raalte), Diepenveen, Colmschate, Kalenberg. Gdl.: Teuge, Empe, 
Klarenbeek (gewoon in het Polveen, LEFFEF), Leuvenheim, Gerritsfles, Kootwijkerveen, 
Wageningen; Hoog-Keppel, Lobith; Slijk-Ewijk, Buren. Utr.: Zegveld. N.H.: Egmond aan 
Zee, Heemskerk, Naardermeer, Halfweg, Zaandam, Hoorn, Kennemerduin, Aerdenhout. 
Z.H.: Meijendel, Staelduin, Asperen, Arkel, Schelluinen, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (gewoon 
geweest, de laatste jaren niet meer), Oostvoorne, Hellevoetsluis, Melissant, Ouddorp. ZI.: 
Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle, Zoutelande, Valkenisse, Sloedam, Cad- 
zand. N.B.: Sint Michielsgestel, Kampina, Best, Valkenswaard, Helenaveen, Gassel. Lbg.: 
Griendsveen (gewoon, LEFFEF), Sevenum, Moesel, Tegelen, Swalmen, Montfort, Gronsveld, 
Vijlen. 

Variabiliteit. f. nigrostriata Urbahn, 1939. Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht 
(Lucas). 

f. tangens Lempke, 1949. Een nieuwe vindplaats van deze zeldzame vorm is 
Valkenisse (VAN AARTSEN leg., Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. reducta Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren zonder de rij streepjes op de plaats van 
de tweede dwarslijn werden nog aangetroffen te: Kortenhoef (Zoöl. Mus.); 
Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH). 


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f. modestalis Boldt, 1928. Exemplaren, waarbij op de voorvleugels alleen de 
middenstip aanwezig is, werden nog gevangen op Terschelling (VAN WISSELINGH) 
en te Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD). 

f. grisescens Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van de vorm met grijsachtige 
grondkleur zijn: Terschelling (VAN WissELINGH); Malden, Zoutelande, Valke- 
nisse, Cadzand (Zoöl. Mus.); Kampina, Deurne (Lucas). Blijkbaar vrij gewoon. 

f. postmaculata nov. Bovenzijde achtervleugels: voor de achterrand een door- 
lopende rij donkere vlekken. Aerdenhout, 4, 9.VII.1959 (holotype), Wassenaar, 
&, 1939 (VAN WISSELINGH). 


[Upper side hind wings: a subterminal continuous row of dark spots. } 


Dwerg. Heemstede (VAN DE POL). 
Zanclognatha Lederer 


Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Treitschke. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 133; Cat. VIII : 
(543). De in 1949 aangegeven verbreiding is wel goed. Er zijn nu wat meer vind- 
plaatsen in het lage deel van het land bekend geworden, maar de vlinder is hier 
toch niet zo verbreid als op de zandgronden. Hij is nu van twee der waddeneilan- 
den bekend. 

De eerste generatie kan al in de tweede helft van mei beginnen te vliegen. De 
grenzen ervan worden nu: 19.V (in 1952 te Bennekom waargenomen, VAN DE 
Por) tot 11.VIII. Geen correctie op de vliegtijd van de tweede generatie. 

Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling, Vlieland, Sexbierum, Leeuwarden, Wijnjeterp, 
Oosterwolde, Nijetrijne, Oudemirdum, Rijs, Tjerkwerd. Gr.: Delfzijl, Slochteren, Veendam. 
Dr.: Roden, Westervelde, Veenhuizen, Schipborg, Zuidlaren, Eext, Grollo, Wijster, Kralo, 
Vledder. Ov.: Denekamp, Volthe, Albergen, Saasveld (Molenven), Nijverdal, Balkbrug, 
Rechteren, Dalfsen, Raalte, Abdij Sion, Colmschate. Gdl.: Garderbroek, Kootwijk, Hoen- 
derlo, Heerde, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Teuge, Uchelen, Beekbergen, Empe, Laag- 
Soeren, Wageningen, Lunteren; Eefde, Verwolde, Ruurlo, Vorden, Aalten; Slijk-Ewijk. Utr.: 
Utrecht, Botshol. N.H.: Weesp, Diemen, Halfweg, Zaandam, Beemster, Oosthuizen, Hoorn, 
Schoorl, Heemskerk, Heemstede, Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Noorden, Katwijk, Wassenaar, Voor- 
schoten, Leidschendam, Den Haag, Staelduin, Rotterdam, Arkel, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 
Oostvoorne, Hellevoetsluis, Middelharnis, Ouddorp. Zl.: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschou- 
wen, Oostkapelle, Valkenisse, Goes, Cadzand. N.B.: Waalwijk, Udenhout, Sint Michiels- 
gestel, Oirschot, Vessem, Geldrop, Valkenswaard, Heeze, Helmond, Helenaveen. Lbg.: 
Griendsveen, Sevenum, Moesel, Roggel, de Hamert, Baarlo, Swalmen, Meijnweg, Stein, 
Heerlerbaan, Chèvremont, Kerkrade, Bunde, Gronsveld, Epen, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. obscura Lempke, 1949. Vooral bij het 9 gewoon. 
f. latelineata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: de eerste en de tweede dwarslijn 
duidelijk verbreed. Stein, &, 18.VI.1961 (holotype, collectie-Missiehuis). 


[Upper side fore wings: antemedian and postmedian distinctly broadened.} 


f. delineata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren zonder de eerste en tweede dwarslijn 
zijn zeldzaamheden. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Apeldoorn (Zoöl. Mus.); Amsterdam 
(PEERDEMAN) ; Nuenen (NEIJTS). 

f. bidentalis Heinemann, 1859. De vorm blijkt helemaal niet zo zeldzaam te 
zijn als ik in 1949 dacht. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Putten, Hilversum, Amsterdam, 
Halfweg, Den Haag (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Dwergen. Apeldoorn, Bussum, Rotterdam, Breda (Zoöl. Mus.). 


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Zanclognatha lunalis Scopoli, 1763 (tarsiplumalis Hübner, [1796}). Tijdschr. 
Entom. 90 : 132; Cat. VIII : (542). De vlinder behoort zonder twijfel tot onze 
lokale soorten, wat wel heel duidelijk gedemonstreerd wordt door het geringe 
aantal nieuwe vindplaatsen. Behalve op de zandgronden komt hij ook in het 
Krijtdistrict voor, maar dan toch wel bij voorkeur in bosachtig terrein. 

Ons land ligt in het grensgebied van het areaal. Uit Denemarken is slechts één 
9 bekend, dat in 1946 op Falster gevangen werd. In het noordwesten van Duits- 
land en op de Britse eilanden komt de soort niet voor. 

Een zeer kleine correctie op de vliegtijd, waarvan de uiterste data nu worden: 
3. VI—13.VIII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Leeuwarden, Ternaar, Beetsterzwaag, Wolvega. Ov.: Volthe, 
Rectum. Gdl.: Wiessel. Utr.: Amerongen, Maarsseveen. N.H.: Aerdenhout. Z.H.: Oegstgeest, 
Den Haag. Zl: Burgh, Haamstede, Westenschouwen. Lbg.: Sevenum, Epen, Vijlen. 


Variabiliteit. f. brunnescens Lempke, 1949. De lichtere vorm met 
bruinere grondkleur werd nog aangetroffen te: Apeldoorn, Bentveld, Aerdenhout 
(VAN WISSELINGH). 


Zanclognatha tarsicrinalis Knoch. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 133; Cat. VIII : (543). 
De in 1949 gegeven verbreiding is goed. Uit de combinatie van beide lijsten van 
vindplaatsen blijkt duidelijk, dat de soort het meest verbreid is in het zuiden en 
midden van Limburg. Meer noordelijk wordt hij steeds zeldzamer, hoewel hij nu 
toch ook uit Friesland en Drente bekend geworden is. In het Duindistrict komt de 
vlinder blijkbaar slechts zeer spaarzaam voor. De vindplaats Hilversum moet 
vervallen (onjuiste determinatie). 

Ons land ligt aan de noordgrens van het areaal. Pas in 1918 werd de soort voor 
het eerst in Denemarken gevonden. Hij is er nu bekend van Lolland, Falster, Mon 
en Bornholm. Eerst na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd tarsicrinalis in Holstein, bij 
Hamburg en in Oldenburg aangetroffen, terwijl in 1965 voor het eerst een exem- 
plaar op de Britse eilanden werd gevangen, nl. in Suffolk (zie E. C. PELHAM- 
CLINTON, Ent. Gazette 17 : 3—5, plaat 1 fig. 1, 1966). 

De vliegtijd kan reeds eind mei beginnen en wordt nu: 30.V (in 1946 te Agelo, 
KNoop) tot 5.VIII. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Beetsterzwaag. Dr.: Eext. Ov.: Denekamp, Volthe, Agelo, Reu- 
tum, Weerselo, Saasveld (Molenven), Colmschate. Gdl.: Bennekom; Eefde, Ratum, Aalten. 
N.H.: Overveen. ZI.: Oostkapelle. N B.: Bergen op Zoom, Chaam, Oosterhout, Sint Michiels- 
gestel, Haaren, Best, Acht, Eindhoven, Nederwetten, Nuenen, Valkenswaard, Someren. Lbg.: 
Geijsteren, Moesel, Tegelen, Steijl, Swalmen, Maalbroek, Meijnweg, Montfort, Stein, Amsten- 
rade, Schinveld, Heerlerbaan, Chévremont, Geulem, Berg, Bunde, Kannerbos, Gronsveld, 
Vijlen. 

