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122 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257
0. plocamopa Meyrick (Japan) , with more slender valva and the same
genital differences.
Odites perissa atrimersa, new variety
Figure 592
Male, 17 mm. Head light yellow, sides of face blackish ; forehead
with a roughish tuft. Antenna with ciliations 1, white; fuscous, becoming
blackish towards base, whitish towards apex, spotted laterally
with pale yellow in middle, scape black. Palpus rather long, light
yellow, basal two-thirds suffused with dark fuscous; terminal segment
shorter than median, slender, top sUghtly infuscated on the dorsal
side. Thorax black, posterior half dark grey, apex pale grey. Abdomen
light ochreous.
Forewing with veins 3 and 4 separate; subsemipellucent, veins
thickened and raised, costa hardly curved at base, little curved at
apex, apex slightly rounded, termen little rounded and little oblique.
Pale yellow, costal edge somewhat brighter. Base of wing with a
moderate black patch, edge slightly angiJate, first discal stigma
moderate, elongate, well before 1/3; second discal stigma larger and
darker, before 2/3, plical stigma small, well beyond first discal but
closer to it than to second; wing beyond base sprinkled with dark
scales; a faint, strongly curved series of large dots and more dense
sprinkling from before 2/3 below costa, to dorsum before tornus,
below costa containing some three larger black dots on dorsum extended
into a small patch of dark irroration; posterior foiu'th of costa
with three marginal slender streaks, a row of distinct black dots,
sometimes interconnected on ends of veins along termen. CiUa
glossy yellow.
Hindwing glossy yellow whitish,
a faint and narrow blackish suffusion
in apex and along margin of upper third of termen. Cilia
yellowish white.
Male genitalia completely similar to those of 0. perissa, new species.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makihng (Baker), Icf, holotype,
genit. slide 5161, 2 d" para types. 3 cf (USNM).
Odites apicalis, new species
Figures 146, 593
Male, 15 mm. Coloring and markings very smiilar to those of
0. perissa, new species. In 0. 2>^rissa, however, veins 7 and 8 in the
forewing are as long as their stalk and vein 8 terminates distinctly in
costa before apex; in 0.
apicalis veins 7 and 8 are longer than their
stalk, while vein 8 terminates in costa just above apex of \\dng.
Male genitalia are slightly different from those of perissa as follows.
Vinculum broader, subquadrate. Valva shorter and broader. La-