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Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., La Lvm Mts., Calian,
5500 ft., 20-21.VII.1931 (Clagg, CM Ace. 9163), 1 &, genit. slide
5722 (CMP). Compared with type in the British Museum.
Orneodes spilotlesma Meyrick, 1908
Orneodes spilodesma Meyrick, 1908, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, 1907, p. 508
( cf 9 , S. India, Assam) .—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . .
Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 291.
Distribution: South India, Assam.
Material examined: Luzon, Mountain Province, Baguio, lO.VI.
1945 (J.G. Franclemont), 1 d", genit. slide 5137 (CUI).
Cosmopterygidae
Scaeosophinae, new status
Scaeosophides Meyrick, 1922, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 48.
Scaeosophidae Meyrick, 1932, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 4, p. 332.
Cosmopterygidae.—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick,
vol. 1, p. 21.
This peculiar, very natural group of closely allied genera ^^ith
general appearance of the Oecopboridae had been first attributed to
that family, later separated as a "group" of it, subsequently defined
as a distinct family, and finally transferred by Clarke to the family
Cosmopterygidae on the basis of characteristic male genitalia. The
last measure seems to be entirely correct. The group, however, does
not resemble the general type of the Cosmopterygidae; besides it is
very consistent in the type of the male genitalia and even more so in
the unusual and aberrant venation of the hindwing. Therefore I
propose to reestablish Meyrick's concept of this group being independent
to a considerable degree, but under an emendated name and in a
different family:
as a subfamily of the Cosmopterygidae.
Key to the Philippine Genera of Scaeosophinae
1. Hindwing with veins 4 and 5 long-stalked Scaeothyris, new genus
Hindwing with veins 4 and 5 separate, parallel
Syntomaula
Syntomaula Meyrick, 1914
Figure 234
Syntomaula Meyrick, 1914, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 235 (type species:
*S.
tephrota Meyrick, 1914, Ceylon); 1922, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum,
fasc. ISO, p, 51.—Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11,
p. 214.—Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 88, p. 93.
Clarke, 1965, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 5, p. 542,
pi. 267, figs. 1-1 f.
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