Variabiliteit. f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels donker- 
grijs. Ratum, ¢, 1962 (PEERDEMAN); Gronsveld, 2, 23.VI.1936 (holotype, VAN 
WISSELINGH). 


{Ground colour of the fore wings dark grey. ] 


f. diluta Lempke, 1949. Deze lichte vorm werd nog bekend van Hatert (VAN 
WISSELINGH). 


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Zanclognatha grisealis Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 134; Cat. VIII : (544). 
In het Waddendistrict is de vlinder nu bekend geworden van Terschelling (enkele 
exemplaren, LEFFEF). Ook werd hij nog op een paar plaatsen buiten de zand- 
gronden aangetroffen: Sexbierum (STOBBE, 1963 en 1964, mogelijk zwervers van 
Terschelling), Heteren en Melissant (HUISMAN), Amsterdamse Bos (Zoöl. Mus.), 
Woerdense Verlaat (1960, VAN AARTSEN), Leiden (Lucas), Rotterdam (Kra- 
lingerhout, VAN DER AA), Bolnes (gewoon !), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (BOGAARD). 

De eerste generatie kan iets vroeger beginnen te vliegen dan in 1949 bekend 
was: 17.V (in 1959 genoteerd door Lucas), terwijl de tweede tot in oktober kan 
doorvliegen (7.X.1962, VAN AARTSEN, ook 3.X.1962, Lucas). LEFFEF heeft 
deze tweede generatie geregeld van 1951 tot 1958 te Apeldoorn en Wiessel waar- 
genomen. Gemiddeld zijn de exemplaren ervan kleiner dan die van de eerste. 

Variabiliteit. f. clara Lempke, 1949. Deze lichtere vorm komt wel op 
de meeste plaatsen onder de soort voor, maar is niet gewoon. 

f. albescens nov. Grondkleur van lichaam en vleugels witgrijs. Zeist, 9, juli 
1939 (holotype, GORTER). 


[Ground colour of body and wings whitish-grey.] 


f. obscura nov. Voorvleugels opvallend verdonkerd: donker bruingrijs tot 
zwartgrijs, ook de achtervleugels en het lichaam donkerder dan bij typische exem- 
plaren. Alleen onder modern materiaal aangetroffen, zowel bij het & als bij het 
9. Eext, Amsterdamse Bos, Geulem, Vijlen (Zoöl. Mus.); Ruurlo (LUKKIEN); 
Bergeijk (VAN WISSELINGH); Deurne (Nies); Heerlerbaan (LUKKIEN). 

Holotype: & van Vijlen, 24.VI.1962, in de collectie van het Zoöl. Mus. 


[Fore wings strikingly darkened: dark brown-grey to black-grey, hind wings and body also 
darker than with typical specimens. In both sexes, but only with modern material} 


Dwerg. Valkenisse (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Trisateles Tams 


Trisateles emortualis Schiff. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 132; Cat. VIN: (542). 
De vlinder komt in hoofdzaak op de zandgronden en in het Krijtdistrict voor, 
vooral in bosachtig terrein. Hij is nu ook van twee van de waddeneilanden bekend. 
Plaatselijk kan hij gewoon zijn, wat vooral gebleken is door het faunistische onder- 
zoek van het Rivon, waarvan LEFFEF mij de resultaten meedeelde. Opmerkingen 
achter sommige vindplaatsen over de mate van voorkomen zonder verdere aan- 
duiding zijn van hem afkomstig. De vangst op de ene plaats in het Fluviatiel 
District zal wel van een zwerver geweest zijn. 

Merkwaardig is de sterke achteruitgang van de soort in Groot-Brittannié. De 
laatste vangst dateerde daar uit 1859. Pas in 1962 werden weer vijf exemplaren 
in Buckinghamshire gevangen (Proc. Trans. South London ent. nat. Hist. Soc. 
1962 : 35, 1963). 

De laatste zekere datum van de eerste generatie is nu 21.VII (in 1958, Missie- 
huis Stein), die van de tweede 7.IX (LEFFEF), terwijl een exceptioneel laat exem- 
plaar op 4 oktober 1950 te Brunssum werd gevangen (DELNOYE). De vliegtijden 
worden nu dus: generatie I van 18.V—21.VII en generatie II van 23.VII—4.X. 


296 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 (946) 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Schiermonnikoog (STOBBE), Terschelling (Rivon), Beetster- 
zwaag, Oosterwolde, Oudemirdum. Dr.: Eext, Schoonlo (zeer veel). Ov.: Denekamp, Saas- 
veld (Molenven), Ommen, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Deventer, Olst. Gdl.: Hulshorst, Epe, 
Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren (gewoon, ook op smeer), Assel, Teuge (enkele), Uchelen, De Steeg, 
Hoenderlo (zeer gewoon) Harskamp, Kootwijk, Kootwijkerveen, Lunteren; Bekendelle, 
Hoog-Keppel, Loerbeek, Berg en Dal. Utr.: Amerongen, Bilthoven. N.H.: ’s-Graveland, 
Schoorl, Overveen (gewoon), Heemstede. Z.H.: Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (1963 en 1964 telkens 
één exemplaar, BOGAARD). Zl.: Haamstede, Westenschouwen, Oostkapelle. N.B.: Bergen op 
Zoom, Wouw, Strijbeek, Eindhoven, Nuenen. Lbg.: Griendsveen (zeer veel), Sevenum, Arcen, 
Tegelen, Swalmen, Stein, Brunssum, Chèvremont, Eijs, Cadier, Kannerbos, Gronsveld (vrij 
veel), Eperheide, Epen, Bissen, Vijlen (vrij veel), Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. Dwerg. Eperheide (Zoöl. Mus.). Bovendien zijn de exem- 
plaren van de (partiële) tweede generatie over het algemeen wat kleiner dan die 
van de eerste, zonder evenwel echte dwergen te worden. 


Paracolax Hübner 


Paracolax derivalis Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 136; Cat. VIII: (546). 
Slechts een enkele vangst, blijkbaar van een zwerver, is bekend geworden buiten 
de in 1949 aangegeven biotopen. De vlinder is nu aangetroffen op twee van de 
waddeneilanden. 

De vliegtijd kan tot eind augustus duren. De grenzen ervan worden nu: 16.VI— 
28.VIII. De laatste datum werd in 1955 te Epen genoteerd door VAN WISSE- 
LINGH. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr: Terschelling, Vlieland, Eernewoude, Duurswoude, Wijnjeterp, 
Oosterwolde, Fochtelo, Appelscha, Wolvega, Nijemirdum. Gr.: Sellingerbeetse. Dr.: Wes- 
tervelde, Veenhuizen, Schoonlo, Odoorn, Hooghalen, Wijster, Havelte. Ov.: Volthe, Saas- 
veld (Molenven), Almelo, Nijverdal, Holten, Abdij Sion, Frieswijk, Colmschate, Deventer. 
Gdl.: Garderbroek, Ermelo, Harderwijk, Hulshorst, Nunspeet, Vierhouten, Wezep, Tongeren, 
Epe, Heerde, Wiessel, Beekbergen, Eerbeek, Kemperberg, Otterlo, Wageningen, Bennekom; 
Gorssel, Eefde, Harfsen, Ruurlo, Vorden, Loerbeek, Aerdt, Ubbergen, Slijk-Ewijk. Utr.: 
Grebbe, Utrecht, Zeist, Bilthoven, Soesterberg. N.H.: Blaricum, Huizen, Middelie (een afge- 
vlogen exemplaar in 1949, DE Boer), Groet, Schoorl, Bakkum, Heemskerk, Heemstede. 
Z.H.: Leiden, Meijendel, Oostvoorne. Zl.: Oostkapelle, Domburg, Goes. N.B.: Dorst, Vught, 
Sint Michielsgestel, Best, Oirschot, Eindhoven, Someren, Sint Anthonis, Mill. Lbg.: Milsbeek, 
Arcen, Geijsteren, Sevenum, Griendsveen, Baarlo, Swalmen, Schurenberg, Kannerbos, Rijck- 
holt, Epen, Vijlen. 

Variabiliteit. f. delicata Dannehl, 1925. Nieuwe vindplaatsen van deze 
lichte vorm zonder donkere bestuiving op de vleugels zijn: Milligen, Aerdenhout, 
Zandvoort, Epen (VAN WISSELINGH); Oostkapelle (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. suffusa Lempke, 1949. Als in 1949 aangegeven. 

f. latelineata Lempke, 1949. Exemplaren met opvallend verdikte dwarslijnen 
(niet zelden alleen de tweede) werden nog aangetroffen te: Zeist (GORTER); 
Overveen (VAN WISSELINGH); Heemstede (VAN DE Por); Wassenaar (Zoöl. 
Mus.); Geijsteren (NEIJTS); Swalmen (LÜCKER); Roggel (PEERDEMAN); Epen 
(BERGMAN). Blijkbaar niet zeldzaam. 

f. fangalis Dannehl, 1925. De vorm met de rij donkere vlekken voor de ach- 
terrand van de voorvleugels werd nog aangetroffen te: Ruurlo (LUKKIEN); Zeist 
(GORTER); Wageningen (VAN DE Por); Den Haag (Landb. Hschool). 


