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Hindwing rather light fuscous purple, glossy, enthe apex and edge 

 of wing narrowly pale yellowish. Cilia pale yellow, opposite apex 

 tipped with dark fuscous. 



Female genitalia as described with the genus above. 



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

 29.IV.1964 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9, holotype, genit. slide 5664 (Rothschild 

 bequest, BM). 



Plutella Schrank, 1802 



Plutella niaculipennis (Curtis, 1832) 



Figure 759 



Cerostoma maculipennis Curtis, 1832 [British Entomology], vol. 9, p. 2, pi. 420, 

 explan. 



Plutella maculipennis. — Maxwell-Lefroy, 1906, Indian Insect Pests, p. 152, 

 fig. 170-171; 1906, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 1, p. 225, fig. 69.— 

 Walsingham, 1907, in Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 1, pt. 5, pp. 652-653. — 

 Maxwell-Lefroy, 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 538, fig. 345.— Meyrick, 1910, 

 Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 229; 1914, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Cat- 

 alogus, pars 19, p. 59. — Fletcher, 1914, South Indian Insects . . . , p. 464, 

 fig. 340; 1917, Rep. Proc. 2nd Ent. Meeting Pusa, pp. 276-277, 280, 282-283; 

 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 170; 1933, Imp. Counc. 

 Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4, p. 65, pi. 65. 



Distribution: CosmopoUtan. Occiu-s everywhere where cabbage is 

 cultivated. 



Food plant: Cabbage leaves. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Baiios (Baker), 2 9. 



The above literature pertaining to occurrence in southern Asia 

 has no pretence of being complete. The huge literature from other 

 regions is omitted. 



Lithocolletidae 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Lithocolletidae 



1. Head with appressed scales; forcwing with vein 11 present . . . Epicephala 

 Head roughly scaled; forewing with vein 11 absent .... Lithocolletis 



Epicephala Meyrick, 1880 



EpicepJiala chalybacma Meyrick, 1908 



Epicephala chalyhacma Meyrick, 1908, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 18, 

 p. 811 (Ceylon, c?); 1912, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 21 (biology); 

 1912, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 10, p. 14; 1913, in 

 Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 128, p. 14. — Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. 

 Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 142, pi. 36. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . 

 Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 82. 



Distribution: Ceylon, India, Burma, Java. 



