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edged with dark fuscous on both sides; a narrower white outwards- 

 obHque streak from costa before 2/3, directed to middle of termen, 

 across upper third of disc, abruptly changing in a broader, bright 

 ochreous inwards-obhque streak to 2/3 of dorsum, so giving rise to an 

 angulate complete transverse fascia; another parallel fascia, broader, 

 entirely bright ochreous, halfway between preceding and termen, 

 more curved at 1/3 than angulate; these fasciae edged and separated 

 by dark fuscous; termen and median part of wing tawny, sUghtly 

 dusted with fuscous; ocellus in cell white. CiHa (rubbed) dark 

 fuscous. 



Hindwing yellow, marked with very pale purplish fuscous: a streak 

 edging white costal area, a patch in apex, an almost straight pre- 

 terminal streak from apical patch to tornus, some irregular suffusion 

 along lower edge of cell and along fold and irregular dusting before 

 termen. Cilia (rubbed) apparently yellowish with dark fuscous 

 basal third. 



Female genitaha: Seventh segment gently sclerotized, sternite 

 gradually rounded along its posterior edge, with a deep median spUt 

 flanked by small darker sclerites. Lamella postvaginahs showing a 

 slender horizontal ridge. ColHculum formed of short irregular dark 

 folds. Ductus bursae simple, narrow. Corpus bursae elongate-pear- 

 shaped. Signum, a horseshoe-shaped lamina dentata. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet, PalaU, 2000 ft., 26.XII.1912 

 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9, holotype, genit. shde 5683 (BM). Perhaps 

 allied to A. inscriptana (Snellen), but quite differently colored. 



Anthophila basalts (Felder, 1875) 



Figures 304, 678 



Simaethis basalis Felder, 1875, in Raise Fregatte Novara, vol. 2, no. 7, pi. 138, 

 fig. 19 (Amboina). — Pagenstecher, 1900, in Zoologica, vol. 29, no. 12 

 p. 229.— Meyrick, 1907, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 32, p. Ill; 

 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 13, p. 35; 1914, in 

 Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 164, p. 21; 1938, Trans. Roy. Ent. 

 Soc. London, vol. 87, p. 523. — Turner, 1913, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 38, p. 210. 



Anthophila basalis. — DiakonoflF, 1948, Treubia, vol. 19, p. 204; 1955, Verh. Ned. 

 Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 26. 



Simaethis chionodesma Lower, 1896, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 20, 

 p. 167. 



Distribution : Celebes, Moluccas, Burn, Amboina, Aru, New Guinea, 

 Philippine Is., Formosa, East Australia. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 cf, genit. slide 

 5170; 1 9, Los Banos, 4.XI.1933 (E.B. Ramos), "Ace. no. F90, coll. 

 of Agr. Univ. P.I.," 1 9 (USNM), 1 d^, 2 9. 



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