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f. signata Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaats van de vorm met duidelijke donker 
afgezette golfliin: Hoenderlo (Lucas). 

f. obsoleta Lempke, 1949. De vorm met vrijwel verdwenen middencelvlek op 
de bovenzijde van de voorvleugels is minder zeldzaam. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: 
Colmschate, Tongeren, Otterlo, Soest, Oostkapelle (Zoöl. Mus.); Leuvenum 
(Landb. Hschool); Oostvoorne (Lucas); Epen (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. unilineata Lempke, 1949. Otterlo (Zoöl. Mus.); Geijsteren (VERHAAK). 

f. delineata Lempke, 1949. Geen nieuwe vindplaatsen, blijkbaar een rariteit. 


Bomolocha Hubner 


Bomolocha crassalis Fabricius. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 138; Cat. VIII : (548). 

Van de nieuwe vindplaatsen zijn vooral de twee in het Noordhollandse duin- 
gebied een verrassing. Zij kwamen te voorschijn bij het faunistische onderzoek 
door het Rivon (opgaven van LEFFEF). Vaccinium, de voedselplant van de rups, 
komt bij Schoorl voor, maar niet bij Overveen (mededeling van Dr. G. KRUSE- 
MAN). Op de eerstgenoemde vindplaats kan de vlinder dus inheems zijn, maar die 
van Overveen zal wel een zwerver zijn. Opvallend is ook de vangst in twee opeen- 
volgende jaren op Terschelling. Hier groeit Vaccinium genoeg, maar de vindplaats 
ligt wel erg excentrisch. Het voornaamste biotoop wordt gevormd door groeiplaat- 
sen van bosbes onder grove den (LEFFEF). 

De vliegtijd kan tot ver in de tweede helft van augustus duren en wordt nu: 
27.V—23.VII. Op de late augustus-datum werd in 1952 door S. R. DIJKSTRA 
nog een exemplaar bij Voorst gevangen. Ik zelf ving op 18 en 22.VIII.1955 te 
Wiessel enkele afgevlogen exemplaren. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling (in 1956 en 1957 te West-Terschelling, LEFFEF), 
Beetsterzwaag. Gr.: Noordlaren. Dr.: Roden, Westervelde, Norg, Eelde, Vries, Schoonlo. 
Ov.: Albergen, Saasveld (Molenven), Tusveld, Abdij Sion, Colmschate, Wesepe. Gdl.: 
Garderen, Elspeet, Uddel, Nieuw-Milligen, Vierhouten, Soerel, Tongeren, Wiessel, Doorn- 
spijk, Oldebroek, Heerde, Epe, Gortel, Nierssen, Wiessel, Hoog-Soeren, Assel, Uchelen, 
Beekbergen, Loenen, Eerbeek, Arnhem, Terlet, Schaarsbergen, Woeste Hoeve, Hoenderlo, 
Hoge Veluwe, Kootwijk, Harskamp; Ruurlo, Winterswijk. Utr.: Doorn, Austerlitz, Soest- 
duinen. N.H.: Bussum, Schoorl, Overveen (zie bij de algemene opmerkingen over de ver- 
spreiding). N.B.: Boxtel, Kampina, Middelbeers, Eindhoven, Maarheeze. Lbg.: Sevenum, 
Roggel, Steijl, Swalmen, Sint Odiliénberg, Posterholt, Stein, Aalbeek, Heerlen, Imstenrader 
Bos, Vijlen, Vaals. 


Variabiliteit. f. terriculalis Hübner, {1811—1813}. Vrijwel overal onder 
de soort, zodat geen vindplaatsen meer opgesomd worden. 
f. achatalis Hübner, 1790. Dezelfde opmerking als bij de vorige vorm. 


Hypena Schrank 


Hypena rostralis L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 140; Cat. VIII : (550). Behalve op 
Texel en Schiermonnikoog is de vlinder nu ook tijdens het Rivononderzoek in 
1956 op Terschelling aangetroffen (LEFFEF). Overigens is de in 1949 aangegeven 
verbreiding wel juist, maar het is wel de ervaring van vrijwel alle verzamelaars, 
dat het dier beslist niet talrijk te noemen is. Dit blijkt ook wel hieruit, dat ik na 


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1949 betrekkelijk weinig nieuw materiaal gezien heb. Opvallend is de vindplaats 
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, waar in 1956 en 1958 telkens één exemplaar werd gevan- 
gen (BOGAARD). 

Geen correctie op de aangegeven vliegtijd. 

Variabiliteit. f. vittatus Haworth, 1809. De vorm komt vrijwel overal 
onder de soort voor, zodat geen vindplaatsen meer opgegeven worden. 

f. vittata-variegata Lempke, 1949. Als de vorige vorm. 

f. brunnea Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Paterswolde, Hatert, Was- 
senaar (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. brunnea-variegata Lempke, 1949. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Wassenaar, Bergeijk 
(VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. spectans Dannehl, 1926. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Wiessel (Zoöl. Mus.); Haar- 
lem, Wassenaar (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. radiatalis Hübner, [1796}. Nieuwe vindplaatsen: Leuvenum (Landbouw 
Hogeschool); Hilversum (Zoöl. Mus.); Heemstede (VON HERWARTH); Bergeijk 
(VAN WISSELINGH); Nuenen (NEIJTS). 

f. radiatalis-variegata Lempke, 1949. Bolsward, Colmschate, Nijkerk, Den 
Haag (Zoöl. Mus.); Almelo (KLEINJAN); Leuvenum (Landbouw Hogeschool); 
Aerdenhout (VAN WISSELINGH); Scheveningen (VAN DER WEELE); Nuenen 
(VERHAAK). 

Dwerg. Arnhem (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Teratologisch exemplaar. Linker vleugels te klein. Hollandse 
Rading (Zoöl. Mus.). 


Hypena obesalis Treitschke. Van deze vlinder, die in 1963 voor het eerst in 
ons land werd aangetroffen, zijn nu twee in Nederland gevangen exemplaren 
bekend. Ongetwijfeld hebben we met een overigens op onze breedte zeldzame 
immigrant te doen, vrij zeker uit zuidelijker gebieden. 

Uit Denemarken is één exemplaar bekend, dat in 1911 op het eiland Mors (in 
de Limfjord, ten noorden van Jutland) werd gevangen. Geen enkele melding uit 
het omringende Duitse gebied. Evenmin uit Belgié. (In Frankrijk van de Basses 
Alpes in het zuiden tot de Vogezen, hoofdzakelijk in bergstreken. Cf. LHOMME, 
Cat. Lép. France et Belgique : 336—337). Eén exemplaar in 1908 in het zuiden 
van Engeland. 

Het ene exemplaar werd begin juni, het andere in de tweede helft van augustus 
gevangen. 


Vindplaatsen. Ov.: Abdij Sion, begin juli 1963 (Pater AMADEUS ALMA). Z.H.: 
Oostvoorne, 23.VIII.1964 (VAN DER MADE c.s.). 


Hypena proboscidalis L. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 139; Cat. VIII: (549). De 
vlinder is nu ook bekend van Terschelling en Vlieland, zodat alleen Ameland en 
Rottum nog in de rij van de waddeneilanden ontbreken. Overigens is de in 1949 
gegeven verbreiding correct. 

De eerste generatie wordt omstreeks half juli nog slechts sporadisch waargeno- 
men. De enige waarneming, behalve de twee in 1949 vermelde data 10.VII en 
17.VII, is 9.VII.1959 (Lucas). De tweede generatie kan tot ver in oktober vliegen, 


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zoals blijkt uit de volgende data: 13.X.1953 (KNIPPENBERG), 14.X.1962 (Lucas) 
en 18.X.1962 (LEFFEF). 

Variabiliteit. f. bilineata Lempke, 1949 (brunnea-bilineata Lempke, 
1949). Exemplaren zonder golflijn op de voorvleugels zijn niet zeldzaam. Als 
vrijwel altijd heeft de tekening geen relatie met de grondkleur, zodat het niet 
nodig is de diverse mogelijkheden door aparte namen te onderscheiden. Nieuwe 
vindplaatsen zijn: Vollenhove (WINTERS); Apeldoorn, Wiessel, De Steeg, Nij- 
megen, Muiden, Weesp (Zoöl. Mus.); Middelie (DE BOER); Vogelenzang (VAN 
WISSELINGH); Oegstgeest (KAIJADOE); Kerkrade (LUCAS). 

f. obsoleta Lempke, 1949. Apeldoorn, Soest, Muiden, Weesp (Zoöl. Mus.) ; 
Zeist (GORTER); Amsterdamse Bos (PEERDEMAN); Nuenen (VERHAAK). 

f. infuscata Spuler, 1908. Deze donkere vorm blijkt nu vrij gewoon te zijn, 
zodat het zelfs overbodig is er vindplaatsen van te vermelden. 

Dwergen. Noordlaren, Heemstede (VAN DE PoL); Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (een 
extreem klein exemplaar, BOGAARD). 


Schrankia Hübner 


Schrankia taenialis Hübner. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 143; Cat. VIII: (553). 
De vlinder blijft tot nog toe een lokale soort, die nog steeds niet uit het westen 
van het land bekend is. Ongetwijfeld zal hij net als de beide volgende soorten 
vaak voor een micro aangezien worden, zodat hij in werkelijkheid wel minder 
zeldzaam zal zijn dan lijkt. 

