MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 137 



Two closely allied, undescribed species occur in both Java and 

 Borneo. 



Lecithocera phanerostoma^ new species 



Figures 207-208, 607 



Male, 24 mm. Head pale fuscous ochreous, orbits white. Antenna 

 whitish. Palpus very long, curved, ascending, median segment over 

 3X face, moderately thickened and spindle-shaped, dark grey fuscous, 

 with golden gloss in certain lights, apex white; terminal segment 

 slender, slightly shorter than median, whitish with a strong golden 

 gloss. Thorax pale golden fuscous ochreous. Legs fuscous, whitish 

 inwardly, posterior tibia fuscous, becoming deep piu-plish fuscous 

 posteriorly, top white, tarsus (imperfect) white. Abdomen fuscous. 



Forewing oblong-subtriangular, broadest in tornus, costa gently 

 curved anteriorly, more curved before apex, apex obtusely pointed, 

 termen gently concave above, little rounded beneath, moderately 

 oblique. Rather light ta^vny with a strong golden gloss. A large 

 triangular patch of dark fuscous suffusion with base extending along 

 entire termen, with acute top resting on middle of closing vein, deep 

 purple along extreme termen, veins posteriorly also streaked darker 

 purple. Cilia along termen white with pale fuscous apical half, along 

 costa and apex deep purple, in tornus fuscous purplish. 



Hindwing bro^vn fuscous with a strong golden-bronze gloss. Cilia 

 brownish fuscous Math a narrow whitish basal line. 



Male genitalia: Even more suggestive of a species of Crocanthes 

 Meyrick. Sclerotized throughout. Tegumen broader. Gnathos 

 with an obtuse broad top (base!) and the usual pending hook. Uncus 

 hooked, slender and strong. Vinculum ovate-truncate. Juxta+ 

 anellus smaller, convex, quadrate, anellus lobes long, slightly curved, 

 with rounded top. Valva longer, narrower, more curved. Aedeagus 

 more slender, stronger curved, top denticulate above and beneath; 

 comuti, several ridges of short teeth and two patches of scobinations. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Haights Place, 

 Pauai, 7000 ft., 17.XI.1912 (A. E. Wileman), Icf, holotype, genit. 

 slide 5657 (BM). 



Female, 24 mm. Very similar to male, slightly lighter colored. 

 Posterior tibia (damaged in male) dilated A\ath roughish scales, pale 

 fuscous becoming darker fuscous grey posteriorly, top with a snow- 

 white band, tarsus pale ochreous. 



Female genitalia: Ninth segment sclerotized, sternite hairy along 

 edge, with two additional sclerotized semioval plates, bristly through- 

 out, a slender dark ridge, longitudinal and median, along their lower 

 halves. Ostium not modified, lamellae aciculate. Ductus bursae 



