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XIV. — NEW MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY E. MEYRICK, B. A., F. R. S. 



The following descriptions of new genera and species of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera (principally from Java) are drawn from specimens preserved 

 in the collections of the 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, 

 Leiden, which have been submitted to me for study. They afford an 

 interesting insight into this portion of the fauna of Java, which has been 

 little studied hitherto except for a few descriptions by Snellen and van 

 Deventer; 122 new species from Java are here recorded, and nearly an 

 equal number of additional species (mostly forms from Assam or Ceylon) 

 were noted. 



PHALOMADAE. 

 Clysia ambiguella Hübn. 



Java, Preangor, 5000 feet (Sythoff); 4 specimens, of which two have 

 the dark median fascia widely interrupted in disc, and two have the 

 costal half of the fascia strongly marked but the dorsal half entirely 

 absent. Although I have no similar examples of this variable species 

 amongst my series from India and Ceylon, I am unable without further 

 evidence to treat these as distinct species, though they may indicate 

 such in process of formation; I do not find any structural difference, 

 and additional material might give intermediate forms. 



TORTRICIDAE. 



Capua vulgaris n. sp. 



cf 9 12 — 14 mm - Head, palpi, and thorax pale greyish-ochreous or 

 brownish, more or less mixed with blackish. Fore wings rather elongate, 

 costa in tf moderately arched, with strong fold extending from base to 

 beyond middle, in 9 moderately arched anteriorly, then nearly straight, 

 apex obtuse-pointed, termen rather oblique, in tf straight, in 9 hardly 

 sinuate ; light greyish-ochreous or brownish, more or less mixed irregularly 

 with brownish-crimson and fuscous ; markings formed by irregular dark 

 grey suffusion and blackish strigulation ; a well-marked basal patch, edge 

 angulated in middle; central fascia in cT broad, suffused, indistinct, in 9 

 reduced to a costal spot; costal patch flattened-triangular, forming three 

 darker spots on costal edge : cilia pale greyish-ochreous or brownish. 

 Hindwings pale grey, indistinctly mottled with grey, on lower surface 

 whitish-tinged with more distinct grey mottling; cilia whitish-grey. 



Java, Preangor, 5000 feet (Sythoff ; 4 specimens. 



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(11— XI— 1921) 



