MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 11 



somewhat lateral and subapical in the wall of the aedeagus; however, 

 m a few species this structure is entirelj^ absent. 



Key to the Philippine Species of Adoxophyes 



1. Forewing with transverse fascia furcate below 2 



Forewing with transverse fascia not furcate 3 



2. Hindwing light pink A. fasciculana 



Hindwing pale ochreous fuscous (cf ) or tawny fuscous(9) . . A. privatana 



3. Males 4 



Females 5 



4. Transverse fascia narrow, straight, slightly undulate; apical patch fasciate. 



A. perstricta 



Transverse fascia moderate, dilated on dorsum, outwards-convex; apical patch 



wedge-shaped A. aurata, new species 



5. Markings more reduced, usually obliterate on dorsum; apical patch reduced. 



A. aurata, new species 



Markings more developed, not obliterate on dorsum; apical patch more 



developed A. perstricta 



Adoxophyes fasciculana (Walker, 1866) 



Figure 482 



Tortrix fasciculana Walker, 1866, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 35, 

 p. 1785. 



Adoxophyes fasciculana. — Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 35, p. 209; 1912, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 10, 

 p. 14 (asciculama, err. typogr.) ; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, 

 fasc. 149, p. 18 (syn.: cyrtosema Meyrick, luzonica Sauber). — Diakonoff, 1941, 

 Treubia, vol. 18, p. 34; 1952, Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, 

 no. 1, p. 155. 



Tortrix luzonica Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen, Inseln 

 vol. 2, p. 703, pi. 5, figs. 9-10 (larva). 



Distribution: New Guinea, St. Aignan Is., Moluccas, Philippine 

 Is., Solomon Is., Fiji, Tonga. 



No Philippine material was available to me. 



Adoxophyes aurata, new species 



Figures 1-6, 487-488 



Male, 14-15 mm. Head Ught ochreous yellow, crown suffused 

 with tawny. Palpus moderate, porrected; light ochreous yellow, 

 terminal segment light tawny. Thorax pale ochreous yellow with 

 a golden gloss, shoulder suffused with bright ochreous yellow. Abdo- 

 men glossy pale ochreous yellow. 



Forewing broad, truncate, dilated, broadest at 3/4. Costa with 

 a fold from beyond base almost to 1/3, gradually arched from base 

 to apex, apex obtuse, termen vertical above, httle rounded below. 

 Whitish yellow, \\dth a golden gloss; markings tawny lilac, edged 

 with dark brown or entu'ely dark brown. Costal edge clearly suffused 



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