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closely appressed to face and eyes. Maxillary palpi moderately short, 

 thick, rising, roughly scaled. Proboscis absent. 



Harmaclona tephrantha (Meyrick, 1916), new combination 



Figures 426, 457-458, 461, 769 



Ptychoxena tephrantha Meyrick, 1916, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 616 

 (cf 9, Ceylon, Bhotan, Natal, Venezuela, French Guiana). — Clarke, 1955, 

 Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 304. 



Distribution: Recorded by Meyrick from Ceylon, India, South 

 and West Africa, South America, Bismarck Is., Northeast Australia, 

 China, Malaya. Probably several distinct species and subspecies 

 are concerned. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 3 cf , genit. slide 

 5285; 1 9, genit. slide 5272 (USNM). Luzon, Benguet Subprov., 

 Klondyke, 800 ft., 16.III.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9 (BM). 



Male genitalia: Tegumen, a broad and simple plate with a rounded 

 edge. Tuba analis as long as tegumen, sclerotized, with a ventral 

 split, extended far capitad as a sclerotized oval plate, so forming a 

 large subscaphium. Vinculum, a narrow ring. Saccus short and 

 pointed. Valva elongate, strongly concave longitudinally, ventral 

 angle pointed. Cucullus long, finger-shaped. Processus basilis mod- 

 erate. Juxta small, oval, du^cted backwards (rostrad). Anellus 

 short, tubular. Aedeagus slender, moderately long, apical third 

 attenuate, edge with sparse serrations. 



Female genitalia: Eighth tergite sclerotized, with prominent lower 

 angles. Ostium, a simple, rather wide funnel. Colliculum indicated, 

 a hyaline tube. Ductus and corpus bursae simple. 



Ischnuridia Sauber, 1902 



Ischnuridia Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Schmetterlinge Philippiuischen Insein, 

 vol. 2, p. 704 — Fletcher 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, 

 p. 119 (Lyonetiidae?) . 



Type species: Ischnuridia virginella Sauber, 1902 (Philippine Is.). 



This mysterious genus has been attributed by Meyrick to the family 

 Lyonetiidae, according to his unpublished notes, preserved in the 

 British Museum (Natural History). Fletcher followed him (1929) 

 but recorded the family name with a question mark. Apparently 

 the species has never been restudied. 



With the kind help of Dr. Heinz Schroder, Senckenberg Museum, 

 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, I was able to place the insect 

 exactly. The unique type specimen of the type species is preserved 

 in that museum. I was allowed to dissect the distal portion of the 

 abdomen, while Dr. Schroder kindly provided me with a photograph 



