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Cosmopteryx dulcivora Meyrick, 1919 



Figures 231-232, 637 



Cosmopteryx dulcivora Meyrick, 1919, Exotic Microlcpidoptera, vol. 2, p. 233 

 (cf 9, Fiji). — Diakonoff, 1940, Verh. Proefstat. Java Suikerindustrio, no. 

 24, pp. 907-923, figs. (Java) ; 1941, Archief Suikerindustrie Nederlandsch-Indie, 

 vol. 1941, no. 2, pp. 34-41, figs. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlcpi- 

 doptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 122. Literature on occurrence, biology 

 etc.: Jarvis, 1916, Queensland Bur. Sugar Exp. Sta., Ent. Div. Bull. 3, p. 

 15 (Queensland).— Veitch, 1919, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 10, p. 36 (Fiji); 1923, 

 Colon. Sugar Refg. Co. Ltd., Agr. Rep. no. 7, p. 17 — Swezey, 1924, Hawaiian 

 Planters' Rec, vol. 28, p. 214 (Samoa). — Dormer, 1924, Queensland Agric. 

 Journ., vol. 21, p. 367. — Burns and Mungomery, 1925, ibid., vol. 24, p. 

 335. — Jarvis and Mungomery, 1926, Queensland 26th Ann. Rep. Sugar 

 Exp. Sta., pp. 23, 25. — Mvmgoinery, 1927, Queensland Agric. Journ., vol. 

 28, p. 104 (Queensland).— Hopkins, 1927, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 18, p. 30 

 (Samoa). — Bolle, 1934, Archief Suikerindustrie Nederlandsch-Indie, vol. 

 1934, p. 332. 



Distribution: Fiji, Samoa, Queensland, Java. 



Food plant: Sugar cane (minor pest), mining in leaf and tunnelling 

 through the midrib. 



Material examined: Negros, Victorias, "cc iiS c" and "d," "cane 

 leaf," "LL 163," 14.VI.1928, "Cosmopteryx dulcivora Meyr.," 

 "Cosmopteryx pallvfasciella." 2 cf, genit. slide 5259, 3 9 genit. 

 slides 5260, 5261. 2 cf , 3 9 (USNM). 



Male genitalia: The left half of gnathos developed, strongly 

 sclerotized, clavate, with one angle obliquely produced into a slender 

 process. Valvula oblong-semioval. Valva large, semicircular, upper 

 end of cucuUus angulate. Lobes at the base of the aedeagus very 

 large, larger than valvulae, almost semicircular. Aedeagus moderate. 



Female genitalia of the usual Cosmopteryx pattern. Signa small 

 ill defined and unequal. 



Cosmopteryx basilisca Meyrick, 1909 



Cosmopteryx basilisca Meyrick, 1909, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 19, p. 

 416 (d^, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . 

 Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 64. 



Distribution: Ceylon, India, Philippine Is. 



The distribution record is derived from Meyrick's unpublished 

 notes in the British Museum (Natural History). I did not see 

 evidence of the occurrence outside Ceylon. 



Oecophoridae 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Oecophoridae 



1. Fore wing with raised tufts of scales 2 



Forewing without tufts ,,,.., 3 



