MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 91 



Food plants: Parkinsonia aculeata (leaves, pods), Cassia fistula, C. 

 occidentalis (pods), Bauhinia purpurea (pods), Sesbania aculeata 

 (pods), S. grandiflora (seeds), Tamarindus indica (fruits); Acacia 

 arabica, Acacia spp., Adenanthera pavonia, Pithecolobium dulce (Legu- 

 minosae) ; Nephelium litchi (fruits, seeds) (Sapindaceae) ; Aegle marmelos 

 (fruits), Teronea elephantum (fruits) (Rutaceae). 



Lectotype, 9, in the South Australia Museum. 



Material examined: Luzon, Agoo, La Union, 8.IV.1945, 1 cf, 

 genit. slide 5094; same locality, LV.1945, 1 cf, genit. slide 5095 

 (J.G. Franclemont, GUI). Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Palali, 3000 

 ft., 28.VI.1913 (A.E. Wileman), 1 cf (BM). 



Cryptophlebia (Cryptophlebia) encarpa (Meyrick, 1920) 



Figures 106-108, 561-562 



Argyroploce encarpa Meyrick, 1920, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 349 



(9, Bengal, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera 



. . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 125. 

 Crytophlebia encarpa Bradley, 1953, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 43, p. G86. — Clarke, 



1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 3, p. 324, pi. 161, figs. 



3-3b.— Diakonoff, 1959, Zool. Verh., no. 43, p. 52, pi. 9, figs. 76-77. 



Distribution: South India, New Hannover, Sudest Is., Celebes. 



Food plants: Zizyphus jujuba (fruits and leaves), Citrus (fruits). 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 9, genit. 

 slide 5062 (USNM). 



The female genitalia are characterized by a narrow, darkly sclero- 

 tized edge to the ostium, in the shape of a wide numeral 8, with open 

 top (lamella antevaginalis) , while the coUiculum is short and slender, 

 a sclerotized small tube. Corpus biu"sae is subovoid, with both 

 extremities narrowed. Signa extremely strong, almost equal hooks, 

 with round and large basal plates. 



Erinaea Meyrick, 1907 



Erinaea amphigonia, new species 



Figures 94, 563 



Female, 15.5 mm. Head white, side tufts on vertex black. An- 

 tenna black, scape white with a black subapical ring. Palpus blackish, 

 apical portion of median segment and entire terminal segment white. 

 Thorax black, tips of tegulae light grey. Abdomen dark fuscous, 

 venter paler. 



Forewing elongate, suboval, broadest beyond middle, narrowed 

 thence, rather narrow, costa curved along basal half, almost straight 

 along apical half, apex moderately pointed, termen sinuate, oblique. 

 Pure white, except area of the ocellus which is with a faintest pinkish 

 tinge; markings jet black slightly mixed with anthracite color. Basal 



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