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Hindwing glossy pale grey fuscous, somewhat darker towards apex, 

 cilia concolorous, with a pale basal line. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen slender and rather short as compared with 

 the large, semiov^al vinculum. Uncus exactly as in Lecithocera: top 

 of tegumen being bilobed and hairy, uncus projecting as an extensive 

 body, supported above and below by slender sclerotized rims, and 

 with a more or less free beaklike hook with a dilated base. Valva 

 moderate, costa with a rectangular excision beyond base, sacculus 

 broad but only slightly sclerotized, ending in a triangular process, 

 cucullus truncate, top concave. Aedeagus very large, thick, slightly 

 curved. Cornuti, a large number of equal small teeth. Eighth and 

 seventh abdominal segments modified, eighth sclerotized and elongate- 

 cylindrical, seventh segment with a pah of oblique lateral ribs, and a 

 tubular concavity in the middle of the sternite, extending into the 

 sixth segment, and containing a long extensile hair-pencil. 



Material examined : Luzon, Mt. Apo 70 B, 8.V.1945 (J.G. Francle- 

 mont), 1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5117 (GUI). 



Placanthes Meyrick, 1923 

 Placanthes xanthotnorpJia Meyrick, 1923 



FiGUEE 763 



Placanthes xanthomorpha Meyrick, 1923, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 42; 

 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 232. — Gaede, 1937, 

 in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 511. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue 

 . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 327; 1965, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 

 208, pi. 104, figs. 1-la (holotype figured). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Mindoro. 



Lecithocera Herrich-Schafifer, 1853 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Lecithocera 



1. A transverse fascia and other markings leaden metallic 2 



No metallic markings 3 



2. Hindwing strongly narrowed, acutely pointed, termen irregularly concave; 



cilia yellow L. strenua, new species 



Hindwing little narrowed, apex moderately pointed, termen almost straight; 

 cilia black L. cassiterota 



3. Cilia along termen white or pale ochreous, contrasting with blackish or dark 



fuscous cilia above apex, thus exaggerating falcate shape of wing (cf. also 



under 7) 4 



Cilia not thus 7 



4. Large species (24 mm), ochreous with a golden gloss, a triangular fuscous 



suffusion from center of wing, resting on termen and contrasting with 

 pale cilia; costa without a pale mark . . . L. phanerostoma, new species 



Moderate species (16 mm), ochreous fuscous, with a small pale mark on 

 4/5 of costa L. ochrocapna 



Moderate species (11-17 mm), not thus colored 5 



