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patch rather small (1/9), edge tolerably straight, oblique; an oblique, 

 subquadrate spot from 1/4 of costa to upper edge of cell, lower edge 

 rounded; an oval spot just above dorsum below preceding, connected 

 with a narrow line along anterior part of dorsum; a semicircular spot 

 on middle of costa, to upper edge of cell; an inwards-oblique, strong 

 transverse fascia, from 5/6 of costa to 3/4 of dorsum, anterior edge 

 tolerably straight, its upper half serrulate; posterior edge of this 

 fascia with two large rectangidar projections, one on dorsum, another 

 in middle of disc; an elongate spot in apex; two minute longitudinal 

 marks beyond ocellus; a tawny sinuate line from below costa beyond 

 apex, to middle of term en, thence marginal, to tornus; dark markings 

 on costa alternating with minute single black dots; beyond semi- 

 circular spot there are two of these dots. Cilia white with two large 

 black spots, beyond apex and middle of termen, respectively. 



Hindmng dark fuscous grey, becoming somewhat lighter towards 

 base. Cilia dark fuscous grey with a whitish basal line. 



Female genitalia: Genital sternite moderate, sclerotized only along 

 caudal edge, sides sinuate, upper angles rounded. Sterigma repre- 

 sented by a large, subcrescentic sclerite with thickened edges. Col- 

 liculum, a wide, sclerotized tube, its lower portion with deep longi- 

 tudinal folds. Corpus bursae with the characteristic bent sclerite. 

 Signa rather slender, subequal, curved thorns with moderate basal 

 plates. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Haights Place, 

 Pauai, 7000 ft., 15.XI.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 1 d', holotype, genit. 

 slide 5533 (BM). 



Crocidosema Zeller, 1847 

 Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847 



Figure 564 



Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847, Isis, p. 721. — Heinemann, 1849, Schmetterlinge 

 Europas, p. 241. — Staudinger and Wocke, 1871, in Cat. Lepidopteren euro 

 paeischen Faunengebiets, p. 263, no. 1269. — Eppelsheim, 1881, Stettiner ent. 

 Zeitschrift, p. 379. — Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 6, p. 659; 1886, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 276; 1928, Rev. Hand- 

 book British Lepidoptera, p. 539. — Walsingham, 1891, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 506; 1897, op. cit., p. 127, no. 174; 1907, in Sharp, Fauna Ha- 

 waiiensis, vol. 1, pt. 5, p. 675, pi. 10, fig. 15. — Staudinger and Rebel, 1901, in 

 Cat. Lepidopteren palaearktischen Faunengebietes, vol. 2, p. 110, no. 1968. — 

 Kennel, 1910, Palaearktischen Tortriciden, p. 468, pi. 18, figs. 66, 67; 1910, in 

 Spuler, Schmetterlinge Europas, vol. 2, p. 273, pi. 85, fig. 45. — Philpott, 1923, 

 Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 59, p. 475, fig. 10.— Heinrich, 1923, U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 123, p. 190, figs. 10, 29, 29a, 325.— Lhomme, 1935, Cat. L^pidop- 

 tferea France et Belgique, vol. 2, p. 330. — Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . . . 

 Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick. vol. 3, p. 319, pi. 158, figs. 1-la, 2-2a, 



