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basal segment with a black lateral spot, median segment with an 

 irregular black patch near base above, and with a few black large 

 specks toward middle above and in an incomplete subapical ring. 

 Thorax white, with the faintest yello^vish tinge in middle, two black 

 spots anteriorly. Abdomen glossy fuscous white, becoming dark 

 brown toward apex, white toward base; venter whitish irrorated 

 with purplish, end segments dark brown. Legs yellowish white, tarsi 

 blackish, white ringed. 



Forewing suboval, rather broad, costa angularl}^ prominent before 

 1/3, concave in middle, straight posteriorly, apex moderately rounded, 

 termen almost straight above, rounded beneath, vertical. White, 

 with the faintest yellowish suffusion along middle of wing and beyond 

 cell. Two large raised pale yellow scale tufts, the larger one above 

 fold before its middle, the smaller on upper angle of cell; two smaller 

 white scale tufts alternating with the other, in upper half of cell; two 

 highly raised but loose tufts below upper edge of cell toward base, 

 with upper half dark brown, lower white, some brown scales scattered 

 between these; other markings jet black: a costal irregular, and a 

 median quadrate spot at base, an obtusely wedge-shaped obhque 

 larger mark at 1/6 of costa; some irregular marbhng between these 

 marks above cell; a round dot below fold at 1/5; an irregular dark 

 grey mark on 2/3 of costa; a patch of irregular jet-black irroration 

 with bluish reflections in apex; a curved series of a few distant 

 brownish-grey raised scales well before upper part of termen. Cilia 

 white, around apex jet black with purpHsh tips. 



Hind wing golden whitish, glossy, thinly irrorated with pale tawny, 

 extreme apex suffused with jet black. Ciha pale golden yellowish, 

 opposite apex with a broad blackish bar. 



Female genitaUa: Postapophyses long, with dilated bases, ana- 

 pophyses very short. Eighth segment considerably sclerotized and 

 erected-conical, with a broad triangular ventral cleft. Edge of 7th 

 segment with a row of strong spines. Signum strong, a denticulate 

 hollow plate with a strong hook in middle. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Baiios (Woodward), 1 9, holotype, 

 genit. shde 5216 (USNM). 



Tonica lagaropis Meyrick, 1928 



Figures 277-278, 659-660 



Tonica lagaropis jNIeyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 474 (9, 

 Philippines) . — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 181; 1963, op. cit., vol. 4, p. 458, pi. 226, figs. 3-3c. 



Distribution: Philippine Is. 



Male, 29 mm, neallotype, here\vith selected. Head creamy white, 

 crown slightly mixed with dark brown. Antenna creamy white, 



