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The type locality is Kabuntug (=Cabuntug= General Luna), on 

 Siangar Is,, Mindanao. 



A specimen labelled Agrioceros platycypha Aleyrick, was kindly sent 

 for comparison by Mr. Whalley, British Museum (Natural History). 

 Its genitaha were exactly similar to those of A. magnificella, 9, ex- 

 cept for the shghtly more elongate signum. The specimen was 

 labelled: "Philippines," "Sta amer. [illegible], VII-6-11, 9," 'Wileman 

 Coll., B.M. 1929-261"; genit. sUde 4981. 



Agrioceros magnificella (Sauber, 1902), new combination 



Figures 387-389, 746-747 



Psecadia magnificella Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen 



Insein, vol. 2, p. 700, pi. 66, fig. 15 (Luzon, cf 9). 

 Ethmia magnificella. — Meyrick, 1914, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorura Catalogus, 



pars 19, p. 26. 



Distribution: Philippine Is. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 cf, genit. 

 slide "A.B. May 11, 1927," ''Ethmia magnificella Saub." "21780"; 1 9, 

 genit. slide 5249. 5 9, "58," ''Ethmia magnificella Sauber, A.B. 1926, 

 Schm. Phil. Ins. II, p. 700, 1902, pi. 36 (sic) fig. 15 &. A.B." (USNM). 

 A part of the original series has been received for study. It contained 

 only females: 1 9, lectotype, hereby selected, labelled thus: "880," 

 "Coll. C. Semper," "Ethmia Magnificella Sauber, nov. spec," "Coty- 

 pus" — and my lectotype label; genit. sUde 5765; and two more females 

 with identical labels, except the name label. 



This elegant species seems never to have been recorded after the 

 original description. The present material has been identified by A. 

 Busk and his identification confirmed by Meyrick. The species 

 may be redescribed thus. 



Male, 32 mm; female, 21-32 mm. Head white, vertex with two 

 wedge-shaped black spots, lower half of face black. Antenna in 

 male moderately thickened, flattened laterally, not scaled; ochreous, 

 basal part streaked transversely with white above, scape white with 

 a black spot towards apex above. Palpus white, basal half black, 

 except anteriorly. Thorax light ochreous yellow, extreme bases of 

 patagia and tegulae black, 9 with two lateral, subapical points. Ab- 

 domen light ochreous yellow, segments 4-8 with rows of subdorsal 

 black dots, all segments except last, also \\ith a sublateral row of such 

 dots. 



Forewing with veins 2 and 3 short-stalked in male, distant in female; 

 elongate oval, light glossy ochreous yeUow, male bright ochreous 

 yellow. Extreme margin of base of costa with a narrow black streak, 

 black dots arranged thus: two in an inwards-oblique pair just before 

 upper half of base, sometimes a small point on base of dorsum; four 



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