MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 255 



rick, vol. 5, p. 422, pi. 209, figs. 3-3a {E. meteoris Meyrick syn., lectotypes 



select.). 

 Azinis hilarella Butler, 1883 (not Walker, 1864), Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 19, 



p. ISO (Hawaii, Formosa). — Walsingham, 1907, in Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis, 



vol. 1, pt. 5, p. 507 (Hawaiian species described as colonella). 

 1 Azinis hilarella Semper, 1902 (not Walker, 1864), in Schmetterlinge Philippini- 



schen Inseln, vol. 2, p. 700, pi. 5, figs. 12-13. 

 1 Psecadia hicolorella Pagenstecher 1900 (not Guen4e, 1879), in Zoologica, vol. 



29, no. 12, p. 235. 

 Eihmia meteoris Meyrick, 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 289 



(cf 9, Seychelles Is.). 



Whether Azinis hilarella Semper and Psecadia hicolorella Pagen- 

 stecher pertain to the present species or to Eihmia praeclara Meyrick, 

 it is not possible to make siu^e %\ithout the study of the original ma- 

 terial of Semper and Pagenstecher which is not available to me. 

 It is equally possible that both these authors had a mixture of prae- 

 clara and colonella before them. 



Distribution: Hawaiian Is.; ?Kei Is. 



Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Klondyke, 800 ft., 

 17.III.-16.V.1912, 1 d", genit. sHde 5552, 15 9, sHdes 4933, 4937, 5551, 

 5553, 5559, 5560 (BM). Mindanao, Kolambugan, "June 25/15," 

 1 9, genit. shde 5229 (USNM). Dr. Clarke noted the synonymy of 

 E. meteoris. Total 1 cf , 16 9. 



Male genitaHa: Uncus bipartite, halves pressed together, tips 

 hooked. Gnathos, a simple transverse plate, upon which is a broad 

 membranous rising body, with a strong slender sclerite mesially, 

 ending in a hook \\ith cm-ved thorns. Vinculum very narrow, angu- 

 late in middle. Anellus with a moderate conical rostral and a short, 

 truncate caudal process. Anellus lobe long and slender. Valva 

 semioval, costal portion simple, cucuUus bristly, \^dth a small and a 

 large ventral part; bristles nondeciduous. Aedeagus normal. 



Female genitaha: Genital sternite trapezoidal, in center an inverted- 

 trapezoidal strongly punctulate field, flanked by rather dense patches 

 of long bristles. Sterigma proper, being the lower (rostral) edge of 

 sternite, strongly sclerotized, forming a narrow rod, W-shaped in 

 middle, laterally forming two oval strongly denticulate tumescences, 

 CoUiculum distinctly weaker than in praeclara, less sclerotized, dentate 

 bands narrow and interrupted. Signum smaller, sub triangular. 



Ethmia pullata Meyrick, 1910 



Figure 394 



Ethmia pullata Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 460; 1914, in 

 Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 19, p. 26. — Clarke, 1955, 

 Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 264. 



Distribution: Solomon Is. 



