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large regularly circular patch in center of ^ving reaching to vein lb; 

 costa beyond fold mth three pairs of rather widely spaced white 

 marks, posterior pair triangular; about apical fifth of wdng filled out with 

 dark fuscous, this color narrowly connected ^^^th central spot in 

 middle of ^ving breadth, and emitting from base of this connection 

 an inwards-obhque and sUghtly curved fascia to 3/4 of dorsum; 

 termen Avith a darker fuscous line. Ciha pale green (partly rubbed). 



HindNving normal; pale fuscous. Ciha whitish, glossy. 



Male genitaha: Tegumen shghtly constricted above middle. 

 Uncus short and broad, top appearing concave, bent forward, lobes 

 slender. Socius sUghtly sclerotized, pending, curved, slender. 

 Gnathos darkly sclerotized, shaped as neck of a bottle. Valva rather 

 narrow; knob at top of sacculus thick and obtuse; cucullus moderate, 

 oval, lower half with short spines. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., near summit of 

 Mt. Apo, 7000 ft., at Ught (CNHM PhiUppine Zool. Exped., Alcasid 

 leg.), 1 cf , holotype, genit. shde 5727. 



Closely related with P. hierograpta Meyrick, from New Guinea. 



Peridaedala thylacophorOf new species 



FiGUKES 136, 546 



Male, 19 mm. Head light ochreous strewn mth tawny; forehead 

 with dense shghtly raised scales, vertex with rising side tufts enclosing 

 a median cavity. Antenna shghtly thickened; ochreous, scape and 

 base of flagellum strewn with brown (palpi missing). Abdomen 

 dark, fuscous ohve grey, at base Hght ohve above, anal tufts blackish, 

 compUcated. 



Forewdng elongate-subtriangular, dilated, broadest before termen; 

 costa with a narrow, thickened fold to 1/2, rather curved throughout, 

 apex rounded-rectangular, termen hardly rounded, straight in middle, 

 Httle obhque. Glossy hght grey, suffused vnth dull fuscous, except 

 edges to markings. Costal fold dark grey, transversely dusted with 

 whitish grey; an ohve-green suffused patch occupying about the 

 middle third of costal half of wing, marbled in center with darker 

 ohve (lower half of disc anteriorly strongly denuded); costa beyond 

 fold with two fuscous subquadrate spots; an inwards-obhque, shghtly 

 inwards-concave transverse band from costa before apex to 3/4 of 

 dorsum, fuscous, edges narrowly dark fuscous and strongly undulate ; 

 this band interrupted below middle, its lower part shghtly broader 

 and darker brown; a semioval erect spot in apex; remains of an ir- 

 regular brown patch in center of disc; a semioval brown spot on 2/3 

 of dorsum; traces of black suffusion on base of wing below base of 

 fold ; a narrow dark brown fine along termen, dilated on veins, almost 



