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Haplotinea platyntis (Meyrick, 1894), new combination 



Figure 447 



Tinea platyntis Meyrick, 1894, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 28; 1911, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 21, p. 124. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . 

 Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 251. 



Tinea platyntis Meyrick, 1894, lectotype herewith selected: male, 

 labelled thus: "Koni, Burma, N.M,, 88" (small label written in ink in 

 Meyrick's hand). "Tinea snbochraceella Walsingham 6/12, E. Mey- 

 rick det., in Meyrick Coll." "Meyrick Coll. B.M. 1938-290"; genit. 

 slide 4721 (in the British Museum). 



This specimen and three other syn types of T. platyntis were arranged 

 in Meyrick collection, in the series of "Tinea subochraceella Walsing- 

 ham" and were labelled as such. These syn types are: one male, 

 "Koni, Burma, N.M., 88," "9/12," a female, with identical label, 

 "8/12," and finally, a male without abdomen, "Mooltan, Punjab, 

 N.M., 86," "2/12." 



The study of the male genitalia reveals that T. platyntis Meyrick 

 is a distinct species. 



Male genitalia: More robust than in the preceding. Valva more 

 concave. Uncus lobes rounded-triangular, arranged asymmetrically, 

 right turned down (this position was found invariable also in speci- 

 mens from Java) . Juxta + anellus triangular. 



Haplotinea eurycera, new species 



Figures 448, 785 



Male, 15 mm. Head snow white, tuft on face edged below with a 

 few dark fuscous hairs. Antenna strongly thickened, flattened dorso- 

 ventrally, glossy snow white (oval in cross section) ; scape short, 

 cylindrical. Palpus dark fuscous, tip whitish in certain lights. 

 Thorax purplish fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous brassy. 



Forewing pale fuscous with a strong gloss, purple in certain lights, 

 a darker fuscous streak along costa from base to apex, sometimes from 

 base to middle. Cilia brassy fuscous with a faint darker median line. 



Hindwing paler, pale brassy fuscous, becoming whitish towards 

 base, yellowish towards edge. Cilia fuscous golden, with a pale 

 yellowish base in certain lights. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen and vinculum completely joined so as to 

 form a broad ring. Uncus formed by two transverse small sclerites, 

 narrowed mesiad and joined so as to form a strong furcate projecting 

 part. Valva small, short, irregularly quadrate, thickened and padlike 

 sacculus triangularly prominent, cucuUus with an impression below 

 top. Juxta small, transverse. Anellus short, tubular. Aedeagus 

 rather short, not dilated. 



