MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 211 



Craterobathra ornata, new species 



Figures 315-316, 692 



Male, 16-20 mm; female, 17 mm. Head dark purple, forehead 

 shining white with prismatic reflections, face white. Antenna 

 deep purple, yellowish below, apical third white except tip. Palpus 

 whitish with piu-ple reflections externally, purple internally. Ab- 

 domen deep purple, first segment with a pair of obhque lateral w^hite 

 stripes, anal tuft yellow, venter piu-ple with a white transverse band 

 across posterior haK of each sternite 2, 3, and 6, sternite 4 entirely 

 wiiite, in female band of sternite 6 yellow. Legs dusky yellowish 

 white, suffused Avith piu-ple, posterior leg with coxa and femiu- white 

 below^, tibia grey purple with a broad pale yellow subbasal band, 

 median tuft black; posterior tarsus piu-ple black, tip snow white. 

 Thorax dark pm'ple. 



Forewing narrowiy lanceolate, pointed. Dark purple over more 

 than anterior third, including a conspicuous w^hite subrectangular or 

 UTCgular oval spot in center, connected with a second smaller similar 

 dot below and before preceding; a bluish-metalUc, ill-defined spot 

 at base of costa and a few similarly colored scales strewn below 

 costa; a larger, w^ell-defined, erect-oval blue-metaUc spot between 

 white spot and posterior edge of black area; posterior 2/3 of wing in 

 male yellow, sHghtly strewTi with black, in female orange; this area 

 including a narrow supramedian longitudinal black streak, from 

 middle of wing to apex, dilated posteriorly; this streak including a 

 brilliant blue-metaUic line along its middle, with pointed ends; a mod- 

 erate black streak along termen not reaching tornus; a semioval 

 black patch in tornus, except narrow edge filled out with metallic 

 blue. Cilia grey mixed with w^hite, a wiiite bar before tornus, a 

 broader black bar in tornus, ciha around apex black, here and there 

 mixed with shining metallic scales. 



Hindwing dark coppery bronze, ciha black. 



Male and female genitaha as described with the genus. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Lanao, Butig Mts., 24 km NE 

 of Butig, 1080 m, 20.VI.1958, 1 d", holotype, genit. shde 5322, 1 9, 

 allotype, genit. shde 5323. Zamboanga del Norte, Masawan, trail 

 to Mt. Mahndang, 1290 m, 5.VII.1958, rain forest, 1 cf, paratype 

 (H.E. Milliron) (BMH). Davao Prov., east slope of Mt. McKinley, 

 3000 ft., IX. 1946 (CNHM Phihppine Exped. 1946-47, H. Hoogstraal), 

 1 cf , 1 9, para types. 



Craterobathra argyracma, new species 



Figures 322, G94 



Male, 20 mm. Head polished, shining pale ochreous, face whitish, 

 side tufts on vertex blackish. Antenna bronze (palpi missing). 



