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224 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 7
side of wing, upper angle of cell and posterior half of terminal area
suffused with yellow except on veins. Cilia purplish.
Hindwing colorless hyaline, with a moderate black marginal band,
becoming linear along dorsum, veins black; vein Ic thicker than other;
discoidal slightly curved and outwards obhque, yellowish hyaline;
marginal band forming small triangles on top of discoidal vein and
on ends of veins lb, Ic, and 2. Cilia purplish.
Female, 15.5 mm. Similar to the male (antennae and abdomen
broken). Metathorax with a bright yellow transverse band. Posterior
tibia as in the male but also the basal half above yellow.
Male genitalia: Tegumen long, top hooded. Gnathos developed.
Uncus moderate, recurved, beset with furcate bristles. Saccus
rather broad, top rounded. Transtilla with triangular lateral parts
and a very weak membranous median band. Valva long, narrowly
semioval, sacculus edge straight, subconcave, with a wart of spines
before middle; cucullus large, fanlike, somewhat irregular.
Material examined: Palawan, 1.6 km south of Tarumpitano Point,
28.V.1958 (H.E. MilUron), 1 cf , holotype, genit. slide 5307. Mindanao,
Zamboanga del Norte, Masawan, trail to Mt. Matundang,
1290 m, 5. VII. 1958 (H.E. Milliron), 1 9, allotype, without abdomen
(BMH).
Female, 26 mm.
Lepidopoda Hampson, 1900
Lepidopoda lutescens, new species
Figures 328, 702-703
Head with face silvery white, vertex black, collar
yellow, along eyes suffused with white. Antenna (broken) brownish.
Palpus slightly roughish; basal and median segments black, mixed
with yellow above and beneath, except tip. Thorax (rubbed) bronze
black, patagia edged around with yellow and with a yellow dot on
each side of apex, larger lateral yellow patches in a pair on metathorax;
pectus whitish, anterior edge with a large black lateral patch,
yellow below this; meso pleura rather dark grey below. Legs bronze
black; anterior coxa with an oblique pale yellow transverse band
below middle, along external edge extending to base of coxa; median
coxa grey; posterior femur grey with a yeUow spot at base and a
yellow band at apex; anterior femur dark bronze with a yeUow patch
below apical 1/3; median femur dark bronze with a yeUow patch
below apical fourth, and with a fringe of yellow hairs along lower
edge; anterior tibia yeUow, black above; median tibia roughish above,
with yellow median and apical bands and spurs; posterior tibia with
a fanhke flat fringe of scales along inner side, extending over two basal
segments of tarsus, black with a yellow streak running along upper
edge from base to middle, then obUquely crossing to other side;