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Acanthothyspoda elaeodes Lower, 1908 (Australia), Trans. Roy, Soc. 



South Australia, vol, 32, p, 319, 

 Argyroploce i^hyllochlora Meyrick, 1905 (Ceylon); Clarke, 1958, 



vol, 3, p. 535, pi. 266, figs. 2-2b, 3-3a, 4-4c. 



=ptilosema Meyrick, 1916. 

 Argyroploce temenopis Meyrick, 1936 (Formosa); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 535, pi. 266, figs. 4^c, in my opinion not a synonym of phyllo- 



chlora. 

 Argyroploce camarotis Meyrick, 1936, (India) ; Clarke, 1958, vol. 3, 



p. 549, pi. 244, figs. 3-3a. 

 Argyroploce stygiaula Meyrick, 1933 (Java); Clarke, 1958, vol, 3, 



p. 552, pi. 275, figs. 1-la. 

 Argyroploce prasinias Meyrick, 1916 (India, China); Clarke, 1958, 



vol. 3, p. 540, pi. 269, figs. 2-2b. 

 Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) chortodes, new species. 

 Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) homalopa, new species. 

 Argyroploce sphaerocopa Meyrick, 1929 (Indo-China). 

 Argyroploce margaritopa Diakonoff, 1953 (New Guinea). 



Key to the Philippine Species of Subgenus Acanthothyspoda 



1. Fore wing green, transverse fascia blackish, rhomboidal (cf ). 



E. (A.) chortodes, new species 

 Fore wing greenish, transverse fascia obUterate (9). 



E. (A.) homalopa, new species 



Eudemis (^Acanthothyspoda) chortodes, new species 



FiGUEES 77-78, 528 



Male, 14 mm. Head light olive green. Palpus light olive green, 

 basal segment whitish, median segment with a whitish base and two 

 sufTused blackish dots in a transverse series above middle. Antenna 

 pale ochreous. Thorax ochreous yellow, apex mixed with green, 

 patagium bright green. Abdomen with white venter, dorsum dark 

 grey, sides with five pairs of slate grey scale brushes. Legs grey 

 with a strong silvery gloss, posterior tibia strongly extended and 

 dilated triangularly with a thick brush of appressed scales, glossy 

 grey, blackish on the inside, with a white lateral streak, posterior 

 spur, apex of tuft and inner side of posterior tarsus pure white. 



Forewing truncate-oval, rather broad, costa considerably curved 

 throughout, apex obtuse, termen straight, long, little oblique. Light 

 glossy greyish green, around edges suffused with rather bright green, 

 except along termen and in tornus. Markings dark green and 

 fuscous black. Basal patch indefinite, basal third of wing with three 



