MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 39 



transverse band; lamella antevaginalis, a stronger similar band, 

 containing the ostium which is cu-cular, with ventral waU broader 

 than dorsal, CoUiculum not connected with ostium, tubular, dilated 

 above middle, gradually narrowed downward, end rounded. Ductus 

 bursae rather wide and moderately long. Corpus bursae pear-shaped. 

 Signum very large, with a sickle-shaped hook and an oval concave 

 basal plate with a broad fdament, rising haKway up the ductus bursae 

 and apparently homologous with cestum. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Baiios (Baker), 2 cT, 2 9, genit. 

 slides 5018 d' and 50389 (USNM). 



Phricanthes flexilineana (Walker, 1863) 



Figure 518 



Sciaphila flexilineana Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., 

 pt. 28, p. 345 (cf, Ceylon). 



Peronea flexilineana. — Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 35, 

 p. 292; 1917, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 14 (British Guiana). — Fletcher, 

 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 2, p. 17, pi. 10, figs. 1-3. 



Phricanthes flexilineana. — Diakonoff, 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, p. 394; op. cit., p. 

 437; 1960, Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 53, no. 2, p. 187 (Mada- 

 gascar). — Common, 1965, Australian Journ. Zool., vol. 13, pp. 637, 640. 



Phricanthes macroura Lower, 1908, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 32, p. 

 322 (Australia). 



Distribution: Ceylon, India, Burma, Java, Philippine Is., New 

 Guinea, Queensland, Madagascar, and British Guiana. 

 Food plants: Dillenia indica. 

 Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 9 (USNM). 



Olethreutinae 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Olethreutinae 



Hindwing with vein 5 curved towards base and approximated to 4 . . . 2 



Hindwing with vein 5 straight and almost parallel with 4 23 



Hindwing with veins 3 and 4 separate or connate 3 



Hindwing with veins 3 and 4 stalked or coincident 16 



Fore wing marked with numerous, more or less undulate horizontal lines; 



ocellus differently colored 4 



Forewing not so marked 5 



Palpus clavate, obtuse, terminal segment very short, but exposed; valva 



narrow, furcate at top Argyroptocha, new genus 



Palpus triangular, obtusely pointed, terminal segment concealed; valva 



broad, sacculus and cucullus deeply separated . Tetramoera, new genus 

 Greenish colored species, with a well defined rounded subterminal patch; 



males with hairy posterior tibia and often with pencils of hairs along sides 



of abdomen Eudemis 



Not greenish, without pencils of hairs along sides of abdomen 6 



