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Food plants: Thea (tea plant, leaves), Pinus merkusii (inflores- 

 cence) . 



Material examined: Luzon, Mountain Province, Baguio, 7. V. 1945, 

 1 9, genit. slide 5093 (J.G. Franclemont) (GUI). Mindanao, Davao, 

 La Lun Mts., Calian, 5500 ft., 29-31. XII.1930 (Clagg), 1 cf , genit. 

 slide 5696 (CNHM). 



Adoxophyes Meyrick, 1881 



Adoxophyes Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 429; 

 1883, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 15, p. 39; 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 35, p. 205; 1912, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, 

 fasc. 10, p. 13; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 18; 

 1929, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 98, p. 710. — Walsingham, 

 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 481,— Fernald, 1908, Genera 

 of the Tortricidae and their types, p. 42, 60. — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. 

 Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 6. — Diakonoff, 1939, Zool. Meded., vol. 

 21, p. 126, 159, figs. 41 (head), 4F (neuration), 7F-G (geiTit. d"), 4B (genit. ? ) ; 

 1952, Verb. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 155; 1960, op. 

 cit., vol. 53, p. 12; 1961, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 130, p. 50. — Obraztsov, 

 1954, Tijdschr. Entom., vol. 97, p. 198, figs. 126-130, 139. 



Type species: Adoxophyes heteroidana Mejrick, 1881 (Australia). 



The taxonomy of the present genus is confused, whUe the dis- 

 crimination of its species is difficult. This is chiefly due to the dubious 

 indentity of certain old species, inadequately described by Walker, 

 Pagenstecher, and others, and also to the similarity of both the 

 external and internal structures of the numerous species. 



It was a satisfaction to find and study many types of Adoxophyes 

 in the British Museum (Natural History). Walker's types were 

 all present, as also the types of Pagenstecher's classical paper on the 

 Lepidoptera of the Bismarck Archipelago; these latter types came 

 to the British Museum with Lord Rothschild's collection. 



Unfortunately, the elaborate revision of the Australian Adoxophyes 

 on which J.F.B. Common has been working for several years is not 

 yet available. That is the reason why I abstained, thus far, from 

 publishing a survey of the Malayan and Papuan Adoxophyes species. 

 During a short visit to the Leiden Museum several years ago, Mr, 

 Common showed me his figures and notes on Australian and Papuan 

 Adoxophyes; we compared them with my data on the Malayan species. 



The male genitalia of the present genus are of two principal types, 

 those with normal and those with enlarged valvae. The females, 

 on the other hand, differ in the shape of the signum: either a dagger 

 or a denticulate patch. The genus needs a thorough revision. 



The species of the first category differ only by minor characters 

 of the male genitalia, such as the shape of the gnathos and of the 

 aedeagus, and especially the shape and size of a rigid spike situated 