De eerste generatie verschijnt al in juni. De vroegste datum is nu 8.VI (in 1964 
te Ommen, BENTINCK), terwijl de laatste zekere datum 2.VIII is (in 1954 te 
Eperheide, van WISSELINGH). De hoofdvliegtijd is in elk geval de maand juli. 
Mogelijk begint de tweede generatie reeds half augustus te vliegen. Het is ten- 
minste te betwijfelen, of een exemplaar van 18.VIII (in 1964 te Ommen, BEN- 
TINCK) nog tot de eerste generatie behoort. 

Vindplaatsen. Ov.: Ommen (1964, BENTINCK), Volthe (1943, VAN DER MEULEN, 
blijkens de vele notities in de cartotheek van KNoop hier niet zeldzaam). Utr.: Amerongen 
(1964, BENTINCK); Botshol (WOLSCHRIJN). Lbg.: Sevenum (1964, enkele exemplaren tijdens 
de Rivon-inventarisatie, LEFFEF); Bunde (1964, Lucas); Eperheide („bepaald niet zeldzaam, 


vooral in de eerste helft van juli op stroop’, VAN WISSELINGH); Epen (1952, BENTINCK, 
1957, Lucas). 


f. obscura nov. Grondkleur van de voorvleugels zwartgrijs, die van de achter- 
vleugels donkergrijs. Epen, 9, 16.VII.1964 (holotype, VAN WISSELINGH). 

[Ground colour of the fore wings black-grey, that of the hind wings dark-grey.] 

f. virgata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: middenveld donker, wortel- en achter- 
randsveld licht. Epen, ¢, 12.VII.1964 (holotype, VAN WISSELINGH). 


[Upper side fore wings: central area dark, basal and outer areas pale.] 


Schrankia costaestrigalis Stephens. Tijdschr. Entom. 90: 144; Cat. VII: 
(554). In elk geval veel verbreider dan de vorige soort, mogelijk op de meeste 
moerassige terreinen te verwachten; plaatselijk zeer gewoon en zelfs van een van 
de waddeneilanden bekend. 


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De eerste generatie kan vroeger beginnen te vliegen en later voorkomen dan in 
1949 bekend was. De uiterste data ervan zijn nu: 26.V—14.VII. Geen correctie 
op de vliegtijd van de tweede generatie. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Terschelling, Eernewoude, Olterterp, Nijetrijne (blijkens het 
Rivon-onderzoek zeer gewoon, LEFFEF). Gdl.: Aalten. Utr.: Amerongen, Botshol. N.H.: 
Kortenhoef, Amsterdamse Bos (weinig, maar geregeld, PEERDEMAN), Halfweg, Aerdenhout. 
Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat, Oostvoorne, Melissant. N.B.: Bergeijk, Deurne. Lbg.: Plasmolen, 
Arcen, Tegelen, Griendsveen (gewoon, LEFFEF), Sevenum, Moesel, Roggel, Stein, Eperheide. 


f. monotona Lempke, 1949. Eperheide (VAN WISSELINGH). 

f. unicolor Lempke, 1949. Hollandse Rading (Zoöl. Mus.). 

f. virgata nov. Bovenzijde voorvleugels: middenveld donker, wortel- en ach- 
terrandsveld licht. Epen, ¢, 10.VII.1950 (holotype, VAN WISSELINGH). 


[Upper side fore wings: central area dark, basal and outer areas pale.} 


Tholomiges Lederer 


Tholomiges turfosalis Wocke. Tijdschr. Entom. 90 : 145; Cat. VIII : (555). 
Slechts enkele nieuwe vindplaatsen kunnen aan de in 1949 vermelde toegevoegd 
worden, die een kleine uitbreiding van het in ons land bekende areaal betekenen. 

De vlinder kan tot in oktober vliegen. De laatste datum wordt nu: 6.X (in 
1964, VAN AARTSEN), zodat er ongetwijfeld twee generaties kunnen voorkomen. 
De grens ertussen is echter op het ogenblik nog moeilijk aan te geven door te 
weinig gegevens. 


Vindplaatsen. Fr.: Eernewoude (1955, CAMPING); Nijetrijne (1959, G. DIJKSTRA 
en CAMPING). Z.H.: Woerdense Verlaat (1959, VAN AARTSEN, in Zoöl. Mus.). N.B.: Kam- 
pina (Lucas); Valkenswaard (1966, VAN DER WOLF); Geldrop (1958, HAANSTRA); Hele- 
naveen (1953, 1958, Nies). Lbg.: Stein (1964, VAN AARTSEN). 


Variabiliteit. f. obscura Lempke, 1949. Deze eenkleurig donkere vorm 
werd nog aangetroffen te Woerdense Verlaat (Zoöl. Mus.); Plasmolen (Lucas). 

f. lacticolor nov. Voor- en achtervleugels eenkleurig witachtig, van de tekening 
is alleen de middenstip van de voorvleugels vrij duidelijk zichtbaar. ,,Friesland”, 
Kortenhoef, Plasmolen (Zoöl. Mus.). 

Holotype: ¢ van Plasmolen, 13.VII.1922, in genoemde collectie. 


[Fore and hind wings unicolorous whitish, of the markings only the central spot of the 
fore wings is rather distinctly visible. } 


f. bicolor Lempke, 1949. Geen nieuwe gegevens. 


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CORRIGENDA 
Supplement I 


regel 7 van boven: Graphium moet zijn Iphiclides. 

regel 8 van boven: Graphium podalirius moet zijn: Iphiclides poda- 
lirius. Cf. MUNROE, E., 1960, The classification of the Papilionidae : 
18 (Canad. Ent., suppl. 17). 


Supplement VI 


regel 14 van onderen: Celerio Oken moet zijn: Spectrum Scopoli. 
Cf. FLETCHER, D. S., 1966, Ent. Gazette 17 : 16. 

regel 15 van onderen: Celerio euphorbiae moet zijn: Spectrum euphor- 
biae. 

regel 8 van onderen: Celerio galii Schiff. moet zijn: Spectrum gallii 
von Rottemburg. 

regel 8 van boven: Celerio livornica moet zijn: Spectrum livornica. 


Supplement VII 


regel 4 van onderen: asiatica Bang Haas is zelfs geen subspecies van 
Cilix glaucata, maar een goede soort. Zie DANIEL, F., 1963, Z. Wiener 
ent. Ges. 48: 151. 


Supplement VIII 


regel 2 van onderen: Procris Fabricius moet zijn: Adscita Retzius. 
Cf. FLETCHER, D. S., 1966, Ent. Gazette 17: 9. 

Regel 1 van onderen: Procris statices moet zijn Adscita statices. 
regel 14 van boven: Sciapteron Staudinger moet zijn Paranthrene Hüb- 
ner. Cf. Fletcher, D. S., 1966, Ent. Gazette 17: 9. 

regel 15 van boven: Sciapteron tabaniformis moet zijn: Paranthrene 
tabaniformis. 


Supplement XII 
regel 21 van boven: Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht moet vervallen. 


regel 11 van onderen: Arkel moet vervallen. 
regel 24 van onderen: Photeres moet zijn Photedes. 


laat 15, regel 3 van boven: Arenostola moet zijn Photedes. 


TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 PLAAT 3 


J. HUISENGA 


Fig. 1—4. Charanica trigammica Hufnagel. 1. f. semifuscans Haworth, 9, Den Haag, 
18.VI.1949; 2. f. fuscolimbata nov, &, Twello, 2.VI.1938 (holotype); 3. f. paradoxa nov., 
4. Stein, 29.V.1960 (holotype); 4. f. fasciata Krombach, 43, Heemstede, 20.V.1957. 
Fig. 5—7. Hoplodrina alsines Brahm. 5. f. bimaculata nov., 4, Zeist, 8.VII.1949 (holotype): 
6. f. centrifasciata nov., &, Slijk-Ewijk, 13.VI.1960 (holotype); 7. f. clausa Lempke, &, 
Twello, 8.VII.1930 (holotype). Fig. 8—10. Hoplodrina blanda Scaiff. 8. f. suffusa Prout, 
&, Slijk-Ewijk, 7.VII.1960; 9. f. pallidior Lenz, &, Slijk-Ewijk, 1.VIII.1961; 10. f. bima- 
culata nov., &, Lelystad, 1.VII.1961 (holotype). Fig. 11. Hoplodrina ambigua Schiff., 
f. obscura nov, 2, Slijk-Ewijk, 13.VII.1960 (holotype). 


TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, AFL. 9, 1966 PLAAT 4 


J. HUISENGA 


Fig. 1—3. Caradrina selini selini Boisduval. 1. &, Colmars-les-Alpes (Basses Alpes, France), 
7.VII.1929. 2. &, Larche (Basses Alpes, France), 1—6.VIII.1932. 3. 9, Colmars-les-Alpes, 
2.VII.1929. Fig. 4—6. Caradrina selini milleri Schultz. 4. &, Haarlem, 6.V1.1930; 5. 4, 
Venlo, 12.V1.1937; 6. 2, Wassenaar, 20.VI.1939. Fig. 7. Caradrina clavipalpis Scopoli, 
f. bimaculata nov, 6, Wageningen, 2.VII.1953 (holotype). Fig. 8. Spodoptera littoralis 
Boisduval, 9, Alkmaar, 22.X1.1922, e. l. Fig. 9, 10. Athetis gluteosa Treitschke. 9. &, 
Epen, 18.VII.1955; 10. ®, Epen, 24.VII.1954. Fig. 11—13. Chloridea peltigera Schiff. 
11. 4, Beemster, 15.V.1958; 12. f. condolens Schawerda, &, Bunde, 27.VIII.1964; 13. 
f. obscura nov., Hoorn, 4, 20.VIII.1958 (holotype). 


