TORTRICIDAE FROM THE SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA (LEPIDOPTERA) by A. DIAKONOFF Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Netherlands Several years ago I have been entrusted with a small but extremely interesting collection of Tortricidae brought home by Mr. H. Legrand from a collecting expedition to the Seychelle Islands and Aldabra in 1959 and I960. The study of this material has been inadvertently delayed, so that unfortunately only a few data on the Tortricidae could be incorporated by the collector in his survey of the Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra (Legrand, 1965). The present paper forms a small addition to that extensive publication. The Tortricidae of the region have been captured before only incidentally, so that even in the present small collection consisting of 19 species which belong to 11 genera, not less than three genera and 14 species had to be described as apparently new to science. The types and other representative material will be deposited in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. I am greatly indebted to the collector and to the authorities of that Museum for the opportunity to work this interesting material and for the permission to retain a few duplicates for the collection of the Leiden Museum. Tortricinae Adoxophyes ergatica Meyrick PI. 1 Fig. 1—3 Adoxophyes ergatica Meyrick, 191lb: 267 (9, Silhouette). — 1924: 546 (Rodriguez Id.). — Clarke, 1955: 131. — 1958: 20, pi. 10 fig. 2 (holotype, wings figured). — Legrand, 1965: 82. Distribution*). Seychelles: Silhouette Id. — Rodriguez Id. This species has been described after two female specimens of which only one is left in Meyrick Collection. This somewhat damaged specimen has been indicated by Clarke (1958) as "type", but is a syntype instead. Formally it is selected lectotype herewith. The present material is as follows. Seychelles, Mahé Id., Beau Vallon, 28. III. I960 (no. 359), genit. slide no. 7543, 1 9; the same locality, 26.VI.1960 (no. 380), genit. slide no. 7544, I $. — Coëtivy Id., 21.11.1959 (no. 39), genit. slide no. 7542, \ $ . — Desroches Id., 9.IV.1959 (no. 39), 1 5 . In total 3 $ , I $ . Originally from Silhouette. The male from Coëtivy may be described thus. $ 16 mm, neallotype. Head, palpus, thorax light ochreous, thorax with a slight raised tuft, marked at the sides with dark purple. Fore wing oblong-oval, distinctly narrowed, costa with a narrow and slight, not entirely closed fold to before ^ ; wing strongly arched anteriorly in a broad continuous arc to before apex, posteriorly appearing less curved, apex moderately rounded, termen vertical, gently concave above, broadly rounded beneath. *) Derived from literature. 81
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