54 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257 



Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) homalopa, new species 



Figures 117-118, 529 



Female, 14 mm. Head and palpus dusty light greyish green, 

 median segment of palpus with a subapical, somewhat oblique black- 

 ish streak. Antenna fuscous, scape greenish. Thorax light dusty 

 greyish green, tegulae becoming greyish white towards tips. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous bro^\^l. 



Forewing oblong, costa gently curved anteriorly, little curved 

 posteriorly, apex tolerably pointed, termen straight, little oblique. 

 Pale fuscous, strewn with darker fuscous, along costa, in apex and along 

 dorsal half as far as fold marbled and suffused with light olive green 

 and fuscous greenish; dorsum also mixed with dark fuscous; a large, 

 round, light fuscous pretornal patch with darker suffused upper and 

 posterior edges; an obUque straight pale greyish transverse band 

 from costa, following pretornal patch and separating apex. Cilia 

 (imperfect) greenish fuscous with a whitish basal line. 



Hindwdng semipellucent towards base and thinly scaled throughout, 

 especially on dorsum; blackish towards apex, appearing dark grey 

 elsewhere. Cilia blackish with a pale base. 



Female genitalia: Seventh sternite densely scaled, its edge forming a 

 quadrate prominence in middle, opposite lamella antevaginalis which 

 is smaller; this lamella strongly sclerotized, obliquely cup-shaped, 

 right side being much shallower than left, which is rounded below; 

 upper edge of lamella antevaginalis concave, finely aciculate. Sclero- 

 tized rib or band of colliculum very long, originating from the left 

 side of ostiiun (lamella antevaginalis) and crossing to the right side, 

 gradually attenuated, extremity pointed. Signum one, a moderate, 

 straight, and scobinate tooth. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., 1 9, holotype, slide 

 5717 (CMP). A single, somewhat rubbed specimen, distinct by the 

 genitalia, the rib or band of the colliculiun being much longer than in 

 any other species known to me. 



Statherotis Meyrick, 1909 



Statherotis Meyrick, 1909, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 19, p. 591. — Clarke, 

 1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 3, p. 592, 

 pi. 295, figs. 1-1 c (neurat. genit. cf). 



Type species: Statherotis decorata Meyrick, 1909 (Ceylon). 



This genus, which was incorporated by Meyrick in his compound 

 genus "Argyroploce" but recently correctly separated by Clarke (1958), 

 may be redescribed as follows, under slight extention of its 

 original concept. 



Head with appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis de- 

 veloped. Antenna ciliated to fasciculate-ciliated in male, ciliations 



