MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 13 



lilac, edged with dark brown, sometimes wiiig more or less strewn 

 with brown or fulvous dots. Basal patch indicated by a suffused 

 dot or transverse streak in middle of wing, before its base, often 

 absent, seldom extended; transverse fascia more oblique than in 

 male, from 1/3 of costa to 2/3 of dorsum, with wedge-shaped spots 

 on both costa and dorsum, connected by a narrow, rather suffused 

 straight streak; a few dark brown transverse strigulae and irroration 

 along posterior fourth of dorsum; costal patch broken in two parts, 

 viz., on 3/4 of costa, two transverse dark brown strigulae extended 

 by lilac suffusion, and in tornus, a pointed, triangular mark edged 

 by sunilar strigulae, sometimes the two parts mterconnected by dark 

 brown strigulae; two short strigulae between patch and apex. Cilia 

 glossy yellow. 



Hindwuig light yellow with a golden gloss, costa paler. Cilia 

 golden yellow. 



Female genitaha: Sterigma inverted-triangular, with narrow well- 

 defined double edges. Ostium bursae in its center, with indefinite 

 rims. Colliculum, a moderate, S-shaped sclerite with dilated lower 

 half. Ductus bursae long, straight and narrow; corpus bursae small, 

 subspheroidal. Signum H -shaped, mterior arm longer and hook- 

 like. (Collum of spermatophore tortuous). (Slides studied: nos. 

 2877; 9970 J.F.G.C; 5001, 5003, 5005, 5026; figured: 5005). 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling, Los Baiios (Baker), 

 holotype, cf^, genit. slide 5025; allotype 9, genit. slide 5505; others 

 are paratypes; total 24cf , 229 (USNM). Luzon, Manila, 16.1.1913 

 (A.E. Wileman), 1 cf (BM). 



A female specimen of an Adoxophyes from Java, together with two 

 specimens out of the present series from Los Banos, have been de- 

 scribed by Meyrick as A. perstricta. The Javanese and the Philippine 

 examples, however, are not conspecific. Since the above-mentioned 

 female specunen has been selected lectotype of perstricta (by Clarke, 

 1958), the Philippine species is now separated and described above. 



Although the densly brown-irrorated females of aurata have some 

 resemblance to perstricta 9 — they differ by the yellow tmge of ground 

 color and cilia, and by the genitalia; the males differ more from A. 

 perstricta and approach the tripselia Lower type of markings. 



Some of the males in the present series were labelled Adoxophyes 

 epizeucta Meyrick. This Australian species, however, is distinct by 

 a conspicuous dark patch of grey scales below the middle of costa of 

 the pale colored hindwings. It seems very probable that A. melichroa 

 Lower is a synonym of epizeucta. 



Characteristic is the small subapical spike of the aedeagus in A. 

 aurata. 



