Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 181
yellow oclireous; terminal segment of palpus with a faint basal
brownish ring. Flagellmn of antenna brownish. Ciliations over 1.
Abdomen pale yellowish.
Forewing elongate, suboval-lanceolate, pointed. Veins 3 and 4
separate, vein 7 to apex. Unicolorous pale yellow ochreous, rather
dull, markings not showing, extreme edge of costa along basal fifth
touched with dark grey. Cilia deeper light yellow, with a moderate
gloss.
Hindwing under 1, veins 3 and 4 connate. Pale whitish yeUow,
paler than forewing, with a silky gloss. Cilia concolorous.
Male genitalia: Tegumen small, rather weak, little dilated at base.
Uncus triangular, with a short beak. Gnathos, a moderate porrect
semicircle. Transtilla, a curved band, gradually dilated towards
middle and concave along ventral side lengthwise. Vinculum strong.
Valva long and rather narrow, strongly rolled up lengthwise. Costa
with long sparse hairs. Cucidlus, a very slender, hooked process.
Sacculus over 1, ending in a long slender hook with darkly sclerotized
base. Anellus, a rectangular plate, higher than broad. Aedeagus
straight, with obliquely trimcate pointed top; cornuti, a sheaf of
long spines.
Female, 18-21 mm (allotype 20 mm). Head and thorax pale
yellowish ochreous. Antenna brownish, basal part and scape pale
yellow ochreous. Palpus pale yellow ochreous, median segment
very slightly sprinkled with greyish, with a broad and irregidar
subapical grey ring, terminal segment slender, 3/4, somewhat
brighter ochreous, with a grey subbasal ring.
Forewing suboval-lanceolate, moderately broad. Veins 3 and 4
connate, vein 7 to apex. Pale yellow ochreous, rather duU, markings
formed by sparse fuscous irroration. First discal stigma rounded,
rather large, at 1/3, first plical beneath this, irregular and elongate,
more or less truncate posteriorly; a moderate transverse fascia,
straight, from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, its
origin on costa curved posterad; a line from costa before apex (end
of vein 10), moderately outward-convex, to end of vein 3, thence
marginal, along termen and tornus to base of transverse fascia.
Cilia somewhat deeper yellow, glossy.
Hindwing elongate-suboval, under 1, paler than forewing, whitish
yellow with a golden gloss, along margin and in apex very faintly
irrorated with golden brown; veins 3 and 4 connate.
Cilia concolorous.
Female genitalia: All tergites of the abdomen brownish sclerotized
and with numerous spinules of diverse sizes. Seventh segment
modified, sternite and pleurites forming together two bandlike
ventrolateral sclerites with thickened caudal edge, ending laterally