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The type specimen, unique, is in the Paris Museum. The ele- 

 gantly colored species is very distinct. The holotype studied, 9, 

 genit. slide 5507, labelled "Philippines, Manilla." 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor moderate, lobi anales semioval, 

 slightly pointed. Anapophyses very slender, moderately long, post- 

 apophyses similar, twice as long. Ductus bursae extremely long, 

 tortuous and coiled simultaneously. Corpus bursae with a reticulate 

 wall, signa elongate, moderately scobinate plates. Abdominal wall 

 sclerotized throughout. 



Pyroderces Herrich- Shaffer, 1853 



Pyroderces simplex Walsinghain , 1891 



Figure 636 



Pyroderces simplex Walsinghain, 1891, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 119, pi. 6, 

 fig. 58 (cf 9, Gambia).— Durrant, 1912, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 3, p. 206, fig. 2 

 (India, Egypt).— Lamborn, 1914, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 5, p. 201 (Egypt, E. 

 Africa).- Willcocks, 1916, Insect Pests Egypt, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 317, pi. 7, 

 figs. 7-9 (Egypt). — Fletcher, 1933, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4, 

 p. 4. 



Anatrachyntis simplex. — Fletcher, 1917, Rep. Proc. 2nd Ent. Meeting Pusa, p. 

 114. — 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 98. — Corbett and 

 Gates, 1926, Bull. Dept. Agric. Federated Malay States, no. 38, p. 8 (Malaya). 



Batrachedra coriacella Snellen, 1901, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 44, p. 95, pi. 6, figs. 7, 

 7a (cf, head, Java). 



Stagmatophora coriacella. — IMaxwell-Lefroy, 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 536. — 

 Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 372 (Mauritius). 



Pyroderces coriacella. — Fletcher, 1914, South Indian Insects . . ., p. 458, fig. 334 

 (India). — Meyrick, 1914, Ent. Mitt. Suppl., vol. 3, p. 52 (Formosa). 



Anatrachyntis coriacella. — Meyrick, 1915, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 325. 



Stagmatophora gossypiella Walsingham, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 18, 

 p. 178 (Egypt).— Morstatt, 1912, Pflanzer, vol. 8, p. 253 (East Africa). 



Distribution: India, Burma, Java, Formosa, Mauritius, throughout 

 Africa. Probably everywhere in the Old World where cotton is grown. 



Food plant: Cotton (Gossypium, seeds). African oil palm {Elaeis 

 giiineensis) , Eriodendron frondosum . 



Material examined: Luzon, Manila, 15.VII.1917, on cotton boll 

 (D.B. Mackie), "Ace. No. 2980," 10 specimens. Santos, Cotabato, 

 October 1954 (Y.J. Madrid), "No. Ec. 7," "7a." 2 rubbed specimens 

 (USNM). 



Cosmopteryx Iliibner, 1826 

 Key to the Species of Cosmopteryx 



1. Forewing, transverse band yellow, with a black dot; median white line from 



base to middle of wing C. dulcivora 



Forewing, transverse band orange, without dot, median white line sliort, 

 before 1/4 C. basilisca 



