MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 159 



whitish downwards. Antenna rather glossy, dark fuscous (incom- 

 plete). Labial palpus robust, median segment compressed laterally; 

 shinmg pale greyish ochreous, terminal segment dark browTi along 

 anterior edge. Thorax blackish fuscous, tegula white. Abdomen 

 pale grey ^^dth a silvery gloss, anal tuft light bronze brown. 



Forewing sublanceolate, moderately broad, pointed, termen slightly 

 convex and very oblique. Veins 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa just above 

 apex. Black, partially tiu-ning dark grey. Dorsum with a rather 

 broad, very pale ferruginous-white streak from base to tornus, slightly 

 attenuated towards extremities and with a small white tooth on upper 

 edge along fold; a rather broad and straight, oblique white transverse 

 fascia with parallel and well-defined edges, anterior just postmedian; 

 lower third of this fascia extended as a horizontal band posteriorly; 

 about apical sixth of wing white, containing a suffused grey-black 

 rounded blotch, filling out apex and connected with ground color in 

 disc below middle of wing. Cilia (imperfect) dark grey, sordid fuscous 

 in tornus, black m and around apex. 



Hindwing with vein 3 and 4 stalked, 5 rather closely approximated; 

 closmg vein ill defined; 1, trapezoidal, apex slightly produced and 

 pointed; light greyish fuscous, cilia concolorous. 



Male genitalia : Tegiunen constricted below base of gnathos. Uncus 

 spatulate, not bristled, gnathos long and slender, darkly sclerotized. 

 Sacculus lobes with a constricted base and a sharp point. Anellus 

 lobes, complicated, sclerotized and triangidar hairy plates. Aedeagus 

 short and rather broad. 



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

 genit. slide 5139 (USNM). A small, distinctly colored species. 



Orneodidae 



Orneodes Latreille, 1802 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Orneodes 



1. Head white; forewing oclireous whitish, crossed by light ochreous-yellow 



bands and a darker central narrow fascia O. toxophila 



Head pale yellowish, with blackish transverse bands; forewing ochreous 

 yellow, sprinkled with dark fuscous O. spilodesma 



Orneodes toxophila Meyrick, 1906 



Figure 343 



Orneodes toxophila Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. See, vol. 17, p. 133 

 (cf, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 313. 



Distribution: Ceylon. 



