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edge and hair tuft along it, pale yellow; posterior tarsus pale yeUow, 

 faintly fuscous ringed. 



Forewing sublanceolate, moderately broad, costa slightly curved 

 at extremities, apex subobtuse, termen gently rounded, little obhque. 

 Veins 2 and 3 stalked, from angle, 4 and 5 approximated, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to termen, 9 out of middle of stalk. Rather dark purple 

 fuscous with a distinct gloss. Base of wing slightly darker. Cilia 

 fuscous, with two darker fuscous bands. 



Hindwdng glossy pale bronze fuscous, cilia darker fuscous with a 

 pale basal hne. 



Female genitalia: Ninth segment distinctly sclerotized. Sterigma 

 shaped as a wide funnel, wdth a finely punctulate wall, lower edge 

 more sclerotized not punctulate. A slender cestum indicated in 

 ductus bursae. Signum, a semistellate small sclerite. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Apo, 70 B, 9.V.1945 (J.G. Fran- 

 clemont), 1 9, holotype, genit. shde 5119 (GUI). Judging from the 

 genitalia, closely related to L. crypsigenes Meyrick, from Ceylon. 



Lecithocera improvisa, new species 



Figures 195-196, 620 



Female, 13.5 mm. Head pale ochreous, slightly strewn with pale 

 tawny. Antenna fuscous, scape darker fuscous. Palpus dark fus- 

 cous, extreme tip of median segment whitish ochreous; terminal 

 segment whitish ochreous w^th a few dark specks; median segment 

 thick, dilated toward base (in lateral aspect) . Thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous. 



Forewing oblong-suboval, costa gently curved at base, more curved 

 towards apex, in middle straight, apex subacute, termen rounded. 

 Pale fuscous, irregularly clouded and dusted with darker fuscous. 

 Stigmata small, black; first discal ill defined, second discal at 3/5, 

 rounded; phcal slightly larger, suboval, beyond 1/4, terminal edge 

 with a series of rather suffused, not distinctly separate subtriangular 

 small dots. Ciha fuscous with a paler base, barred faintly with 

 darker fuscous. 



Hindwing with a prominent tornus; glossy pale fuscous, finely 

 dusted with darker fuscous. Cilia concolorous, with a paler base. 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor rather cylindrical. Sterigma formed 

 by a small rounded paler plate with a cardiform thickening. Ductus 

 bursae rather short, coiled. Signa two, rounded, denticulate patches. 



Material examined: Mindanao, VII-VIII.1917, 1 9, holotype, genit. 

 shde 5719 (USNM). An obscure species. 



