MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 217 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor moderate, gelechioid. Ninth segment 

 cylindrical. Sterigma sclerotized, a longitudinal rigid body; lamella 

 postvaginalis with a deep triangular incision of upper edge; ostium 

 bursae also triangular, with lateral thickenings and curved frontal 

 rim. Colliculum indicated by a small tubidar sclerite, deeply excised 

 above in front. Bulla seminalis and corpus bursae large, simple. 



The unique female holotype specimen is labelled, '*Mt. Apo, 6.500 

 ft., Mindanao, M., 5.10" and has the genit. slide no. BM 11350 9 

 (BM). Also this species has been kindly dissected for me by Mr. 

 P.E.S. Whalley, British Museum (Natural History). 



Stathmopoda Herrich-Schaffer, 1853 



Key to the Philippine Species of Stathmopoda 



1. Forewing dark fuscous wath two white transverse fasciae . . . . S. placida 

 Forewirig fuscous with basal 2/5 bright yellow S. theoris 



Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908 



Figures 319-320, 724 



Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 396 ( 9 , Burma) ; 

 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogue, pars 13, p. 13; 1914, in 

 Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 165, p. 12. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue 

 . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 250. 



Distribution: Burma. 



Material examined : Luzon, Manila, January 1928 (R.C. McGregor), 

 1 cf , genit. slide 5135. 



A badly damaged specimen, but apparently belonging to this 

 species, which must be more widely distributed over the region than 

 we know at present. 



Tegumen narrow. Uncus pointed, rather slender. Vinculum semi- 

 oval. Gnathos formed as a large semifunnel supporting anus. Valva 

 elongate semioval, simple, sacculus not modified, top rounded; cucullus 

 elongate-semioval, bristly. Aedeagus huge, cornuti apparently fine 

 sclerotizations of the wall of the vesica. Anellus lobes (in figure 

 attached to aedeagus), small. 



The genitalia decidedly are of Oecophorid type. 



Stathmopoda theoris (Meyrick, 1906) 



Figure 323 



Aeoloscelis theoris Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 410 

 (cf, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue. . .Microlepidoptera. . .Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 308. 



Stathmopoda theoris. — Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, 

 p. 983; 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 286.— 1913, in 



