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Foodplant: Jambora vulgaris. 



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

 slide 5049 (USNM). The genitalia of the male have akeady been 

 well illustrated by Clarke (1958). 



Cellifera, new subgenus 



Similar to the subgenus Platypeplus Walsingham, but with distinct 

 male genitalia, ha\'ing a series of strong spikes along the basal part 

 of the outer edge of the sacculus, instead of a Spca, but without 

 Spc2; the female genitalia equally distinct, with a broad, crater- 

 shaped aciculate ostium bursae, and with only one large, hook-shaped, 

 blunt signum. 



Type species: Polychrosis cellifera Meyrick, 1912 (Ceylon). 



Hedya {Cellifera) cellifera (Meyrick, 1912), new combination 



Figures 73, 95, 525 



Polychrosis cellifera INIejrick, 1912, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 21, p. 

 869.— Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 53.— 1932, 

 Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 2, p. 25, pt. 16, figs. 1-4. — Clarke, 

 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 78. 



Olethreutes cellifera. — Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 3, p. 495, pt. 246, figs. 1-lb, 2-2b (syn., codonectis Meyrick, lectotype 

 selected) . 



Argyroploce codonectis Meyrick, 1927, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 339; 1931, 

 op. cit., vol. 4, p. 129. — Fletcher, 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., 

 no. 2, p. 28. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 95. 



Distribution: C«ylon, India, Malaya, Java. 



Food plants: Eugenia malaccensis , E. aguea (Malaya), E. jambolana 

 (India) . 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos, 12.IX-14.X.1920 (A.M. 

 Soriano), 3 cf, 10 9, bred from leaves of Eugenia jambolana, genit. 

 slides "S July, 1927, 4, ME", cf , 45S0cf , 50379, and 5376 cf (USNM). 



Male genitalia as desciibed ^\'ith the subgenus. 



Eudemis Hiibner, 1826 



Eudemis Hiibner, 1826, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, p. 382 (type 



species, Torlrix porphyrana Hiibner, 1796-1799). 

 Acanthothyspoda Lower, 1908, Trans, Roy Soc. South Australia, vol. 32, p. 319 



(type species, A. elaeodes Lower, 1908, Australia). — Meyrick, 1911, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 36, pp. 263, 281 (syn. of Argyroploce 



Hiibner). — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 2 



(syn. of Argyroploce Hiibner). — DiakonoflF, 1966, Verh. Mus. Leiden, no. 85, 



p. 56, figs. 25, 27, 71. 

 Choganhia Razowski, 1960, Polskie Pismo Ent., vol. 30, p. 387, figs, b, 13 (type 



species, Argyroploce sphaerocopa Meyrick, 1929, Tonkin). 



