Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 211
Craterobathra ornata, new species
Figures 315-316, 692
Male, 16-20 mm; female, 17 mm. Head dark purple, forehead
shining white with prismatic reflections, face white. Antenna
deep purple, yellowish below, apical third white except tip. Palpus
whitish with piu-ple reflections externally, purple internally. Abdomen
deep purple, first segment with a pair of obhque lateral w^hite
stripes, anal tuft yellow, venter piu-ple with a white transverse band
across posterior haK of each sternite 2, 3, and 6, sternite 4 entirely
wiiite, in female band of sternite 6 yellow. Legs dusky yellowish
white, suffused Avith piu-ple, posterior leg with coxa and femiu- white
below^, tibia grey purple with a broad pale yellow subbasal band,
median tuft black; posterior tarsus piu-ple black, tip snow white.
Thorax dark pm'ple.
Forewing narrowiy lanceolate, pointed. Dark purple over more
than anterior third,
including a conspicuous w^hite subrectangular or
UTCgular oval spot in center, connected with a second smaller similar
dot below and before preceding; a bluish-metalUc, ill-defined spot
at base of costa and a few similarly colored scales strewn below
costa; a larger, w^ell-defined, erect-oval blue-metaUc spot between
white spot and posterior edge of black area; posterior 2/3 of wing in
male yellow, sHghtly strewTi with black, in female orange; this area
including a narrow supramedian longitudinal black streak, from
middle of wing to apex, dilated posteriorly; this streak including a
brilliant blue-metaUic line along its middle, with pointed ends; a moderate
black streak along termen not reaching tornus; a semioval
black patch in tornus, except narrow edge filled out with metallic
blue. Cilia grey mixed with w^hite, a wiiite bar before tornus, a
broader black bar in tornus, ciha around apex black, here and there
mixed with shining metallic scales.
Hindwing dark coppery bronze, ciha black.
Male and female genitaha as described with the genus.
Material examined: Mindanao, Lanao, Butig Mts., 24 km NE
of Butig, 1080 m, 20.VI.1958, 1 d", holotype, genit. shde 5322, 1 9,
allotype, genit. shde 5323. Zamboanga del Norte, Masawan, trail
to Mt. Mahndang, 1290 m, 5.VII.1958, rain forest, 1 cf, paratype
(H.E. Milliron) (BMH). Davao Prov., east slope of Mt. McKinley,
3000 ft., IX. 1946 (CNHM Phihppine Exped. 1946-47, H. Hoogstraal),
1 cf , 1 9, para types.
Male, 20 mm.
Craterobathra argyracma, new species
Figures 322, G94
Head polished, shining pale ochreous, face whitish,
side tufts on vertex blackish. Antenna bronze (palpi missing).