J. D. Bradley

Some important Species of the Genus Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1899, with Descriptions of three new Species (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae)

This work was undertaken to unravel past confusion concerning the identity of certain economically important species of Cryptophlebia . It involved the study of several other species of the same genus and has resulted in the recognition of three new species and the transfer to Cryptophlebia of several species hitherto placed in other genera, mainly Argyroploce . The three new species are described and 14 species are redescribed. The distribution of each is given and the food-plants are listed where known. The adult female and the male and female genitalia of each of the new species and certain others are illustrated.

Identity of the South-East Asian cocoa moth, Conopomorpha cramerella (Snellen) (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of three allied new species

The identity and scientific name of the cocoa moth or cocoa pod borer, Conopomorpha cramerella (Snellen), the major pest of cocoa in South-East Asia and generally recorded in the literature as Acrocercops cramerella, are clarified. Three previously unrecognized congeneric species are described and differentiated, viz. C. oceanica sp. n., C. sinensis sp. n. and C. litchiella sp. n. Wing pattern, male and female genitalia are figured for each species.

Marasmia Patnalis sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) on Rice in S.E. Asia

A pyralid moth belonging to the Marasmia generic complex of leaf-rolling defoliators of rice in S.E. Asia is described and named M. patnalis sp. n. It is differentiated from M. bilinealis (Hmps.), M. ruralis (Wlk.), M. suspicalis (Wlk.) and Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Gn.), with which it had previously been confused because of similarity of the adults and shared host-plant association.

Taxonomic Notes on Leucoptera meyricki Ghesquiere and Leucoptera coffeella (Guerin-Meneville) (Lepidoptera, Lyonetiidae)

Records of Leucoptera coffeella (Guer.) from Kenya and Tanganyika have been found to be based on misidentifications and to refer to a distinct species, Leucoptera meyricki Ghesq. Other records of coffeella from the Old World seem open to doubt and require to be reinvestigated since they may also be based on misidentifications. L. coffeella seems likely to be a Neotropical species predominant in the West Indies. A lectotype is designated for meyricki , but the type material of coffeella cannot be traced and the identity of the latter species remains to be properly established. The present generic assignment of meyricki and coffeella in the genus Leucoptera Hubn. needs to be reconsidered in the light of the new genus Perileucoptera Silvestri (1943).

The identity of Chilo kanra (Fletcher) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a stem-borer of wild and semi-cultivated Saccharum in northern India.

The identity of Chilo kanra (Fletcher), an obscure stem-borer of the wild and semi-cultivated grasses Saccharum fuscum and S. arundinaceum in northern India, is ratified on the basis of recently collected material from Bihar. A neotype is designated, and the adults and genitalia are illustrated. The species is differentiated from its congener C. partellus (Swinh.), a widely distributed pest of sugar-cane and other graminaceous crops in India and Africa. A neotype is also designated for C. saccharicola Fletcher, a stem-borer described at the same time as C. kanra and now found to be conspecific and a junior synonym.

A new species of Phyllonorycter (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on Lonicera quinquelocularis in northern Pakistan

A gracillariid moth belonging to the subfamily Lithocolletinae that was reared from larvae mining the leaves of Lonicera quinquelocularis (Caprifoliaceae), a weed in northern Pakistan, is described and named Phyllonorycter montanella sp. n. The larvae make blotch mines on the underside of the leaves and were discovered in the Murree Hills at about 2600 m.