MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS — CLARKE 



Species Described as New 



Juania magnifica 67924 



paraloxia 67923 



loxia 67922 



glareola 67921 



imitator 67920 



imperfecta 67919 



chiloma 67918 



byssifera 67917 



parva 67916 



derelicta 67915 



minima 67914 



abbreviata 67913 



nitidissima 67912 



grisea 67911 



pepita 67910 



xerophylla 67909 

 Fernandocr ambus kuscheli 67908 



truncus 67907 



fundus 67906 



corvU:S 67905 



arcus 67904 



oxyechus 67903 

 Crambus divus 67902 

 Loxostege oxalis 67931 

 Pyrausta louvinia 67930 

 Mnesictena tetragramma 67929 

 Oiorgia crena 67928 

 Scoparia pyraustoides 67927 



dela 67926 



matuia 67925 

 Nesochoris holographa 67932 



brachystigma 67933 

 Gnorimoschema hemilitha 67934 



melanolepis 67935 

 Echinoglossa trinota 67936 

 Pseudarla miranda 67937 

 Anchimompha melaleuca 67938 

 Nanodacna indiscriminata 67940 

 Leuroperna leioptera 67943 

 Eudolichura exuta 67942 

 Melitonympha telluris 67941 



These species are assigned to 35 genera of which the following are 

 described as new: Oiorgia, Nesochoris, Parasuleima, Pseudarla, 

 Echinoglossa, Anchimompha, Eudolichura, and Leuroperna. In addi- 

 tion, the genera Platyptilia, Stenoptilia, Ekismopalpus , Oeobia, 

 Nomophila, Pyrausta, Loxostege, Mnesictena, Gnorimoschema, Bedellia, 

 Oinophila, Monopis, Lindera, Trichophaga, Tinea, Plutella, Melito- 

 nympha, MartyrhUda, and Brenthia are recorded for the first time from 

 these islands. 



In the Juan Fernandez Islands there are two categories of Micro- 

 lepidoptera: (1) those which have found their way there through the 

 agency of man; (2) those which have arrived through the ages by 

 natural means, or those that have evolved from them. 



In the first group are the refuse feeders and household pests and the 

 species attached to various plants grown for food. These are: Lindera 

 tessellatella Blanchard, Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens), Tinea 

 pallescentella Stainton, Tinea pellionella Linnaeus, and Trichophaga 

 tapetzella (Linneaus), aU of which attack woolens and other stored 

 animal products. Oinophila v-flava (Haworth), a European species, 

 is reported as feeding on refuse, or fungi on cellar walls. Endrosis 

 sarcitrella (Linnaeus), the widely distributed "white-shouldered house 

 moth," attacks everything from wool to stored cereals and dried meat 

 and may be encountered anywhere near human habitation. 



It is indeed strange that such cosmopolitan household or stored 

 food-products pests as Plodia interpunctella (Htibner) , Ephestia cautella 



