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DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



BY 



E. MeYRICK, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



XIV. 



{Contintied from page 736 of Volmne XX. J 

 PTEROPHORIDiE. 



Deuterocopus, Z. 



I think that Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher in his recent paper on this genus 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1910) has not yet got to the bottom of the difficul- 

 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 viticola, n. sp. 



S ? . 9-10 mm. 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. Antennse black lined with white, 

 ciliations in c? |. 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- 

 rupted 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 f of upper; ferruginous-brown, 

 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 

 segment is suffused with fulvous-ochreous ; second segment with a trans- 

 verse fine median line of a few white scales : cilia bronzy-fuscous, faintly 

 rosy-tinged, slightly mixed with white scales on basal f of upper cleft and 

 basal half of lower, beyond this with a dark fuscous patch on upper margin 

 of second and third segments reaching apex, and on lower margin of aU 

 segments extending to apex and limited by a gently curved colinear 

 (subcontinuous) black basal line at apex of each segment, .but on two upper 



