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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 247
genit. slide 5567; 12 cf , 2 9, paratypes (BM). An elegant, distinctly
marked, uniform species.
Anticrates paratarsa Meyrick, 1913
Figures 365, 742
Anticrates paratarsa Meyrick, 1913, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 141 (?,
Mindoro); 1914, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 19, p. 33.
Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1,
p. 235; 1965, op cit., vol. 5, p. 279, pi. 138, figs, 1-lb (holotype figured).
Distribution: Philippine Is., Mindoro.
The unique specimen, in the British Museum (Natural History), is
from Laguna de Naujan, Mindoro, in March. It proves to be a male.
Male, 20 mm. Head yellow, crimson slight suffusion on vertex and
around bases of antennae. Palpus light crimson, inwardly, and terminal
segment also above, yellow. Thorax yellow, collar anteriorly
suffused with pale crimson, tegula light crimson with a yeUow basal
spot, anterior edge of thorax and a subapical transverse band suffused
light crimson.
Male genitalia: When compared with those of A. digitosa, new species,
the following distinct differences are apparent. Uncus more pointed
and shorter. Tegumen more triangular, more constricted above.
Valva narrower, top of cucuUus, more obUque. AneUus lobe strong,
triangular and pointed. Saccus more slender, clavate before end,
wide and flattened above. Aedeagus more slender, long and curved.
Bases of coremata rather large. Mensis ventralis a small rod, as long
as the stalk of sacculus, furcate portion reduced.
Material examined: Mindoro, Mt. Dulangan, 1896 (Whitehead),
3 cf, genit. slide 5568 (Walsingham coll., nos. 16107-9, BM). Very
near to A. miltochorda Meyrick from Assam, lOiasis, but with slightly
different markings, supported by differences of genitalia.
Protorhiza, new genus
Head smooth, tufts on vertex appressed and spreading.
in female about 5/6,
Antenna
finely serrulate, minutely ciHated, scape rather
long, moderately thickened at top, base flattened dorsoventrally;
with a small pecten of long hair-scales. Labial palpus long, recurved,
median segment with appressed scales, hardly roughened along lower
edge, hardly compressed; terminal segment slightly spindle-shaped,
pointed, less than 1/2 median. Thorax without a crest. Posterior
tibia with long fine hairs above.
Forewing sublanceolate, moderately broad, pointed. Vein 2 from
before 6/7, 3 from angle, 3-6 remote and equidistant, 7 and 8 long
stalked, 7 to costa, 9-10 distant, 11 slightly beyond middle of cell,
no accessory ceU.