NO. 3585 MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XII — DUCKWORTH 7 



Venados, Venezuela {badiella) ; Nova Teutonia, Brazil, 300-500 m 

 (maculata) . 



Food plant : Psidimn guajava L. 



Distribution : Paraguay : San Bernadino (no date) ; Central Para- 

 guay (no date); Sapucay (September). Bolivia: Rio Yacuma, 

 Espiritu (July). Argentina: Parana, San Ignacio Mission (August). 

 Brazil: Nova Teutonia, 300-500 m (October); Teffe (December, 

 January); Santarem (no date). French Guiana: St. Laurent 

 (October). Surinam: Moengo, Boven, Cottica River (May). British 

 Guiana: Christianburg, R. Demerara (no date). Venezuela: 

 Caracas, Los Venados (no date) ; Maracay (August) ; Macapo (June) . 

 Colombia: Bogota (no date). 



Through the courtesy of Dr. F. Fernandez Yepez, Facultad de 

 Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, I have had the oppor- 

 tunity to study a large series of specimens of this species reared from 

 guava, Psidimn guajava L., in Venezuela. This represents the first 

 host-plant record in the genus Lethata and suggests some interesting 

 possibilities should additional information indicate a close relationship 

 between this genus and either the family Myrtaceae in general or 

 the genus Psidium in particular. In any event, the knowledge at 

 hand permits a clearer understanding of the widespread distribution 

 of this species (see map 2) that has undoubtedly contributed to its 

 description as new on three separate occasions as established in my 

 recent paper (196G) and listed in the above synonymy. 



Lethata aromatica (Meyrick) 



Figure 32; Map 1 

 Stcnoma aromatica Meyrick, 1915, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 449. 



Female genitalia (slide WDD 360S) : Ductus bursae with corrugated 

 sclerotization from ostium bursae to beyond inception of ductus 

 seminalis, with accessory pouch originating from near corpus bursae; 

 ostium bursae sclerotized, flaring laterally at inception of ductus 

 bursae; inception of ductus seminalis near ostium bursae. 



Type: In the British Museum (Natural History). 



Type-locality: Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Distribution: Brazil: Sao Paulo (no date); Parand (no date); 

 Castro, Parana (no date) ; Espirito Santo (June) ; Santa Catherina 

 (no date); Taperinha (June, August, September). 



Additional material obtained primarily from the British Museum 

 has increased the range of this species; how^ever, it still appears to be 

 restricted to Brazil. This same material provided the first female 

 specimens of this species from which the above description was 

 derived. 



