168 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257 



Diploclasis balbidophora, new species 



Figures 246, 249-252, 257, 640 



Male, 16 mm. Head light orange, face yeUow, a rounded brown 

 spot on vertex and forehead. Antennal ciliations over 1; scape 

 elongate, clavate, yellow, with a brown mark on basal half above, 

 flagellum dark grey, ringed with black, towards base yellow, along 

 apical third pale yellow. Labial palpus very long, recurved, median 

 segment slightly thickened, rather smooth, subascending, over 3X 

 face, orange yellow; ^\dth a faint transverse purpUsh subapical mark 

 anteriorly; terminal segment over 1/2, orange yellow; a subbasal ring, 

 anterior streak and four small dentations of the internal edge of this 

 streak blackish purple. Thorax brown, tip and posterior half of tegula 

 orange, three longitudinal orange-bro%Miish lines, lateral short, median 

 complete. Abdomen dark purple, u'regularly banded with yellow, 

 venter yellow. 



Forewing with veins 3 and 4 moderately approximated, from angle; 

 suboval, moderately broad, costa curved, apex subobtuse, termen 

 rounded, oblique. Bright yellow orange, markings dark pm-ple. A 

 subbasal transverse fascia, strongly curved, from base of costa to dorsum 

 beyond base, with an acute posterior angulation above middle, and 

 extended along dorsum so as to form a semioval spot reaching to base 

 of fold; an N -shaped zigzag mark, from 2/5 of dorsum to middle of 

 costa, thence to 3/4 of dorsum and finally to costa before apex; points 

 of contact with costa slightly extended along costal edge ; anterior arm 

 of the N narrower, vertical along lower half, with the base narrowly 

 and strongly extended along dorsum, a posterior horizontal branch from 

 this arm running just below cell and almost touching the median 

 branch of the N. Cilia dark purple, basal half yellow around apex and 

 along upper part of termen. 



Hindwing elongate, semioval, about 2/3, cilia 1/2; veins 3 and 4 

 connate. Deep bronze brown, cilia bright yellow with basal fourth 

 bronze brown and with a whitish basal line, entirely bronze brown 

 opposite apex, pale yellow along costa. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen moderate, top rounded. Uncus not 

 separated or absent. Transtilla absent. Valva elongate, moderate, 

 rather thickened, dilated. Sacculus sclerotized, over 1, ending in a 

 sharp point; cucullus equally sclerotized, with a separate rounded 

 top. Aedeagus moderate, curved, its base extending into a tortuous 

 ductus ejaculatorius as a tortuous, bandlike sclerite. 



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

 genit. slide 5233 (USNM). 



