MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS — CLARKE 97 



longitudinal, brownish streaks; basal half of dorsum narrowly fuscous; 

 at end of cell, between veins 3 and 5 a fuscous spot; entire surface 

 of wing sparsely and irregularly irrorate with fuscous; cilia ocherous 

 white. Hind wing sordid white shading to pale gray apically; cilia 

 sordid white. Legs ocherous white; foreleg shaded with fuscous on 

 outer side. Abdomen grayish above, ocherous white beneath. 



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104b 



104 



Figures 102-104. — Melitonympha telluris, new species: 102, venation of wings. 103, 

 lateral aspect of head showing palpus; 104, ventral view of male genitalia with left 

 harpe and aedeagus removed; 104a, ventral view of gnathos; 104b, lateral aspect of 

 aedeagus. 



Male genitalia (slide 10442): Harpe simple, very broad; cucullus 

 rounded. Vinculum rather narrow; saccus short, bluntly pointed. 

 Gnathos spoon shaped apically. Socii slender, digitate. Aedeagus 

 strongly ciu-ved with dorsobasal protuberance for entrance of vesica; 

 vescia armed with three prominent cornuti. 



Type: Masatierra: Alto Ingles, 600 m. (Feb. 6, 1952). 



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