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Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853 



Figure 761 



Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 24, no. 3, 

 p. 507, pi. 4, figs. 13-16.— Walsingham, 1900, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 36, 

 p. 180.— Snellen, 1903, Tijdschr. Ent. 46, pp. 52, 53.— Van Deventer, 1912, 

 Dierl. Vijanden Suikerriet (2nd ed.), p. 165, pi. 22, fig. 12 (Java).— Mey- 

 rick, 1929, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 98, p. 741 (Tonkin). 



Distribution: Tropical Asia. 



Food plant: Pods of Poinciana pulcherrima (flamboyant) ; dry 

 vegetable refuse, etc. 



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



Opogona flavqfasciata (Stainton, 1858) 



Figure 760 



Lozosioma flavofasciata Stainton, 1858, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, ser. 2, 

 vol. 5, p. 124 (sex?, India). — Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects 

 British Mus., pt. 30, p. 1041. — Moore, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 671.— Cotes and Swinhoe, 1887, Cat. Moths India, p. 722, no. 4941.— 

 Semper, 1902, in Schmetterlinge Philippinischen Inseln, vol. 2, p. 705 (Ma- 

 nila). — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 120. 



Opogona flavofasciata. — Fetch, 1906, Ann. Roy. Botanic Gardens Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, vol. 3, p. 229.— Meyrick, 1910, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 230.— 

 Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. sen, vol. 6, p. 177; 1929, op. cit., 

 vol. 11, p. 120. 



Distribution: India; Philippine Is., Luzon. 



Material examined: Luzon, May 1924 (R.C. McGregor), 1 9; 

 Palawan, Ponce Cruz, XI.1935, 1 cf (Ace. no. 4064, Bur. of Plant 

 Industry, P.I.) (USNM). "Opogona flavofasciata Staint. A.B." Two 

 rubbed specimens. 



In 1906, Petch wrote: "Larva in fungus-combs of termites' nests, 

 which they reduce to a mass of excrementitious matter in a few days 

 when cultures of combs are attempted, the cultures being resolved 

 into a mass of black pellets. Though the moths are apparently con- 

 fined to this habitat, it is remarkable that no trace of the larvae or 

 their work has been observed in the termites' nest under natural 

 conditions." (See Fletcher, 1920, p. 177.) 



Decadarchis Meyrick, 1886 



Decadarchis miriMiscula (Walsingham, 1897) 



Figure 762 



Ereunetis minuscula Walsingham, 1897, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 155 (West 

 Indies, d^9) ; 1907, in Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 1, pt. 5, p. 716, pi. 25, fig. 

 17 (Hawaii) . — Swezey 1909, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assoc. Exp. Sta. Ent. 

 Bull., no. 6, p. 12, pi. 2, figs. 7-9 (bionomics); 1910, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. 

 Soc, vol. 2, p. 42. 



