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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 159
whitish downwards. Antenna rather glossy, dark fuscous (incomplete).
Labial palpus robust, median segment compressed laterally;
shinmg pale greyish ochreous, terminal segment dark browTi along
anterior edge. Thorax blackish fuscous, tegula white. Abdomen
pale grey ^^dth a silvery gloss, anal tuft light bronze brown.
Forewing sublanceolate, moderately broad, pointed, termen slightly
convex and very oblique. Veins 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa just above
apex. Black, partially tiu-ning dark grey. Dorsum with a rather
broad, very pale ferruginous-white streak from base to tornus, slightly
attenuated towards extremities and with a small white tooth on upper
edge along fold; a rather broad and straight, oblique white transverse
fascia with parallel and well-defined edges, anterior just postmedian;
lower third of this fascia extended as a horizontal band posteriorly;
about apical sixth of wing white, containing a suffused grey-black
rounded blotch, filling out apex and connected with ground color in
disc below middle of wing.
Cilia (imperfect) dark grey, sordid fuscous
in tornus, black m and around apex.
Hindwing with vein 3 and 4 stalked, 5 rather closely approximated;
closmg vein ill defined; 1, trapezoidal, apex slightly produced and
pointed; light greyish fuscous, cilia concolorous.
Male genitalia : Tegiunen constricted below base of gnathos. Uncus
spatulate, not bristled, gnathos long and slender, darkly sclerotized.
Sacculus lobes with a constricted base and a sharp point. Anellus
lobes, complicated, sclerotized and triangidar hairy plates. Aedeagus
short and rather broad.
Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 1 cf, holotype,
genit. slide 5139 (USNM). A small, distinctly colored species.
Orneodidae
Orneodes Latreille, 1802
Key to the Philippine Species of Orneodes
1. Head white; forewing oclireous whitish, crossed by light ochreous-yellow
bands and a darker central narrow fascia
O. toxophila
Head pale yellowish, with blackish transverse bands; forewing ochreous
yellow, sprinkled with dark fuscous
O. spilodesma
Orneodes toxophila Meyrick, 1906
Figure 343
Orneodes toxophila Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. See, vol. 17, p. 133
(cf, Ceylon).—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick,
vol. 1, p. 313.
Distribution: Ceylon.