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Fig. 1. Pyrrhia umbra Hufnagel, f. postclara nov., &, Valkenisse, 7.VII.1963 (holotype). 
Fig. 2, 3. Axylia putris L. 2. f. obscura nov., 6, Halfweg, 22.VI.1961 (holotype); 3. f. 
clara nov., 6, Heer, 21.VII.1954. Fig. 4. Porphyrinia parva Hübner, &, Cadier, 28.VIII.1964 
(x 112). Fig. 5, 6. Jaspidia deceptoria Schiff. 5. &, Cadier, 3.VI.1960; 6. f. latefasciata 
nov, &, Simpelveld, VI.1954 (holotype). Fig. 7—9. Eustrotia bankiana Fabricius. 7. 2, 
Empe, 1.VII.1954; 8. . renigera nov., 6, Slijk-Ewijk, 19.V.1960 (holotype); 9. f. renigera 
nov. + f. obsoleta Tutt, 9, Winterswijk, 15.VI.1958. Fig. 10. Ewstrotia uncula Clerck, 
f. bipartita nov., 9, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 9.VII.1959 (holotype). Fig. 11. Earias clorana 
L., 4, Halfweg, 7.VIII.1960. Fig. 12. Earias vernana Fabricius, &, Donderen, 5.VI.1954. 
Fifg. 13. Acontia luctuosa Schiff., &, Heemskerk, 22.VII.1963. Fig. 14—16. Panthea coeno- 
bita Esper. 14. &, Schoonlo, 25.VI.1963; 15. &, Schoonlo, 27.VI.1963; 16. 2, Schoonlo, 
25.VI.1963. Fig. 17. Lygephila pastinum Treitschke, f. confluens nov., 6, Aalten, 2.VII. 
1952 (holotype). 


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Fig. 1, 2. Colocasia coryli L. 1. f. melanotica Haverkampf, &, Swalmen, 9.V.1954; 2 fe 
trilinea nov., &, Eext, 11.V.1963 (holotype). Fig. 3—6. Diloba caeruleocephala L. 3. f. 
medionigra van Wisselingh, &, Epen, 1.X.1965 (holotype); 4. f. nigrescens nov. 6, 
Heemskerk, 9.X.1961 (holotype); 5. f. confluens Dammer + f. protensa Lempke, &, Aer- 
denhout, 12.X.1948; 6. f. protensa Lempke, 9, Hoog-Keppel, 22.IX.1956, e. l. Fig. 7, 8. 
Autographa festucae L. 7. f. obscura nov., 9, Halfweg, 23.VI.1962 (holotype); 8. f. alepica 
nov., &, Halweg, 8.VIII.1959 (holotype). Fig. 9, 10. Autographa gracilis Lempke. 9. f. 
coalescens nov. &, Nijetrijne, 21.VI.1964 (holotype); 10. f. diisconulla nov., 6, Griends- 
veen, 21.VI.1964 (holotype). Fig. 11. Autographa bractea Schiff., &, Helenaveen, 4.VII. 
1963. Fig. 12. Macdunnoughia confusa Stephens, &, Helenaveen, 9.VIII.1963. 


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Fig. 1—6. Autographa gamma L. 1. &, Borgercompagnie, 6.XI.1962; 2. f. pallida Tutt, 4, 
Apeldoorn, 17.1X.1958; 3. f. alba Cockayne, 6, Epen, 2.IX.1958; 4. f. fuscescens Goodson, 
4, Apeldoorn, 20.IX.1953; 5. f. nigricans Spuler, 4, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, 20.VIII.1962; 
6. f. microgamma nov., &, Marknesse, 21.VI.1951 (holotype). Fig. 7—9. Polychrisia moneta 
Fabricius. 7. f. pallescens Lempke, 3, Aerdenhout, 25.VI.1960; 8. f. obscura nov., 6, Half- 
weg, 11.1X.1963 (holotype); 9. f. maculata Lempke, 8, Apeldoorn, 2.VII.1901, e. 1. (holo- 
type). Fig. 10, 11. Abrostola triplasia L. 10. 4, Heemskerk, 21.V.1961; 11. f. plumbea 
Cockayne, 2, Gronsveld, 22.VII.1959. Fig. 12. Parascotia fuliginaria L., f. variegata Lempke, 
@, Aerle-Rixtel, 21.VII.1961. 


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REGISTER VAN DEEL 109 


* Een sterretje duidt een naam aan nieuw voor de wetenschap. 


* An asterisc denotes a name new to science. 


In dit register zijn weggelaten de namen van taxa onder de rang van subspecies, behalve 
die welke als nieuw worden beschreven. 
From this Index are omitted names of taxa lower than subspecies, except those being 


described as new. 


INVERTEBRATA, EXCLUSIEF ARTHROPODA 


PROTOZOA 


mooseri 19 
Rickettsia 19 


COLEOPTERA 


Leptinus 10 
Silphidae 10 
testaceus 10 


DERMAPTERA 


Anisolabis 18 
annulipes 18 


HYMENOPTERA 


acervorum 125—127, 
1251312133, 134, 
[144 
affinis 164, 165 
Agaonidae 163—165 
alashanica 144 
Amegilla 127—129, 139, 
[140, 150 
Anthophora 125—131, 
[133—136, 139, 140, 
[144, 147, 148, 150, 
[152, 153 
Anthophoridae 126 
Anthophorini 125, 126, 
[147, 148, 150 
Apis 129, 150 
Apoidea 125 
Arachonia 163, 164, 172— 
[174, 176, 177, 187 
arnottiana 163 
Asaropoda 127, 128 
bakeri 163, 165 
balassogloi 138, 143, 144 
belgaumensis 163, 164 
*bembidion 125, 155, 156, 
[158 
Blastophaga 163—170, 172 


VERMES 


caninum 18 
diminuta 18 


ARTHROPODA 


Bombus 10, 145, 147, 148 


*borneensis 163, 164, 172— 


[174, 177, 187 
Callomelecta 151, 156 
carinifrons 35—37, 39—48 
caroli 140 
Ceratosolen 163—165, 168, 

1170 172 
Chalcidoidea 163 
christofi 129 
claviscapa 164 
Clisodon 127 


*corneliae 163, 164, 188, 


[189, 191 
crenulatus 183 
dammersi 147 
Deltoptila 150, 151 
depressa 147 
Diodontus 44 
edwardsii 130 


*Elaphropoda 125—131, 


[133—135, 146—148, 
[150—159 
Emphoropsis 125—127, 
[129—131, 133—135, 
A7 SION 
Eopsenulus 35, 42, 43 


*errata 163—165, 168—170, 


[172 
erratica 156 
Eupavlovskia 136, 140 
Eupristina 163—165, 167, 
[168 
excellens 147 
*extremus 41, 42, 45 
ezonata 133, 136, 139 
festiva 135 
fletcheri 151, 152 


303 


Dipylidium 18 
Hymenolepis 18 
nana 18 


florea 150 
floridana 147, 148 
fulvipes Cam. 152—154, 
[160 
fulvipes Eversm. 152, 153 
fulvodimidiatus 140 
funeraria 140 
fusciceps 163—165 
gajimaru 183 
gracilipes 136 
Grandiana 163, 164, 188, 
[189, 191 
Habrophora 133 
Habropoda 125—131, 
[134—148, 150—154, 
156, 157, 160 
Heliophila 127, 129, 140 


*hilli 163, 164, 176, 178, 


[187 
hookeri 146 
impatiens 125—127, 130, 
[131, 133, 135, 148, 
[150—157, 159 
incompletum 163 
Indothymus 183 
insignis 164, 182, 183, 185 
interspersa 147 
interstitialis 44 
inubiae 183 
ireos 129 
iwatai 35, 37, 38, 41—43 
jacobsoni 165—168 
keralensis 164, 165 
khasiana 152, 153, 156, 160 
krishna 145 
laboriosa(us) 125—127, 
[129—131, 133, 134, 
[147, 148 


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longispinosa 164 
magrettii 148, 151—154, 
[159, 160 
masii 163—168, 172 
masoni 164 
megarhopalus 163 
Melecta 140 
Meliturgopsis 147 
mimetica 146, 147 
miserabilis 147, 148 
moelleri 152—155 
moesta 138, 139 
monilifer 188 
montana Rad. 144—146 
montana Cress. 144 
murihirta 147 
murina 147 
Neofoxia 43, 44 
notus 163, 165, 170—172 
nubilipennis 147 
oraniensis 125, 140—143 
Otitesellini 164, 165, 188 
Pachymelopsis 126 
Pachymelus 126 
pallida 147 
Parakoebelea 164, 165 
Paramegilla 127, 129 
passerini 136 
pekinensis 144 
percarinata 126, 147, 152, 
[153, 157, 159 
Philotrypesis 164, 165 
Philotrypini 164, 165 
plumosa 164, 176 
Podalirius 136, 139 
projectus 37, 39, 42 
Psen 41, 43 
Psenulus 35—47 
pulcherrimus 35, 37, 
[39—43 
radoszkowskii 144—146 
*reticulatus 163, 164, 180, 
[182—185 
rohweri 37, 39, 41, 42, 44, 
[45, 47, 48 
rowlandi 146 
rugosissima 147 
saundersii 164 
scutellatus 35, 37, 40, 41, 
[43—46 
sinclairi 35, 37, 43, 46—48 
sinensis 147 
sladeni 152 
sogatophagus 37, 39, 40, 
[42, 47 
Sphecidae 35 
*stilifera 163, 164, 185, 186 
stratheni 165 
sutepensis 146 
Sycobiella 164 
Sycophaginae 165 
Sycophagini 164 
Sycophilini 163, 164 


