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reduced markings, shorter and broader cucidlus, more angulate costa, 

 smaller patch of cucuUus bristles and different cornuti. 



Lecithocera luteolOf new species 



Figures 184-185, 618 



Male, 11 mm. Head pale ochreous, vertex except at the sides, 

 suffused with glossy grey. Antenna pale ochreous. Palpus ochreous 

 fuscous, terminal segment pale ochreous, slightly mixed with fuscous 

 anteriorly and toward apex. Thorax pale ochreous, shoulder fuscous. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous. 



Forewing suboval, rather broad, costa gently curved toward 

 extremities, straight in middle, apex moderately pointed, termen 

 hardly convex, almost straight, oblique. Veins 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 

 8 long-stalked, 9 out of stalk. Light yellowish ochreous, costa 

 narrowly suffused with brighter ochreous and also narrowly infuscated 

 except before apex; base of wing indistinctly infuscated; traces of 

 fuscous sprinkling over the wing; veins on upper half of wing halfway 

 between cell and margin slightly streaked with brownish; first discal 

 stigma minute, well beyond 1/3 and above middle, second discal 

 somewhat irregular, transverse, larger and slightly lower than first, 

 continued by a short outwards-oblique small mark; apex and termen 

 with a narrow marginal line. Cilia (imperfect) pale ochreous, around 

 apex tipped with fuscous. 



Hindwing glossy, whitish golden, fuscous, paler than forewing. 

 Cilia concolorous. 



Male genitalia: Rather similar to those of Lecithocera docilis, new 

 species, but valva less dilated beyond base, not markedly narrowed 

 toward base, costa beyond base gradually sinuate, without an angu- 

 late prominence, as in L. docilis; cucullus slightly narrower and less 

 curved upwards. Aedeagus rather similar to that of docilis. 



Material examined: Luzon, Agoo, La Union, 1.V.1945 (J.G. 

 Franclemont), 1 cf , holotype, genit. slide 5239 (GUI). A small and 

 obscure species. Nearest to the preceding. 



Lecithocera leucomastiSf new species 



Figures 189-190, 610 



Female, 15.5 mm. Head and thorax fuscous with a golden gloss, 

 vertex of head broadly edged by pale yellow. Antenna pale ochreous, 

 flagellum anteriorly and posteriorly finely striped with dark fuscous. 

 Palpus fuscous; median segment moderately broad, flattened lat- 

 erally, slightly roughish at apex below, terminal segment very slender, 

 about 1. Abdomen dark bronze fuscous. Posterior tibia with upper 



