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Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., La Lvm Mts., Calian, 

 5500 ft., 20-21.VII.1931 (Clagg, CM Ace. 9163), 1 &, genit. slide 

 5722 (CMP). Compared with type in the British Museum. 



Orneodes spilotlesma Meyrick, 1908 



Orneodes spilodesma Meyrick, 1908, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, 1907, p. 508 

 ( cf 9 , S. India, Assam) . — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . 

 Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 291. 



Distribution: South India, Assam. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mountain Province, Baguio, lO.VI. 

 1945 (J.G. Franclemont), 1 d", genit. slide 5137 (CUI). 



Cosmopterygidae 

 Scaeosophinae, new status 



Scaeosophides Meyrick, 1922, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 48. 

 Scaeosophidae Meyrick, 1932, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 4, p. 332. 

 Cosmopterygidae. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 21. 



This peculiar, very natural group of closely allied genera ^^■ith the 

 general appearance of the Oecopboridae had been first attributed to 

 that family, later separated as a "group" of it, subsequently defined 

 as a distinct family, and finally transferred by Clarke to the family 

 Cosmopterygidae on the basis of characteristic male genitalia. The 

 last measure seems to be entirely correct. The group, however, does 

 not resemble the general type of the Cosmopterygidae; besides it is 

 very consistent in the type of the male genitalia and even more so in 

 the unusual and aberrant venation of the hindwing. Therefore I 

 propose to reestablish Meyrick's concept of this group being independ- 

 ent to a considerable degree, but under an emendated name and in a 

 different family: as a subfamily of the Cosmopterygidae. 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Scaeosophinae 



1. Hindwing with veins 4 and 5 long-stalked Scaeothyris, new genus 



Hindwing with veins 4 and 5 separate, parallel Syntomaula 



Syntomaula Meyrick, 1914 



Figure 234 



Syntomaula Meyrick, 1914, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 235 (type species: 

 *S. tephrota Meyrick, 1914, Ceylon); 1922, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, 

 fasc. ISO, p, 51. — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, 

 p. 214. — Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 88, p. 93. — 

 Clarke, 1965, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 5, p. 542, 

 pi. 267, figs. 1-1 f. 