Sycoryctes 163, 164, 173, 
[176, 178—180, 187 
Sycoryctini 164, 165, 172, 
[173 
Sycoscaptella 164, 165 
Sycoscapter 163, 164, 173, 
[180, 182—185, 188 
Sycoscapteridea 163, 164 
[173, 185—188 
tadzhica 137—139 
tainanicola 146 
tarsata(us) 125—127, 
[129—131, 133, 
[135—137, 139 
temeraria 164, 165 
Terastiozoon 163—165 
terrestris 10 
Tetralonia 133, 136 
thalakvadiensis 164, 165 
Thrinchostoma 152 
Torymidae 163, 164, 172 
transiens 164, 165 
travancoricus 164, 165 
trifemmensis 179 
triformis 164 
turneri 145, 146 
vulpecula 156 
Walkerella 164, 165 
wassae 191 
Waterstoniella 163—168 
xanthognathus 36, 37, 39, 
[41, 44, 46—48 
zonatula 137—144 


LEPIDOPTERA 


Abrostola 276 

Acontia 248 

*acrostega 49, 57 

Adscita 301 

Agnathosia 106—108, 122, 
[123 

Agrioceros 49, 82, 85 

agronoma 67 

Agrotis 233 

albanica 116 

alberti 110 

*f. albescens (grisealis) 295 

albicomella 117 

alchymista 286 

*f. alepica (festucae) 261 

Allotalanta 88 

allutella 109 

alsines 223 

Amathes 241 

ambigua 225 

Amphipyrinae 221 

andalusiella 120 

angustipennis 107, 108 

*anholochrysa 49, 56, 57 

*antalba 49, 54 

Arenostola 301 

argentimaculatella 117 

armigera 236 


EYE 


asiatica Krul. 251 
asiatica Bang-Haas 301 
Athetis 232, 233 
Autographa 258, 259, 261, 
[262, 264—266 
Axylia 240, 241 
banatica 116, 118 
bankiana 245 
barbalis 291 
Bena 254 
*f, benesignata (ambigua) 
[266 
bicolorana 254 
*f. bilineata (barbalis) 292 
*f, bilineata (putris) 242 
*f, bimaculata (alsines) 223 
*f. bimaculata (blanda) 224 
*f. bimaculata (clavipalpis) 
[230 
Binsitta 71, 72 
*f, bipartita (uncula) 247 
blanda 223, 224 
Bomolocha 297 
borreonella 120, 121 
bractea 264 
*f, brevipennis (morpheus) 
[229 
*f, brunnea (gamma) 267 
*f, brunnea (sponsa) 278 
*f. brunnescens (confusa) 
[270 
caeruleocephala 256 
Callistege 282 
calvaria 289 
captans 114—116 
Caradrina 228—230 
carbonifera 120 
Casmara 49, 59—65, 
[67—69, 74, 87 
Catephia 286 
Catocala 278—280 
Catocalinae 278 
c-aureum 274 
Celerio 301 
Celestica 106—108, 122, 
[123 
*f, centrifasciata (alsines) 
[224 
*centroluta 49, 66, 78 
Cephimallota 103, 105 
ceramica 87 
chalazopa 59 
Charanica 221 
Chilodes 231 
Chloridea 234—237 
Chrysaspidia 258, 261, 264 
*Chrysethmia 49, 76, 79, 
[83—86 
chrysitis 270—272, 274 
chryson 274 : : 
Chrysoptera 274 
Chytolita 292: 
Cilix 301 
‘*Cimeliomorpha 49—51 


*f, circumscripta (pulchrina) 
[266 

*f, clara (putris) 242 

clavipalpis 230 

clorana 251 

c-nigrum 241 

*f. coalescens (gracilis) 263 

coenobita 255 

Coenoricta 49, 55—57 

Colobochyla 288 

colocasia 255 

*f, confluens (morpheus) 
[228 

*f. confluens (pastinum) 
[286 

confusa 268, 269 

confusellum 111—115 

Cononia 71, 72, 74 

Copromorpha 49, 50 

coryli 255 

costaestrigalis 299 

crassalis 297 

cribrumalis 292 

croaticum 111, 114 

Cryptolechia 71, 72, 74 

Cryptophaga 54 

Cryptophasa 49, 54 

cymbalora 49—51 

deceptoria 244 

degenerana 250, 251 

delphinii 240 

*f, demaculata (glyphica) 
[283 

*f, depurpurata (umbra) 238 

derivalis 296 

*f, desagittata (mi) 282 

Diloba 256 

dipsacea 234 

*f, disconulla (gracilis) 263 

*f, distincta (clavipalpis) 
[2 


Earias 251, 252 


Ectypa 283 

effractella 49, 63, 71, 72, 
[78 

electa 280 


Emmelia 248 

emortualis 295 

Epimecyntis 65 

Epizeuxis 289 

eschatopa 65 

Ethmia 49, 80, 85 

Ethmiidae 49, 80 

euphorbiae 301 

Eustrotia 245, 246 

exculta 64—66, 71 

exigua 226 

fagana 252 

fasciata 120 

festucae 258, 259, 262, 263 

flavescentella 104, 105 

*f. flavoinspersa (libatrix) 
[285 

flexula 287 


REGISTER 


forsteri 111, 114 
fraxini 278 
fuliginaria 288 
*f, fuscociliata (lunaris) 282 
*f, fuscolimbata 
{(trigrammica) 222 
*f, fuscomarginata 
{(morpheus) 228 
galii 301 
gallica 110 
gallii 301 
gamma 266 
glaucata 301 
gluteosa 232 
glyphica 283 
Glyphipterygidae 49, 59 
*Gozmanytinea 106, 107, 
114 116 118122) 
[123 
gracilis 261, 263 
granulatell(a)um 111, 112, 
[114 
Graphium 301 
grisealis 295 
Guenea 120 
hedemanni 111, 112, 114 
*herculanella 110—112 
Herminia 291 
holtzi 111, 114 
Hoplodrina 223—225 
Hylophila 252 
Hypena 297, 298 
Hypeninae 291 
*hypomelas 49, 76, 84—86 
ignicomella 115, 117 
imella 104 
Imma 59, 73 
infaustella 59 
Infurcitinea 106, 107, 
2 2119%.,121 123 
interrogationis 258 
Iphiclides 301 
Ischnoscia 106, 107, 
[120—123 
Jaspidia 243, 244 
Jaspidiinae 243 
jota 264 
*f, juncta (ambigua) 226 
*f, juncta (coryli) 256 
*f, juncta (umbra) 239 
*kalshoveni 49, 60, 61, 63, 
[69, 87 
kasyi 116 
klimeschi Ams. 110 
klimeschi Rbl. 120 
*f. lacticolor (clorana) 252 
*f. lacticolor (turfosalis) 300 
lagaropis 78 
Laspeyresia 50 
Laspeyresiinae 50 
Laspeyria 287 
*f, latefasciata 
[ (deceptoria) 245 


305 


*f, latelineata 
[ (tarsipennalis) 293 
leonhardi 104 
leopoldella 110 
libanotica 103, 105 
libatrix 284 
Lichenotinea 106, 107, 
[116, 119—123 
Lichenovora 106, 108 
liguriella 120 
litochlorella 116 
littoralis 227 
litura 227 
livornica 301 
lucida 248 
luctuosa 248, 249 
lunalis 294 
lunaris 281 
Lygephila 285 
Macdunnoughia 268, 269 
maculata 120 
magnificella 83 
*f, marginata (lunaris) 281 
maritima Grasl. 234 
maritima Tausch. 231, 232 
Meessia 106—108, 110, 
[112, 122, 123 
Meessiinae 106, 107, 122 
Melicleptriinae 234 
melitacma 54 
*melanoglypha 49, 66, 68, 
{79 
mendicella 107, 108 
mensella 110 
mi 282 
*f. microgamma (gamma) 
[268 
*microloga 49, 52—54 
milleri 230 
Minucia 281 
moneta 275 
Monopis 104 
Montetinea 106, 107, 122 
Mormonia 278 
mormopa 59, 73 
morpheus 228 
murariella 104, 105 
muricolella 120, 212 
Nemapogoninae 103 
*neogena 49, 79, 85, 86 
nerviella 110 
ni 258 
*f, nigra (fuliginaria) 289 
*f. nigra (pygarga) 244 
nigraella 110 
*f. nigrata (nupta) 279, 280 
*f, nigrescens (caeruleo- 
[cephala) 257 
*f, nigrescens (tenebrata) 
[240 
nigricostella 68, 70, 72, 74 
nigripunctella 109, 110 
*f. nigromarginata (lunaris) 
[282 


