MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 227 



brown fuscous with a purple gloss, patagium with a yellow spot 

 laterally, a moderate yellow anterior fascia with irregular posterior 

 edge; tip of tegula mixed with yellow; tip of meso thorax with two 

 yellow spots, metathorax with two bright yellow lateral tufts. Legs 

 yellow (strongly rubbed). Pectus rather suffused with yellow. 

 Abdomen brown fuscous with a purple gloss, edges of tergites 2-6 

 with narrow, somewhat interrupted yellow bands, anal tuft orange; 

 venter from base to segment 6, yellow. 



Forewdng hyahne, hght yellow; a broad costal purple streak as far 

 as cell and vein 9; narrow streaks along lower edge of cell from beyond 

 base and along dorsum, the former shghtly thicker; veins beyond 

 cell narrowly streaked with dark brown purple, discoidal vein suf- 

 fusedly brown purple, this suffusion not quite reaching lower angle of 

 cell; a narrow attenuated streak from middle of discoidal along 

 posterior third of cell; brown-purple suffusion, paler than veins, 

 forming anteriorly attenuated streaks between veins, except below 

 vein 3, on lower half of wing not quite reaching cell, on upper, fiUing 

 out the whole apical area; posterior half of wdng membrane throughout 

 Anth a brilliant purple-hlac gloss, anterior half mixed with some 

 brilliant golden-green scales, especially above lower edge of cell and 

 above dorsum. CiUa (imperfect) concolorous. 



Hind wing hyaUne, very pale yellow with pale blue reflections; 

 veins and edge of wing narrowly brown purple, discoidal vein yellow, 

 little oblique, strongly outwards concave. Ciha rather pale brownish 

 purple. 



Female genitaUa: Ovipositor weak. Eighth segment sclerotized, 

 sternite forming a Ughter, slender sclerite, flanked by narrow longi- 

 tudinal folds. Ostium bursae and colhculum entirely membranous, 

 not modified. Cestiun, a short dark tube. Corpus bursae large, 

 elongate-ovoid, with a thin wall. Signum, a small prominence, with 

 dark finely granulate structure. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Monuangon, V.1915 (B.P. Clark), 

 1 9, holotype, genit. sHde 5302, (USNM). Zamboanga del Norte, 

 9.6 km east of Sindangan, 20.VII.1958 (H.E. MiUiron), 1 9, paratype, 

 genit. sUde 5306; paler, with only traces of the bluish luster of the 

 holotype, stalk of veins 3 and 4 in the hind wings shghtly longer; 

 the genitaha, however, identical. 



Trilochana Moore, 1879 



Trilochana triscoliopsis Rothschild, 1925 



Figure 710 



Trilochana triscoliopsis Rothschild, 1925, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 16, 

 p. 208 (cf, Butuan, Mindanao). 



