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genit. slide 5567; 12 cf , 2 9, paratypes (BM). An elegant, distinctly 

 marked, uniform species. 



Anticrates paratarsa Meyrick, 1913 



Figures 365, 742 



Anticrates paratarsa Meyrick, 1913, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 141 (?, 

 Mindoro); 1914, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 19, p. 33. — 

 Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, 

 p. 235; 1965, op cit., vol. 5, p. 279, pi. 138, figs, 1-lb (holotype figured). 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Mindoro. 



The unique specimen, in the British Museum (Natural History), is 

 from Laguna de Naujan, Mindoro, in March. It proves to be a male. 



Male, 20 mm. Head yellow, crimson slight suffusion on vertex and 

 around bases of antennae. Palpus light crimson, inwardly, and ter- 

 minal segment also above, yellow. Thorax yellow, collar anteriorly 

 suffused with pale crimson, tegula light crimson with a yeUow basal 

 spot, anterior edge of thorax and a subapical transverse band suffused 

 light crimson. 



Male genitalia: When compared with those of A. digitosa, new species, 

 the following distinct differences are apparent. Uncus more pointed 

 and shorter. Tegumen more triangular, more constricted above. 

 Valva narrower, top of cucuUus, more obUque. AneUus lobe strong, 

 triangular and pointed. Saccus more slender, clavate before end, 

 wide and flattened above. Aedeagus more slender, long and curved. 

 Bases of coremata rather large. Mensis ventralis a small rod, as long 

 as the stalk of sacculus, furcate portion reduced. 



Material examined: Mindoro, Mt. Dulangan, 1896 (Whitehead), 

 3 cf, genit. slide 5568 (Walsingham coll., nos. 16107-9, BM). Very 

 near to A. miltochorda Meyrick from Assam, lOiasis, but with slightly 

 different markings, supported by differences of genitalia. 



Protorhiza, new genus 



Head smooth, tufts on vertex appressed and spreading. Antenna 

 in female about 5/6, finely serrulate, minutely ciHated, scape rather 

 long, moderately thickened at top, base flattened dorsoventrally; 

 with a small pecten of long hair-scales. Labial palpus long, recurved, 

 median segment with appressed scales, hardly roughened along lower 

 edge, hardly compressed; terminal segment slightly spindle-shaped, 

 pointed, less than 1/2 median. Thorax without a crest. Posterior 

 tibia with long fine hairs above. 



Forewing sublanceolate, moderately broad, pointed. Vein 2 from 

 before 6/7, 3 from angle, 3-6 remote and equidistant, 7 and 8 long 

 stalked, 7 to costa, 9-10 distant, 11 slightly beyond middle of cell, 

 no accessory ceU. 



