Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



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Volume 122 1967 Number 3591 



NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XIV ^ 



CHILEAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA DESCRIBED BY 

 EMILIO BLANCIIARD 



By J. F. Gates Clarke 



Senior Scientist, Department of Entomology 



Through the coiu'tesy of Dr. Pierre Viette, Museum Nationale 

 d'Histou*e Naturelle, Paris, I have enjoyed the privilege of examining 

 some of the types of ChUean Microlepidoptera described by Emilio 

 Blanchard in 1852. The species recorded in this paper, the types of 

 which I have examined, are Epigraphia albella, Palpula variegella, 

 Aecophora candidella, Elachista rubella, E. cupreella, E. aureella, and 

 E. maculella. Apparently the type of Elachista obscurella (the fifth 

 species described in the latter genus) has been lost or destroyed. 



All of the above were described as "Tineidas" and, as far as I am 

 able to ascertain, no attempt has been made to assign these species to 



' Prepared with the aid of a National Science Foundation Grant. Previous 

 parts of this same series are: I and II, Clarke, 19G2, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 113, no. 34.57, pp. 373-388; III, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 115, no. 3480, pp. 61-84; 

 IV, Duckworth, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3497, pp. 97-114; V, Obraztsov, 1964, 

 ibid., vol. 116, no. 3501, pp. 183-196; VI, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3502, 

 pp. 197-204; VII, Obraztsov, 1966, ibid., vol. 118, no. 3527, pp. 221-232; VIII, 

 Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 118, no. 3531, pp. 391-404; IX, Obraztsov, 1966, 

 ibid., vol. 118, no. 3.535, pp. 577-622; X, Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 119, no. 3540, 

 pp. 1-6; XI, Obraztsov, 1966, ibid., vol. 119, no. 3543, pp. 1-12; XII, Duckworth, 

 1967, ibid., vol. 122, no. 3585, pp. 1-38; XIII, Duckworth, 1967, ibid., vol. 122, 

 no. 3590, pp. 1-8. 



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