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164 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257<br />

Scaeothyris pseusta, new species<br />

Figures 382-383, 477, 634<br />

Male, 21-24 mm; liolotype, 24 mm. Head light ochreous yellow,<br />

antenna dark fuscous. Palpus fuscous. Thorax dark purplish brown,<br />

metathorax pale yellow posteriorly. Legs yellowish fuscous. Abdomen<br />

fuscous.<br />

Forewing oblong, broadly sublanceolate, costa little curved, apex<br />

pointed, termen long, gently rounded, very oblique. Unicolorous<br />

glossy light tawny with a slight pale fulvous tinge, faintly suffused<br />

with darker tawny fuscous towards base; a minute faint fuscous line<br />

along discoidal vein. Cilia brighter, light fulvous tawny.<br />

Hindwing whitish fulvous, with a faint vinaceous tinge, veins and<br />

margin narrowly darker. Cilia light ochreous.<br />

Male genitalia : Tegumen and uncus symmetrical, the latter double,<br />

two curved, sclerotized arms. No gnathos. Valva with a strongly<br />

sinuate, membranous sacculus half and a weaker cucullus half,<br />

ending in a short and knoblike, punctulate cucullus. AnneUus<br />

strong, dorsaUy developed into a sclerotized and projecting roof,<br />

anellus lobes rising, slender, S-shaped, tips bristly. Aedeagus huge,<br />

curved dorsoventrally and also to the left side; cornuti, two slender<br />

unequal streaks of fine spines.<br />

Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., east slope of Mt.<br />

McKinley, 3000 ft., 14.IX.1946 (CNHM Philippine Exped. 1946-47,<br />

H. Hoogstraal), Icf, holotype, genit. slide 5790; 13 and 25.IX.1946,<br />

2 cf, paratypes, genit. slide 5760.<br />

Superficially the species resembles Haplotinea subochraceella<br />

(Walsingham),<br />

a very common species.<br />

Cosmopteryginae, new status<br />

Key to the Philippine Genera of Cosmopteryginae<br />

1. Forewing with vein 6 stalked with other veins 2<br />

Forewing with vein 6 separate Limnaecia<br />

2, Forewing with 7 and 8 out of 6, 5 separate Cosmopteryx<br />

Forewing with 5, 7 and 8 out of 6 Pyroderces<br />

Limnaecia Stainton, 1851<br />

Limnaecia acontophora Meyrick, 1922<br />

Figures 233, 635<br />

Limnaecia acontophora Meyrick, 1922, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 573<br />

(9).—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1,<br />

p. 34.<br />

Distribution: liuzon,<br />

Manila.

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