Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Volume 117 1965 Number 3508 



MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS 



By J. F. Gates Clarke 



Chairman, Department of Entomology 



Introduction 



It has been my privilege and pleasure to study the Microlepidoptera 

 collected in the Juan Fernandez Islands in 1951, 1952, and 1955 by 

 Dr. Guillermo Kuschel, Centro de Investigationes Zoologicas, Uni- 

 versity of Chile, Santiago, and to him my thanks are due for this 

 opportunity. 



Through the coui-tesy of Dr. Kuschel I have been permitted to 

 deposit the types of all the new species in the collection of the U.S. 

 National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Paratypes of some of the 

 species, where series permitted, are also in the Museum, while others 

 are distributed in the Natural History Museum and the University 

 of Chile in Santiago. 



My sincere thanks are due Dr. Lars Brundin, Naturhistoriska 

 Riksmuseum, Stockholm, for his generous permission to study Auri- 

 villius' types deposited in that institution. To Mr. John D. Bradley, 

 Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History), I am 

 also grateful for his help received on many occasions. 



The drawings for this paper were made by Mr. Arthur D. Cushman, 

 staff artist of the Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture; Mrs. Patricia Hogue; Mrs. Caroline Lutz, staff artist, 

 Department of Zoology, Smithsonian Institution; and by myself. 



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