Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 231
male, bright ochreous yellow, median segment towards top laterally
and above and terminal segment laterally, mixed ^^ ith black. Antenna
purple black with bluish gloss, apex from below tawny fulvous.
Thorax blackish piurple, marked with yellow: a large lateral spot on
each patagium; tegula with a larger sub triangular spot just above
base of %ving, a narrow yellow inner edge and terminal tuft mixed with
some yellow hairs; posterioi edge of mesothorax broadly yellow, of
metathorax with a pair of hint submedian spots, side tufts white.
Legs piu"ple black with yellow markings as in male; apical half of
upper edge of median femur with a yellow spot; tibia with long projecting
bristly scales above, a broad oblique suprabasal transverse
band and top bright yellow, spin's and tarsus yellow. Posterior leg,
coxa with a yellow spot close to base; femm* white fringed below
throughout, tibia with an oblique yellow band inside, spin's yellow,
outside yellow throughout, apex with tuft and spurs yellow, tarsus
yellow irrorated with pm'ple. Abdomen as in male, but posterior
edges of segments, except of the first, broadly yellow, anal tuft large,
black, mixed laterally with pale yellow and whitish.
Forewing narrow, spatulate, apex obtuse. Costa as far as upper
edge of cell and vein 9 blackish purple, slightly mixed with yellow
towards base and with a small yellow spot at the extreme base of
wing; lower edge of cell with a moderate, dorsum with a broader
purple streak, both becoming broader beyond cell and merging
together towards tornus. Wing membrane semihyaline light yellow
in and below cell, and scattered with opaque orange-yellow scales;
in cell membrane with a strong milky-lUac opalescence; median band
strongly inwards-oblique, broad, orange, irregularly edged anteriorly
with purple, hardly edged posteriorly; area beyond cell on anterior
half pale yellow with a strong mUky-lilac opalescence on posterior
half, strongly suffused with ochreous and violet purple; veins beyond
cell streaked with dark purple. Cilia paler, fuscous yellowish.
Hindwing pale yellow hyaline, veins narrowly lined with purple,
discoidal thicker, orange; cell la purple, mixed with some tawny
scales, basal halves of anal veins and of lower edge of cell, ochreous
tawny. Cilia purple.
Male genitalia: Coremata very large. Tegumen long, sclerotized,
cylindrical, moderately dUated in middle, top truncate, simple; base
dilated.
Transtilla concave, dark, upper surface sparsely denticulate.
Saccus robust, moderately long. Valva semioval, sacculus edge
straight. Disc of valva except base of costa beset with stellate spines,
sacculus except at base with simple bristles, a small group of dark
simple spines beyond base.
Female genitalia: Coremata very large. Genital segment strongly
sclerotized, ventral split wide. Lamella antevaginalis forming strong