Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPENE ISLANDS 225
a yellow apical band and a narrow streak above along tarsal segments
1 and 2; spurs yellow mixed with black. Abdomen bronze black,
with narrow posterior segmental bands; on tergites 1 and 2 these
bands obliterate in middle, on venter from sternite 3 to apex dilated
and touching each other.
Forewing pale yellow hyaline, clouded in cell with deeper yellow.
Costa as far as ceU. and vein 9 blackish bronze, a narrow marginal
line around apex and along termen and a Hne along vein lb of the
same color; veins beyond cell bronze black; a triangular patch at
extreme base of wing, with top on dorsum and a slightly attenuated
rather broad fascia along discoidal vein, black.
Cilia ferruginous.
Hindwing pale yeUow hyaline, margin, veins and ciha blackish
bronze, a triangular patch at extreme upper angle of cell, remainder
of discoidal vein colorless.
Female genitalia: Ovipositor slender, cylindrical. Postapophyses
very long. Eighth segment elongate, strongly sclerotized, anapophyses
long. Ostium represented only by a moderate, sclerotized and subquadrangular
slender tube, projecting and entirely free. Ductus
bursae rather short, slender, corpus bursae simple, elongate-ovoid.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makihng (Baker), 1 9, holotype,
genit. slide 5305 (USNM).
Probably nearest to L. andrepictura Hampson, from India, but
differing in coloring, with much less yellow.
Glossosphecia Hampson, 1919
Glossosphecia Hampson, 1919, Novit. Zool., vol. 24, p. 83.— Fletcher, 1929,
Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 99.
Type species: Sphecia contaminata Butler, 1878 (Japan).
The generic position of the following two species is not quite certain,
due to the poor condition of the available specimens.
Key to the Philippine Species of Glossosphecia
1. Forewing with a bright orange marginal streak along base of costa.
Forewing without such streak
G. pelocroca, new species
G. micans, new species
Glossosphecia pelocroca, new species
Figures 344, 706-707
Female, 35 mm. Head with vertex orange yellow, face leaden
grey, sides glossy white, orbits and collar yellow. Palpus bright
orange yellow (partially missing). Antenna (missing) with base
bright orange yellow, slightly mixed with brown. Thorax rather light
purple fuscous, with a lUac gloss in certain lights; patagium with a big