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Pseudatteria (JPseudatteria) chrysanthema (Meyrick) 



Plates 6, 7, 41 



Alteria chrysanthema Meyrick, 1912, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, for 1911, p. 676. — 

 Clarke, 1955, Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the 

 British Museum described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 88. 



Pseudatteria chrysanthema. — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, 

 pt. 10, p. 16; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 22. — Clarke, 

 1958, Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British 

 Museum described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 3, p. 195, pi. 97, figs. 3-3c. 



Female genitalia. — Sinus vaginalis wide, flatly infundibular; 

 lamella antevaginalis narrow, obtusely angulate cephalad. Antrum 

 short and almost regularly cylindrical; cervical portion of corpus 

 bursae with fine, sometimes harldy discernible striation; cestum short, 

 occasionally vestigial, generally with a longitudinal carina; corpus 

 bursae long, rather broad; signum scobinate, rather triangular. 



Types. — Lectotype, female (genitaha on slide 4435, JFGC), 

 "San Augustin," Colombia, 3500 ft., September 1895 ("S.") ; BM. 

 One lectoparatype, female, Iquitos ("Yquitos"), Loreto, Peru, 1906 

 ("S."; Meyrick Collection) ; BM. 



Other specimens examined. — -Colombia: 9, no exact data; DEI. 

 9, Bogotd, Cundinamarca (J. G. Foetterle) ; VMNH. 2 99, Guainia 

 ("Ober Rio Negro"), Vaupes, 800 m. (A. H. Fassl); BM. Venezuela: 

 2 99 (genitaha of one on shde 636-Obr.), no exact data; AMNH. 

 British Guiana: 9, no locahty data, November-December 1902 

 (C. B. Roberts); BM. 9, Georgetown, Demerara (Casbell); BM. 

 9, Akaima ('Tort Akayma"), Rio Demerara; AMNH. 2 99, Berbice 

 (Crowley) ; BM. Ecuador: 9, no exact data (S. E. Cassino Collection) ; 

 MCZ. 9, Zamora, May 1886 ; USNM. 4 99, Loja vicinity, Loja, 1883, 

 and 1887; USNM. 9 (genitalia slide, prepared by A. Busck on Mar. 

 30, 1926), El Monje near Loja, Loja, 1893 (Dognin); USNM. 

 Peru: 9, no exact data (M. de Mathan) ; BM. 2 99, Cuzco, January 

 1901 (Garlepp); BM. 5 99 (genitaha of one on slide 8655), Rio 

 Chanchosmayo ("Chanchamayo"), Cuzco, June-August 1901 (Hof- 

 mann), 1898, and 1912 (O. Schuncke) ; B^L 2 99, La Merced, Junin 

 (R. Toro), and 1915 ("W."; Meyrick Collection) ; BM. 9, Rio Col- 

 orado, Junin, 2500 ft., August 1903 (Watkins and Tomhnson) ; BM. 

 9 (genitaha slide 4436, JFGC), Moyobamba, San Martin, "V Sem." 

 1887 (M. de Mathan); USNM. 9, Tarapoto, San Martin, May- 

 August 1885 (M. de Mathan); BM. Boh\da: 6 99, no exact data 

 (71076, 71077; Rolle Heyne, 13497-13499; Germain); BM. 9, Rio 

 Zongo ("Songo"), 750 m.; VMNH. 9 (genitaha slide 67-Obr., 1963), 

 same locahty, 2500 ft., 1930 ("Z.") ; USNM. 2 99, Chapare, 400 m., 

 July 15, 1948, and Aug. 5, 1950 (R. Zischka); ZSM. 9, Prov. del 

 Sara, Santa Cruz, 450 m. (J. Steinbach; Meyrick Collection) ; BM. 



