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Female genitalia: A large corethrogyne is present in a sacklike 

 structure of the seventh sternite. Sterigma not modified, except for a 

 spindle-shaped dilatation. 



Coryptilum Zeller, 1839 

 Key to the Philippine Species of Coryptilum 



1. Light markings bright yellow; sacculus lobe as long as cucullus. 



C. luteum, new species 

 Light markings reddish orange; sacculus lobe shorter than cucullus. 



C. klugU 



Coryptilum klugii Zeller, 1839 



Figures 459, 791 



Coryptilum klugii Zeller, 1839, Isis, vol. 32, p. 181. — Snellen, 1875, Tijdschr. 



Ent., vol. 19, p. 53, pi. 2, fig. 6. — Pagenstecher, 1894, Jahrb. Nassauischen Ver. 



Naturk., p. 43; 1897, Lepidoptera in Kiikenthal's Forschungsreise, p. 467. — 



Walshingham, 1900, Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxon., vol. 2, p. 580. — Semper, 1902, 



Schmetterlinge Philippinischen Inseln, vol. 2, p. 705. — Meyrickl907,Proc.Lirm. 



Soc. New South Wales, vol. 32, p. 83.— Diakonoflf 1955, Verh. Ned. Akad. 



Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 134. 

 Sippharara euchromella Walker, 1866, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., 



pt. 35, p. 1822. 

 Sippharara woodfordi Druce, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 579. pi. 29, fig. 8. 



Distribution: Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas, 

 Philippine Is., Mindanao; Solomon Is., New Guinea, Rossel Is. 



Material examined: "Bulacan," September 1917 (B.P. Clarke), 

 1 cT (USNM) (locality uncertain; places of this name are situated in 

 Luzon as well as in Samar) . 



Coryptilum luteum, new species 



Figures 460, 792 



Male, 40-42 mm. Head and palpi black, median segment of 

 labial palpus internally grey. Antenna blackish grey. Thorax 

 bright yellow, anteriorly faintly suffused with orange, anterior 

 marginal band between tegulae and an apical spot, black. Abdomen 

 black, venter yellow. Legs yellow more or less suffused with black. 



Forewing elongate-elliptical, rather narrow, costa rounded, more so 

 at extremities, apex rounded, termen rounded, strongly oblique. 

 Bright yellow. Costal edge black, along posterior fifth cilia yellow, 

 black costal edge continued as a narrow line to apex; an ill-defined 

 orange suffusion over base of wing and narrowly below costa, against 

 black edge turning crimson purple; an oblique transverse black patch 

 from 4/5 of costa not reaching termen, traversed by several horizontal 

 rows of brilliant greenish blue scales; a semioval black streak along 

 dorsum, almost touching vein 2, its anterior half narrower, strewn 



