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Distribution: Central and South America, Puerto Rico, East Africa, 

 Seychelles, India, Andamans, Ceylon, Burma, Tonkin, Queensland. 



Food plants: Indigofera, Cassia corimbosa, C. flora, Crotalaria, 

 Parkinsonia acideafa, Vachellia farnesiana, pigeon pea. 



Material examined: Luzon, Canlubang, 11. XI. 1927 (L.B. Uichanco), 

 "Ace. No. Ec. 479, Coll. of Agri. Univ. P. I," 1 cT, genit. slide "A.B. 

 July 13, 1928." "In pods of Tephrosia" (In Busck's hand) (USNM). 

 Luzon, Prov. Benguet, Klondyke, 800 ft., 8.V.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 

 1 cf, genit. slide 5663 (Rothschild bequest, BM). 



Acribologa Meyrick, 1923 



Acribologa malacodcs (Meyrick, 1910) 



Figures 474, 630 



Noihris malacodes Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 451 (cf 9> 



Borneo, India, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . 



Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 195. 

 Acribologa malacodes. — Meyrick, 1923, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 622; 



1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, p. 171. — Gaede, 1937, in 



Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 426. 



Distribution: India, Ceylon, Java, Borneo. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 1 9 (USNM). 



Brachmia Hiibner, 1826 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Brachmia 



1. Forewing, with a transverse and a dorsal pale streak. 



B. heterotoma, new species 

 Forewing without such streaks B. tristella 



Brachmia tristella (Snellen, 1902) 

 Figures 245, 631 



Ceralophora tristella Snellen, 1902, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 44, p. 85, pi. 6, fig. 2 (cf ?, 



Java) . 

 Brachmia tristella. — Meyrick, 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, 



p. 249. — Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, fasc. 79, p. 546. 



Distribution: Java. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 5 9, genit. slide 

 5190 (USNM). 



Compared with lectotype, 9, herewith selected, labelled with hand- 

 WTitten labels "Java, Batavia, 1892" and ''Ceratophora Tristella Sn.," 

 (in Snellen's hand), genit. slide 55119 (LM). 



Brachmia heterotoma, new species 



Figures 224, 632 



Male, 11 mm. Head and collar pale brownish olive, face becoming 



