Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 145
reduced markings, shorter and broader cucidlus, more angulate costa,
smaller patch of cucuUus bristles and different cornuti.
Lecithocera luteolOf new species
Figures 184-185, 618
Male, 11 mm. Head pale ochreous, vertex except at the sides,
suffused with glossy grey. Antenna pale ochreous. Palpus ochreous
fuscous, terminal segment pale ochreous, slightly mixed with fuscous
anteriorly and toward apex. Thorax pale ochreous, shoulder fuscous.
Abdomen pale ochreous.
Forewing suboval, rather broad, costa gently curved toward
extremities, straight in middle, apex moderately pointed, termen
hardly convex, almost straight, oblique. Veins 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and
8 long-stalked, 9 out of stalk. Light yellowish ochreous, costa
narrowly suffused with brighter ochreous and also narrowly infuscated
except before apex; base of wing indistinctly infuscated; traces of
fuscous sprinkling over the wing; veins on upper half of wing halfway
between cell and margin slightly streaked with brownish; first discal
stigma minute, well beyond 1/3 and above middle, second discal
somewhat irregular, transverse, larger and slightly lower than first,
continued by a short outwards-oblique small mark; apex and termen
with a narrow marginal line. Cilia (imperfect) pale ochreous, around
apex tipped with fuscous.
Hindwing glossy, whitish golden, fuscous, paler than forewing.
Cilia concolorous.
Male genitalia: Rather similar to those of Lecithocera docilis, new
species, but valva less dilated beyond base, not markedly narrowed
toward base, costa beyond base gradually sinuate, without an angulate
prominence, as in L. docilis; cucullus slightly narrower and less
curved upwards. Aedeagus rather similar to that of docilis.
Material examined: Luzon, Agoo, La Union, 1.V.1945 (J.G.
Franclemont), 1 cf , holotype, genit. slide 5239 (GUI). A small and
obscure species. Nearest to the preceding.
Lecithocera leucomastiSf new species
Figures 189-190, 610
Female, 15.5 mm. Head and thorax fuscous with a golden gloss,
vertex of head broadly edged by pale yellow. Antenna pale ochreous,
flagellum anteriorly and posteriorly finely striped with dark fuscous.
Palpus fuscous; median segment moderately broad, flattened laterally,
slightly roughish at apex below, terminal segment very slender,
about 1. Abdomen dark bronze fuscous. Posterior tibia with upper