NO. 3660 MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XVII—CLARKE Ld 
Phalonia Hiibner 
Phalonia embrithopa Meyrick 
PLATE 1 (FIas. 6, 7) 
Phalonia embrithopa Meyrick, 1927, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 366.— 
Clarke, 1963, Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the 
British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 4, 
p. 27, pl. 13, figs. 1-Ta. 
_ Meyrick described embrithopa from three specimens stated by him 
to be females. One specimen has disappeared but the remaining two, 
the lectotype and a paralectotype, the latter before me, are males. 
In addition to these, I have three males from Colombia that are 
obviously this species but that are atypical. For two of these specimens 
I append the following description. 
Alar expanse 26-28 mm. 
Labial palpus clay color; first segment with conspicuous fuscous 
spot exteriorly; third segment mixed with fuscous. Antenna clay 
color; scape infuscated distally. Head light clay color. Thorax and 
tegula light clay color; posterior tuft fuscous mixed with sordid white. 
Forewing ground color sordid white, heavily overlaid and strigulated 
with tawny olive; from basal third of costa, obliquely to inner angle, 
a tawny-olive line delimiting a mixed tawny-olive and whitish basal 
patch; on middle of costa a tawny-olive spot continued indistinctly 
and transversely to cell, then obliquely and inwardly to dorsum; 
apical fourth tawny olive mixed with white and fuscous scales; at end 
of cell, between veins 2 and 4, an outwardly oblique, indistinct 
fuscous blotch extends to tornus; on dorsal edge a series of fuscous 
spots; underside strongly infuscated except apical two-fifths of costa; 
cilia sordid white mixed with gray, fuscous, and tawny olive. Hind- 
wing sordid white, transversely striated and mottled with grayish 
fuscous, underside more strongly so; cilia whitish mixed with gray. 
Foreleg ocherous white strongly overlaid with fuscous outwardly; 
midleg similar to foreleg but banded with tawny olive; hindleg 
ocherous white suffused and irrorate with fuscous. Abdomen clay 
color infuscated ventrally. 
These two, from Paéramo de Puracé, are larger than the two remain- 
ing Meyrick types and the pattern of the forewing is less blotched 
and the reticulations are finer. The basal patch and median transverse 
fascia are more pronounced. The hindwing of the original embrithopa 
is darker and the mottling is heavier than in the two from Péramo 
de Puracé. The third additional specimen from Volcan Galeras is 
smaller than the types (22 mm) and the forewing is paler in color. 
The hindwing of this specimen is intermediate between the originals 
and the two from Péramo de Puracé. 
