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side of wing, upper angle of cell and posterior half of terminal area 

 suffused with yellow except on veins. Cilia purplish. 



Hindwing colorless hyaline, with a moderate black marginal band, 

 becoming linear along dorsum, veins black; vein Ic thicker than other; 

 discoidal slightly curved and outwards obhque, yellowish hyaline; 

 marginal band forming small triangles on top of discoidal vein and 

 on ends of veins lb, Ic, and 2. Cilia purplish. 



Female, 15.5 mm. Similar to the male (antennae and abdomen 

 broken). Metathorax with a bright yellow transverse band. Pos- 

 terior tibia as in the male but also the basal half above yellow. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen long, top hooded. Gnathos developed. 

 Uncus moderate, recurved, beset with furcate bristles. Saccus 

 rather broad, top rounded. Transtilla with triangular lateral parts 

 and a very weak membranous median band. Valva long, narrowly 

 semioval, sacculus edge straight, subconcave, with a wart of spines 

 before middle; cucullus large, fanlike, somewhat irregular. 



Material examined: Palawan, 1.6 km south of Tarumpitano Point, 

 28.V.1958 (H.E. MilUron), 1 cf , holotype, genit. slide 5307. Min- 

 danao, Zamboanga del Norte, Masawan, trail to Mt. Matundang, 

 1290 m, 5. VII. 1958 (H.E. Milliron), 1 9, allotype, without abdomen 

 (BMH). 



Lepidopoda Hampson, 1900 



Lepidopoda lutescens, new species 



Figures 328, 702-703 



Female, 26 mm. Head with face silvery white, vertex black, collar 

 yellow, along eyes suffused with white. Antenna (broken) brownish. 

 Palpus slightly roughish; basal and median segments black, mixed 

 with yellow above and beneath, except tip. Thorax (rubbed) bronze 

 black, patagia edged around with yellow and with a yellow dot on 

 each side of apex, larger lateral yellow patches in a pair on meta- 

 thorax; pectus whitish, anterior edge with a large black lateral patch, 

 yellow below this; meso pleura rather dark grey below. Legs bronze 

 black; anterior coxa with an oblique pale yellow transverse band 

 below middle, along external edge extending to base of coxa; median 

 coxa grey; posterior femur grey with a yeUow spot at base and a 

 yellow band at apex; anterior femur dark bronze with a yeUow patch 

 below apical 1/3; median femur dark bronze with a yeUow patch 

 below apical fourth, and with a fringe of yellow hairs along lower 

 edge; anterior tibia yeUow, black above; median tibia roughish above, 

 with yellow median and apical bands and spurs; posterior tibia with 

 a fanhke flat fringe of scales along inner side, extending over two basal 

 segments of tarsus, black with a yellow streak running along upper 

 edge from base to middle, then obUquely crossing to other side; 



