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Female genitalia: Similar to those of E. archimedias Meyrick, but 

 differing by the colliculum sclerite being shorter and less sclerotized 

 and by the excision of the lamella antevaginalis being distinctly 

 triangular; there are no horizontal folds flanking this lamella. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos, 2,VII.1932 (A. P. Evange- 

 lista), 19,holotype,genit. slide 5157 (USNAl). Although no material of 

 males is available, the female genitalia are sufficiently distinct from 

 those of archimedias IMeyrick (from India and China) to justify 

 description of the present species. It differs superficially from 

 archimedias but sUghtly, viz., by somewhat larger size and more 

 robust build, by paler and more contrasting ground color and by a 

 more slender subbasal dorsal spot. 



Subgenus AcanthotJiyspoda Lower, 1908, new status 



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). 



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

 species: Argyroploce sphaerocopa Meyrick, 1929, Tonkin). 



Male genitalia: Tegumen usually narrowed towards top, more or 

 less erected-triangular. Valva complicated, ventral side of cucuUus 

 being more or less prominent triangularly and crowned with a hook; 

 sacculus well defined, usually with a strong Spcj at top; Spc2 and 

 Spcs mostly absent. Gnathos as in preceding but stronger, arms 

 more robust, top spiny. 



Female genitalia with sterigma less developed, an aciculate short 

 funnel, colliculum longer. Signum one, or two, rounded small patches 

 of thickened wall structure. Figure published (Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 

 p. 535, pi. 266, figs. 4-4c) of E. phyllochlora (Meyrick). 



The following species belong here. Judging from the degree of 

 development of the sacculus they may be arranged in the following 

 natural sequence, from plesiomorph down to apomorph species. 



Argyroploce semiculta Meyrick, 1909, (Ceylon)— heieraspis Meyrick, 



1936; Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, p. 547, pi. 272, figs. 4-ic. 

 Argyroploce herhijera Meyrick, 1909 (Assam); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 516, ph 257, figs. 4^a. 

 Argyroploce callichlora Meyrick, 1909 (Assam); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 549, pi. 244, figs. 4-4b. 

 Argyrojdoce autoberylla Meyrick, 1914 (Java); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 487, pi. 242, figs. 3-3a. 

 Argyroploce aeolochlora Meyrick, 1916 (Assam); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 480, pi. 239, figs. 4-4a. 



