MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 149 



Lefroy, 1906, Indian Insect Posts, p. 156; 1906, Mem. Dept. Agric. India., 

 Ent. ser., vol. 1, p. 224; 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 534; 1933, Agric. Journ. 

 India, vol. 3, table. — Fletcher, 1914, South Indian Insects . . ., p. 454, pi. 

 43. — Janse, 1917, Check-List South African Lepid. Het., p. 182. 



Phihorimaea heliopa. — Sitowslci, 1908, Agric. Journ. India, vol. 3, pt. 1. — Fletcher, 

 1916, Entom. Note 18; 1917, Rep. Proc. 2nd. Ent. Meeting Pusa, p. 272; 

 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 73.— d'Angremond, 1920, 

 Meded. Proefstat. Vorstenl. Tabak, vol. 42, p. 3; 1922, Agric. Circ. Dept. 

 Agric. Fiji, vol. 3, p. 19. — Palmer and Fulmek, 1924, Meded. Deli-proefstat., 

 Medan, vol. 2, ser. no. 35, p. 27. — Sorauer and Reh, 1925, Handbuch 

 Pflanzenkrankheiten, vol. 4, p. 298. — Meyrick, 1925, in Wytsman, Genera 

 Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 94; 1927, Insects Samoa . . ., vol. 3, fasc. 2, p. 79. — 

 Hopkins, 1927, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 18, p. 30.— Roberts, 1930, Bull. Ent. 

 Res., vol. 21, p. 180.— Bodenheimer, 1930, Iris, vol. 44, p. 174; 1930, Schadl.- 

 Faun. Palaest. p. 314. — Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepid opterorum Catalogus, 

 pars 79, p. 261. 



Lita heliopa. — Amsel, 1935, in Veroff. Deutschen Kolonial-Mus., vol. 1, no. 2, 

 p. 263. 



Teleia heliopa. — Bodenheimer, 1935, Animal Life Palaest., p. 230. 



Gelechia aptatella Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 29, 

 p. 636. 



Distribution: Australia, India, Ceylon, Bui*ma, Sumatra, Java 

 (probably throughout tropical Asia, everywhere on tobacco, Nicotiana 

 tahacum), Samoa, South Africa, New Zealand. 



Food plant: Minor pest of tobacco plant, causing stem galls. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Bafios (Baker), cf , genit. sUdes 

 5236 cf, 5242 cf, 52439. Mt. Makihng, cf genit. slides 5188, 5193, 

 5237; total: Scf, 59 (USNM). Compared with male specimens from 

 Sumatra, DeU (de Bussy), genit. slides 5187, 5192 (LM). 



Stomopteryx Heinemann, 1870 



Stomopteryx subsecivella (Zeller, 1852) 



Figures 210, 215, 623 



Gelechia (Brachmia) subsecivella Zeller, 1852, Lepid optera Microptera . . . 



Caflfrorum . . ., p. 113 (South Africa). 

 Brachmia subsecivella. — Walsingham, 1891, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 94. 

 Anacampsis subsecivella. — Janse, 1917, Check-List South African Lepid. Het., 



p. 179. 

 Stomopteryx subsecivella. — Meyrick, 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 



184, p. 111. — Fletcher, 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci, Mon., no. 2, p. 45, 



pi. 31, figs. 1-4. — Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepid opterorum Catalogus, pars 79, 



p. 334. 

 Xystophora modicella Deventer, 1904, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 47, p. 4, pi. 1, figs. 2, 



2a (Java). 

 Anacampsis nerteria Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, 



p. 139 (Ceylon); 1909, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 220 (India); 1909, Ann. 



Transvaal ]\Ius., vol. 2, p. 11 (South Africa). — Maxwell-Lefroy, 1906, Mem, 



