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Male genitalia: Socius with a circular subapical band of closely set 

 spines, extreme top of sociiis narrowed and projecting; bristles chiefly 

 above and below. Central cone of transtilla narrow. Valva longer 

 than in preceding species, more pointed, ventral side gently rounded. 

 Sacciilus with three processes, first basal, hairy, second cuspidate, 

 third bristly. Saccus shorter and thicker. Eighth sternite dilated 

 caudad. Seventh segment somewhat less enlarged, but coremata 

 larger and denser (removed in figure). 



Anticrates Meyrick, 1905 



Key to the Philippine Species of Anticrates 



1. Forewing crimson or pale purple, with yellow markings 2 



Forewing yellow with crimson network 3 



2. Hindwing pale crimson; forewing with submedian transverse (sometimes 



narrowly interrupted) fascia A. rutilella 



Hindwing pale yellow, touched with pink posteriorly; forewing with a pair of 

 submedian spots, on costa and dorsum, respectively. 



A. denticulata, new species 



3. Forewing bright yellow; markings deep crimson, approximately a double 



X-mark, unicolorous A. rhodometra, new species 



Forewing pale yellow; markings crimson and pink, not unicolorous, forming a 

 more intricate network 4 



4. Forewing with costal 2/3 uninterrupted crimson . . A. digitosa, new species 

 Forewing with costal 1/4 uninterrupted crimson A. paratarsa 



Anticrates rutilella (Pagenstecher, 1900) 



Figures 360, 737 



Enaemia rutilella Pagenstecher, 1900, in Zoologica, vol. 29, no. 12, p. 233 (Bis- 



mark Is.). 

 Anticrates rutilella. — Meyrick, 1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, 



pars 13, p. 33. 



Distribution: Bismarck Is. 



Male, 15 mm. Head and palpus bright yellow, collar and basal 

 half of palpus crimson. Antenna yellow, crimson above except at 

 base. Thorax with anterior half bright yellow, posterior crimson, 

 edge of the color well defined. Abdomen pinkish fulvous, dorsum ia 

 middle suffused with crimson, venter whitish, anal tuft yellow. 



Forewing elongate oval, gently curved, apex rounded and indefinite, 

 termen strongly rounded, oblique. Fuscous violet, markings bright 

 yellow edged wdth crimson, v/ell defined. A broad yellow fascia 

 from costa before middle, to 1/4 of dorsum, rather dilated on costa, 

 constricted in fold (in right wing crossed by a crimson line in fold), 

 edges slightly undulate, posterior rather more inwards-oblique; basal 

 area of ground color edged around with crimson, a triangular spot 

 on end of dorsum reaching with top to lower angle of cell; a transverse 



