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140 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257
Thorax light bronze fuscous, tegula white. Abdomen yellowish
fuscous, anal tuft fuscous.
Fore\\dng with veins 2 and 3 coincident, 4 and 5 short-stalked, 9 out
of stalk of 7 and 8; narrow, sublanceolate, apex pointed and slightly
produced, termen concave and sinuate, moderately oblique.
Greyish
bronze fuscous, mth a silky gloss. Markings white. A moderate,
pointed and suffused streak from base to 2/5 of costa,
containing a
fuscous short streak along base of costal margin; a direct transverse
submedian fascia, \nth slightly suffused and serrulate edges, strongly
extended posteriorly along upper third, slender elsewhere; more than
apical fifth of wing white, anterior edge straight, well defined, slightly
outwards-oblique; apex and termen with a narrow blackish fascia; a
series of irregular subtriangular fuscous small spots between veins,
forming a straight series beyond anterior edge of white apical patch.
Cilia pale ochreous, a broad blackish bar opposite apex, a greyish
broad subbasal band along termen, cilia in torn us grey fuscous.
Hindwing rather dark fuscous bronze, darker fuscous towards apex,
paler in center, seemingly semipellucent, bases of scales being transparent.
Cilia pale tawny fuscous with a whitish basal line, pale
ochreous whitish along dorsiun, suffused with dark grey along termen,
with a pale submedian line along upper third of termen.
Female genitalia: Eighth segment not sclerotized, costal edge wdth
a rounded excision, bottom with a second smaller narrow excision.
Lobes little rounded, densely bristled, gently sclerotized. Ostium
bursae not modified, minutely aciculate. Ductus bursae moderate,
tortuous. Corpus bursae elongate pear-shaped. Signum moderate,
rounded, close to top of corpus.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt, Makiling (Baker), 1 9, holotype,
genit. slide 5212 (USNM).
Lecithocera goniometra Meyi-ick, 1929
FiGUEES 170-171, 192, 614
Lecithocera goniometra Meyrick, 1929, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 523
(cf, Philippine Is.).—Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus,
pars 79, p. 520.—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . .
Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 149; 1965, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 132, pi. 66, figs. 4-4b
(holotype figured).
Distribution: Phihppine Is., Luzon.
A shghtly variable species, males with the dark fuscous suffusion of
the base of the forcwdng diversely extended. Usually plical stigma
replaced by a slender suffused streak from lower angle of cell to 3/4
of dorsiun, in other specimens (slides 5196, 5199) the plical stigma is
distinct, of diverse size, and the streak absent. The marginal series