306 TIJDSCHRIFT 


niviferana 71, 87 
Noctua 231 
Noctuidae 221 
nonimella 104 
novarana 50 
Novotinea 106, 107, 
[120—123 
nubicincta 59 
nupta 279 
Nycteola 249, 250 
Nycteolinae 249 
oberthurella 110 
obesalis 298 
Obesoceras 106, 107, 
[111—115, 122, 123 
*f, obscura (ambigua) 226 
*f, obscura (festucae) 260 
*f, obscura (gracilis) 263 
*f, obscura (grisealis) 295 
*f. obscura (moneta) 275 
*f, obcura (peltigera) 236 
*f, obscura (putris) 242 
*f. obscura (taenialis) 299 
*f, obscura (tarsicrinalis) 
[294 
*f, obsoleta (pulchrina) 266 
Ochropleura 241 
Odites 49, 55, 58 
Oecophoridae 49, 59, 60, 63 
olivana 245 
olympica 117, 119, 121 
*orientale 111—115 
ostrina 243 
Othreinae 284 
pachyceras 110 
pachyspila 109 
*f. pallida (tenebrata) 240 
*f. pallida (viriplaca) 234 
pallustris 233 
pandorella 120 
Panemeria 239 
Panthea 255 
Pantheinae 255 
Paracolax 296 
paracyrta 58 
*f, paradoxa (clavipalpis) 
[230 
*f. paradoxa (trigrammica) 
[222 
Paradrina 229, 230 
Paranthrene 301 
Paraplusia 268 
Parascotia 288 
parva 243 
*f, parvomaculata 
[(festucae) 260 
pastinum 285 
patrona 69 
pellionella 104 
peltigera 235, 236 
Periphanes 240 
*peripsacas 49, 66, 78 
*pharmacis 49, 70, 75, 77, 80 
Phereoeca 106—109, 122 


VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, DEEL 109, 


*phobographa 49, 62, 68 
Photedes 301 
Phytometra 290 
plecta 241 
Plusia 270—272, 274 
Plusiinae 258 
*plutotera 49, 55—57 
podalirius 301 
Polychrisia 275 
Porphyrinia 243 
*f. postclara (umbra) 239 
*f. postfasciata (umbra) 239 
*f, postfusca (gamma) 268 
*f, postmaculata 
(cribrumalis) 293 
*f, postnigrescens (libatrix) 
[284, 285 
praeclara 81 
prasinana 252, 254 
proboscidalis 298 
Procris 301 
proleuca 54 
promissa 278, 280 
*f. protensa (ambigua) 226 
*f. protensa (coryli) 256 
psammochta 56 
Ptochoryctis 59 
pulchrina 265 
pullata 81 
pustulatella 119—121 
putris 240, 241 
pygarga 243 
Pyrrhia 237 
Quadrifinae 221, 242 
*regalis 49, 60, 61, 71 
*f. renigera (bankiana) 246 
revayana 249, 251 
rhenania 108—110 
*rhodotrachys 49, 63, 67 
richardsoni 110 
Rivula 291 
*romanica 115, 117—119, 
[121 
romanum 111, 114 
rostralis 297 
*f. ruficosta (putris) 242 
*rufipes 49, 65, 74 
rumelicella 117 
salicalis 288 
Sarrothripus 250 
Schrankia 299 
Sciapteron 301 
*scolia 49, 52, 53 
Scoliopteryx 284 
scutosa 237 
selini 229 
*f. seminigra (coryli) 256 
septentrionalis 235 
sericealis 291 
*seriosa 49—51 
*f. signata (clavipalpis) 231 
Simaethis 59 
*f, simplex (lunaris) 282 
simplicella 103 


AFL. 9 1966 


Spectrum 301 
*sphaerophyes 49, 55, 58 
Spodoptera 226, 227 
sponsa 278 
statices 301 
*submersa 49, 80 
*subnota 49, 82 
*syngnoma 49, 66, 72 
Syngrapha 258 
tabaniformis 301 
taenialis 299 
*f. tangens (putris) 242 
tarsicrinalis 294 
tarsipennalis 293 
tarsiplumalis 294 
tenebrata 239 
*f, tenuivittata (tenebrata) 
[240 
terasella 71 
Teratomorpha 71, 72 
Tholomiges 300 
Thymiatris 49—54 
Tinea 104, 105, 107, 110, 
HAT 117 91195120 
Tineidae 103, 107 
Tineiforma 107, 122, 123 
Tineinae 104 
Tineola 109 
Tonica 49, 63, 66, 68, 
[70 2720, 740,75: 
[77—79, 87 
Tortricidae 49, 50 
trabealis 248 
Trichoplusia 258 
trigemina 276 
trigrammica 221 
*f. trilinea (coryli) 256 
*f. trimaculata 
{(caeruleocephala) 257 
triocellata 88 
triplasia 276 
Trisateles 295 
turfosalis 300 
tutti 270 
umbra 237, 238 
uncula 246 
*uniata 49, 60, 64, 65 
*f. unilineata (fagana) 253 
*f, unimacula (putris) 242 
uterella 108, 109 
venustula 233 
vernana 252 
vinctella 110 
vinculella 108, 110, 111 
*f, virgata (costaestrigalis) 
[300 
*f, virgata (taenialis) 299 
viridaria 290 
viriplaca 234 
walsinghami 109 
warneckei 235 
Xyleutes 87 
Xyloryctidae 49, 50 
Zanclognatha 293—295 
zelaea 85 


MALLOPHAGA 


canis 18 
Trichodectes 18 


ODONATA 


Agrion 100, 101 

Amorphostigma 94, 95 

auricolor 94 

aurora 91, 100—102 

bipunctata 91 

cardinalis 100 

cheesmani 89, 96, 100 

Coenagrionidae 91 

Diplacodes 91 

flavescens 91 

Ischnura 89—92, 95, 96, 
[100, 101 

Libellulidae 91 

Nesobasis 95 

Pantala 91 

spinicauda 89, 100—102 

taitensis 89, 93, 94, 96, 
[99, 100 

Teinobasis 95 

*thelmae 89, 91, 92, 95, 98 


RHYNCHOTA 


albus 211 

Aphididae 193 

Aphis 193—195 

Asiphum 205 

*atra 193, 211 

baicalensis 205 

Berberidaphis 212 

*brachychaeta 193, 219 

Brevicoryne 193, 211 

*capitophoroides 193, 215, 
[217 

carii 211 

Ceruraphis 193, 195, 196, 
[208 

Chaitophorus 193, 197, 

[199—201 

Cinara 193, 201, 203 

conica 211 

coriandri 193, 211 

*eastopi 193, 195, 196, 208 

Eichochaitophorus 197 

*Epipemphigus 193, 204, 
[205 

Essigella 219, 220 

Eulachnus 219, 220 

farinosa 194 

foeniculi 211 

formosana 217 

*Globulicaudaphis 193, 

[207—209 

gossypii 194 

Hayhurstia 193, 211 

himalayensis Basu 212 

himalayensis Das 193, 197, 
[201 


REGISTER 


Homoptera 193 
Hoplochaetaphis 209 
Hyadaphis 193, 211 
Hyalopterus 211 
idaei 194 
imaicus 193, 205 
*kapuri 193, 197 
*lachnirostris 193, 201 
Liosomaphis 193, 211, 212 
*longituba 193 
lydiae 212 
Macrosiphum 193, 213, 216 
*maculipes 193, 203 
Matsumuraja 193, 

245 217, 
Mimeuria 205 
Myzocallis 208, 209, 211 
Neohayhurstia 193, 211 
*nigritus 193, 199 
nuditerga 216 
obscurus Mamontova 218 
obscurus Theobald 211 
Pachypappa 205 
Pachypappini 205 
*pachysiphon 193, 213, 216 
*pakistanica 193, 208, 209 
*pakistanicus 193, 209 
Paraprociphilus 205 
Pemphigini 205 
Pemphigus 193, 205, 207 
Periphyllus 193, 217, 218 
peucedani 211 
populinigrae 207 
Prociphilus 205 
*Pseudessigella 193, 219 
rubi 217 
rubicola 216 
rubifoliae 216, 217 
rubiphila 216 
salicti 200, 201 
Sitobion 213, 214 
sorini 216 
Stagona 205 
tataricae 193, 211 
turanicus 212 
ucrainensis 205 
ulmiphila 205 
*vandenboschi 193, 217 
xylostei 193 


SIPHONAPTERA 


Actenophthalmus 4 
agyrtes 4, 10, 12—14, 19, 
{21 
Amalaraeus 5 
Archaeopsylla 5, 17 
Archaeopsyllinae 5 
assimilis 4, 14 
bisoctodentatus 4 
borealis 5, 25, 28 
Callopsylla 2 
canis 5, 17, 18 
Ceratophyllidae 5 


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Ceratophyllinae 5 
Ceratophyllus 5, 10, 14, 17, 


