MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 231 



male, bright ochreous yellow, median segment towards top laterally 

 and above and terminal segment laterally, mixed ^^ ith black. Antenna 

 purple black with bluish gloss, apex from below tawny fulvous. 

 Thorax blackish piurple, marked with yellow: a large lateral spot on 

 each patagium; tegula with a larger sub triangular spot just above 

 base of %ving, a narrow yellow inner edge and terminal tuft mixed with 

 some yellow hairs; posterioi edge of mesothorax broadly yellow, of 

 metathorax with a pair of hint submedian spots, side tufts white. 

 Legs piu"ple black with yellow markings as in male; apical half of 

 upper edge of median femur with a yellow spot; tibia with long pro- 

 jecting bristly scales above, a broad oblique suprabasal transverse 

 band and top bright yellow, spin's and tarsus yellow. Posterior leg, 

 coxa with a yellow spot close to base; femm* white fringed below 

 throughout, tibia with an oblique yellow band inside, spin's yellow, 

 outside yellow throughout, apex with tuft and spurs yellow, tarsus 

 yellow irrorated with pm'ple. Abdomen as in male, but posterior 

 edges of segments, except of the first, broadly yellow, anal tuft large, 

 black, mixed laterally with pale yellow and whitish. 



Forewing narrow, spatulate, apex obtuse. Costa as far as upper 

 edge of cell and vein 9 blackish purple, slightly mixed with yellow 

 towards base and with a small yellow spot at the extreme base of 

 wing; lower edge of cell with a moderate, dorsum with a broader 

 purple streak, both becoming broader beyond cell and merging 

 together towards tornus. Wing membrane semihyaline light yellow 

 in and below cell, and scattered with opaque orange-yellow scales; 

 in cell membrane with a strong milky-lUac opalescence; median band 

 strongly inwards-oblique, broad, orange, irregularly edged anteriorly 

 with purple, hardly edged posteriorly; area beyond cell on anterior 

 half pale yellow with a strong mUky-lilac opalescence on posterior 

 half, strongly suffused with ochreous and violet purple; veins beyond 

 cell streaked with dark purple. Cilia paler, fuscous yellowish. 



Hindwing pale yellow hyaline, veins narrowly lined with purple, 

 discoidal thicker, orange; cell la purple, mixed with some tawny 

 scales, basal halves of anal veins and of lower edge of cell, ochreous 

 tawny. Cilia purple. 



Male genitalia: Coremata very large. Tegumen long, sclerotized, 

 cylindrical, moderately dUated in middle, top truncate, simple; base 

 dilated. Transtilla concave, dark, upper surface sparsely denticulate. 

 Saccus robust, moderately long. Valva semioval, sacculus edge 

 straight. Disc of valva except base of costa beset with stellate spines, 

 sacculus except at base with simple bristles, a small group of dark 

 simple spines beyond base. 



Female genitalia: Coremata very large. Genital segment strongly 

 sclerotized, ventral split wide. Lamella antevaginalis forming strong 



