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with the transtilla which then is an equally transverse plate with 

 rising and dilated sides. Vinculum moderate but its parts dilated 

 and strongly sclerotized. Valva separated in three more or less 

 isolated sclerites, the basodorsal elongate one being the costa, the 

 apicodorsal, the cucullus, and the ventral, the sacculus. Anellus lobe 

 usually is shifted laterad, connected with the base of the disc of valva. 

 Aedeagus is short, its base flattened dorsoventrally and curved ven- 

 trally, even rostrally; its top truncate, supported by a slender but 

 strong ring, open ventrally. Cornuti, seemingly numerous small 

 spines arranged in a long sheaf, actually are a single, strong, long 

 pectinate rod! This is evident when a cornutus is ejected, in one 

 piece, in the bursa copulatrix. 



The females have a sterigma diversely shaped in each species and 

 signum which often is a stellate, dentate plate or a smooth lengthwise 

 corrugated sclerite; sometimes it is shaped as a "lamina dentata." 



Key to the Philippine Species of Ethmia 



1. Hind wing orange or yellow with black apex 2 



Hindwing grey 4 



2. Fore wing with pretomal dot triple, seldom double; black area of hindwing 



well defined, inner edge concave or almost straight; a large species, 30-35 



mm E. praeclara 



Fore wing with pretomal dot usually single, rounded, seldom double; black 

 area of hindwing with a subcostal tooth 3 



3. Hindwing bright orange; black area with inner edge toothed and reaching 



cell, below tooth concave, to end of vein Ic E. dentata 



Hindwing pale orange, black area with inner edge less distinctly toothed, not 

 reaching cell, below tooth less concave, hardly reaching end of vein 2. 



E. colonella 



4. Body yellow; fore wing yellowish white, one or more black longitudinal 



strigulae below middle third of costa E. palawana 



Body whitish ochreous, venter pale ochreous; forewing glossy grey with black 



spots E. reposita, new species 



Body white or grey 5 



5. Forewing grey without costal markings E. nobilis, new species 



Forewing white with four large suffused costal black spots. 



E. crocosoma resignata, new subspecies 



Ethmia palaumna Schultze, 1925 



Figure 748 



Ethmia palawana Schultze, 1925, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 28, p. 574 (cf, 

 Palawan) . 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Palawan. 



The location of the type specimen is not known to me. If it was 

 at Manila it was certainly lost during the war. The only additional 

 material available to me is the female specimen illustrated in figure 



