MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 277 



Hapsifera Zeller, 1847 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Hapsifera 



1. Forewing with strong raised crests of tufts, light fuscous, markings darker, 



much suffused H. rugosella 



Forewing with slight tufts, ochreous whitish, markings dark brown. 



H. albescens, new species 



Hapsifera rugosella (Stain ton, 1859) 



Figures 384-385, 410-411a, 789 



Cerosloma rugosella Stainton, 1859, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 



5, p. 113 (sex?, Calcutta). — Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British 



Mus., pt. 30, p. 1017.— Moore, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 669.— Wal- 



singham, 1885, op. cit., vol. 1885, p. 883. 

 Hapsifera rugosella Snellen, 1885, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 28, p. 20, pi. 2, figs. 1-4 



(cf, Celebes, new species!). — Fletcher, 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, 



Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 187; 1933, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4, p. 



81. — Meyrick, 1935, in Caradja and Meyrick, Materialien . . . , Micro- 



lepidopteren-Fauna . . . , p. 93 (Shanghai); 1939, Expl. Pare Nat. Albert, 



pt. 14, p. 27, no. 89. 

 Cerostama rugosellus. — Swinhoe, 1889, in Cotes and Swinhoe, Cat. Moths India, p. 



709, no. 4839. 

 Dasyses rugosellus. — Durrant, 1903, Indian Mus. Notes, vol. 5, p. 104, pi. 15, fig. 



3.— Fletcher, 1917, Rep. Proc. 2nd Ent. Meeting Pusa, p. 257.— 1920, 



Rep. Proc. 3rd Ent. Meeting Pusa, vol. 1, p. 165. 

 Dasyses rugosella. — Maxwell-Lefroy, 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 540. — Meyrick, 



1913, Ann. Transvaal Mus., vol. 3, p. 335 (Natal). 

 Psoricoptera? hirsutella Walsingham, 1881, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 



261, pi. 12, fig. 29. 

 Scalidomia hirsutella. — Walsingham, 1897, ibid., p. 65. 



Distribution: Tropical Asia and Natal. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Bafios, "Ace. no. 1229, Bur. Agr, 

 P.I." (C.R. Jones), 2 9. Luzon, Paniqui, Tavlas Prov., 22.1.1945, 1 9 

 (USNM). Agoo, La Union, 18.VIL1945 (J.G. Franclemont), 1 9 

 (GUI). 



It is remarkable that this species has been described as new two 

 times under the same name "rngosella", first in 1859 by Stainton, as 

 Cerostoma rugosella, new species, and afterwards by Snellen in 1885, 

 as Hapsifera rugosella, new species! 



Hapsifera albescens, new species 



Figures 435, 774 



Male, 17.5 mm. Head pale fuscous grey, face \\'ith long, rough- 

 ish scales, drooping down over mouth. Antenna creamy whitish. 

 Palpi strongly diverging, pale ochreous inwardly, outwardly dark 

 fuscous, dusted ^^-ith blackish, top of median segment pale ochreous. 

 Thorax creamy white. Abdomen pale ochreous. 



