THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLIV.] FEBKUARY, 1911. [No. 573 



SOME SPECIES OP CRAMBI, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OF TWO NEW ONES. 



By the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Plate I.) 



Mr. Geza Uhryk collected in several localities for me in 

 Hungary during the year 1909. In July, at Drava Sarvas, 

 Szerem Co., he obtained a single male specimen of a Crambus 

 which seemed to me quite different from any species which 

 I knew. Dr. Rebel, to whom I submitted this Drava Sarvas 

 example, pronounced it to be undoubtedly a new species, unless 

 it were identical with the recently described Crambus hungaricus 

 (PI. I. fig. 5), which he had not seen, and with specimens of 

 which he advised me to compare my example. Through the 

 kindness and courtesy of the Director and the Lepidopterist of 

 the Hungarian National Museum, I have been able to examine 

 specimens of C. hungaricus, Schmidt (Arch. Zool. i. No. 9, 

 pp. 31-32, 1909), and to submit the same to my friend Dr. 

 Jordan, together with the single specimen of the new species 

 referred to above, and a series of C. contnminellus (PL I. fig. 1). 

 Dr. Jordan has kindly sent me numerous notes on these insects, 

 upon which the remarks and descriptions of the present article 

 are based. 



Crambus hungaricus has a fully-developed retinaculum pro- 

 jecting from the costa of the fore wing, like C. geniculeus, C. 

 selaaellus, C. culminellus, and others ; whereas the present new 

 species has only a tuft of scales projecting forward from the 

 median vein, as obtains in C. contaminellus, C. inquinatellus, G. 

 perlellus, C. tristellus, and allies. The antennae of C. hungaricus 

 (male) are prominently serrated, as stated by the author. The 

 clasper of that sex is broad and sole-shaped, and is devoid of the 

 long rod found in contaminellus and the present new species. The 

 scaling on the outer surface of the clasper, moreover, is similar 

 to that of the abdomen, while in contaminellus and the present 

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