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vol. 13, p. 633 (syn. of Phricanthes) . — Diakonoff, 1966, Zool. Verb. Leiden 

 no. 85, p. 85. [type species: Protypanthes hrjhristis Meyrick, 1933.] 



The male genitalia, especially the bifid uncus, suggest a high degree 

 of speciaUzation and would assign the genus in the vicinity of such 

 highly modified forms as Ehoda; Meyrick placed it in the "Peronea" 

 group. The evidence of the female genitalia, however, is rather 

 surprising and somewhat contradictory. The signum of P. hio- 

 cellana actually is decidedly Archipine (although modified). The 

 genus belongs in the AustraUan Scolioplecta group of the Tortricini. 

 There is a striking similarity of the characteristic bifid uncus with 

 that in some Oecophorid forms (Hypertrophinae), but this resemblance 

 must be incidental. 



Phricanthes biocellana (Walker, 1863), new combination 



Figures 49, 54, 519 



Carpocapsa biocellana Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., 

 pt. 28, p. 411 (cf, Borneo). 



Distribution: Borneo. 



A small series of four specimens in good condition enabled me 

 not only to redescribe this rare and hardly known species, but also 

 to ascertain its proper place in the system. This species appears 

 to be not an Olethreutine at all, but to belong to the genus Phricanthes 

 of the Tortricinae. 



The characteristically colored and marked species with the distinct 

 facies of the present genus may be redescribed as follows: 



Male, 20 mm. Head shining bright metallic olive, lower edge 

 of face dull pale yellow suffused across middle with grey, collar mh:ed 

 with dull white. Antenna dark fuscous, scape dark fuscous with a 

 fine white longitudinal line above, white beneath. Palpus rather 

 long, porrected and strongly flattened laterally, gently sinuate, 

 lower edge short-cihate; white, with three oblique transverse pairs 

 of jet-black dots, towards apex above palpus suffused with grey, 

 terminal segment short, exposed, slender and obtuse, greyish, white- 

 tipped. Thorax fuscous mLxed with sordid white (tips of scales 

 fuscous), breast pure white. Legs white, suffused with yellowish 

 and irrorated and banded with dark fuscous above. Abdomen 

 fuscous grey, venter paler. 



Forewing elongate truncate, costa little curved at base, straight 

 posteriorly, apex and tornus equally and strongly rounded, termen 

 short, convex, little oblique. Whitish, densely covered with short 

 thick blackish-fuscous strigulae, transverse and vertical, towards 

 termen becoming slightly curved and outwards-oblique, forming 

 together a more or less continuous reticulate pattern which partially 

 is obscured by dark fuscous suffusion. Anterior half of costa with 



