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spot filling out apex; dark mallet-shaped median mark of ground 

 color edged around with crimson and containing a faint crimson dot 

 between bases of veins 6-8. Cilia bright yellow, grey pink opposite 

 ground color, 



Hindwing transparent, thinly suffused with pink, more distinctly 

 so along margin, veins brighter, pink, 



Male genitalia : Tegumen moderate, conical-truncate. Uncus long, 

 rather slender, top clavate. Vinculum broadly curved, strong, saccus 

 long and slender. Valva moderate, dilated, base strongly concave, 

 Aedeagus very long and strong, longer than tegumen and uncus to- 

 gether, moderately sinuate, edge ventrally with a long point. Core- 

 mata, two rounded tumescences with long hair-scales. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakiUng (Baker), 1 9, genit, 

 sHde 5223; 1 9, (abdomen missing) (USNM). 



Anticrates denticulata, new species 



Figures 356, 361, 739 



Male, 18,5 mm. Head and patagia bright yellow, back of vertex 

 suffused \nth crimson. Antenna pink. Palpus crimson, terminal 

 segment yellow. Thorax tawny crimson, tegula with anterior 2/3 

 bright yellow. Abdomen pale pinkish ochreous. 



Forewing oblong, considerably dilated, costa gently curved, more 

 so toward apex, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique. Lilac 

 purple, edges of markings suffused crimson, markings light yellow. 

 An elongate-triangular submedian costal spot, not quite reaching 

 middle of disc, a moderate apical area \\4th edge very obUque and 

 slightly concave; two elongate-depressed triangular spots, occupying 

 dorsiun from well beyond base to tornus, above reaching to fold, 

 interconnected, first suffused with orange except anteriorly, second 

 with anterior extremity crimson. Cilia light yellow, along lower 

 half of termen and in tornus lilac purple. 



Hindwing pale yellow, a central wedge-shaped part from veins 2 to 7 

 pale pink with veins deeper pink, a narrow apical area yellow, cilia 

 light yellow, between veins 2-5 pink. 



Male genitalia: Saccus rather short, pointed. Uncus long, not 

 sclerotized, distinctly clavate, top with a slight dorsal keel. Valva 

 oval-truncate, top almost concave. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov,, east slope of Mt, 

 McKinley, 3000 ft., 24,IX,1946 (CNHM Philippine Exped. 1946-47, 

 H. Hoogstraal), 1 cf , holotype, genit, slide 5746, 



Judging from tJie markings, allied with A. ttidelta Meyrick, from 

 India, differing by dorsal markings which in that species are more 

 extended, broader interconnected, first mark emitting an oblique 



