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the Philippines and for years outstanding collector of Philippine 

 insects. 



Capua Hlibner, 1826 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Capua 



1. Forewing pale ochreous with a small dark submedian and a paler subapical 



spot C. retractana invalidana 



Not thus 2 



2. Forewing with three parallel oblique transverse lines. 



C. thelmae, new species 

 Not so marked C. fabrilis 



Capua retractana invalidana (Walker, 1863) 



Figures 55, 499 



Tortrix retractana Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 28, 



p. 322. 

 Epagoge retractana. — Diakonoff, 1939, Zool. Meded., vol. 21, p. 165; 1939, Rec. 



Indian Mus., vol. 41, p. 231 (India); 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 379 (Java). 

 Tortrix invalidana Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., 



pt. 28, p. 327. 

 Epagoge invalidana. — Meyrick, 1908, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 18, 



p. 617.— Diakonoff, 1939, Zool. Meded., vol. 21, p. 165. 

 Epagoge retractana invalidana. — Diakonoff, 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 410; 1947, 



Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 88, p. 341. 

 Capua retractana. — Walsingham, in Moore, 1887, Lepidoptera Ceylon, vol. 3, 



p. 492, pi. 208, fig. 11. — Meyrick, 1910, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum 



Catalogus, pars 10, p. 9; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 149, 



p. 14. 

 Dichelia retractana. — Cotes and Swinhoe, 1887, Cat. Moths India, pt. 2, p. 697, 



no. 4753.— Meyrick, 1934, Iris, vol. 48, p. 29. 



Distribution: India, Ceylon. 



Foodplants: Chrysanthemum, Acacia arabica, Gossypium, Barleria 

 prionitis, Elephanthopus scaber, Lantana. 



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

 (J.G. Franclemont) , 1 cf , genit. slide 5092 (GUI). Mindanao, Davao, 

 Genitalan, 8 km NW of Mt. Apo, 690 m, 17.VIII.1958, jungle clearing, 

 light trap (H.E. Millu-on), 1 $, genit. slide 5310 (BMH). 



Capua fabrilis Meyrick, 1912 



Figure 501 



Capua fabrilis Meyrick, 1912, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 1 (9, Luzon); 

 1912, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 10, p. 8; 1913, in 

 Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 13. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . 

 Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 139; 1958, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 68, 

 pi. 34, figs. 3-3b. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon. 



