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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 217<br />

Female genitalia: Ovipositor moderate, gelechioid.<br />

Ninth segment<br />

cylindrical. Sterigma sclerotized, a longitudinal rigid body; lamella<br />

postvaginalis with a deep triangular incision of upper edge; ostium<br />

bursae also triangular, with lateral thickenings and curved frontal<br />

rim. Colliculum indicated by a small tubidar sclerite, deeply excised<br />

above in front. Bulla seminalis and corpus bursae large, simple.<br />

The unique female holotype specimen is labelled, '*Mt. Apo, 6.500<br />

ft., Mindanao, M., 5.10" and has the genit. slide no. BM 11350 9<br />

(BM). Also this species has been kindly dissected for me by Mr.<br />

P.E.S. Whalley, British <strong>Museum</strong> (Natural History).<br />

Stathmopoda Herrich-Schaffer, 1853<br />

Key to the Philippine Species of Stathmopoda<br />

1. Forewing dark fuscous wath two white transverse fasciae . . . . S. placida<br />

Forewirig fuscous with basal 2/5 bright yellow S. theoris<br />

Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908<br />

Figures 319-320, 724<br />

Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 396 ( 9 , Burma) ;<br />

1913, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogue, pars 13, p. 13; 1914, in<br />

Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 165, p. 12.—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue<br />

. . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 250.<br />

Distribution: Burma.<br />

Material examined : Luzon, Manila, January 1928 (R.C. McGregor),<br />

1 cf ,<br />

genit. slide 5135.<br />

A badly damaged specimen, but apparently belonging to this<br />

species, which must be more widely distributed over the region than<br />

we know at present.<br />

Tegumen narrow. Uncus pointed, rather slender. Vinculum semioval.<br />

Gnathos formed as a large semifunnel supporting anus. Valva<br />

elongate semioval, simple, sacculus not modified, top rounded; cucullus<br />

elongate-semioval, bristly. Aedeagus huge, cornuti apparently fine<br />

sclerotizations of the wall of the vesica. Anellus lobes (in figure<br />

attached to aedeagus), small.<br />

The genitalia decidedly are of Oecophorid type.<br />

Stathmopoda theoris (Meyrick, 1906)<br />

Figure 323<br />

Aeoloscelis theoris Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 410<br />

(cf, Ceylon).— Clarke, 1955, Catalogue. . .Microlepidoptera. . .Meyrick,<br />

vol. 1, p. 308.<br />

Stathmopoda theoris.—Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17,<br />

p. 983; 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 286.— 1913, in

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