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little oblique. Pale fuscous touched with creamy, strewn throughout 

 with rather dense fuscous scales. Markings dark fuscous. An ill- 

 defined triangular small basal patch with very inwards-oblique edge 

 and obliterate lower third; a well-defined, somewhat irregular inter- 

 rupted marginal narrow streak around more than posterior fourth 

 of wing; stigmata irregular, about equal, first discal beyond 1/3 of 

 wing, plical below and a trifle before it, second discal before 2/3. 

 Cilia light greyish fuscous. 



Hindwing fuscous, rather thinly scaled. Cilia lighter fuscous with 

 a whitish basal line. 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor conical. Genital segment strongly 

 narrowed in middle (in ventral aspect), annular. Sterigma shaped 

 as a small, simple cap around the ostium bursae, distinctly sclerotized. 

 Colliculum long, tubular, constricted in middle, with slight longi- 

 tudinal ribs. Cestum, a slender elongate sclerite. Signa, two 

 scobinate patches. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., IQondyke, 800 ft., 

 15.III.1912, 1 9, holotype, genit. slide 5654; 11.III.1912, 1 9, paratype 

 (A.E. Wileman) (BM). 



An obscure, pale fuscous species. The genitalia suggest a relation 

 of Lecithocera Herrich-Schaffer with Hypodrasia, new genus. 



Lecithocera activata, new species 



Figures 206, 604 



Male, 16 mm. Head glossy pale grey fuscous, face whitish. An- 

 tenna ochreous whitish, glossy, tow^ards base slightly mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Palpus moderately long, recurved, ascendmg, median 

 segment 2X face, moderately thickened, purplish grey, apex white 

 with a semiannular dark submarginal mark above; terminal segment 

 slender, whitish, anterior edge narrowly dark brown. Thorax glossy 

 pale grey fuscous. Legs fuscous, whitish inwardly, posterior leg 

 dark purple fuscous, top of tibia and entire tarsus white; tibia with 

 roughly projecting hairs above and beneath. Abdomen fuscous, 

 venter paler, with posterior half blackish. 



Forewing elongate, moderately broad, little dilated, costa moder- 

 ately curved throughout, apex pointed and slightly produced, termen 

 sinuate, concave above, little rounded beneath. Evenly deep fuscous 

 mth a purplish hue in certain lights. Costa with a small wedge- 

 shaped oblique transverse mark before 4/5, continued across wing by 

 a minute and faint pale line, inwards-angulate below costa, broadly 

 outwards-convex in middle, sinuate above dorsum, to dorsum before 

 tornus; stigmata vague, little darker than ground color, rounded: 

 first discal at 1/3, pHcal slightly larger, beyond this; second discal 



