NO. 3543 MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XI — OBRAZTSOV 9 



Idolatteria fasciata, new species 



Plate 7 



Male. — Antenna blackish brown with black ann illation; tip white 

 scaled. Labial palpus black with inner surface of basal and second 

 segments cream yellow. Head black; face encircled by cream yellow. 

 Thorax black with prismatic blue hue; its middle, posterior margin, 

 and tips of tegula orange. Abdomen brown black with orange yellow, 

 on ventral surface paler, postsegmental rings. Forewing orange with 

 markings prismatic blue or violet, arranged as follows: A narrow band 

 at wing basis, obhqiie externad; a broad, almost vertical band before 

 middle of forewdng and crossing it from costa to dorsum; a third band, 

 parallel to and almost as broad as former, and located just beyond 

 middle of forewing; a large, round or slightly piriform spot in external 

 thkd of forewing, separated from or connected to a much smaller 

 tornal spot; a triangular costal streak in interspace of first and second 

 bands; two or three more or less rotundate costal dots distad of third 

 transverse band, and a similar dot on forewing apex; five more or less 

 separate dots on termen; ciha black. Length of forewing 9.5-10.0 

 mm. Hind wing orange wdth brownish-black spots: an irregularly 

 shaped spot at wing basis, separate or fused with a dorsal spot; a more 

 or less rotundate spot at middle of disc, separate or fused with a dorsal 

 spot, other than already mentioned; sometimes these two dorsal spots 

 fused together; a rotundate or slightly piriform spot in external 

 portion of \ving, lying free or occasionally reaching to termen; a small 

 preapical dot on costa; a more or less rotundate apical dot; two or 

 three terminal dots; cUia orange yellow, sUghtly checked with black 

 in front of terminal dots, or entirely black. 



Female. — Similar to male, but with antenna not white at tip; third 

 band of forewing not reaching dorsum, or connected with it by means 

 of a narrow streak; interspace of second and third bands of forewing 

 with spots, a larger one on costa, a smaller on dorsum; spots in basal 

 half of hindwing fused together. Length of forewing 11 mm. 



Male genitalia. — Uncus moderately long, tapering apicad, bas- 

 ally distinctly broader than apically, with tip somewhat obtuse, 

 Valva strongly rotundate dilated in basal portion; cucullus moderately 

 broad; sacculus before middle with an arcuate elevation directed 

 dorsad. Aedeagus wdth a moderately long tip; coecum penis elongate, 

 acutely narrowed at bottom. 



Female genitalia. — Sinus vaginalis tureen shaped, rounded at 

 bottom; lamella antevaginalis narrow, equally arcuate. Antrum 

 cyHndrical, fused with adjacent portion of ductus bursa bearing two 

 lateral coUiciUi. Signum straight, dagger shaped; caudal and cephalic 



