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of blackish dots in apex and along termen may be strongly reduced 

 or altogether absent. 



Female 15 mm, neallotype. Very similar to male, but vertex mth- 

 out a longitudinal infuscation. Dark suffusion along base of costa 

 in the forewing not extended; stigmata moderate, well defined; apical 

 and terminal dots entirely absent. Otherwise similar to male. 



Male genitalia: Valva moderate, costa with an angidar prominence 

 beyond base, cucullus much narrower, moderately curved upwards, 

 rather pointed above middle of disc. Aedeagus rather slender, 

 curved. Cornuti, two patches of fine spines melted together and a 

 pair of small separate spines. 



Female genitalia: Sterigma rather weak, an inverted-truncate cone. 

 Signum moderate, transverse. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakUing, 1 cf, genit. slide 5219, 

 1 cf , genit. sUde 5199. Los Banos, 2 cf , genit. slides 5198, 1 9, no. 

 5196, 1 9, neallotype, genit. slide 5218; total 4 cf', 2 9 (USNM). The 

 male genitalia most closely resemble those of L. capra Diakonoff. 



Lecithocera decorosa, new species 



Figures 204-205, 612 



Female, 13 mm. Head pale golden fuscous, whitish at the sides. 

 Antenna (broken in type specimen) white, pale whitish fuscous 

 below, tip pale fuscous, scape moderately flattened, white, ^vith a 

 narrow pale fuscous postmedian longitudinal strigula above. Palpus 

 with, median segment strongly dilated posteriorly, apex obhque; 

 light tawny ochreous, apex white, terminal segment very slender, 

 fuscous anteriorly, white laterally and posteriorly. Thorax pale 

 ochreous greyish, anteriorly whitish. Abdomen pale yellow ochreous, 

 yellow towards apex. 



Forewing elongate, narrow, sublanceolate, apex pointed, termen 

 sinuate; veins 2 and 3 coincident, 4 and 5 stalked, 9 out of stalk of 

 7 and 8. Pale ochreous greyish. A pointed rather narrow white 

 streak from base of costa to its middle, containing a dark fuscous 

 narrower streak along base of costal edge; base of white streak indis- 

 tinctly dUated, (an excurved whitish band from middle of costa to 

 middle of disc at 2/3 must be due to denuding) ; an outwards-oblique 

 dark fuscous mark just below 2/5 of costa, edged posteriorly \\\\h. 

 white, first discal stigma blackish, elongate, at 1/3, an irregular fus- 

 cous transverse mark on dorsum sHghtly beyond stigma; second discal 

 stigma at about 3/5, very faint, roundish (in left wing transverse, more 

 distinct in one paratype) ; a blackish triangular spot on 3/4 of costa, 

 extended over cUia; a strongly and regularly imdulate direct white 

 line from costa beyond that patch to tornus, outwards concave above 



