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segment slender (terminal segment missing). Thorax light fuscous 

 ochreous with a golden gloss. Abdomen pale ochreous. 



Forewing with veins 4 and 7 absent, 9 out of 8; narrow sublanceolate, 

 gently dilated, costa very gently curved at extremities, apex pointed, 

 termen gently concave, little oblique. Glossy fuscous, edge of 

 posterior half of wing narrowly and suffusedly margined with dark 

 fuscous. Cilia dark fuscous, from apex to end of vein 5, snow white. 



Hindwing paler fuscous with a coppery gloss, cilia fuscous. 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor slender, extensile and long. Sterigma 

 hardly modified, an elongate-rectangular small sclerite. Ductus 

 bm-sae strongly undulating, beset with many small irregular teeth. 

 Signum single, a stellate patch of usual shape. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Suprov., Klondyke, 800 ft., 

 9.V.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9, holotype, genit. slide 5658 (BM). 



The species resembles Lecithocera recurvata Meyrick but is smaller, 

 more fuscous and is distinct by neuration and genitalia. 



Lecithocera telospernia, new species 



Figures 182-183, 613 



Female, 17 mm. Head dark fuscous, orbits and lower part of face 

 whitish, forehead paler fuscous. Antenna dark fuscous, minutely 

 ringed with whitish. Palpus very long, strongly compressed laterally, 

 median segment slightly curved, broadest in middle, rather broad, 

 smooth; terminal segment just under 1, moderate at base, acutely 

 pointed; dark fuscous grey, median segment marbled with yellowish 

 white on lower half, and along apex, terminal segment dark brown 

 fuscous with faint purple tinge, whitish internally. Thorax dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, venter paler. 



Forewing sublanceolate, narrow, hardly dilated, apex subobtuse, 

 termen moderate, rounded, little oblique; veins 2 and 3 stalked from 

 before angle, 4 from angle, 5 from above angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to apex, 9 connate with stalk. Pale fuscous grey olive, strongly 

 suffused with dark fuscous purple, and partially, with brighter olive. 

 An elongate patch of brighter olive suffusion along basal third of 

 costa extending 1/3 across wing; lower half of wing from base to end of 

 cell rather evenly suffused with dark fuscous purple; discal stigmata 

 large, elongate, first blackish purple, edged mth olive, with a few 

 white scales posteriorly, second discal stigma olive, anteriorly mixed 

 with white scales, and centered Avith blackish purple along veins; 

 posterior third of wing minutely strewn with white; a distinct marginal 

 series of black dots on ends of veins along posterior part of costa, in 

 apex and along termen, round dots becoming narrow strigulae down- 

 wards. Cilia grey finely sprinkled with white, a pale ochreous basal 

 line and a narrow whitish submedian line. 



