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and darker, lower 3/4 strongly convex posteriorly, suffused and fainter;
this fascia suffusedl}'^ edged Anth paler posteriorly; a series of faint
darker dots along costa before apex, in apex and along termen to tornus
base of costa suffused Anth blackish; a faint darker spot on costa before
middle; two round black dots in an inwards-obUque series in disc
beyond base; a large, conspicuous black spot in fold before 1/3,
sometimes reaching dorsal edge and rising above middle of disc;
shape of this patch sHghtly variable, transverse, top usually with an
anterior rectangular excision ;
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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 157
second discal stigma very small, before
a whitish-ochi-eous basal and a darker grey sub-
Brachyacma IVIeyrick, 1886
Brachyacma palpigera (Walsingham, 1891)
Figures 216, 619
fig. 31 (Delagoa, cf 9).—Janse, I9I7, Check-List South African Lepid. Het.,
p. 181.
(British W. Indies, Bahamas, Panama).—Fletcher, 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric.
Centrali-Americana, vol. 42, p. 409.—Bottimer, 1926, Journ. Agric. Res.,
and Meyrick, Materialien . . . Microlepidopteren-Fauna . . ., p. 72.
2/3, a small elongate mark right below it, sometimes beyond it.
Ciha pale grey A\ith
median band.
HindAving glossy pale bronze grey, finely irrorated "with fuscous,
more so towards apex. Ciha fuscous gi'ey, AAith a pale ochreous
basal line.
Male and female genitaha as described for the genus.
Material examined: Luzon, Los Baiios (Baker), 1 cf, holotype,
genit. sHde 5205, 1 9, allotype, genit. sUde 5206; 1 9, paratype, AA-ings
on slide 5206a; 3 d', 5 9, paratypes. Total 4 cf, 7 9 (USNM).
Luzon, Rizal Prov., Montalban, 17.III.1914 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9,
paratype, genit. sHde 5575.
Gelechia palpigera Walsingham, 1891, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 94, pi. 4,
Paraspisies palpigera.—Busck, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, no. 2043, p. 10
India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 88 (India, food plants).
Lathontogonus palpigera.—Walsingham, 1915, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia
vol. 33, p. 812.
Brachyacma palpigera.—Meyrick, 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc.
184, p. 168; 1930, Ann. Soc, Ent. France, vol. 99, p. 725; 1935, in Caradja
Leonard and Miles, 1931, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 24, p. 472.
Lathontogonus adusiipennis Walsingham, 1897, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 88.
Paraspistes ioloncha Meyrick, 1905, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16,
p. 600 (Ceylon); 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 274
(Seychelles)
Lipatia crotalariella Busck, 1910, Bull, Dept. Agric. [Trinidad], vol. 9, no. 66, p.
243 (British W. Indies).
Brachyacma epichorda Turner, 1919, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol, 31, p, 163
(Queensland),