MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 275 



Holacarta Meyrick, 1917 



Holacarta chalcathra, new species 

 Figures 402-405, 770 



Male, 20 mm. Head (rubbed) and thorax dark grey mixed with 

 blackish. Antenna pale yellow, scape blackish grey. Palpus with 

 median segment cylindrically thickened, roughly tufted along entire 

 lower edge, terminal segment 1/2, obliquely ascending; sordid ochre- 

 ous grey, strongly mixed with blackish; terminal segment blackish, 

 extreme tip paler, greyish. Abdomen dark bronze fuscous, sides 

 mixed with light ochreous (posterior legs missing). 



Forewing broadly lanceolate, broadest at 1/3, costa little curved at 

 base, gently prominent at 1/3, moderately rounded along posterior 

 fourth, apex acutely pointed, termen sinuate, very obUque. Rather 

 deep brassy bronze, anterior 2/3 irregularly clouded with blackish 

 purple, edge of this color rather well defined in disc of left wing, very 

 outwards-oblique, right wing rather obscured throughout with purpUsh 

 grey and blackish purple; a conspicuous but small slightly raised 

 elongate spot in lower angle of cell, pale ochreous, a point of the same 

 color below it on dorsum, extending as a light bar over ciha. Cilia 

 (damaged) dark purpUsh grey, mixed with blackish purple. 



Hindwing black, rather dull, ciha concolorous. 



Male genitaUa: Tegumen semiannular, high. Uncus rounded, 

 hairy. Gnathos paired, each arm strongly hooked, top pointed. 

 Valva moderate, elongate, cucuUus rather abruptly narrowed. Vin- 

 culum semiannular, moderate, saccus very long and slender. Aedea- 

 gus long and straight, base shghtly dilated. 



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

 genit. shde 5289 (USNM). An obscure insect with left pair of wings 

 slightly rubbed. Agrees with the description of this genus, except 

 for the pointed wing and hardly any raised scales on the wings, which 

 may be due to rubbing. 



Exaxa^ new genus 



Head roughly scaled. Ocellus absent. Probscis very short, vestig- 

 ial. Antenna in female 4/5, subserrulate, simple, scape elongate, 

 with pecten. Labial palpus long, curved and ascending, strongly 

 flattened laterally, strongly dilated by long rough fringe of scales 

 along lower edge throughout, median segment with top far exceeding 

 base of antenna, with a single apical bristle, sometimes with a lateral 

 bristle, terminal segment over 1/3, subobtuse. Maxillary palpus 

 smooth-scaled, three-jointed, moderately folded and pointed. Thorax 



