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tawny color, forming an elongate oval, edged posteriorly with black; 

 a broad metallic marginal band in apex and along termen, irregularly 

 dentate anteriorly, sharply and narrowly edged posteriorly by dull 

 black. Cilia dark fuscous, basal half suffused with yellow, 



Hindwing 1, narrower and more pointed than in L. cassiterota, deep 

 fuscous with a faint bronze tinge, cilia pale yellow, opposite apex 

 barred with fuscous, along termen fuscous with a dilating yellow 

 basal band, along lower half of termen and on dorsum fuscous. 



Male genitalia: Valva curved, little dilated, harpe, a single huge 

 spine towards ventral margin. Gnathos, a long, slender hook. 

 Anellus lobes long, straight. Aedeagus moderate, cornuti several 

 complicated sclerotized folds, beset with slender spines. 



Female genitalia: Sterigma, a large, bristly plate, tops, two triangu- 

 lar points separated by a deep incision. Several longitudinal folds 

 visible at the proximal extremity of sterigma represent a coUiculum. 

 Corpus bursae coiled. Signum single, a moderate, scobinate patch. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Mt. Apo, Baroring, 7000 ft., 

 8.XI.1930 (CMP, Ace. 9163); Icf, holotype, genit. slide 5707; 1 9, 

 allotype, genit. slide 5708 (CMP). 



Superficially resembling L. cassiterota Meyrick, but larger, with 

 differently shaped termen of the forewings, quite different shape of the 

 hind wings, and different coloring. The male genitalia suggest little 

 relationship with that species. 



Lecithocera cassiterota Meyrick, 1923 



Figures 176, 200, 201, 606 



Lecithocera cassiterota Meyrick, 1923, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 40; 

 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 240. — Gaede, 1937> 

 in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 518. — Clarke, 1955> 

 Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 75; 1965, op. cit., 

 vol. 5, p 115, pi. 57, figs. 4-4d (holotype figured). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon. 



The elegant species may be redescribed as follows. Male and female 

 15 mm. Head with closely appressed, broad scales; shining pale blue, 

 orbits and edge of face pale ochreous, dull. Palpus orange ochreous, 

 median segment suffused with tawny on basal half, terminal segment 

 finely edged with blackish; palpus internally orange. Antenna pale 

 ochreous, glossy, apical eighth suffused with blackish above, scape and 

 base of flagellum also suffused above with black. Thorax grey with a 

 strong bluish gloss in certain lights. Posterior leg with an expansile 

 tuft of long and fine fuscous hairs. Abdomen glossy bronze grey, anal 

 tuft yellowish grey, a broad, dull black band over pregenital ventrites. 



Forewing narrow, elongate-sub triangular, costa gently curved, apex 

 rounded-pointed, termen broadly excised triangularly in middle, 



