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DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MiICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 
BY 
By. MEvRICK, B.A, | FR.Se F.Z.S: 
XIV. 
(Continued from page 736 of Volwne XX.) 
PTEROPHORIDA. 
Deuterocopus, Z. 
I think that Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher in his recent paper‘on this gonus 
(Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1910) has not yet got to the bottom of the difticul- 
ties connected with it. The whole subject cannot be discussed here, but 
I consider that the two following forms are truly and recognisably distinct 
from socotranus and from each other. It will greatly assist the study of the 
genus if collectors, who come across a species in plenty, will take a good 
series of specimens at the same place and time, which can be relied on as 
specifically identical, and also ascertain the species of vine which they 
frequent. 
Deuterocopus viticula, n. sp. 
$2. 9-30mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brown sprinkled with dark 
fuscous, face more ochreous, thorax beneath yellowish-white. Palpi 
whitish, second and terminal joints each with two ferruginous bands more 
or less sprinkled with dark fuscous. Antenne black lined with white, 
ciliations in ¢ 3. Abdomen ferruginous-ochreous more or less suffused 
with brown, basal segment with two white spots, second segment forming a 
darker brown band, its posterior margin mixed with white, behind this with 
two interrupted white lines, beneath yellowish-white with a usually inter- 
supted slight ferruginous bar on margin of third segment. Legs brown 
more or less irrorated with dark fuscous, with indistinct rings of white 
irroration. Forewings with lower cleft % of upper; ferruginous-browa, 
variably irrorated with dark fuscous ; two or three white scales at base of 
upper cleft ; the dark irroration forms a patch on base of first segment and 
an inwardly oblique fascia at its middle, between and beyond which the 
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