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represented by a narrow dark strigula along closing vein; a minute 

 pale spot in apex. Cilia (strongly rubbed) dark fuscous. 



Hindwing and cilia fuscous bronze. 



Male genitalia of Crocanthes type, sclerotized throughout. 

 Tegumen depressed, heavily edged, top strong, slender and conical. 

 Gnathos hook of usual shape. Uncus single, slender, pointed and 

 straight, bristly at the sides. Vinculum strong, quadrate. Juxta 

 + aneUus a very large subquadrate plate, anellus lobes, small hairy 

 processes. Valva rather short, curved, sacculus not indicated, harpc 

 absent, cucuUus obliquely subtruncate. Aedeagus large, little curved, 

 narrowed, top sclerotized, with an angulate process above; cornuti, 

 several ridges of short teeth. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Baguio, 5000 ft., 

 23. IV. 19 12 (A.E. Wileman), 1 cf , holotype, genit. slide 5656 (BM). 

 A small, obscure species. 



The genitalia are surprisingly similar to the genitalia found in the 

 genus Crocanthes Meyrick. That is a very natural group of large 

 species often brightly adorned with orange or yellow, a quite different 

 facies, in fact. Still the genus is closely allied with Lecithocera 

 Herrich-Schaffer, in spite of the disappearance of tAvo veins (4 and 7) 

 in the forewing of Crocanthes; as an exception also in Lecithocera vein 

 7 may be missing, as in the following species. Furthermore, the 

 genitalia of the present and the following species bear clearly evidence 

 of this relationship. 



Lecithocera streniia, new species 



Figures 177-179, 605 



Male and female, 20 mm. Head glossy golden fuscous with purplish 

 reflections, face yellow. Antenna orange yellow, finely fuscous-ringed 

 on basal half, tip blackish above, scape fuscous. Palpus bright 

 orange yellow, terminal segment blackish in front. Thorax fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft ochreous, venter pale yellowish. 



Forewing narrow, oblong, costa little curved at extremities, slightly 

 concave beyond middle, apex subobtuse, termen sinuate or rather 

 inbent in middle, oblique. Blackish brown, dull. Slender yellow 

 streaks arranged as follows: one short, from beyond base to 1/5 just 

 below fold; another, parallel to this from base, running below costa, 

 to 1/3, merging into a third, transverse, slightly curved fascia, dilated 

 on costa, slender below; a rounded conspicuous black patch on dorsum, 

 between first and third fascia; shining metallic-leaden streaks with 

 bluish or greenish tinge: along basal 1/3 of costa above second yellow 

 streak, another below this; a broad submedian transverse band, im- 

 mediately following transverse yellow streak; a slender streak below 

 posterior half of costa to w^ell before apex, encircled by yellowish- 



