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the Zoology Department, University Museum, Oxford, for sending 

 to me the entire series of this form. Every specimen originally cited 

 by Meyrick was there: 16 specimens from the island of Minikoi and 

 7 from Hululu, among which a specimen with a label written in 

 Meyrick's hand ''Adoxophyes euryomis Meyr., type." Another 

 specimen from Hululu bears the name label only (OM) . 



The study of the genitalia of these two males (type, slide 5690 and 

 para type, 5691) and comparison with material of A. privatana from 

 Java (slides 5692 and 5693) revealed that they are conspecific. The 

 aedeagus does not have a subapical spike, but possesses minute 

 thorns scattered over more than median third of the ventral surface. 

 The only difference which I am able to find is that in "euryomis" this 

 field is less extended apicad, whUe the thorns are slightly larger than 

 in the Javanese examples of privatana: a difference too slight to 

 justify even a subspecific distinction. 



Neocalyptis Diakonoff, 1941 



Neocalyptis Diakonoff, 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 407, fig. 2; 1952, Verb. Ned. 

 Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 33; 1953, op. cit., vol. 49, no. 3, 

 pp. 6, 21; 1955, op. cit., vol. 50, no. 3, p. 173. 



Type species: Neocalyptis telutanda Diakonoff, 1941 (Java). 



Neocalyptis nematodes (Meyrick, 1928), new combination 



Figures 7, 9-12, 491 



Capua nematodes Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 452 ( 9 , 

 Los Banos) . — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 214; 1958, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 72, pi. 36, figs. 4-4c. 



Neocalyptis insularis Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia, vol. 19, p. 498, figs. 43, 44, 47 

 [new synonym]. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon; Sebesi Is. (off Java); Java. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 4 cf , 9 9 genit. 

 slides 5008 9, SOllcf. 



This additional material (USNM) of the little known species is 

 most welcome. All specimens apparently belong to the type series 

 but not having been cited in the original description they range only 

 as topotypes. The veins 3 and 4 in the hindwing are separate (almost 

 connate), a feature with which the description of this genus shoiJd be 

 extended. The male genitalia are very close to those of the type 

 species, Neocalyptis telutanda Diakonoff, from Java. 



Neocalyptis nematodes insularis Diakonok, 1948, new status 



Another species, described by me from Sebesi Island and Java — • 

 after three specimens in bad condition — appears so close to nematodes 

 (figs. 8, 13) that I prefer to sink insularis as a subspecies. The differ- 

 ences with the nominate form are only slight: in the male less strong 