1201222 27 
Chaetopsylla 5 
cheopis 19 
columbae 5, 22, 23, 25, 
[26, 30 


congener 4, 13 

continentalis 4 

Ctenocephalides 5, 17 

Ctenophthalminae 4 

Ctenophthalmus 4, 10—13, 
[19, 21 

cuniculi 5, 17, 30 

dasycnema 4, 7, 19 

Dasypsyllus 5, 20, 26, 27 

Doratopsylla 4, 7, 19 

Doratopsyllinae 4 

elongatus 4, 16 

erinacei 5, 14, 15, 17 

Euctenophthalmus 4 

eusarca 4, 16 

farreni 5, 23, 25, 29 

fasciatus 5, 7—14, 17—19, 

[24 

felis 5, 17, 18 

fringillae 5, 20—30 

Frontopsylla 2 

gallinae 5, 9, 10, 14—18, 
[20—30 

gallinulae 5, 20—22, 
[24—30 

garei 5, 14—16, 20—29 

globiceps 5 

heselhausi 4, 7—10 

Hexactenopsylla 4 

hexactenus 4, 16, 22 

hirundinis 5, 23—25, 29 

Hystrichopsylla 3 

Hystrichopsyllidae 3 

Hystrichopsyllinae 3 

intermedius 4 

irritans 5, 17, 18 

isacantha 4 

Ischnopsyllidae 4 

Ischnopsyllinae 4 

Ischnopsyllus 4, 16, 22 

jordani 25, 29, 30 

laeta 2 

laetitiae 2 

Leptopsylla 4, 8, 11, 12, 
[17, 19 

Leptopsyllidae 4 

Leptopsyllinae 4 

longiceps 4 

Malaraeus 5 

Megabothris 5, 10, 12, 13, 

{20 

melis 5 

minor 4, 8—10 

Monopsyllus 5, 15, 19, 
[22, 31 

mustelae 5 

myticus 4 


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nobilis 11 

Nosopsyllus 5, 11, 12, 17, 
[19, 24 

Nycteridopsylla 4, 16 

octactenus 4, 16 

octodecimdentata 5, 16 

Orfrontia 2 

Orneacus 2 

Ornithopsylla 2 

Palaeopsylla 4, 7, 10 

Paraceras 5 

penicilliger 5 

pentacantha 4, 13, 14 

pentactena 4.‘ 

Peromyscopsylla 4, 13 

poppei 3, 9 

Pulex 5, 17 


AVES 


Accipiter 23, 27, 28 
Acrocephalus 22, 26 
Aegithalos 21, 26 
alba iy 21 27 

alba Scop. 23, 2 
arctica 2 

Asio 27 

atra 22, 26 
caeruleus 21, 27 
caudatus 21, 26 
Chlidonias 22, 26 
Chloris 21, 26 
chloris 21, 26 
chloropus 22, 26 
citrinella 21, 26 
coelebs 21, 26 
collybita 26 
Columba 16, 22, 23, 27 
Columbidae 22 
corone 26 

Corvidae 23 

Corvus 23, 26, 27 
deca(o)cto 23, 27 
Delichon 2, 23 
domestica 22, 27 
domesticus 22, 27, 28 
Emberiza 21, 26 
ericetorum 20, 26 
Erithacus 21, 26 
Falco 23, 27 
Falconidae 23 

flava 21, 26 
Fratercula 2 
Fringilla 21, 26 
Fringillidae 21 
frugilegus 23, 27 
Fulica 22, 26 
Gallinula 22, 26 
Garrulus 23, 27 
glandarius 23, 27 
grabae 2 
Hirundinidae 23, 25, 26 


Pulicidae 5 

Pulicinae 5 

Rhadinopsylla 4, 14 
Rhadinopsyllinae 4 
Rhinolophopsylla 4 
rossittensis 5, 26 

rusticus 5, 23, 25, 29 
sciurorum 5, 14, 15, 19, 22, 


1235850 
segnis 4, 8, 10—12, 

OA) 
silvatica 4, 13—15 
simplex 4 


smitianus 4, 8—10, 
sano Wi, 28 

soricis 4, 7—9 

spectabilis 14 


VERTEBRATA 


Hirundo 23, 27 
Laridae 22 

livia 225 27 

major 21, 27 
merula 20, 26 
modularis 21, 26 
monedula 23, 27 
montanus 27 
Motacilla 21, 26, 27 
Motacillidae 21 
Muscipata 26, 28 
niger 22, 26 

nisus 23, 27, 28 
Oenanthe 30 
oenanthe 30 

oenas 16, 22, 27 
otus 27 

palumbus 23, 27 
palustris 27 
Paridae 21 

Parus 21, 27 
Passer 22, 27, 28 
Passeridae 22 
Phoenicurus 20, 26 
phoenicurus 20, 26 
Phylloscopus 26 
lc 25, 27 

pica 23, 27 
Picidae 22 È 
Picus 22, 27 
Procellaria 2 
Prunella 21, 26 
Prunellidae 21 
puffinus 2 
Rallidae 22 
Riparia 24, 27 
riparia 24, 27 
rubecula 21, 26 
rustica 23, 27 
scirpace(t)us 22, 26 
Streptopelia 23, 27 
striata 26, 28 
Strigidae 23 
Sturnidae 22 


Spilopsyllinae 5 

Spilopsyllus 5, 17 

styx 5, 24, 25, 29, 30 

talpae 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14 

Tarsopsylla 5, 16 

trichosa 5 

turbidus 5, 8—10, 12, 13, 
ZO, 2a 

Typhloceras 3, 9 

unipectinata 4 

variabilis 4 

Vermipsyllidae 5 

vulgaris 11 

walkeri 5 

waterstoni 2 

Xenopsylla 19 


Sturnus 22, 27, 28 
Sylviidae 22 
tinnunculus 23, 27 
Troglodytes 21, 26 
troglodytes 21, 26 
Troglodytidae 21 
Turdidae 20 
Turdus 20, 26 
turtur 23, 27 
Tyto 23, 27 
urbica 2, 23 
viridis 22, 27 
viscivorus 20, 26 
vulgaris 22, 27, 28 


MAMMALIA 


Apodemus 9, 10, 18 
araneus 6—9 

arvalis 10, 14 

auritus 16 

Chiroptera 16 
Clethrionomys 9, 13 
Crucidura 6—8 
Eptesicus 16 

erminea 14 

europaea. 8 

fodiens 8 

glareolus 9, 10, 13, 14 
leucodon 8 

lutreola 15, 31 
Microtinae 13 
Microtus 10, 14 
minutus 6—8, 31 
Murinae 9 

Mus 8, 11—13, 17 
musculus 8, 11—13, 17 
Mustela 14, 15, 18, 31 
Mustelidae 14, 15, 17 
Neomys 8 

nivalis 14, 15 

noctula 16 

norvegicus 10 
Nyctalus 16 
Pipistrellus 16 


pipistrellus 16 
Plecotus 16 
putorius 14, 18 
Rattus 10 
rattus 10 


Acer 193, 205, 218 
acmophila 193, 201 
Ajuga 137 
Aleurites 90 
alba (Populus) 252 
alba (Salix) 215 
Alnus 205 
altissimum 137 
amygdalus 137 
Anchusa 137 
Anthocephalus 88 
arnottiana 163 
Balsaminaceae 151 
benghalensis 164 
Berberis 193, 212, 213 
biebersteinii 239 
Bombaceae 87 
Bombax 87 
botryocarpa 163 
cadamba 88 
caesium 218 
campestre 218 
Carex 196 
Cerastium 239 
chinensis 88 
chrysolepis 163 
ciliata 193, 198, 199, 206, 
[207 
Clethra 216 
Colocasia 90 
comosa 290 
comosum 137 
Conosycea 163, 191 
Coriandrum 193 
Coronilla 137 
cotinifolium 193, 196, 197 
Crataegus 257 
Cyperaceae 196 
decidua 255 
Derris 76 
dilatata 193, 210, 211 
drassiramea 163, 164 
drupacea 163, 164 
enteritides 19 


REGISTER 


russula 6—8 
Sciuridae 15 
Sciurus 15, 18, 31 
serotinus 16 
Sorex 6—9, 31 


PLANTAE 


excelsa 202—204, 220, 255 

Ficus 163—168, 170, 172, 
[173, 176, 180, 185, 
[188, 191 

floribunda 138 

fluitans 260 

forstenii 163, 165 

Freycinetia 92 

Glyceria 260 

Hevea 59 

Impatiens 151, 154, 156 

Juncaceae 196 

Larix 255 

lasiocarpus 193, 214, 216 

Leptospira 17 

Lonicera 138, 193, 211 

malabaricum 87 

Manihot 87 

microcarpa 163 

moluccana 90 

Murraya 71, 87, 88 

Muscari 137 

nigra 207 

nota 163, 165, 172 

nutans 234 

Onagraceae 194 

oncidioides 156 

Ononis 237 

palmatus 216 

paniculata 71, 87 

Pasteurella 18, 19 

Pelargonium 238 

peltatus 216 

persica 137 

pestis 18 

Picea 255 

pictum 218 

Pinus 193, 202—204, 219, 

[220, 255 

platypetala 156 

Polygala 290 

Polygonum 238 

Polyporus 289 

Polystictus 289 


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Soricidae 7, 11 
sylvaticus 9, 10, 14, 18 
Talpa 8 

Talpidae 8 

vulgaris 15, 18, 31 


Populus 193, 198, 199, 
[206, 207, 252, 288 
Prunus 137, 257 
pseudacacia 140 
pubescens 163 
Quercus 193, 210, 211, 249 
racemosa 165 
Ribes 194 
Robinia 140 
Rubiaceae 88 
Rubus 193, 213, 214, 216, 
[217 
Rutacae 71, 87 
Salix 193, 197, 199—201, 
[251 
Salmonella 19 
Salvia 137 
sclera 137 
Silene 234 
spinosa 257 
strobus 255 
stupenda 163—168, 170, 
1172, 173, 176: 150) 
[185, 188, 191 
Sycidium 191 
tatarica 193, 211 
tetrasperma 193, 201 
tomentosum 239 
tremula 288 
Trifolium 283 
triviale 239 
tularensis 19 
typhimurium 19 
Umbelliferae 211 
Urostigma 165, 191 
utilissima 87 
Viburnum 193, 196, 197 
Vicia 140 
villosum 218 
viminalis 251 
vulgaris 290 
wallichiana 193, 202—204, 
[220 
wassae 191 


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