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Adoxophyes perstricta IVIcyrick, 1928 



Figures 32, 486 



Adoxophyes perstricta Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 453 

 (Java, Philippines).— Diakonoff, 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 34, 379, 407; 1947, 

 Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 88, p. 340; 1952, Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., scr. 2, 

 vol.49, no. 1, p. 156; 1952, Verh. Naturf. Ges Basel, vol. 63, p. 144.— Clarke, 

 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 242; 1958, 

 op. cit., vol. 3, p. 23 {euryomis, a synonym). 



Distribution: Java, New Guinea, New Britain; Philippine Is. 



Material examined: Luzon, Manila, 9.1.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9 

 (Rothschild bequest, BM). 



The female is very similar to that of aurata. The male, however, 

 has a distinctly longer and more robust subapical spike of the aedeagus. 



Adoxophyes privatana (Walker, 1863) 



Figure 484 



Dichelia privatana Walker, 1863, Cat. Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 28, 

 p. 320 (India). — Swinhoe, 1889, in Cotes and Swinhoe, Cat. Moths India, 

 p. 697, no. 4752.— Swinhoe, 1891, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London (1890), p. 

 294. 



Adoxophyes privatana. — Walsingham, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, 

 p. 481 (syn. cyrtosema Meyrick). — Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 35, p. 209; 1912, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, 

 pars 10, p. 14. — 1913, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 18 (syn. 

 euryomis Meyrick). — 1914, Ent. Mitt., Suppl., vol. 3, p. 47. — 1934, Iris, vol. 

 48, p. 29; 1930, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 99, p. 710; 1935, 

 in Caradja and Meyrick, Materialien . . . Microlepidopteren- Fauna, p. 

 49. — Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 35. — 

 Diakonoflf, 1939, Zool. Meded., vol. 21, p. 162; 1939, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 

 16, p. 231; 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 213, 378, 404; 1947, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 

 88, p. 340; 1948, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 20, p. 343; 1952, Verh. Naturf. 

 Ges. Basel, vol. 63, p. 143. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera 

 . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, pp. 20, 23. 



Adoxophyes euryomis Meyrick, 1902, in Gardiner, Fauna Maldives . . ., vol. 1, 

 no. 7, p. 126 ( cf ? , Minikoi, Hululu; ? India). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . 

 Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, pp. 20, 23. 



Distribution: India, Maldive Is., Burma, Assam, Ceylon, Sumatra, 

 Borneo, Java, Celebes, Ambon, Burn, Batian, Tenimber, Ternate, 

 Talaud, New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Tonkin, Formosa, China, Japan, 

 Korea, 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling, 1 cf ; Los Banos, 2. VIII.- 

 1920, 1 9 (S.M. Cendana); 1 cf , 2 9 (USNM). 



It is now clear that A. cyrtosema Meyrick, 1886, from Tonga, Fiji 

 Islands, and south China is a distinct species and not a synonym of 

 privatana, as Walsingham (1900) thought (cf. Clarke 1958, vol. 3, 

 p. 20, pi. 10, figs. 1-lb; Diakonoff, 1958, vol. 8, p. 118). 



As for A. euryomis Meyrick, I am grateful to Dr. John Smart of 



