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Monopis monachella (IlUbner, 1796) 



Figure 779 



Tinea monachella Hiibner, 1796 [Tineae], in Sammlung Europaischer Schraetter- 

 linge, pt. 8, p. 65, pi. 21, fig. 143. 



Blahophanes monachella. — Meyrick, 1883, Ent. Montlily Mag., vol. 20, p. 36; 

 1894, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 27. 



Monopis monachella. — Meyrick, 1895, Handbook British Lepidoptera, p. 785. — 

 Semper, 1902, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen Inseln, vol. 2, p. 705. — 

 Meyrick, 1914, Ent. MitteU. Suppl., vol. 3, p. 59; 1928, Rev. Handbook 

 British Lepidoptera, p. 823; 1930, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 

 99, p. 742.— Walsingham 1897, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 63; 1907, 

 in Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 1, pt. 5, p. 727. — Rebel, 1901, in Staudinger 

 and Rebel, Cat. Lepidopteren palaearktischen Faunengebietes, pt. 2, p. 236, 

 no. 4536. — Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India., Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 194; 

 1933, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4, p. 74. — Pierce and Metcalfe, 

 1935, Genitalia Tineina British Is., p. 97, pi. 59— DiakonoflF, 1948, Treubia, 

 vol. 19, p. 219. [For more literature data cf. Walsingham, 1897, Trans. 

 Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 63.] 



Tinea longella Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 28, p. 

 479. 



Blahophanes longella. — Butler, 1881, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 7, p. 396, 

 no. 29. — Walsingham, 1887, in Moore, Lepidoptera Ceylon, vol. 3, p. 503, 

 pi. 209, fig. 1. 



Distribution: Europe, Siberia, North America, Hawaii, Samoa, 

 Philippine Is., Formosa, Tonkin, Sumatra, Java, Buru, India, Burma, 

 Ceylon, West and South Africa. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakiUng (Baker) 1 cf, genit. 

 shde 5275, 1 9 (USNM), 



Male genitaha: Valva with a straight costal edge, cucullus obtuse, 

 obhquely truncate. Saccus very long and slender. Aedeagus a 

 long and moderately wide tube. Uncus moderate, with a conical top. 

 Gnathos, two slender, little sclerotized narrowed processes. 



Monopis avara Meyrick, 1919 



Figures 427, 434, 781 



Monopis avara Meyrick, 1919, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 239 (Bombay, 

 c?); 1929, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 98, p. 742 (Tonkin). — 

 Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 62 

 (Klondyke, Benguet, Luzon 800, 1.IV.1912 (AEW), 1 9, genit. slide 5677). 



Distribution: India, Tonkin. 



Female, 11 mm. Head pale yellow, palpus very short, blackish 

 fuscous. Antenna dark fuscous bronze. Thorax dark fuscous 

 bronze. Abdomen glossy grey fuscous, venter and anal tuft pale 

 yellow. 



Forewing elongate sublanceolate, dUated, costa curved posteriorly, 

 apex rather pointed, termen rounded, strongly oblique. Dark bronze 



