MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 35 



Female genitalia: Unknowu. 



Type species: Ebodina simplex, new species (cf). 



A somewhat surprising insect, -with a facies very similar to that 

 of an Ehoda (e.g., E. variabilis Diakonoff, from Java), but with the 

 genitalia very much approaching those of Drachmobola Meyrick, 

 except for the complicated gnathos in Ebodina. The venation, how- 

 ever, is very simple and so different from the complicated and modified 

 situation in Drachmobola that I am unable to incorporate simplex in 

 that, nor in any other knowTi genus of the present group. 



Ebodina simplex new species 



Figures 50-53, 516 



Male, 15 mm. Head and thorax rather light slate grey, tips of 

 scales whitish. Palpus whitish, median segment slightly sprinkled 

 with grey along basal half, light grey along apical half, with a trans- 

 verse oblique white stripe above middle, apical edge of segment 

 white; terminal segment grey mixed with white, tip yellow. Chest 

 white. Abdomen lilac grey, venter bright yellow. 



Forewing oval- truncate, costa rather angularly bent close to base, 

 gradually and slightly curved posteriorly, with some four short promi- 

 nent tufts, apex obtusely angular, termen slightly concave and out- 

 wards-oblique above, strongly prominent and rounded beneath. 

 Slate grey tinged lilac, beyond cell mixed with ochreous. Whitish 

 between veins. Costal edge broadly orange, interrupted by some seven 

 unequal and unequally spaced broad bars of ground color, alternating 

 with minute grey strigulae; the bars correspond with prominent 

 marginal tufts. Markings formed by olive irroration (tips of scales 

 white), with broad grey-white edges. Basal patch not reaching 1/4 of 

 wing, obliterate at base and on costal third, its edge vertical, gradually 

 and deeply undulate (three teeth, two excavations) ; this edge followed 

 by faint deep grey suffusion; an uTegular obhquely oval spot below 

 1/3 of costa, containing two purple-black dots, an irregularly clavate 

 vertical fascia from below 2/3 of costa to 3/4 of dorsum, upper half 

 twice as wide as lower, and rounded, lower half slightly oblique, 

 almost interrupted by fold and strewn all over with purple-black 

 dots; a subterminal narrow whitish fascia, abruptly dilated below 

 apex, containing a series of black dots. CiUa (damaged) lilac grey. 



Hindwing irrorated dark fuscous, cilia concolorous with a pale 

 basal line. 



Male genitalia: As described for the genus. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), Icf, holotype, 

 genit. sHde 5036 (USNM). 



