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and darker, lower 3/4 strongly convex posteriorly, suffused and fainter; 

 this fascia suffusedl}'^ edged Anth paler posteriorly; a series of faint 

 darker dots along costa before apex, in apex and along termen to tornus ; 

 base of costa suffused Anth blackish; a faint darker spot on costa before 

 middle; two round black dots in an inwards-obUque series in disc 

 beyond base; a large, conspicuous black spot in fold before 1/3, 

 sometimes reaching dorsal edge and rising above middle of disc; 

 shape of this patch sHghtly variable, transverse, top usually with an 

 anterior rectangular excision ; second discal stigma very small, before 

 2/3, a small elongate mark right below it, sometimes beyond it. 

 Ciha pale grey A\ith a whitish-ochi-eous basal and a darker grey sub- 

 median band. 



HindAving glossy pale bronze grey, finely irrorated "with fuscous, 

 more so towards apex. Ciha fuscous gi'ey, AAith a pale ochreous 

 basal line. 



Male and female genitaha as described for the genus. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Baiios (Baker), 1 cf, holotype, 

 genit. sHde 5205, 1 9, allotype, genit. sUde 5206; 1 9, paratype, AA-ings 

 on slide 5206a; 3 d', 5 9, paratypes. Total 4 cf, 7 9 (USNM). 

 Luzon, Rizal Prov., Montalban, 17.III.1914 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9, 

 paratype, genit. sHde 5575. 



Brachyacma IVIeyrick, 1886 



Brachyacma palpigera (Walsingham, 1891) 



Figures 216, 619 



Gelechia palpigera Walsingham, 1891, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 94, pi. 4, 



fig. 31 (Delagoa, cf 9). — Janse, I9I7, Check-List South African Lepid. Het., 



p. 181. 

 Paraspisies palpigera. — Busck, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, no. 2043, p. 10 



(British W. Indies, Bahamas, Panama). — Fletcher, 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. 



India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 88 (India, food plants). 

 Lathontogonus palpigera. — Walsingham, 1915, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia 



Centrali-Americana, vol. 42, p. 409. — Bottimer, 1926, Journ. Agric. Res., 



vol. 33, p. 812. 

 Brachyacma palpigera. — Meyrick, 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 



184, p. 168; 1930, Ann. Soc, Ent. France, vol. 99, p. 725; 1935, in Caradja 



and Meyrick, Materialien . . . Microlepidopteren-Fauna . . ., p. 72. — 



Leonard and Miles, 1931, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 24, p. 472. 

 Lathontogonus adusiipennis Walsingham, 1897, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 88. 

 Paraspistes ioloncha Meyrick, 1905, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, 



p. 600 (Ceylon); 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 274 



(Seychelles) . 

 Lipatia crotalariella Busck, 1910, Bull, Dept. Agric. [Trinidad], vol. 9, no. 66, p. 



243 (British W. Indies). 

 Brachyacma epichorda Turner, 1919, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol, 31, p, 163 



(Queensland), 



