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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 177
sclerotized, funnel-shaped, upper edge forming a sinuate liplike fold.
Segment 8+9 moderately sclerotized. 0\dpositor rather short.
Signum absent.
Material examined: Luzon, Baguio, Mountain Province, 9.X.1945,
1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5111 (J.B. Franclemont) (GUI). Baguio,
Benguet Subprov., 5000 ft., 19.IV and 29.iy.1912 (A.E. Wileman),
2 &, paratypes, genit. slide 5586; 20.IV.1912, 1 cf ,
genit. slide 5576
(entirely whitish, glossy, devoid of any markings) ; same locality and
date, 1 9, allotype, genit. slide 5649; 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5652;
same locality, 29.IV. 19 12, 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5650. Same
locality 19-20. IV.1912, 3 cf ,
paratypes, genit. slides 5576, 5586, and
5651. Same locality, 27. IV.1912, 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5660
(BM).
Chrysononia Meyrick, 1914
Key to the Philippine Species of Chrysononia
1. Markings formed by fuscous dusting, rather extended 2
Markings very pale, purplish, limited or absent 4
2. A distinct basal patch to 1/4, limited to lower 2/3 or base of wing.
C. poecilosema, new species
Basal patch ill defined 3
3. Forewing with fuscous dusting only in center of base of wing; no spots on
costa
C. fragmentaria, new species
Forewing with fuscous dusting spread all over; usually a triangular spot before
2/3 of costa C. eumorpha, new species
4. Markings absent, entire wing more or less sufi'used with brownish.
C. aporopis, new combination
Markings present, however few, forewing not thus suffused 5
5. Hindwing pale grey C. hypocapna, new species
Ilindwing yellowish or whitish 6
6. Yellowish, a fine purplish semicircular line from 3/5 of costa to above tornus,
thence to costa before apex, often very pale, in females often absent.
Whitish, a small dark fuscous dot at 5/6
C. hesitans, new species
C. inermis, new species
Chrysonoma aporopis (Meyrick, 1928), new combination
Figures 264, 649
Cryptolechia aporopis Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 477
(9, Baguio).— Gaede, 1939, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 92,
p. 384.—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol.
1, p. 51.
Distribution: Philippine Is.
One male, neallotype, hereby designated, 19 mm, rather worn.
Scape of antenna with pecten. Terminal segment of palpus ^^'ith a
subbasal dark fuscous ring, median segment with a similar subapical
ring. Forewing ^^'itb vein 7 just below apex.