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are actually rare in nature, or if their apparent rarity is due merely 

 to the fact that their habitats have not been discovered by collectors. 



In their appearance the Idolatteria species are strikingly colored 

 moths, superficially very similar to those of the genera Pseudatteria 

 Walsingham and Atteria Walker. Especially impressive is the fact 

 that the resemblance is displayed even in a parallelism of the various 

 types of the wing pattern observed in these three genera. For 

 instance, Idolatteria xanthocapna (Meyrick) might easily be confused 

 with Pseudatteria heliocausta (Dognin), and the two new Idolatteria 

 species, I. Jasciata and /. cantharopisca, covdd be mistaken for dwarfs 

 of P. cantharopa (Meyrick). Only carefid examination of structural 

 characters can provide a definitive generic separation of the specimens 

 belonging to the three named genera. 



The most hnportant generic distinction is present in the genitalia, 

 and according to this character all three genera must be referred to 

 three separate tribes of the subfamily Tortricinae of the family 

 Tortricidae. Pseudatteria belongs to the tribe Polyorthini, Atteria 

 to Anacrusiini, and Idolatteria to Archipini. Actually the wing 

 venation alone is satisfactory for separating the three genera. Idolat- 

 teria and Pseudatteria differ from Atteria in having the veins R4 and 

 R5 of the forewing separate; in the latter genus they are stalked. In 

 Idolatteria the vein R5 of the forewing runs to the termen, in Pseudat- 

 teria to the wing apex. 



The author acknowledges with thanks the kind cooperation of 

 Mr. J. D. Bradley of the British Museum (Natural History) [BM], 

 Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke of the U.S. National Museum [USNM], 

 Dr. H. J, Hannemann of the Zoological Institut and Museum of the 

 Humboldt University in Berlin [ZMB], and Dr. F. H. Rindge of the 

 American Museum of Natural History [AMNH], who supplied the 

 materials for the present paper. 



Genus Idolatteria Walsingham, 1913 



Figures 1-3; Plates 1-8 



Atteria (not Walker). — Druce, 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 7, p. 440. 



Pseudatteria (in part). — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, 

 pt. 10, p. 16; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 22; 1930, 

 Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 607. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue of the type 

 specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum described by Edward 

 Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 227, 326; 1958, ibid., vol. 3, pp. 199, 200. 



Idolatteria Walsingham, 1913, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana, Lepidoptera Heterocera, vol. 4, p. 214; 1914, ibid., vol. 4, p. 270. — 

 Obraztsov, 1966, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas., vol. 118, no. 3535, p. 619. 



Type species : Idolatteria simulatrix Walsingham, 1913 ; by monotypy 

 and original designation. 



Head smooth, sides of vertex with cristae of longer and raised 



