MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 119 



Metathrinca coenophyes, new species 



Figures 147, 153, 587-588 



Male, 15 mm. Head, palpus and thorax silvery white, faintly- 

 touched with yellow. Antenna black, pectinations unequal, anterior 

 3, posterior very long 6, black, ciliations white, scape white, apical 

 haK grey. Abdomen silvery white. 



Forewing with vein 2 present, 7 to termen; elongate-oval, apex 

 rather obtuse, costa gently curved, termen convex. Glossy silvery 

 white, costal and terminal edge from end of vein 11 as far as end of 

 fold with a fine black line, becoming very thin and brownish along 

 termen; the faintest trace of a fuscous line, strongly angulate in 

 middle, from beyond 3/4 of costa to tornus. Cilia silvery white, with 

 a very fine black antemedian line. Underside of forewing rather 

 densely irrorated with dark fuscovis golden. 



Hindwing silky, pure white, cilia concolorous. Underside pure 

 white. 



Male genitaha with tegumen depressed, uncus erected- triangular, 

 rather slender, top sUghtly clavate, short-bicornute. Gnathos 

 strong, triangular, longer than uncus and projecting beyond it. 

 Valva rather narrow, weak; sacculus ill defined, under 1/3, harpe short. 

 Aedeagus slender, long and straight, pointed, without apical sclerites. 



Female, 18 mm. All white, antenna simple, black, scape white. 

 Forewing sUghtly broader. A transverse line of blackish irroration, 

 from costa beyond 3/4 to tornus, strongly angulate in middle, straight 

 above and below angulation; base of costal edge and extreme edge in 

 apex finely black. CiUa (imperfect) white, with a minute black 

 median hne opposite apex. 



Hindwing white, apex and upper half of termen slightly irrorated 

 with dark grey, this color extending along posterior part of costa and 

 along bases of veins, 1/3 toward cell. Cilia white, a greyish submedian 

 shadow, tips greyish. 



Female genitaha: Eighth segment moderately sclerotized. Upper 

 edge with an inverted-triangular sclerite, middle of its upper edge 

 excised. Ostium moderate, round, situated toward lower edge. 

 Ductus bursae weak; no signum. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Apo, 70B, 17.ni. 1945 (J.G. 

 Franclemont), 1 cf , holotype, genit. shde 5098 (CUI). Mt. Makiling 

 (Baker), 1 9, allotype, genit slide 5150 (USNM). Benguet Subprov., 

 Klondyke, 800 ft., 4.IV.1912, 12.IV.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 2 cf, 

 para types, genit. sUde 5577 (BM). 



