MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 259 



Hindwing glossy light grey fuscous, basal fourth as far as lower 

 edge of cell whitish. CUia pale grey with whitish tips along upper 

 half of termen and around apex, whitish elsewhere. 



Female genitalia: Eighth segment evenly sclerotized. Anapophyses 

 moderate but distinct. Ovipositor small. Postapophyses dilated 

 and sinuate at ends. Lamella antevaginalis represented by two 

 dark dentoid sclerites, separated by a narrow split. Colliculum 

 elongate, with strong sclerotized longitudinal folds. Signum absent. 



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

 22.III.1912 (A. E. Wileman), 1 9, holotype, genit. slide 5555; same 

 locality, 11.V.1912, and 16.V.1912, genit. slide 5752. 2 9, paratypes 

 (BM). 



A distinct species with reduced number of dots. Allied to E. 

 lapidella Walsingham from Assam, and to E. heptasema Turner, 

 from Australia. 



Plutellidae 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Plutellidae 



1. Forewing, veins 7 and 8 stalked Harpeptila, new genus 



Forewing, veins 7 and 8 separate or 7 absent 2 



2. Forewing with veins 6 and 7 absent Acrocenotes, new genus 



Forewing with veins 6 and 7 present and separate Plutella 



Harpeptila, new genus 



Head with closely appressed scales. Ocellus absent. Proboscis? 

 (broken) . Labial palpus long, curved, and ascending, median segment 

 roughly expanding beyond middle, forming a projecting brush 

 anteriorly, terminal segment erect, strongly flattened rostrocaudally 

 in front even slightly concave, under 1, suboval, acute, with appressed 

 scales. Antenna simple, filiform (tip broken), scape short, mthout 

 pecten. Posterior tibia with appressed bristly hau's above, outer 

 spurs with bristly hairs. 



Forewing dilated, pointed, apex subfalcate; with raised tufts of 

 scales; vein 2 from slightly before angle, 3 from angle, 4-7 tolerably 

 equidistant and parallel, 7 to termen, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 from beyond 

 3/4, cell before this vein considerably narrowed, 11 from about 1/3, 

 no accessory vein. Hindwing 1, pointed-semioval, apex acute; cilia 

 3/4, 2 from middle, 3 from angle, 3-5 parallel and widely remote, 5 

 and 6 parallel but closer, 7 subparallel, to apex; accessoiy vein in 

 cell not furcate. 



