Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 229
Sura cyanolampra, new species
Figures 331, 711-712
Female, 32-35 mm. Head light fulvous orange, orbits except
above, white, face silvery yellowish, on forehead and in center with
blackish reflections. Palpus subascending, moderately long, bright
orange, basal segment with a fulvous tinge. Antenna (broken in
holotype) ochreous or orange, basal portion and scape blackish above.
Patagia bright orange, with a big purple-blue median patch. Thorax
dark piu"ple, with prismatic reflections. Pectus dark grey with a
strong slate gloss. Anterior femur and tibia with a strong fan of
scales along outer edge, dark purple with some greenish gloss, tarsus
bright orange except above. Median and posterior legs glossy purphsh
grey, femora inwardly with a white fringe; spurs whitish from
above, a bunch of white scales beyond base of spurs, some yellowish
hairs mixed with the top of posterior tibia; tarsi slightly mixed with
yellowish. Abdomen dark purple, tergum shining deep metallic blue,
second segment with a lateral patch of white hairs.
Forewmg rather abruptly more dilated beyond tornus. Black,
densely sujffused with indigo green, turning bright indigo blue beyond
cell and changing into indigo purple towards termen; a small bright
purple spot on extreme base of wing; a rather short streak of brilliant
shining pale green below base of cell from beyond base of wing.
blackish bronze.
Hindwing black strongly suffused with indigo green,
Cilia
especially in
center turning bright indigo blue, in extreme apex purple; a hyaline,
colorless band just before termen and dorsum, from apex to vein la,
dilated twice in cell 2, IK times in cell Ic and almost filling out cell lb;
a moderate oval hyaline spot below cell beyond base ; ends of veins in
hyaline band narrowly black, except veins lb and Ic which are broader
black.
Cilia black.
Female genitalia: Genital segment elongate, sclerotized, ventral
split rather wide, dilated downward. Lamella postvaginalis not
modified, finely aciculate.
Lamella antevaginahs forming separated
lower (rostral) edge of segment as a pair of strong rods, dilated and
converging mesially so as to form an elongate sclerite, spHt above
(caudaUy). Ostium bursae apparently situated above (caudally) of
this structure, membranous. Colliculum membranous, aciculate.
Cestum, short, semiannular. Ductus bursae long, simple. Corpus
bursae finely aciculate,
with numerous regular transverse folds.
Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 1 9, holotype,
genit. sUde 5303, 1 9, paratype. Antimoan (B.P. Clark), 1 9, paratype
(USNM). ManUa, 1. IX. 1945 (H.E. MiUiron), 1 9, paratype (BMH).