MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS HI 



Hind wing glossy, fuscous bronze, tinged orange between veins lb and 

 2, basal half of costa glossy whitish. CiUa fuscous bronze with a pale 

 basal line. 



Male genitalia: Uncus long, slender, pointed and smooth, bent 

 down. Vinculum quadrate. Transtilla, a large urn-shaped sclerite 

 with a long neck. Sacculus ending in a triangular process, hairy along 

 the lower edge. Cucullus long and slender with a rounded top. 

 Aedeagus long, straight, with a truncate top. There is a slender 

 longitudmal, little sclerotized rod along the entire length of the 

 aedeagus. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos, XIL1930, in Ficus endo- 

 thrix^S^, 9 plant, 2 d" : holotype, genit. slide "A.B. Oct. 11, 1926," 

 paratype (head missmg), genit. slide "A.B. Oct. 12, 1926" (USNM). 



Copromorplia dialithoma, new species 



Figures 145, 573 



Male, 13 mm. Head glossy white touched with ochreous, vertex 

 pale ochreous. Antenna with scape and base of flagellum white, 

 remaining part dark fuscous. Pali^us rather long, curved and ascend- 

 ing, white, touched with ochreous. Thorax olive, suffused with 

 dark fuscous, anterior edge and the large apical tuft glossy white 

 touched wuth ochreous. Abdomen light fuscous, sides and anal 

 tuft fuscous ochreous with a strong golden gloss, venter pale ochreous. 



Forewing (left wdng missing) suboval, costa distinctly curved and 

 prominent beyond base and at 3/4, gently concave in middle, apex 

 broadly rounded and indefinite, termen rounded, almost vertical; 

 veins raised, with small tufts of scales along them. Rather bright 

 golden olive ochreous, slightly suffused with purplish fuscous and 

 scattered with sparse brUliant green scales here and there; a patch 

 of blackish-fuscous suffusion on basal fourth of costa extending 

 almost to middle of wing breadth, containing a spot of brilliant shining 

 green scales on base of costa; lower edge of patch indefinite, posterior 

 edge preceded by two large raised scale tufts, upper of these centered 

 with olive ochreous. Posterior third of wing, semipellucent, dull 

 pale fuscous, darker fuscous along veins, without any ochreous or 

 olive tinge. Cilia (imperfect) pale ochreous, slightly infuscated 

 along their middle. 



Hindwing semipellucent, fuscous, veins dark fuscous; an elongated 

 patch of thickened and modified golden-ochreous scales along basal 

 third of costa from beyond base (upperside), middle of costa as far 

 as cell, pale ochreous. Cilia fuscous with a whitish basal line. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen subspherical. Uncus, a long scythelike 

 hook, bent down. Gnathos represented by a strong tooth at each 

 side of the base of uncus. Vinculum slender, V-shaped, separated 



