MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 87 



A small longitudinal mark on middle of base of wang; less than basal 

 third of costa Anth three transverse spots, anterior subbasal, posterior 

 extended so as to form a zigzag transverse fascia, its upper third 

 running obHquely to fold, median third along fold, lower third parallel 

 to first third, to 3/4 of dorsimi; second third with a blunt tooth below, 

 a spot on dorsum opposite this; lower third of fascia with two den- 

 tations anteriorly, three posteriorly; irregular leaden-grey spots 

 before origin of fascia, below costa; tkree small dots on costa beyond 

 middle, becoming smaller posteriorly, interconnected by leaden-grey 

 patch just below costa, also connected with, a triangular larger spot 

 in disc below them; this triangular spot in tiu-n narrowly connected 

 ■\^^th the triangular anterior prominence of the top of a transverse 

 vertical blotch, almost reaching dorsimi before tornus, more or less 

 mixed Anth leaden grey posteriorly; three triangular spots on pos- 

 terior fifth of costa, ultimate of them apical, their angles intercon- 

 nected by a subcostal leaden-grey spot which is also connected A\dth a 

 triangular or suboval spot well before upper part of termen which 

 in turn may be connected \\dth the preceding transverse blotch; an 

 irregularly oval oblique spot, rising from 2/3 of termen, sometimes 

 connected Avith lower edge of preceding subcostal spots; spaces of 

 white color on costa parted by smaller black series of dots, flanked 

 'ttdth black points or lines. Cilia white, lower third mth a diversely 

 sized and spaced series of black bars along middle portion of termen, 

 each bar continued over posterior 2/3 of ciha by a narrower grey 

 bar; a black bar above apex. 



Hindwing pale grey, towards apex becoming darker glossy fuscous 

 grey. Cilia concolorous. 



Female genitalia: Lobus analis elongate, attenuated at extremities. 

 Sterigma little modified, lamella antevaginalis, a semioval weak 

 sclerite with a small pointed process on each side below; lamella 

 postvaginalis, a pair of erect little sclerotized plates, flanking the 

 ostiiun. Ostiiun biu-sae rather long, calice-shaped, finely acicidate 

 and well defined. Cestum, a weak tube in the middle of ductus 

 bursae. Corpus biu-sae spheroidal, signa, two small rounded 

 scobiations. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mountain Province, at base of Mt. 

 Data, 5500 ft., 22.IV.1946 (CNHM Philippine Zool. Exped. 1946-47, 

 H. Hoogstraal), 1 9, holotype, genit. shde 5726 (CNHM). Benquet 

 Prov., Bahio (Baker), 1 9, paratype, without abdomen (USNM). 



Without the knowledge of the male genitalia it is not possible to 

 ascertain the true position of the species. Tentatively it is attributed 

 to the present genus which has been confined so far to the Northern 

 Hemisphere. 



