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yellowish, venter pale golden yellow, as is the entire body from below 

 and the femora. Posterior tibia light yellow with a median and a 

 subapical blackish-fuscous band, tarsus orange yellow, suffused with 

 blackish fuscous above. 



Forewing lanceolate, costa little curved at base, base of dorsum 

 prominent and rounded. Dark fuscous suffused with black towards 

 base; markings extended, white strongly clouded with light yellow 

 (perhaps entirely light yellow). A small transverse blotch at base 

 of wing, not reaching costa and dorsum, including a quadrate black 

 dot at base of wing above, this transverse blotch connected with 

 an oval large spot, extending above and parallel to dorsum to less 

 than 1/4 of wing, here almost connected with a stUl larger subtri- 

 angular patch on dorsum, reaching to 1/2 of wing and rising 3/4 

 across wing; somewhat more than 3rd fourth of wing light yellow, 

 almost quadrate, not quite reaching dorsal edge, lower angles slightly 

 rounded; this patch traversed by four tolerably horizontal lines 

 along veins; a small outwards-oblique oval mark beyond 1/4 of costa, 

 Cilia dark fuscous. 



Hindwing deep fuscous bronze, cUia dull dark fuscous, darker 

 than in forewing. 



Female genitalia: Sterigma simple. Genital segment slightly 

 sclerotized, conical. Ostium bursae flattened-annular, rather wide. 

 Ductus bursae with numerous, short thorns. Bulla seminalis simple. 

 Signum, an oval weak and squamose sclerite with a median straight 

 and narrow "lamina dentata." 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakUing (Baker), 1 9, holotype, 

 genit. slide 5254 (USNM). 



Eretmocera Zeller, 1852 



Eretmocera percnoplianes Meyrick, 1929 



Figures 312, 317-318, 324, 725 



Eretmocera percnophanes Meyrick, 1929, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 543. — 

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

 p. 240. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Samar. 



Male, 12 mm. Head, palpus, and thorax dark blackish purple 

 with a strong bronze gloss, palpus with basal segment and lower half 

 of median pale yellow, breast pale yellow. Antenna black, dilated 

 by scales along basal 4/5, these scales loosely projecting posteriorly; 

 metathorax with two yellowish sublateral spots. Abdomen slightly 

 flattened, purple black, with a strong purple-blue shine in certain 

 lights, tergites 5 and 8 mixed with yellow, tergites 6-7 yellow mixed 

 with bluish-purple scales, venter pale yellow. Legs purple black 



