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Male genitalia: Tegiimen, an equilateral triangle. Tuba analis 

 bristled. Transtilla broad and rather high, Anellus lobes rather 

 small, broader at base, pointed. Valva elongate-suboval, broad. 

 Sacculus one-half, apical patch of spines elongate-oval, submarginal, 

 spines rather slender; top of sacculus angularly prominent. Cucullus 

 rounded. Aedeagus straight, slender, basal half broader. 



Anthophila xanthogramma (IVIeyrick, 1912), new combination 



Simaethis xanthogramma Meyrick, 1912, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 42 

 (<f 9, Mindoro, Keils.); 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, 

 pars 13, p. 35; 1914, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 164, p. 21. — 

 Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 327. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Mindoro; Kei Is. 



Anthophila amethystodes (Meyrick, 1914), new combination 



Figures 338, 681-682 



Simaethis amethystodes Meyrick, 1914, Suppl. Ent., no. 3, p. 57 (9, Formosa). — 

 Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 42. 



Distribution : Formosa, Philippine Is. 



The lectotype, hereby selected, is labelled thus: "Philippines, M., 

 .10," "Simaethis amethystodes Meyr., 3/3, E. Meyrick det., in Meyrick 

 Coll." "amethystodes Meyr." (in Meyrick's hand, BM) 1 cf , genit. 

 slide 5684, This species is of the extensive and difficult^. pl/ra^tsieZ/a 

 group of species, probably nearest to A. irimochla (Meyrick). 



Male, 15 mm. Head with face yellowish, vertex fuscous mixed 

 with yellowish. Antenna blackish, brightly ringed mth white, 

 ciliations over 1. Palpus yellow, median and terminal segments each 

 with a blackish base and a dark fuscous subapical band, in terminal 

 segment almost entire apical half dark fuscous. Thorax (rubbed) 

 fuscous with an anterior and a median orange transverse band. 

 Abdomen yeUow, paler below, fuscous color showing through. Pos- 

 terior leg orange yellow, femur paler, tibia with two suffused black 

 bands, spurs whitish marked with blackish, tarsus black with yellow 

 base, top of first segment and the whole of third segment white. 



Forewing broad, subtriangidar, costa moderately curved, more so at 

 ends, apex obtusely pointed, termen long, rounded, slightly prominent 

 above middle. Ochreous orange, marked with dark fuscous. A small 

 spot on base of costa; a moderate, straight and little inwards-oblique 

 transverse streak at about 1/5, preceded by another narrow, irregular 

 strigula, triangularly dilated on dorsum; an almost vertical median 

 fascia, somewhat uTegular and slightly suffused, moderately constricted 

 above cell, gradually dilated downwards and sphidle-shaped, broadest 

 at 3/4; this fascia is preceded by a straight line of fuscous irroration and 

 followed by another complete and well-defined line, more distant from 



