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2. Forewing moderately but distinctly dilated, purplish fuscous, irregularly 



marked with roundish black-edged dots, especially arranged along margins. 



T. torvella 



Forewing pale ochreous with numerous and close transverse dark fuscous 



strigulae T. baliomicta 



3. Forewing with a narrow straight white oblique line from dorsum near base 



toward costa T. baliomicta 



Forewing without such line T. torvella 



Tinissa torvella Walker, 1864 



Figures 428-432, 775 



Tinissa torvella Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 29, 

 p. 780 (patria ignota, 9)- — Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Eut. 

 ser., vol. 11, p. 224.— Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia, vol. 19, p. 218 (Buru). 



Distribution: India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Buru. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 10 cf, genit. 

 slide 5264, 5274, 3 9; "Tinissa baliomicta Meyr., Paratype," 1 9. 

 Palawan, Puerto Princesa, October 1925, 1 9, "Tinissa torvella Walk., 

 Det. J.D. Bradley, 1949," genit. slide 5263. Mindanao, Kolambugan, 

 25.VI.1915, 19. 10 cf, 6 9 (USNM). 



Male genitalia: Tegumen bipartite, each half concave, semiovoid, 

 at end sclerotized, narrowed, top dUated and truncate, bristly. 

 Uncus absent. Gnathos, socius absent. Transtilla paired, a slender 

 and long rod on each side, joined to the base of the costa. Vinculum 

 large, conical, saccus broadly triangular, moderately long. Valva 

 very small, articulate, strongly sclerotized, base cylindrical, apical 

 part (cucullus) verrucose and bristly, top irregularly serrate. Anellus 

 complicated, tubular, encircling aedeagus, anellus lobes rising, sub- 

 circular; distally from these, an elevated bristly knob. Aedeagus 

 tubular, very long and slender, base dilated. 



Female genitalia: Sterigma strongly sclerotized, lamella antevagi- 

 nalis, a trapezoidal dark plate with two dentations at top; ostium, 

 a dark cylinder behind this lamella. Eighth tergite modified, a 

 dilated and cordiform plate, tops bristled. Ductus and corpus 

 bursae simple. 



Tinissa baliomicta Meyrick, 1928 



Figures 423, 776, 778 



Tinissa baliomicta Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 424 (9, 

 Philippine Is.). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Mey- 

 rick, vol. 1, p. 63. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon, Mt. Makiling. 



Male, neallotype, 16 mm. Head creamy white. Maxillary palpus 

 with apical segment covered with strongly diverging scales, fanlike, 

 pure white. Labial palpus white, median segment along upper edge 



