MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 83 



except base, median segment suffused with white, except a lateral 

 spot at base and at upper angle, lower angle blackish, a few orange 

 scales along outer edge of median segment internally. Thorax 

 ^\ith a slight posterior crest. Posterior tibia with closely appressed 

 scales. 



Fore-wing mth a long and rather narrow costal fold, reaching 

 beyond middle; costa slightly curved throughout, apex roimded and 

 prominent, termen concave above, obliquely rounded beneath. 

 Pale whitish olive, appearing ribbed by dark fuscous (dark fuscous 

 scaples wdth pale bases), strongly marbled and transversely strigulated 

 ^\^th dark fuscous, spaces between markings on posterior half of wing 

 filled out Adth grey. Costa dark fuscous, towards base suffused 

 ^vith olive; a somewhat oblique quadrate spot of white irroration 

 before middle of costa, extending across wing to upper edge of cell, 

 five pairs of white strigulae along posterior 2/5 of costa, each pair 

 continued across ^\dng by very oblique leaden-grey streaks, all con- 

 verging in one point before apex of mng; anterior two pairs of white 

 markings very small, the following two pairs moderate, the ultimate 

 pair longest; apex of wing dark fuscous, lower half filled out \\itli olive, 

 dark fuscous marbhng tending to form irregular transverse inwards- 

 oblique lines; ocellus ill defined, oblique, transversely oval, pale 

 leaden grey, cut by a slender, wedge-shaped dark fuscous mark, 

 penetrating from termen; a distinct dark fuscous marginal line, cut 

 below apex by a small white bar, extending over cilia. Ciha along 

 upper 3/4 of termen fuscous, becoming whitish olive along its lower 

 fourth; a faint supramedian pale line, beyond this ciha dark fuscous. 



Hindwdng dark fuscous with a bronze gloss, ribbed (scales with 

 light bases), becoming pale fuscous grey on basal half, veins dark 

 fuscous throughout. Ciha bro\Mi fuscous wdth a darker subbasal 

 line. 



Male genitaha: Of Olethreutine type, in spite of a Eucosmine 

 neuration! Tegumen rather high. Uncus slender, bicornute, points 

 curved. Socius large, pending. Gnathos slender, sacculus 1/2, 

 ending in a curved, porrect hook, top bristly. Cucullus with a 

 strongly constricted base. Spca, a patch of stiff bristles, Spcs, a 

 bunch of long, curved bristles. Aedeagus moderate, caulis long, 

 cornuti, a sheaf of spines. 



Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5154 

 (USNM). 



Strepsicrates Meyrick, 1887 



Strepsicrates Meyrick, 1887, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 20, p. 73 (type 

 species: Sciaphila ejectana Walker, 1863, Australia); 1911, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol, 36, p. 227 (syn. of Spilonota Stephens). — 



