MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 181 



yellow oclireous; terminal segment of palpus with a faint basal 

 brownish ring. Flagellmn of antenna brownish. Ciliations over 1. 

 Abdomen pale yellowish. 



Forewing elongate, suboval -lanceolate, pointed. Veins 3 and 4 

 separate, vein 7 to apex. Unicolorous pale yellow ochreous, rather 

 dull, markings not showing, extreme edge of costa along basal fifth 

 touched with dark grey. Cilia deeper light yellow, with a moderate 

 gloss. 



Hindwing under 1, veins 3 and 4 connate. Pale whitish yeUow, 

 paler than forewing, with a silky gloss. Cilia concolorous. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen small, rather weak, little dilated at base. 

 Uncus triangular, with a short beak. Gnathos, a moderate porrect 

 semicircle. Transtilla, a curved band, gradually dilated towards 

 middle and concave along ventral side lengthwise. Vinculum strong. 

 Valva long and rather narrow, strongly rolled up lengthwise. Costa 

 with long sparse hairs. Cucidlus, a very slender, hooked process. 

 Sacculus over 1, ending in a long slender hook with darkly sclerotized 

 base. Anellus, a rectangular plate, higher than broad. Aedeagus 

 straight, with obliquely trimcate pointed top; cornuti, a sheaf of 

 long spines. 



Female, 18-21 mm (allotype 20 mm). Head and thorax pale 

 yellowish ochreous. Antenna brownish, basal part and scape pale 

 yellow ochreous. Palpus pale yellow ochreous, median segment 

 very slightly sprinkled with greyish, with a broad and irregidar 

 subapical grey ring, terminal segment slender, 3/4, somewhat 

 brighter ochreous, with a grey subbasal ring. 



Forewing suboval-lanceolate, moderately broad. Veins 3 and 4 

 connate, vein 7 to apex. Pale yellow ochreous, rather duU, markings 

 formed by sparse fuscous irroration. First discal stigma rounded, 

 rather large, at 1/3, first plical beneath this, irregular and elongate, 

 more or less truncate posteriorly; a moderate transverse fascia, 

 straight, from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, its 

 origin on costa curved posterad; a line from costa before apex (end 

 of vein 10), moderately outward-convex, to end of vein 3, thence 

 marginal, along termen and tornus to base of transverse fascia. 

 Cilia somewhat deeper yellow, glossy. 



Hindwing elongate-suboval, under 1, paler than forewing, whitish 

 yellow with a golden gloss, along margin and in apex very faintly 

 irrorated with golden brown; veins 3 and 4 connate. Cilia concolor- 

 ous. 



Female genitalia: All tergites of the abdomen brownish sclerotized 

 and with numerous spinules of diverse sizes. Seventh segment 

 modified, sternite and pleurites forming together two bandlike 

 ventrolateral sclerites with thickened caudal edge, ending laterally 



