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plicate, with a longitudinal patch of small thorns. Corpus bursae 

 strewn with larger sparse thorns. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mountain Province, at base of Mt. 

 Data, 5500 ft., 22.IV. 1946 (CNHM Philippine Exped. 1946-47, 

 H. Hoogstraal), 1 9, allotype, genit. slide 5744. 



A large and distinct species of recurvata group, differing from the last 

 mentioned species by larger size and coloring. 



Lecithocera megalopis Meyrick, 1916 



Figure 608 



Lecithocera megalopis Meyrick, 1916, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 575; 

 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 239. — Gaede, 1937, 

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

 alogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 198; 1965, op. cit., 

 vol. 5, p. 143, pi. 71, figs. 3-3b (lectotype select.). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon. 



Material examined: "Mindanao, Mt. Apo, 6500 ft., M., 5.10" (in 

 Meyrick's hand), in Meyrick collection, 4/3, 1 9 (without abdomen) 

 (BM). 



Lecithocera fausta Meyrick, 1910 



Figures 168-169, 197-198, 617 



Lecithocera fausta Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 449; 1925, 

 in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 239. — Gaede, 1937, 

 in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 520. — Clarke, 1955, Cata- 

 logue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 140; 1965, op. cit., vol. 5, 

 p. 131, pi. 65, fig. 2 (holotype figured). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon (TBrazU, Argentina). 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Apo, 70 B, 8.III.1945, 1 d^, 

 genit. slide 5110, 1 9, genit. slide 5114 (J.G. Franclemont) . 1 cf , 

 1 9 (GUI). 



The occurrence of this species in South America seems to be most 

 improbable. Luzon is the typical locality. Two females from 

 Argentina studied by me appeared to have vein 9 in the forewing 

 originating free from cell (Meyrick coll., BM). This is a redescription 

 of the present material. 



Male and female, 13.5 mm. Head and thorax whitish ochreous, 

 with a fuscous median shadow. In female with terminal segment 

 slightly under 1; dark fuscous, median segment with a small pale 

 ochreous apical dot, terminal segment pale ochreous, frontal edge 

 with a black line. Abdomen light ochreous. 



Forewing moderate, sublanceolate- truncate, pointed. Veins 2 and 

 3 stalked, 9 out of stalk of 7 and 8. Pale ochreous greyish, strewn 

 with fuscous scales. Markings blackish. Shoulder and anterior 

 fifth of costal edge black; first discal stigma beyond 1/3, small. 



