MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 293 



Hindwing pale ochreous greyish. Cilia pale ochreous. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen, a broad semiannular structure with a 

 small notch at the top. Vinculum rather broad, but smaller than 

 tegumen, saccus moderate, slender. Valva moderate, oval, concave; 

 saccus 3/4, ill defined, but with a separate clavate and denticulate 

 top; cucuUus, a slender process, bristled below except at base; harpe, 

 a pyramidal process in disc, with a bristly top. Aedeagus simple, 

 moderately long, straight. 



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

 genit. slide 5292; 1 cf , paratype. 2 cf (USNM). 



Adelidae 



Neniophora Hofmannsegg, 1798 



Key to the Philippine Species of Neniophora 



1. Forewing brilliant golden, with a basal patch and a transverse fascia dull 



yellow N. apollonis, new species 



Forewing not so colored 2 



2. Thorax yellow N. eurycitra, new combination 



Thorax brilliant metallic 3 



3. Forewing with a well-defined single or double transverse band 4 



Forewing without a well-defined transverse band. 



N. chalcotechna, new combination 



4. Transverse band single, yellow, edged by black lines and by silvery fasciae. 



N. heliochalca, new combination 



Transverse band double, whitish, with greenish brilliant scales, divided and 



edged by black lines N. cantharites, new combination 



Nemophora apollonis, new species 



Figure 794 



Male, 13-14 mm. Head with vertex dull light ochreous yellow, 

 frons brilliant golden, sides of face silvery. Eyes contiguous. An- 

 tenna along basal third pale ochreous banded with glossy whitish, 

 median third whitish, apical third suffused with dull black. Palpus 

 short, yellowish. Thorax brilliant golden, shoulder with a lumines- 

 cent hght \dolet spot. Posterior tibia briUiant pale golden, top of tibia 

 pale violet, hairs pale yellow (abdomen lacking) . 



Forewing suboval, strongly dilated, broadest at 2/3, apex rather 

 obtuse. Brilliant golden, appearing pale golden in certain lights. 

 Markings dull light yellow, partially edged posteriorly with opales- 

 cent light purple violet. A basal patch extending on costa beyond 

 1/5, outer edge convex and strongly inwards oblique, in certain lights 

 luminescent pale violet on costa. This patch containing a rounded 

 spot at extreme base and a short streak along base of costa, of bril- 



