MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 139 



elongate and narrow; second discal before 2/3, larger, rounded; a 

 slightly outwards-oblique and outwards-curved small transverse 

 streak of black suffusion between second discal stigma and dorsum; 

 six dark broA\Ti dots on ends of veins 3-8, larger in female. Cilia 

 dull pale ochreous with two darker, ochreous olive parting lines. 



Hind^ving pale ochreous fuscous, slightly darker in female, some- 

 what transparent, veins appearing darker. Cilia glossy pale ochreous, 

 with a brighter ochreous and with two dull pale ochreous-fuscous 

 bands. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen moderately high, shoulders dilated and 

 rounded. Uncus rather strong, top triangular, with two subapical 

 small lateral teeth. Vinculum large, oval, lower portion, a strongly 

 dilated band, excised in middle of upper edge. Valva broad, rather 

 short, cucullus strongly upturned; harpe, a moderate patch of thin 

 bristles in disc on base of cucullus. Aedeagus huge, slightly curved. 

 Cornuti, a group of large flat sclerites with sharply pointed edges 

 and a patch of fine rounded scobinations. 



Female genitalia: Sterigma, a moderately sclerotized, erected 

 sclerite with folds at the sides, evenly aciculated throughout. Ninth 

 segment elongate, flattened and sclerotized. Ductus bursae very 

 short. Corpus bursae, a wide tube, coiled once. Signum, a small 

 dark transverse sclerite. 



A small species, judging by the genitalia, belonging to the L. rhab- 

 dostoma group of species. Closely allied to goniometra Meyrick, 

 differing by a broader and shorter cucidlus with a more rounded top, 

 and dilated base, less angulate costa, different arrangement of cornuti 

 and more depressed eighth segment of the abdomen. 



Lecithocera ochrocapna Meyrick, 1923 



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

 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 237. — Gaede, 1937, 

 in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 524. — Clarke, 1955, Cata- 

 logue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 222; 1965, op. cit., 

 vol. 5, p. 147, pi. 73, fig. 4 (holotype figured). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Mindanao. 



Lecithocera acribostola, new species 



Figures 180-181, 611 



Female, 15 mm. Head and antenna glossy snow white (tips 

 broken), middle of head slightly touched \Wth tawny, face pale 

 ochreous ta\\Tiy; forehead with very dense appressed scales. Palpus 

 with median segment rather slender, smooth-scaled; glossy pale 

 tawny ochreous, apical third white; terminal segment slender, blackish. 



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