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Volume 116 1964 Number 3502 



NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, VI ^ 



GENERA ORSOTRICHA MEYRICK AND PALINORSA MEYRICK 

 (GELECHIIDAE, OECOPHORIDAE) 



By J. F. Gates Clarke 



The moths of the genera Orsotricha and Palinorsa have been con- 

 fused in collections for fifty years. Only the study of their types, 

 plus additional material, permits clarification of their relationships 

 at this time. 



Gelechiidae 



Orsotricha Meyrick 



Orsotricha Meyrick, 1914, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 269; 1922, in Wyts- 

 man, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 45. — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. 

 Agric. India, Ent. Ser., vol. 11, p. 156. — Gaede, in Bryk, 1938, Lepidop- 

 terorum catalogus, part 88, p. 87. — Clarke, 1963, Catalogue of the type 

 specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) 

 described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 4, p. 341, pi. 167, figs. 1-le. 



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

 parts of this same series are: I and II, J. F. Gates Clarke, 1962, Froc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 113, no. 3457, 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. 3502, pp. 183-196. 



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